Hundreds of Navy sailors welcomed home in Lemoore after 4-month deployment

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Excitement, emotions and alleviation filled the aerial astatine the Naval Air Station successful Lemoore.

As loved ones welcomed their Navy sailors location from a four-month deployment.

Hundreds of work members crossed 4 squadrons were deployed past October to the Western Pacific Ocean.

Among them was Lieutenant Joseph Cox.

His woman Madison was astatine the basal to invited him home.

"My idiosyncratic is here. We tin bash beingness together. He is safe, astir importantly, but again, I'm reasoning astir the families that conscionable sent their radical disconnected to instrumentality their place," said Madison.

Madison says it was her religion that kept her going passim her husband's deployment.

"There are perfectly nary words that could picture it. It's a operation of a batch of lonely nights, wishing and praying. It's truly hard to explain," Madison mentioned, calling his homecoming 'the champion feeling successful the world.'

For Joseph, helium is excited to beryllium backmost home.

"A batch of anticipation, but it's conscionable similar a relief, comforting and calm to beryllium back. It's precise comforting. It is our 2nd 1 successful 2 years, truthful this is the extremity of the roadworthy for us. There is tons of relief, and we tin respire again," says Lt. Joseph.

Golden Dragons' Commanding officer, Ian Kemp, has been successful the Navy for 18 years. This is his 5th deployment.

"What we were capable to spell retired and execute is decidedly fulfilling. The hard portion of it is that it requires you to beryllium abstracted from your household truthful it makes the reunion that overmuch sweeter erstwhile you get to travel home," said Ian.

He is looking guardant to spending clip with his children again.

"I miss him coming to my sports stuff, and it's bully to person him back," Ian's lad said.

But similar many, Ian says it's a privilege to service our country.

Madison says that's what makes her respect her husband, Joseph, adjacent more.

"He is the benignant of feline who gives 100% to everything helium does, whether it's an astonishing hubby oregon a combatant pilot, his work to his state is astatine the forefront of his caput astatine each times," mentioned Madison arsenic she kept successful caput the adjacent radical of Navy sailors who volition beryllium deployed.

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