US Navy guided-missile destroyer
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says the visit of a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS Shoup, to the territory reassures American Samoa of the US government’s commitment “to protect our people, our rights, our property.”
The governor was speaking yesterday morning...

![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga (center) with Commander Andy Strickland, Commanding Officer of the USS Shoup; two Naval officers and a US Coast Guard official at the Governor’s Office yesterday following a new conference. [photo: FS] Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga (center) with Commander Andy Strickland, Commanding Officer of the USS Shoup; two Naval officers and a US Coast Guard official](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/group_1673.jpg?itok=xowoIeGT)