Despite Sub Probe, Military Quietly Revives VIP Tours: “Five weeks after a U.S. submarine struck and sank a
Japanese trawler off Hawaii, the presence of 16 civilian VIPs on the craft remains a
point of controversy and a focus of an official Navy investigation.
But on Monday, a group of freshmen lawmakers from the U.S. House will
climb aboard a sub in Florida’s Port Everglades for eight hours of instruction and
excitement–just the sort of thing that had been planned for visitors on the sub
Greeneville before its deadly Feb. 9 collision.
The Distinguished Visitors Program has quietly come back because–bad
publicity or no–it’s simply too important to the military to give up.” LA Times