USS James Monroe (SSBN-622) on 2 July 1979. Four days later, USS James Monroe entered Kings Bay and moored alongside Simon Lake’s starboard side to begin a routine refit in preparation for another nuclear weapons deterrence patrol. "James Monroe" was decommissioned on 25 September 1990 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Ex-"James Monroe" entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington. Recycling of Ex-"James Monroe" was completed on 10 January 1995. USS James Monroe (SSBN-622) USS "James Monroe" (SSBN-622), a ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for
James T. Monroe James T. Monroe James T. Monroe is an American scholar. He is emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Classical Arabic Literature and Hispano-Arabic Literature. His doctorate was from Harvard University. Professor Monroe "works in the areas of lyric poetry, the Middle Ages, and East-West relations with particular interest in the importance of the Arab contribution to Spanish civilization." A survey of mostly academic studies of Islam and the Arabs. Monroe also reviews these works in terms of their literary origin and social context with regard to the evolving national consciousness