PCU New Mexico Being Commissioned Saturday

PCU New Mexico (SSN 779) will be commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Station at 1100 EDT on Saturday. You can watch the ceremony live via streaming video from the link on this page. Some more information, including pictures of preparations, can be found here. A Navy League website for the boat is here.

And for the crew of what will soon be America's newest warship, remember... the new guy has to bring in doughnuts for everyone on Monday.

Update 2236 26 March: Here's some more information from SUBGRU 2, and here's a picture of New Mexico's torpedo tube breech. Isn't it cute? It's so tiny!


Update 1333 27 Mar: If you missed seeing the ceremony live, you can still download and watch it here. (If that link, which pulls up the video directly, doesn't work for you, you can access it from here.)

Update 1454 27 Mar: Here's the official Navy report on the commissioning. Looks like Missouri is next, with her commissioning tentatively scheduled for July of this year.