

Spotted by Submarine Veteran Joe Hickey on April 2025 traveling North on Highway 95 near Coeur d’Alene, it was no doubt headed for Lake Pend Oreille; once home to a Navy Boot Camp at what is now Farragut State Park. The Navy Operates the U.S. Navy Acoustic Research Detachment (1949-current) Bayview, Idaho. Once touted as “the U.S. Submarine force’s most important body of water” by Admiral Edmund Giambastiani, former US Submarine Forces Commander. The ARD operates and supports unique Large Scale Submarine Models, Test Ranges, and acoustic test facilities utilized in conducting Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) of submarine acoustic stealth technology.