USS Oklahoma City To Be Homeported On Guam
Guam - The U.S. Navy has decided to move the USS Oklahoma City's homeport from Norfolk Virginia to Guam starting next year.
Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo made the announcement this morning. The USS Oklahoma City is a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine.
It will replace the USS City of Corpus Christi which has been homeported on Guam and will now be transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for repair availability.
The USS Oklahoma City was commissioned in 1988 and has a crew of 13 officers and 121 enlisted sailors.
In a release, Bordallo is quoted as saying that: “The homeporting of the USS Oklahoma City shows the U.S. Navy’s continued commitment to maintaining a forward-deployed presence on Guam to advance the United States’ strategic interests in the Western Pacific.”
She also states that : “The transfer will not take place until 2010 once the USS Oklahoma City’s major overhaul is complete at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire. I commend the leadership of the U.S. Navy including Rear Admiral Douglass Biesel for his work in maintaining a strategic forward presence on Navy assets on Guam. I look forward to the USS Oklahoma City arriving on Guam next year.”
