Friends and family members wave to Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper as the ship makes her way pier side to Naval Station Pearl Harbor. Hopper and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal returned to their homeport after a six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean as part of the Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group. Port Royal and Hopper return to Pearl Harbor after six-month deployment 88639

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