On Wisconsin – a New Meaning!

Madison, WI (April 18, 2022) – Today at the Wisconsin Veteran’s Museum in Madison, the USS Wisconsin Association accepted a piece of the SSBN 827 Wisconsin, to be commissioned USS Wisconsin upon completion, from Rear Admiral (select) Jonathan Rucker on behalf of Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.

“We are connecting the people of Wisconsin to the future USS Wisconsin and her crews,” said CAPT Jim Harvey, USN (ret), President of USS Wisconsin SSBN 827 Association. “The museum is the most fitting place for this initial piece of USS Wisconsin to be displayed. Here, all people of Wisconsin may visit and understand the rich Navy heritage of our State.”

Accepting a piece of USS Wisconsin

Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Chris Kolakowski and Rear Admiral (sel) Rucker, the Navy’s Program Manager for the COLUMBIA Class strategic ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarine program