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USS South Dakota (SSN 790) Commissioning Ceremony (with lower 3rds)

Defense Media Activity - Navy Production Division
Feb. 2, 2019 | 01:18:07

The Navy’s newest fast-attack submarine, USS South Dakota (SSN 790) was commissioned during a ceremony at naval submarine base New London in Connecticut, on February 2, 2019. The Navy’s seventeenth Virginia-class submarine to join the US fleet.