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ABOARD THE EISENHOWER
After a journey of 56,000 miles, hundreds of combat flights and five months away from loved ones, the crew of the Dwight D. Eisenhower is within sight of home.
The Eisenhower spent months in the Arabian Sea launching warplanes into Afghanistan, and weeks transiting back through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic. Now only one thing stands between 3,500 sailors and their families on the pier at Norfolk Naval Station: the routine but demanding task of parallel-parking a warship the size of a skyscraper.
In a world of super high-tech global positioning systems, oceanic sensors and sports car-grade handling, this touchy task still comes down to eyeballs and clipped conversation and the feeling of the ship moving underfoot.
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BUY THE DVD, POSTER AND PHOTOS
Want a keepsake? Order a DVD of the carrier’s return, including a time-lapse video and dozens of photos. Buy the Pilot photography from this homecoming. Also available: Order a poster of an aerial view of the Eisenhower.
SOURCES: U.S. Navy; Moran Towing Co.
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HOW WE DID THIS STORY: Today’s presentation on the docking of the Eisenhower is the work of more than a dozen journalists.
Reporters Matthew Jones and Kate Wiltrout, videographer Brian Clark and photographer Ryan Henricksen flew out to the Ike from the naval station on a Navy helicopter the morning of the homecoming.
Reporter Dave Forster and photographer Preston Gannaway worked aboard the Susan Moran; with a camera and video recorder, photo editor Norm Shafer followed docking pilot John Morey from the tug to the bridge. Photographer L. Todd Spencer shot images from a commercial helicopter, while photographer Bill Tiernan and reporter Jaedda Armstrong worked from the pier.
Clark combined footage from his camera and multimedia reporter Patrick Wilson’s camera located on the ship’s island and added photographs, music and narration. Designer and artist Miranda Mulligan created print and online graphics; Luis Vilches designed the Magazine pages. Military editor Meredith Kruse, copy editors Bernadette Kinlaw and David Simpson, photographer Hyunsoo Leo Kim and photography director Randy Greenwell edited the project.
The project could not have been done without help from Navy public affairs officers, Moran Towing Company and Navy captains Bruce Lindsey and Dee Mewbourne.
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