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Woohoo, the celebration on base was awesome! Everything from food, drinks, and football (American-style), to an air-powered mortar launcher firing T-shirts into a crowd, and a drunk Marine carrying a life-sized cardboard cutout of Paris Hilton on stage while his buddies danced to country music. (Yes, you did read that right.)

The city of Yokosuka put on the fireworks display, and they did a heck of a job. Pics to follow, once I parse through them all (I shot about 7.3GB of photos today, so it's gonna take a while.)