After two years and four crews, the Spruance Class destroyer USS Fletcher (DD 992) returned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on May 25, 2004, for a two-day port visit before traveling to San Diego, Calif., where it will be decommissioned in October. The former Pearl Harbor-based ship is part of the Navy's Sea Swap Initiative, a program that rotates four crews through a single ship at six-month intervals.

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