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    All I Want For Christmas - HMS OCEAN - Welcome Home!

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    Post  Carol Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:19 pm


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZcGz4vmJc&feature=player_embedded#!
    After lots of time away last year (214 days) -- planned for 7 week deployment exercise with other nations

    Diverted to Libya and further operations

    Back 9 Dec after 7½ months away - 225 days with 176 at sea

    400 people onboard (at peak during the amphibious exercises just under 900 onboard but approx 650 during Op Ellamy)
    Steamed just over 40,000 miles
    Burned approx 6,000 tonnes of fuel
    Operated 16 different type of aircraft off the deck

    Realities of deploying:

    15 babies born while the ship has been away (fathers did get home to see mum and baby)
    5 people were sent home so they didn't miss their own weddings.
    1 sailor whose son's third birthday is on homecoming. Family meeting ship

    Ships company have missed:

    Summer holidays.
    Children's exam results
    Children finishing school and starting university
    The Padre missed his daughter's graduation.

    The ship's company made a Christmas DVD when they heard they would be home for Christmas.


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    With deepest respect ~ Aloha & Mahalo, Carol
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    Post  Carol Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:22 pm


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR6O7VxKaQ&feature=related

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    The official video for Paul Mealor's Wherever You Are by Military Wives with Gareth Malone.

    Help the Military Wives raise money for two wonderful charities who work tirelessly to support the armed forces and their families. Buy the single and make this Christmas No 1 to make a difference to these wonderful people both at home and abroad.

    'Wherever You Are' is a moving love song written by Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor for the choir to sing at The Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance. The music is set to a poem compiled from letters to and from the servicemen and their wives on a 6-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. It is the raw emotion of the song that has touched so many of the British public.


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    With deepest respect ~ Aloha & Mahalo, Carol
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    Post  Carol Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:27 pm

    For the ones we love.



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    With deepest respect ~ Aloha & Mahalo, Carol

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