PRESS RELEASES
Navy to Commission Guided Missile Destroyer Dewey at Seal Beach
By Gregg Smith, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Public Affairs
10/29/09 -- SEAL BEACH, Calif. (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has approved Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif., as the commissioning location of Pre-commissioning Unit (PCU) Dewey, the Navy's newest and most technologically advanced guided-missile destroyer. The event will be the first time a U.S. Navy warship has been commissioned at Seal Beach.
By Kate Cohen, Seal Beach Daily
10/29/09 - SEAL BEACH -- The U.S. Navy’s newest and most technologically advanced guided missile destroyer will be commissioned at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, a Seal Beach and Orange County first, according to Public Affairs officer Gregg Smith.
10/29/09 - ORANGE COUNTY--The guided-missile destroyer USS DEWEY — the most advanced version of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer — will become the first warship commissioned in Orange County during a public ceremony to be held March 6 at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station (SBNWS).
By Team Ships Public Affairs
8/24/09 - WASHINGTON -- The Navy officially accepted delivery of the future USS Dewey (DDG 105) Aug. 17 from Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (NGSB) during a ceremony in Pascagoula, Miss.
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