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Two ships of the Hampton Roads-based USS Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group are getting a break in their four-month-old deployment, with scheduled pit stops in Europe.
The USS Kearsarge’s visit to France comes at a time of high tensions in Europe.
The USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the U.S. Navy, is in Tallinn this weekend following Siil, the Estonian Defense Forces' (EDF) large-scale multinational defense exercise. ERR News' Marcus Turovski and Aili Vahtla went on board Saturday to see the ship and hear from the crew.
Less than a week after crossing the Arctic Circle north of Iceland, the sailors and Marines of Norfolk-based USS Arlington were some 3,300 nautical miles to the south and east, in the famously dark waters of the Aegean and drilling with Greece’s 32nd Hellenic Marine Brigade as well as the Hellenic Army’s Special Warfare Command.
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It was the kind of rapid movement between radically different climates that’s hard to manage when training off the Virginia capes.