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The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas Robert JohnsonDecember 24,2012 The Navy does its best to get troops home for the holidays when it can, but this display at Norfolk Naval base is still more the exception than the rule. Nine "Flattops," five aircraft carriers, and four amphibious assault ships, are crammed together here at Norfolk among smaller ships and nuclear submarines from December 20, Navy photos. The nine flattops alone, number more than all eight battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77),...

Men taking photos at Navy base held by INSBy JACK DORSEY, The Virginian-Pilot© June 27, 2002 NORFOLK -- Five Hispanic men taking photos near a Norfolk Naval Station pier were detained Tuesday afternoon by police and immigration officials after obtaining access to the facility without permission. Four of the men were unable to provide authorities proof of citizenship, or their immigration status. A fifth, who could produce documentation, was released. ``They were down by one of the piers shooting photographs, like they were tourists, or something,'' said Cmdr. Mark McDonald, a spokesman for the Navy's Mid-Atlantic Region, headquartered in Norfolk....