Four more squadrons due home Thursday from Enterprise

By Meredith Kruse
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 13, 2011

Four more squadrons deployed with the Enterprise carrier strike group are due home Thursday, a day before the ships arrive.

The Screwtops of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 123 are set to land at Chambers Field in Norfolk. The squadron flies the E-2C Hawkeye command and control aircraft.

The Red Rippers of Strike Fighter Squadron 11, the Fighting Checkmates of Strike Fighter Squadron 211 and the Knighthawks of Strike Fighter Squadron 136 will return to Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. The Knighthawks fly the F/A-18E Super Hornet; the others fly the F/A-18F variant.

The squadrons deployed for six months with Carrier Air Wing One, flying missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The air wing flew more than 1,400 combat sorties and completed 7,395 arrested landings - enough to push the Big E's lifetime trap count above 400,000.

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