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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

After 30 Years, The USS Dallas Returns Home For Decomissioning

USS DallasThe attack submarine USS Dallas and her crew received a hero's welcome as she glided into port Monday, completing her last scheduled deployment after 30 years prowling the world's oceans.

Crowds cheered and a 1-minute blast was sounded as the black-hulled submarine, with sailors at attention on deck, cruised slowly up the Thames River. A fireboat shot celebratory jets of water high into the air.

A pair of tugboats eased the 360-foot, nuclear-powered vessel up to the submarine base dock, where hundreds of family and friends, many waving signs and holding balloons, waited in the frigid air to greet the 140 returning sailors.

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