1009015292M-011 NORFOLK (Sept. 1, 2010) Family and friends welcome home Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67). The ship returned two days early from a scheduled 7-month deployment because of Hurricane Earl. Cole deployed to support Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, conducting counter-piracy operations and maritime interdiction operations in the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin. Navy

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