Electronics Tech 2nd Class Richard Hubbs, 3rd, of Gloucester City, recently returned to his home port after participating in Ice Exercise 2009. Hubbs is assigned to the Fast Attack Nuclear-powered Submarine USS Annapolis which left Groton Submarine Base in Connecticut on March 2 and rendezvoused north of Alaska with the USS Helena, home ported in San Diego. The Annapolis broke through three feet of Arctic ice on March 21. While there Hubbs was able to call home from the North Pole.
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