1st PLACE NEWS PICTURE STORY: Jonathon Gruenke, Daily Press—A MH-60 helicopter departs aircraft carrier USS George Washington Wednesday morning in the Atlantic Ocean. The USS George Washington is returning to Naval Station Norfolk following it’s deployment in Japan Thursday December 17, 2015.

The crew of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington begin to travel to Naval Station Norfolk, which will be its first homecoming in Hampton Roads, and its new home port, since 2008.