THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, November 2, 1996 TAG: 9611020275
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 18 lines
Seen through a heart-shaped balloon, Wendy Smallwood awaits the
arrival Friday of the Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer Laboon,
one of two Navy ships to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles into Iraq
in September. On the ship is Wendy's mother, Lt. j.g. Rhonda Taylor.
Cmdr. Mark Danley, who commands the Laboon, called his 340-member
crew the ``finest.'' Also returning Friday was the oiler Platte,
whose 240-member crew is commanded by Capt. Beulah C. Galvin.
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