Why does America have a submarine base in Scotland?

tich302001

Why does the US Navy have a submarine base on the Holy Loch in Argyleshire, Scotland. When the Cold War is supposedly over I would have thought the base would have been mothballed years ago. Also is it true that the Submarine base is a nuclear base?
EDIT: MIKE T It doesn't really bother me that the US Navy has base in Scotland I am not one of those tree huggers I just wondered why the US has a base in Scotland.
EDIT: Sorry wrong name that should have been Matt not Mike

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humanwinnebago

The only thing submarines are used for by our Military today are carrying and launching if need be Nuclear Arms. If we want to sink a ship we just bomb it from the air.

meetha lund

cause scots have very nice whisky
and they need to protect the whisky factories in scotland.

Andrew G

Why does America have bases everywhere? Because of the Soviets after World War II.

The Instant Classic

Whether that's true or not, we have the best, most expansive, most high-tech, far reaching, and dominant military in the history of the planet.

Wolf of the Black Moon

The US Navy No longer has a Submarine base at Holy Loch.
It was Close and returned to the Local Authorities in 1992.

It was a Nuclear Sub base.

zenithomega

For the longest time the United States Navy had a fleet of Polaris Missile carrying submarines at Holy Loch...as a deterrent against the Soviet missile threat...but the United States Navy (as of late 1991/early 1992) no longer has a naval presence in Holy Loch.

Krytox1a

from a Submariner:

we used to:

http://www.tendertale.com/ttd/ttd17/ttd17.html

It was used as a ballistic missile submarine base due to the Cold War, and the fact that our missile boats early on had nuke missiles with a very short range, but after the Ohio Class missile boats came in line in the 1980's with the Trident I and Trident II nuke missiles, which can hit anywhere on the planet from anywhere at the time the base was no longer needed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_class_submarine

kim t

Because we can! Their booze is pretty good too!!