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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Navy squadron moving to Belle Chasse

Jennifer Beattie hurried her children across a parking lot at the Naval Air Station on Thursday in hopes to see her husband, Navy pilot Lt. Jonathan Beattie, land at his new home base.

Two Navy E-2C Hawkeyes approached from the north. The propeller-driven airplanes carry radar-packed saucers called rotodomes on their backs, each circle 25 feet in diameter. Beattie's pace picked up. Her husband was flying one of them.

"There's Daddy, there's Daddy," Beattie said, arousing excitement from her son, Jackson, 4, who wore a "Lil' Hawkeye" T-shirt, and her daughter, Elisabeth, a 15-month-old strapped into a stroller.

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