Edward Streit of Carmichaels is a Navy submarine veteran. He volunteered to join the service right after his high school graduation in 1990.
After basic training in Great Lakes, Illinois, he spent two years in Connecticut while completing Submarine School and the Navy’s second hardest curriculum: (Submarine Advanced electronics pipeline, submarine escape training, firefighting, and damage control).
He was then assigned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the USS HELENA SSN725, a vertical launch capable, fast attack submarine. As a Fire Control technician, he was responsible for all the equipment operations, maintenance, and repair for the systems that launched the Tomahawk missiles and MK 48ADCAP torpedoes.
He also served in several ports in the U.S. and Canada, as well as Yakuska, Japan, and Singapore.
He was in the Persian Gulf in 1993-94, specifically Bahrain and Dubai, before heading to Australia, Guam, and back to Hawaii.
After six and a half years in the Navy, he came home and ended up with the Department of Corrections for four years as a correctional officer. That stint was followed by 20 years as the electronics trades instructor at both SCI Waynesburg, then at SCI Fayette. He retired from corrections in 2022. Streit is active in the Rices Landing American Legion, the Sons of the American Legion, and the Legion Riders.
This past July, the USS Helena that he and his fellow bubble heads called home for many years was decommissioned. Streit and his wife of 25 years, Brandi, traveled to Bremerton, Washington for an emotional reunion with many others who served on this submarine through its long line of service at sea.
Ed feels you can travel around the world and still choose to call Greene County home.
