We Brought Doughnuts and Beer: Families Greet USS Philippine Sea After 10 Months military.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from military.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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Marine V-22 Osprey Makes First Landing on Navy Hospital Ship
Sailors aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy’s (T-AH 19) fuel an MV-22B Osprey on the ship’s flight deck for the first time. (MC3 Jake Greenberg/U.S. Navy)
19 Apr 2021
The hospital ship Mercy just welcomed the tiltrotor aircraft that will serve as the Navy s next carrier delivery platform onto its deck for the first time.
The Navy last week began flight deck tests with the V-22 Osprey off the coast of Southern California, marking the first time a V-22 variant has landed on a Military Sealift Command, or MSC, hospital ship.
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