 After a nine and a half month deployment, the USS Carl Vinson Strike Group is headed home. During the deployment, Vinson supported strike operations in Iraq and Syria, flew more than 2,300 combat missions, and dropped more than half a million pounds of ordinance in the fight against ISIS. Researchers and scientists at the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency now have a brand new billing that will centralize their efforts to identify lost service members. The new multi-million dollar facility located on joint base Pearl Harbor, Hickam, Hawaii is the largest forensic anthropology lab in the world. And finally, USS Sampson recently returned home from an independent deployment to the western Pacific Ocean. While deployed, Sampson-Salish conducted operations with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and participated in several community relations events, totally more than 500 hours. For these stories and more, visit navy.no.