 Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm petty officer Ian Cotter. Sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Halsey returned from a seven month deployment to the western pacific february 5th. So today's homecoming is kind of a culmination of not only the end of a seven month deployment but also the years worth of work that has gone in to get the ship ready after they've finished a maintenance phase, they've gone through all their work ups, gone through their certifications, they have a lot of stress as they're going through that then there's family separation so this is really you know 18-19 months worth of hard work that comes to an end and then the reunion and get to see family and friends and welcome to a wonderful place like Pearl Harbor Hawaii. While deployed Halsey Sailors participated in cooperation of float readiness and training strengthening partnerships in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. Halsey also served as an escort to USS Carl Vinson and the USS George Washington Carrier strike group.