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The squadron deployed three times to Iraq in four years and in October 2009 made the first combat deployment of the UH-1Y Venom to Afghanistan

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The United States Navy Seabees were established in 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor demonstrated the need for militarized construction units that could build and defend forward operating bases under combat conditions

USS George Washington CVN-73 patch Corpus Christi " deployed a detachment toUSS George Washington CVN 73 Patch The Spirit of Freedom at Sea Named for the Father of the Nation, CVN 73 carries the spirit of American independence across the world's oceans. USS George Washington (CVN 73) is a Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier commissioned in 1992. As one of the Navy's premier capital ships, CVN 73 has served in virtually every major theater of operations since her commissioning, from Operation Southern Watch over Iraq