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<home> -- <press releases> News from Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) to be Homeported on Guam FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 17, 2009 – Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo today announced that the USS Oklahoma City, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine currently homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, will be homeported on Guam late in 2010. The USS Oklahoma City will replace the USS City of Corpus Christi which will be transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for repair availability. The USS Oklahoma City was commissioned in 1988 and has a crew of 13 officers and 121 enlisted sailors. “The homeporting of the USS Oklahoma City shows the U.S. Navy’s continued commitment to maintaining a forward-deployed presence on Guam to advance the United States’ strategic interests in the Western Pacific,” Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo said today. “The transfer will not take place until 2010 once the USS Oklahoma City’s major overhaul is complete at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire. I commend the leadership of the U.S. Navy including Rear Admiral Douglass Biesel for his work in maintaining a strategic forward presence on Navy assets on Guam. I look forward to the USS Oklahoma City arriving on Guam next year.” # # # matthew.mateo@mail.house.gov or derek.mandell@mail.house.gov |
