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ABOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (AP) - The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman left Virginia in December for a routine overseas deployment but ended up having to "give 'em hell" in combat. The Truman, with 5,400 sailors and Marines on board, was to pull into Norfolk Naval Station on Friday, becoming the first East Coast carrier to return from the Iraq war. A second Norfolk-based carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, is due home next week. "It's kind of a relief" to be coming home, said Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Elizabeth Lay, 23, of Billings, Mont. "These past six...

NAIROBI: US forces, including Special Forces, bombers and a Navy destroyer, would begin a two-day live-fire exercise in Djibouti on Sunday, a US military spokesman said. The day and night exercise is the largest of its kind conducted in the small but strategically important Horn of Africa nation, which the US is using as a regional base for its war on terrorism. About 50 troops, mainly Americans but also some from coalition partners, would be involved, Maj Steve Cox, spokesman for US Combined Task Force-Horn of Africa, said on Saturday. The destroyer USS Briscoe will fire 5-inch, 54-caliber naval guns...