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NICKNAME -

MOTTO - "PATIENCE NOT WEAKNESS"

CLASS - (SSBN-640) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ballistic Missile Submarine (7)

AWARDED - 1963

BUILDER - Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA

IN COMMISSION - 1966 - 1992

DISPOSITION - completed Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, February, 1994.

GEORGE C. MARSHALL Awards/Recognition -

GEORGE C. MARSHALL factoid - she was the thirty-sixth of the "41 For Freedom" FBM submarines.

USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) LINKS

USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - SubNet GEORGE C. MARSHALL stats and photo page.
[ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssbn654.htm ]
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center GEORGE C. MARSHALL DANFS narrative page.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - GEORGE C. MARSHALL Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - the NavySite.de GEORGE C. MARSHALL page.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - Military.com submarine GEORGE C. MARSHALL Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - dedicated to the preservation of the history and memories of those who served aboard the USS George C. Marshall (SSBN654) both Officer and Enlisted by Jim Schryer.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - by Carl Boertjens.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - a Boomersailors.net "41 For Freedom" GEORGE C. MARSHALL page.
[ www.boomersailors.net/boats/41/654.php ] [Where hast thou gone, Boomersailors.net? COB (LINKS)]
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - a GEORGE C. MARSHALL narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - a Wikipedia.org GEORGE C. MARSHALL page.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - a USSVI Ship's Profile page w/Classification, Characteristics, Key Dates, Reunion/Association, Crew Lists (available on DeckLog), History, Internet Associations and Reunions, Photo and Patch.
USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.

The name GEORGE C. MARSHALL is from George Catlett Marshall, born at Uniontown, PA, 31 December 1880. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 2 February 1901 upon graduation from the Virginia Military Institute. After serving in the Philippines from 1902 to 1903 and at various posts in the Western United States, he went to the Army Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS, in 1908. Graduating at the head of his class, he instructed in the school until 1910.
Assignments with the Massachusetts National Guard and the 4th Infantry in Arkansas and Texas preceded his return to the Philippines in 1913. There his brilliance on maneuvers won him prophetic praise from General James Franklin Bell, who called him "one of those rare men who live and dream in their profession - a soldier who is not satisfied with daily duty superbly done.... the greatest military genius of America since Stonewall Jackson."
When the United States entered World War I, Marshall accompanied the 1st Division to France in July 1917. In the summer of 1918, he was transferred to the A.E.F. Headquarters where he helped to formulate plans for the St. Mihiel offensive and the transfer of some 500,000 troops to the Argonne front in 2 weeks without the enemy's knowledge. In October Marshall became Chief of Operations of the 1st Army during the final action on the Meuse-Argonne sector, which helped greatly to force Germany to capitulate.
Outstanding service in a number of important assignments during the years between the wars won Marshall appointment as Chief of Staff of the Army in September 1939 when Nazi aggression plunged the world into World War II. He directed the mobilization of an army of some 10 million men which operated with the Navy and Allied forces in crushing the Axis powers. He was appointed General of the Army 16 December 1944.
After World War II, Marshall served as Secretary of State from 21 January 1945 to 21 January 1949 and was Secretary of Defense from 12 September 1950 to 12 September 1951. He died in Washington, D.C. 16 October 1959.