Le Ba Hung (R) commander of the USS Lassen and a Vietnamese native of Hue (central Vietnam) is greeted by Vietnamese navy officers during a welcoming ceremony held in Vietnam's central coastal city of Da Nang on November 7, 2009 where Hung's destroyer is on an official port call. The commander who fled Vietnam as a five-year-old boat-people boy and was picked up by an US ship in 1975 has visited the country in command of a destroyer.