PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) – Navy sailors travel all over the world and rarely do they make port in their hometown. USS Zumwalt’s Lt. Mark Humes is enjoying the once in a lifetime experience.
Onboard the destroyer, he is the strike officer, in control of the Vertical Launch System and Tomahawk Missiles. He is also a Navy Academy graduate and a graduate of Pascagoula High School. His time onboard the Zumwalt has taken him all over the world.
“We visited Japan, we visited Guam and we also visited Hawaii,” he said. “That was actually the ship’s first maiden deployment. When we pulled into Japan; we were the hottest thing out there. The ship is a unique ship and it’s extremely beautiful.”
Now, the Zumwalt is docked in a special place — Humes’s home.
“When I saw the landmarks, I saw the shipyard, I saw the Highway 90 bridge going across the …