To America's Loved Ones
The future USS America is slated to arrive in its new homeport of San Diego on Monday.
As Home Post reported earlier this summer, USS America departed the Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi in July for its maiden voyage to San Diego.
Because the 844-foot-long amphibious assault ship was too large to fit through the Panama Canal, it circumnavigated South America on a “America Visits the Americas” goodwill tour.
As Capt. Robert A. Hall Jr., Commanding Officer of USS America, wrote on the America's Facebook page:
"Over the last eight weeks, AMERICA has hosted a Vice President, seven different U.S. Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Four-Star Admirals and Generals and countless other distinguished guests.
"The crew has gone ashore in Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, Chile and Peru and has represented our country extremely well."
