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| Tango01 | 09 Jul 2014 10:51 p.m. PST |
…assault ship. "The departure was like most other Marine deployments — with camouflage-clad young men and women tagging giant sea bags, smoking and texting loved ones in a dark parking lot as they waited to board a bus for the airport. But there weren't many tears or hand-lettered signs at this send-off. The 70 Marines and sailors who left Camp Pendleton on Monday night were headed to Mississippi, where they will join nearly 200 more members of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-South to board the Navy's newest ship for a two-month trip around South America. The ship, to be christened the USS America, will be the first America-Class amphibious assault ship for the Navy…"
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