Joplin native serves aboard USS Fitzgerald

A 2012 Warsaw High School graduate and Joplin, Mo. native is serving aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), living and working at the Navy’s forward-deployed base south of Tokyo.Fireman Brian Shotwell is a machinist’s mate aboard the destroyer operating out of Yokosuka, which is located approximately 35 miles south of Tokyo and accommodates the United States’ furthest forward-deployed naval forces.An Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, Fitzgerald is 505 feet long or…

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