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The crew in their starched dress uniforms snapped to attention when the massive vessel slowly passed Freedom Tower, the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in lower Manhattan.
Unlike many of the younger crew on the USS Wasp, Navy Chief Joseph Jedding has multiple tours in Afghanistan under his belt. As a religious program specialist, his job is both to coordinate logistics for military chaplains and to provide them with armed security because of their official status as non-combatants.“Any time we have a fallen comrade, a lot of times I’m the one who has to coordinate the memorial ceremony or potentially the funeral,” Chief Jedding said.
Amphibious assault ships like the USS Wasp aren’t as vast as nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and don’t have catapults to fling jet fighters into the sky. But on Wednesday, it was the largest of more than a dozen ships that entered New York Harbor, passing the Statue of Liberty, Fort Hamilton and One World Trade Center as they arrived in Manhattan.
Airman Aaron Schwarzman works on the flight line of the USS Wasp. His team keeps the helicopters in place after they land by chaining them to the deck and securing the wheels with chock blocks. The enlisted sailors who work on flight operations wear different colored shirts to denote their assignments; crash and salvage teams, for example, wear red, while the purple shirts are reserved for those who fuel the aircraft.
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