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OPERATIONAL SECURITY
Started by Retired Navy. Last reply by Linda73164 May 14, 2013. 2 Replies 5 Likes
USS San Antonio deployment 2013
Started by teresa. Last reply by CyndiH Proud Mom Of Robbie May 10, 2013. 9 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by teresa on April 9, 2013 at 3:12pm
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Hehe @ Helen, good choices. I'm thinking there is going to be a lot of fun times coming out of that box.
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Comment by Helen, T-man's mom on April 9, 2013 at 3:06pm
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Okay, I just sent a "Fun Box". Included were the headphones he requested for working out. I added some games you can get in the Target dollar section. Two nerflike footballs. A catch and toss game. Two games that used to use velcro but now use a smooth surface and a ball with suction cups. some packages of gum and the comics section from the last two Sunday papers. Oh yeah, and 3 packages of water ballons. About 300 of them. hehehe Don't know if they can use them, but I thought what the heck. It's only 3 bucks. The footballs were $3 a piece. Not a bad deal. I might go back and get more to send later on. He's pretty good at sharing his toys. lol
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We stuffed ours with . Canned spread cheese and boxes of wheat thins, kraft cheeze and crackers, 5 hour energy shots, protein bars and granola bars, and travel battleship and chess games. Also added some girl scout cookies but took them out because worried the heat would melt them.
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Oops, sorry, I meant to say the Kearsarge went to Cyprus
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Oh ok, so SA went to Crete and the Kearsarge went to Crete. Both are really beautiful. If you don't have google earth download it and look them up and click on the pictures that people have posted in that area. They look like places that would be picture perfect for a celebrity to go n vacation at.
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Has anyone heard from any of our guys about being in Cyprus? On the Kearsarge's facebook page are a lot of beautiful pictures of the crew walking around in limassol, cyprus. Apparently they have crossed the Suez canal also.
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I just saw that Linda. It sounds like fun! Guess we'll never know.....lol
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Comment by Linda73164 on April 9, 2013 at 9:54am
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I wonder if the S.A. has ice cream socials like the Carter Hall does! I like those pictures!
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Thanks Jessica. I can print and add to his NAVY scrapbook. It's going to be awesome. Now if I only had some pictures.......son????
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Comment by jessica on April 8, 2013 at 2:57pm
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hello everyone this is the latest info i came across on our sailors! just thought i would share.
RED SEA (NNS) -- The Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed a scheduled transit of the Suez Canal and entered the Red Sea, April 5.
Dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) led amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), flagship of the group, and amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17) through the 673-foot wide channel.
Commodore Brad Skillman, commander of the Kearsarge ARG, said the transit was conducted as part of the group's regularly scheduled deployment to the 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility.
"This group of Sailors and Marines conducted a textbook transit," said Skillman. "The overall objective was to conduct a safe evolution and I am very happy with the end result."
Sailors aboard Kearsarge took the opportunity to view the coastline of Egypt as the ship transited the canal.
"It was interesting to see all of the multi-national shipping traffic," said Intelligence Specialist 2nd Class Edward Hurley, a native of Lexington, N.C. "But it's always challenging, operationally. I felt proud to maintain a long-lived naval tradition by transiting the canal."
The Suez Canal is a 120-mile long artificial channel connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Its narrow width limits traffic to one-way travel at any given time, with only two points wide enough to allow passing.
Kearsarge is the flagship for the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and, with the embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is deployed in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
For more news from Navy Public Affairs Support Element, Norfolk, visit www.navy.mil/local/pacennorfolk/.
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