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Updated at 4:01 p.m., Thursday, August 16, 2007

Guided-missile destroyers return home Monday

Advertiser Staff

The USS Paul Hamilton and USS O'Kane, Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile destroyers, are scheduled to return home on Monday after seven months supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa.

The guided-missile destroyers were deployed with the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, which this week concluded an eight-day exercise off the coast of Guam called Exercise Valiant Shield 2007.

The Paul Hamilton and O'Kane left Pearl Harbor on Jan. 26 for operations in the Persian Gulf.