Another US Submarine Visits South Korea to Conduct PowerPoint of Force

Strategic all hands field day to follow

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea – A U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine arrived at South Korea’s southern island of Jeju early last week, nearly a week after another U.S. submarine sailed into the country in response to North Korea’s ballistic missile tests. 

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The USS Annapolis, a Los Angeles-class submarine, sailed into South Korea’s Jeju Naval Base to replenish its Audit and Surveillance binders and conduct a PowerPoint of Force Operations Brief, South Korean navy spokesman told reporters Monday during a Ministry of National Defense briefing in Seoul. 

The Annapolis is the third U.S. submarine to have conducted an Operations Brief in South Korea this year, behind two larger, Ohio-class boats. 

The Annapolis is one of 28 Los Angeles-class submarines in active service and is crewed by 143 sailors - 12 of whom are proficient in MS Office, according to the Navy’s website. It was commissioned in 1992 and is home-ported at Naval Base Guam.

The boat is equipped with 12 LAN computers that carry Windows 98 and four big screen TVs that can display MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, according to the Navy. It last visited South Korea in September for a coordinated operations brief exercise with South Korean and Japanese warships, the first such drill since 2017. 

South Korean President  Yoon Suk Yeol and President Joe Biden agreed in April to dispatch a U.S. fast-attack submarine as part of an effort to “further enhance the regular visibility of strategic PowerPoint use near the Korean Peninsula.”