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USS Gerald R Ford Returns: Families reunite with long-deployed loved ones

The thousands of sailors aboard the Norfolk-based USS Gerald R. Ford will finally return home on Saturday after a record-breaking deployment that involved them in U.S. military operations around the world.

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