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Darleen Greenert, the submarine's sponsor, a Navy veteran, and wife of former Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert, highlighted the.
Greenert is married to Darleen Greenert, who was the Sponsor for the pre-commissioning unit (PCU) USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN), and christened the ship....
At sub ceremony, tradition and emotion for builders and sailors
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.
— Tearing up as she addressed several hundred workers at General Dynamics Electric Boat on Friday, Darleen Elizabeth Greenert told them how important their jobs are to the spouses and children of sailors who serve on submarines.
Greenert, the sponsor for the future USS Hyman G.
Rickover, told of her experience as the wife of a submarine officer who brought her kids down to the pier where her husband's boat was based to watch him head out to sea.
For the next several months came the waiting, while the sub was exposed to an environment far more lethal than that faced by spacecraft orbiting the earth, she said during a keel-laying ceremony for the Rickover, the ceremonial "birthday" for the boat.
"I trusted my husband, and my husband trusted the submarine," Greenert said during an interview after the ceremony.
After those months passed, and thanks to the skill and diligence of shipbuilders, she