After nearly nine months at sea, sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman and its strike group look forward to fast food and home-cooked meals, birthday celebrations, and trips across the country now that they’re back on land.

Cheers reverberated and happy tears flowed Sunday as thousands gathered to welcome home sailors from a deployment mostly spent near the Red Sea in active combat. The strike group that returned over the weekend to Naval Station Norfolk includes the aircraft carrier Truman, cruiser USS Gettysburg and destroyer USS Stout.

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Family members and loved ones had plenty of reason to be nervous during the deployment. The Truman spent at least five of eight months defending merchant ships and military vessels an

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