Navy Airman Roland Ross, a 2003 graduate of Senn High School, recently returned from a seven-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea while assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, homeported in Norfolk, VA.
Ross' ship was deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terrorism as the flagship of the Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group.
While on deployment, Ross participated in joint-service, multi-national maritime operations and visited foreign ports.
USS Wasp supports amphibious operations using Landing Craft Air Cushions, which are specially-designed hovercraft that travel above land and sea surfaces and deliver vehicles and equipment. The ship also has conventional landing craft and helicopters embarked, and is equipped with medical facilities staffed by Navy doctors, dentists, nurses and corpsmen. |
