Sub's arrival part of Pacific plan

The attack submarine USS Jacksonville sailed 6,000 miles from the East Coast to Hawai'i in just less than a month's time, stopping in its namesake city in Florida and passing through the Panama Canal along the way.

Cmdr. Tyler Meador, the sub's commander, said the crew had come off a European Command deployment in 2008, "so they'd done a lot of cold-water operations, and I think there was a lot of enjoyment about getting down in the warm waters."

No need for the orange exposure suits known as "pumpkin suits."

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