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Caption:
Puget Sound, Wash. (Jan. 29, 2006) -- The guided missile submarine USS
Ohio (SSGN 726) prepares to stops for a personnel transfer in Puget
Sound, Washington. Media were transported to Ohio to see the new
capabilities that the submarine now brings to the joint warfighter.
Ohio is the first ballistic missile submarine to complete conversion to
the new class of guided missile submarines (SSGN). Three other
submarines are undergoing the SSGN conversion process including USS
Michigan (SSGN 727), Florida (SSGN 727) and Georgia (SSGN 729). U.S.
Navy photo by Chief Journalist Dave Fliesen (RELEASED)
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