Today my son's ship, the USS Peleliu returned to San Diego after a 7 month deployment. They were the USA humanitarian relief ship for the Pakistani floods earlier this year. I was aboard for 8 days for a Tiger Cruise from Pearl Harbor back to San Diego. It was great to be in the Navy for 8 days... not sure I'd want to work that hard for longer!

THANKS & Happy Holidays to all our US active duty service men & women & especially aboard the Peleliu.

FYI - LHA-5 is a marine amphibious carrier, the Harriers left earlier in the week, there's an entire marine city contained on the lower decks which was offloaded off Pendleton with the well deck LCU's - big D-Day looking beach landing craft. Lots of helo's ferried countless marines and equipment ashore -- all day yesterday.