Welcome home! Sailors return to NAS Jax following six-month deployment The "Mad Foxes" of Patrol Squadron are returning to Naval Air Station Jacksonville following a six-month deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 7:38 AM EDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 11:32 AM EDT May 4, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Welcome home, sailors! The "Mad Foxes" of Patrol Squadron (VP) 5 are returning to Naval Air Station Jacksonville on Tuesday following a six-month deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. A spokesperson for NAS Jax says VP-5 conducted maritime patrol and reconnaissance operations with the P-8A Poseidon aircraft primarily out of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.