Submarines are a nuclear weapon used in the United States Navy, with sailors aboard, loading torpedoes. This job is hard to fathom, with usually 150 sailors in tight quarters for months at a time.

It is the most secretive and least heralded of roles in the armed forces. While life on a submarine may not be the most physically strenuous in the military, the mental challenges are arguably the ...

Navy opens the curtain, a bit, to life aboard one of its California-based submarines The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Alexandria arrived home Thursday after a 217-day deployment.