After decades of service, the guided-missile destroyer Arleigh Burke — the first of its class — appeared likely ready to retire. Commissioned in 1991, the warship may have in recent years started ...
LARGO, Fla. | At age 19, George L. Trowbridge journeyed from northeast Iowa to become a crewmember aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer during the closing months of the Vietnam War. He left a wife and newborn ...