USS Cole to deploy to Middle East

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NORFOLK, Va. - The USS Cole is heading to the Middle East for the first time since a terrorist bomb killed 17 sailors aboard the Navy ship in Yemen's port of Aden nearly six years ago.

The Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer is one of seven ships with 6,000 sailors and Marines leaving the East Coast next week to conduct security operations in support of the war on terrorism, the Navy announced Friday. They'll be gone six months.

This is actually the Cole's second deployment since the bombing, but the first to the Middle East. Godspeed, Good Luck, and GO GET 'EM!