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FBI Director Kash Patel took 'VIP snorkel' at a Pearl Harbor memorial, emails show
With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona. The battleship is now a military cemetery reachable only by boat. It has stood as one of the nation's most hallowed sites since Japan bombed and sank the ship in 1941. A Navy spokesperson confirms the outing but says the service wasn't able to track down who initiated it.
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According to PBS News’s source item, FBI Director Kash Patel took ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial, emails show, With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona. The battleship is now a military cemetery reachable only by boat. It has stood as one of the nation’s most hallowed sites since Japan bombed and sank the ship in 1941. A Navy spokesperson confirms the outing but says the service wasn’t able to track down who initiated it.
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