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Not even Sandy can keep sailors from the polls

By Jacqueline Klimas on November 6, 2012 Disaster response, Hurricane, Navy, White House

The Navy tried to get all sailors the information they needed to vote, even designating the week of Sept. 27 as Absentee Voting Week, but there was at least one thing the service couldn’t predict — Hurricane Sandy. The Navy is making sure that those sailors helping with storm cleanup on the amphibious assault ship Wasp get a chance to vote, according to CNN’s Security Clearance blog. When Sandy approached, the Navy ordered Wasp to stay out at sea to avoid it. After the storm passed, the ship was sent to the New York/New Jersey area to provide assistance, if…

Home after the storm

By Bill McMichael on August 31, 2011 2nd Fleet, Carriers, Enterprise, Hurricane, Navy, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Station, Photos, Ships

The 27 ships that sortied out of Hampton Roads in advance of Hurricane Irene’s arrival last weekend began returning to Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Tuesday and are continuing to come back throughout the week. Also returning to their berths are some of the 28 ships in various stages of maintenance that were sent to safe havens to ride out the Category 1 hurricane, which whipped the region with high winds and generated what the National Weather Service estimates was a 4 1/2-foot storm surge at Naval Station Norfolk. The sortie was ordered by 2nd Fleet…

Waiting for Irene

By Bill McMichael on August 26, 2011 Coast Guard, Disaster response, Hurricane, Navy

With the outer bands of Hurricane Irene beginning to lash the southeastern coast of North Carolina, Coast Guard fliers and search-and-rescue personnel flew out of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., this morning, and we’re in hurry-up-and-wait mode at the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, adjacent to Charlotte International Airport. Another C-130 crew is staged in Raleigh. The crews and SAR personnel moved to get their aircraft out of harm’s way. But as the storm passes to the northeast, they’ll be the first to fly over the damaged areas — anywhere from South Carolina to Martha’s Vineyard, officials…

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