DATE: Sunday, July 6, 1997 TAG: 9707060086 SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL LENGTH: 21 lines
Above, Rachel Johnson gets a hug and kiss from her husband, Lt. Joel
Johnson, Saturday at Norfolk Naval Air Station. The Johnsons have
not seen each other for four months because Joel has been deployed
on the Inchon, a mine countermeasures support ship. His first
response to Rachel, who is seven months pregnant, was, ``You don't
look so pregnant.''
At left, Lt. Chris Treacy, a helicopter pilot with a helicopter mine
countermeasure squadron, holds his son Connor, 3. About 200 crewmen
from the mine countermeasure group were airlifted to Norfolk for
reunions with family members. This was the first time Treacy has
been separated from his family for a deployment.
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