Homecoming: Kauffman returns from Southern Hemisphere

Posted to: Military Norfolk

The Virginian-Pilot
© October 8, 2008

Unit/crew size About 200

Leader Cmdr. Bob Cepek

Location of deployment Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Caribbean Sea

Deployed date April 7, 2008

Return date Oct. 7, 2008

Highlights The Kauffman transited the Panama Canal as part of its Partnership of Americas deployment. It also participated in a multinational exercise called PANAMAX, which focuses on defending the eastern and western approaches to the canal. It had port visits in Peru, Chile, Jamaica and Colombia.

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