USS Topeka Returns From Deployment
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS060406-13
Release Date: 4/6/2006 12:48:00 PM
By Journalist Seaman Robert C. Long, Fleet Public Affairs Center, Pacific
POINT LOMA, Calif. (NNS) -- Sailors from the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Topeka (SSN 754) returned to Naval Base Point Loma April 4 following a six-month Western Pacific deployment.
Sailors from Topeka returned to a crowd of family members, friends, and fellow submariners from Submarine Squadron 11.
Topeka conducted two operations in support of national security objectives and numerous anti-submarine warfare-training exercises with U.S. and allied aircraft during her deployment.
“We had a successful deployment; we accomplished both of the missions we set out for,” said Senior Chief Machinist’s Mate (SS) Tom Tucker, chief of the boat for Topeka.
Topeka Sailors made port calls in Guam, Singapore, Hawaii, Saipan, and Nagano and Nagasaki, Japan.
Topeka was on its eighth Western Pacific deployment since its commissioning Oct. 21, 1989.
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