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Pilots Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln Back in U.S.
Aired May 02, 2003 - 05:13 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: After 10 months at sea and a deployment to a war zone, pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are back in the United States and reunited with their families.
CNN's Rusty Dornin was in Lemoore, California for all of the excitement.
Let's take a look at that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rusty here. This is Boswell (ph).
BOSWELL: Yes?
DORNIN: Her husband is the executive officer on, for VFA -- excuse me, for 25. Two young children. We're now watching them...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Here they come.
DORNIN: We're now...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm sorry.
DORNIN: Let's go ahead and turn around and we can see the pilot, her husband, just approaching the crowd here. It's been a very long time for...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, this is just too hard. This is not fair. It's not fair.
DORNIN: What has been the most difficult part of this deployment?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my gosh...
DORNIN: The war or...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just, I can't, I can't tell you. The hardest part is just thinking about, I think it's six months, I don't know.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). How you doing, sweetie? How are you two? DORNIN: A few words to folks across the country?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My little womens. How are you doing?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Daddy, I'm only five.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know that. You're five, aren't you? We're going to have to have you a birthday party, aren't we? Come here, sweetheart. Let me give mamma a hug, a group hug.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How are you? Long time no see, you know? It's not right. They just...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It ain't right.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
DORNIN: This has been obviously a tougher deployment than a lot. You thought you were coming home in January, right?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, I'm lucky because I only got there in November. So I'm a short...
DORNIN: Oh, you were a short timer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm a short timer. I was only gone for five months. But they're, yes...
DORNIN: But still, I'm sure that was very discouraging and then you guys flew 1,600 sorties off the deck of that carrier.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's right, one at a time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One at a time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's.
DORNIN: What was the toughest part about being away from these kids?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Being away from my little womens and my wife, mostly my wife. But it's good to be back home, isn't it? Don't you think so?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Daddy, you've got a mustache.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I do have a mustache, don't I? Where did I get that from? Here, hang on.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
NEVILLE: Oh, very nice. Very nice.
Of course, the Lincoln heads to San Diego today, where it will drop off some 2,000 sailors. Then it's off to its home port in Everett, Washington.
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Aired May 2, 2003 - 05:13 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: After 10 months at sea and a deployment to a war zone, pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are back in the United States and reunited with their families.
CNN's Rusty Dornin was in Lemoore, California for all of the excitement.
Let's take a look at that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rusty here. This is Boswell (ph).
BOSWELL: Yes?
DORNIN: Her husband is the executive officer on, for VFA -- excuse me, for 25. Two young children. We're now watching them...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Here they come.
DORNIN: We're now...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm sorry.
DORNIN: Let's go ahead and turn around and we can see the pilot, her husband, just approaching the crowd here. It's been a very long time for...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, this is just too hard. This is not fair. It's not fair.
DORNIN: What has been the most difficult part of this deployment?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my gosh...
DORNIN: The war or...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just, I can't, I can't tell you. The hardest part is just thinking about, I think it's six months, I don't know.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). How you doing, sweetie? How are you two? DORNIN: A few words to folks across the country?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My little womens. How are you doing?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Daddy, I'm only five.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know that. You're five, aren't you? We're going to have to have you a birthday party, aren't we? Come here, sweetheart. Let me give mamma a hug, a group hug.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How are you? Long time no see, you know? It's not right. They just...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It ain't right.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
DORNIN: This has been obviously a tougher deployment than a lot. You thought you were coming home in January, right?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, I'm lucky because I only got there in November. So I'm a short...
DORNIN: Oh, you were a short timer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm a short timer. I was only gone for five months. But they're, yes...
DORNIN: But still, I'm sure that was very discouraging and then you guys flew 1,600 sorties off the deck of that carrier.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's right, one at a time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One at a time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's.
DORNIN: What was the toughest part about being away from these kids?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Being away from my little womens and my wife, mostly my wife. But it's good to be back home, isn't it? Don't you think so?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Daddy, you've got a mustache.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I do have a mustache, don't I? Where did I get that from? Here, hang on.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
NEVILLE: Oh, very nice. Very nice.
Of course, the Lincoln heads to San Diego today, where it will drop off some 2,000 sailors. Then it's off to its home port in Everett, Washington.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
