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Aircraft From The Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Return Home
wavy dot com ^ | May 28, 2003

Posted on 05/28/2003 10:41:09 AM PDT by doug from upland


 
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 May 28, 2003
News
Aircraft From The Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Return Home
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Click here to view a video report on the return of the C2-A Greyhounds .

Click here to view a video report on the return of the Bear Aces flying the E2-C Hawkeye.

Many aviators and sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt returned home on Wednesday. The airwing from the carrier returned to Naval Station Norfolk and Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach.

Four squadrons from Carrier Airwing Eight returned to their homebases Wednesday from a five month deployment aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt in support of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

The "Bear Aces" of Airborne Early Warning Squadron 124 (VAW 124) flying the E - 2C "Hawkeye" returned  to Chambers Field at Naval Station Norfolk. Fighter Squadron 213 (VF 213), the "Blacklions", flying the F-14 "Tomcat", and Strike Fighter Squadrons 15 and 87 returned to NAS Oceana.

Tuesday, 45 sailors with the C2-A Greyhounds or "CODs" from the USS Theodore Roosevelt returned to Naval Station Norfolk. The Greyhounds are a support squadron...bringing parts and mail to the USS Theodore Roosevelt on a daily basis.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nassau will return to Norfolk later this week.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: homecoming; norfolk; pictures; roosevelt; usn; ussnassau; ussroosevelt; usstheodoreroosevelt; virginiabeach; welcomehome
Josh will be back on Whidbey Island this week. It has been a long 5 months for my little girl.
1 posted on 05/28/2003 10:41:09 AM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland
Whoops. Put on your reading glasses. The font is too small.
2 posted on 05/28/2003 10:41:49 AM PDT by doug from upland (my dogs ran from the room when they heard Hillary shrieking on the radio)
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To: doug from upland
Happy for all of you!!! : )
3 posted on 05/28/2003 10:56:07 AM PDT by alisasny
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To: doug from upland
BMP for Josh and all the folks on the TR. Well done!
4 posted on 05/28/2003 10:56:58 AM PDT by Al B.
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More Photos
5 posted on 05/28/2003 4:47:20 PM PDT by Ligeia
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To: doug from upland

WELCOME HOME!

6 posted on 05/28/2003 6:18:14 PM PDT by Severa (Wife of Freeper Hostel, USN Active Duty Submariner)
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To: doug from upland
May God bless your daughter and her husband. They are both heroes.
7 posted on 05/28/2003 6:35:33 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: doug from upland
CVW-8

Welcome home VMFA-312.


8 posted on 05/28/2003 7:28:27 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: Severa
Godspeed to Hostel.
9 posted on 05/28/2003 7:40:40 PM PDT by doug from upland (my dogs ran from the room when they heard Hillary shrieking on the radio)
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To: Ligeia
Thanks for the link.
10 posted on 05/28/2003 7:44:02 PM PDT by doug from upland (my dogs ran from the room when they heard Hillary shrieking on the radio)
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To: doug from upland
Here's a neat pic of the TR coming in this morning:


11 posted on 05/29/2003 11:19:31 AM PDT by Al B.
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To: Al B.
Thanks. I'll share it with my daughter.
12 posted on 05/29/2003 11:22:29 AM PDT by doug from upland (my dogs ran from the room when they heard Hillary shrieking on the radio)
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