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Pearl Harbor-based destroyer USS O'Kane to return

By Associated Press

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LAST UPDATED: 05:20 a.m. HST, Nov 08, 2012

PHOTO BY DENNIS ODA
The guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane (DDG 77) commanded by Cmdr. Michael Ray, departed Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam March 23, for a deployment to the Western Pacific. The destroyer is returning to Hawaii after a deployment lasting more than seven months.

A Pearl Harbor-based destroyer is returning to Hawaii after a deployment lasting more than seven months.

The guided missile destroyer USS O'Kane participated in two Joint Air Defense Exercises and carried out missions with carrier strike groups while deployed to Asia and the Middle East.

The crew also participated in several community relations projects while stopping in Singapore, Bahrain and Thailand.

The O'Kane is scheduled to pull into port today. It left Pearl Harbor in March.






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mrluke wrote:
I can imagine the "community relations projects" that took place in Thailand.
on November 8,2012 | 06:48AM
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