US Navy/PO3 Shawn J. Stewart Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 returned to California last week after a 10-month deployment with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. It was the Marine Corps' final F/A-18 Hornet carrier deployment, officials said in a news release about the historic mission. Marine CorpsF/A-18 Hornets have flown off the flight deck of a Navy aircraft carrier for the last time. Members of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323, known as the Death Rattlers, returned to California last week after a 10-month deployment with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. It was the final F/A-18 Hornet carrier deployment for the Marine Corps, officials said in a news release about the historic mission.