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Green Bay days away from commissioning

Updated: Thursday, 22 Jan 2009, 10:47 AM CST
Published : Thursday, 22 Jan 2009, 9:59 AM CST

Photojournalist: Todd Berry

LONG BEACH, Calif. - The USS Green Bay has been six years in the making at a cost of nearly $1 billion.

But this new state-of-the-art transport ship will serve the Navy for decades.

FOX 11's Mark Leland reports from Long Beach, the ship is just days away now from becoming an active ship.