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My Old Boat -- Lookin' Good!
The official Navy website has
a great picture
of my old boat USS Connecticut (SSN 22) operating off Japan at the end of
ANNUALEX 19G
:
She's looking quite shipshape for being better than
halfway through a deployment
.
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