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The USS Philippine Sea and came home to Naval Station Mayport on a sunny Wednesday morning, a long 10 months and two days after its 300 sailors left family and friends for what was anticipated to be just a six-month deployment.
After that long delay, here were some pretty eager family members itching to see their sailors again, among them 11 babies who d never seen their fathers.
And for the first time since the pandemic began, some family members were allowed on the dock to meet the arriving sailors.
Anthony Mobley, a cryptologic technician, just beamed as he got his first look at his 5-month-old daughter, Amelia, handed him by his wife, Alina. Indescribable, he managed to say. I can t even .
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Sailor surprises her 3 children at Neptune Beach Elementary after 10 months apart
USS Philippine Sea returned Wednesday to Naval Station Mayport
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NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. – As the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea returned Wednesday to Naval Station Mayport after 10 months at sea, Neptune Beach Elementary School Principal Elizabeth Kavanagh was busy planning a flag raising ceremony to honor military children.
The Langley children, all three of them, were asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in front of their school and classmates.
As the children wrapped up the daily ritual, their mother, Petty Officer Langley, stood feet away in the atrium to the front of the school.
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