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Why did one of the US Navy's most advanced subs return to port with a pirate flag? - U.S. - Stripes

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2017-09-14 17:48:24
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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

An image posted to a Pentagon media site and tweeted by Scottish journalist Ian Keddie, shows the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, returning to her home port in Washington Tuesday flying the American flag alongside the unmistakable pirate skull and crossed bones, known as the Jolly Roger.

Source: https://www.stripes.com/news/us/why-did-one-of-the-us-navy-s-most-advanced-subs-return-to-port-with-a-pirate-flag-1.487501 [stripes.com]

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