Navy commissions the high-tech USS San Diego

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stripes.com 20 May '12, 11am

Navy commissions the high-tech USS San Diego

Related Stars and Stripes coverage of Navy news Adrian Ponce, 10 months old, dressed as a sailor at the commissioning of the Navy's newest ship, the USS San Diego, on May 19, 2012. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT Pearl harbor survivor Allen Bodenlos, 91, is in a cheerful mood at the commissioning of the Navy's newest ship, the USS San Diego, on May 19, 2012. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT SAN DIEGO - The $1.3-billion ship is billed as the most technologically advanced of any in its class in the U.S. Navy, with stealth capability and a state-of-the-art communications system. But the commissioning ceremony Saturday that made the San Diego an official ship of the fleet was drawn from rituals more than two centuries old - from the days of John Paul Jones, when the Navy's first commissioned ship was a captured British schooner. And so with the classic order, "Man our ship an...

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