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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAndy sends us a link to the story of the retirement ceremony for the submarine, USS Miami upon which Casey James Fury set some rags on fire on a bunk, back in 2012, so that he could get out of work early. The fire went on to do $3\/4 billion damage to the vessel. The Navy decided to scrap the Los Angeles-class submarine instead of repairing it. From Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n Rear Adm. Ken Perry, commander of the submarine Group Two in Groton, Conn., where the sub was based, acknowledged the disappointment over its premature retirement but told the crowd they were there to celebrate Miami and its crew members for nearly 24 years of service.<\/p>\n “This is a tribute,” he said. “This is a celebration of the ship’s performance and the superb contributions to the nation’s defense and this is how we’re going to treat it. So I expect to see some smiles out there.”<\/p>\n Perry praised the ship’s performance over more than a dozen deployments that included clandestine undersea warfare missions and back-to-back deployments in which it fired cruise missiles in Iraq and in Serbia, earning the nickname “Big Gun.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the article, the sub will be cut up for scrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"