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Top officer at oldest US sub base is retiring

By Michael Melia
Published August 17, 2014 5:26pm ET
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Top officer at oldest US sub base is retiring
In this July 26, 2013 photo released by the U.S. Navy, Rear Adm. Kenneth Perry, commander of all U.S. attack submarines based on the East Coast, participates in a retirement ceremony at the Submarine Force Library and Museum on the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn. Perry, who is retiring on Aug. 22, 2014, may be the last flag officer to be based at the country's original sub base due to a consolidation that eliminated his submarine group. The attack subs will remain in Groton, along with the Navy's sub school. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy) | AP

GROTON, Conn. (AP) — The top officer at the oldest U.S. submarine base, an admiral whose ties to Groton date back to his birth, may become the last flag officer to serve here as his submarine group is eliminated in a Navy streamlining.

Rear Adm. Kenneth Perry, a career submarine officer with responsibility for all 23 U.S. attack submarines on the East Coast, is retiring Friday at the same ceremony where his Submarine Group 2 will be formally disestablished.

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