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Cyril Vickens welcomes home his brother U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Bashir Bilala, an aviation maintenance administrator with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 26, Detachment 4, upon the unit's arrival at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., March 8, 2006. The unit completed a six-month deployment to Southwest Asia and Eastern Africa with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group.

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Cyril Vickens welcomes home his brother U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Bashir Bilala, an aviation maintenance administrator with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 26, Detachment 4, upon the unit's arrival at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., March 8, 2006. The unit completed a six-month deployment to Southwest Asia and Eastern Africa with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group.

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