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Article: EISENHOWER BATTLE GROUP FINALLY HEADS TO MED DEPLOYMENT BEGINS AFTER NUMEROUS SCHEDULE CHANGES.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 10, 1998
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Byline: JACK DORSEY, STAFF WRITER
NORFOLK -- There is no more guessing, no more delays, no more substitutions in what has been a wacky, oft-juggled deployment schedule for the ships in the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower Battle Group.
They leave today.
Nine ships pull out of Norfolk beginning at 8 a.m., and one joins them from Earle, N.J., as a six-month cruise for about 8,000 sailors and Marines gets under way.
Three other Norfolk-based amphibious ships, carrying 2,000 sailors and 2,000 North Carolina-based Marines, will leave July 1 to round out the 13-ship flotilla.
They are headed to the Mediterranean Sea, with a possible ...