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Sunday, July 20, 2014

USS Elrod back in Norfolk having completed its final deployment

USS Elrod (FFG-55)The frigate Elrod made her last homecoming Saturday morning having completed a final six-month deployment to 6th Fleet. The 29-year-old ship is to be decommissioned Jan. 30 and sold to a foreign military.

The frigate shed its historic role of anti-submarine warfare and brought a Fire Scout detachment to provide unmanned surveillance to Africa Partnership Station off that continent’s western coast.

The crew also teamed with the amphibious assault ship Bataan on June 6 to rescue 282 mariners from a small ship sinking near Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. It also conducted joint training with a host of nations to include Tunisia, Mauritania and Morocco.

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