 Iwo Jima and Phoebe's ready group return to his home port of Naval Station Norfolk, December 20th, following a regularly scheduled deployment to the 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. 1100 sailors and Marines, they've gone for 9 months, doing a fantastic job, a flawless job, called on again and again with changes and new tasks that come along, a risen occasion every time they've been, I couldn't ask for any more, I'm so proud of these kids I could bust and I'm ready to get them turned over to their families here as soon as possible. Daddy, we're so excited, we've been waiting a long, long, night, Monday, waiting to go run up to them and hug them and give them big gloves to keep them. Sailors will welcome home by families and friends just in time for the holidays. In engineering, so usually I have to wait, he's usually one of the last people off the ship, so we wanted to make sure that that wouldn't happen this time, it's going to be awesome to have him Along with the Iwo Jima was a USS New York which completed its first deployment. Reporting for N-Pace East, I am Petty Officer Tamikia Perdue.