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Panetta first top US official since war to visit old Vietnam Navy base:

Related Panetta: US strategy aims to build peace, stability in Pacific Defense Secretary Leon Panetta addresses Asian leaders at a plenary session of the Shangri-La Dialogue, 11th Asia Security Summit, on June 2, 2012, in Singapore. Jennifer Hlad/Stars and Stripes CAM RANH BAY, Vietnam – Just days after commemorating the start of the Vietnam War at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made history Sunday by boarding a U.S. ship in this deep-water bay – becoming the most senior U.S. defense official to visit the area since the end of the Vietnam war. “This ship is America,” Panetta told sailors aboard the USNS Richard E. Byrd, a supply ship docked near the former U.S. naval base. “I think it’s an important symbol of how the relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam has improved.” This year marks 17 years since the normalization of relatio...

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