The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

Over the course of an afternoon, Mr. Kelso, then a Navy captain commanding the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter in the final stages of its development in early 2005, sat at Mr. Carter’s dining room table as ...

Jimmy Carter's military service would not only advance the Navy's new nuclear submarine program, it would later color his views as president of the United States, on everything from his work ethic ...

Jimmy Carter was a former Navy nuclear engineer who established the Department of Energy and became the first sitting U.S.

Bedford High School graduate said he joined the Navy because he knew the military would give him structure and exposure to ...

Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine program -- in 1952. Jimmy Carter started his adult life as a young U.S ...

Jimmy carter Navy Vice Admiral Charles Munns, commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMSUBLANT), as they ride out to sea on the bridge aboard the Seawolf-class attack submarine USS ...

In 2004, the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Jimmy Carter was christened in his honor. In a statement following Carter's death, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said: "On behalf of ...

Famously, Carter served in the Navy’s submarine force ... Carter’s low name recognition and derisively asked, “Jimmy who?” Carter responded by emphasizing his name and intent, stating ...

After his father's death, Carter joined the Navy Reserve and returned to his Georgia ... The burial site will be part of the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park. Members of the public also ...

(WTVM) - In November, Jimmy Carter became the first living ex-president with an official White House Christmas ornament, the design of it in honor of his service to our country in the U.S. Navy.