Service History
Assigned to Submarine Development Group 2 with her home port at New London, Connecticut, Pargo conducted acoustic trials followed by repairs and alterations at Groton, then participated in the search for the missing attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) from 27 May to 7 June 1968. She spent the rest of 1968 conducting various trials in the Caribbean Sea and off New London.
Pargo made her 650th dive on 29 March 1978.
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