Title: A resolution recognizing the service of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine the USS Jacksonville and the crew of the USS Jacksonville, who served the United States with valor and bravery.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Recognizes the service of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine the USS Jacksonville and its crew.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 362 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 362

 Recognizing the service of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine the 
 USS Jacksonville and the crew of the USS Jacksonville, who served the 
                 United States with valor and bravery.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 20, 2017

    Mr. Rubio (for himself and Mr. Nelson) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the service of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine the 
 USS Jacksonville and the crew of the USS Jacksonville, who served the 
                 United States with valor and bravery.

Whereas the USS Jacksonville (SSN 699) is named after Jacksonville, the largest 
        and most populous city in Florida, and is the first ship to bear that 
        name;
Whereas the slogan of the city of Jacksonville, Florida, is ``The Bold New City 
        of the South'' and inspired the nickname of the USS Jacksonville, which 
        is ``The Bold One'';
Whereas, on August 10, 2017, the USS Jacksonville returned to the home port of 
        the USS Jacksonville at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in the Western 
        Pacific after 209 days out to sea, thus completing the 15th and final 
        deployment of the USS Jacksonville;
Whereas, on the last deployment of the USS Jacksonville, the USS Jacksonville 
        steamed more than 48,000 nautical miles while conducting--

    (1) maritime security operations in the areas of operation of the Fifth 
Fleet and Seventh Fleet of the United States; and

    (2) joint exercises with the Maritime Self-Defense Force of Japan and 
the navy of the Republic of India;

Whereas, since the commissioning of the USS Jacksonville on May 16, 1981, the 
        USS Jacksonville has completed 2 around-the-world cruises, visited ports 
        on nearly every continent, and completed countless critical missions; 
        and
Whereas, on September 11, 2001, while the USS Jacksonville was attached to the 
        Enterprise Battle Group, the USS Jacksonville--

    (1) was in the Mediterranean Sea; and

    (2) stayed on-station to provide critical intelligence support as the 
United States prepared to retaliate in response to the terrorist attacks 
carried out on that day: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the Senate recognizes the service of the Los 
Angeles-class attack submarine the USS Jacksonville and the crew of the 
USS Jacksonville, who served the United States with valor and bravery.
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