APTLY NAMED NAVAL LYNX, MISS ADVENTURE FLIES HOME TO YEOVILTON
APTLY NAMED NAVAL LYNX, MISS ADVENTURE FLIES HOME TO YEOVILTON
NEARLY seven months after departure embarked in HMS Defender 217 Lynx Flight return home to a warm welcome from family members.
The Lynx Mk 8 celebrated her 35th birthday while onboard and has been embarked on the Type 45 Destroyer since departingPortsmouth at the beginning of June this year to be engaged in patrols in the Gulf as part of Operation Kipion.
Families welcomed back their loved ones at 815 Naval Air Squadron just in time for Christmas celebrations. Mrs Natasha Rebbeck wife of Lieutenant Chris Rebbeck Flight Pilot said;
“I have missed him it’s been hard but I’ve tried to keep busy. This is Chris’s first long deployment and I’m so please to have him back home in time for Christmas. Last year he got called away at short notice on the 19 December so was away for Christmas and New Year”.
Mrs Amy Wilson wife of Leading Hand Matthew Wilson said;
“It feels lush to have him home we have only been married just over a year so he missed our first wedding anniversary. We have managed to keep in regular contact though while he was away so that has helped a lot.”
Miss Adventure and her flight of seven maintainers and three aircrew make up 217 Flight and have worked round the clock during the deployment to maintain a high level of readiness for whatever tasking is given at a moments notice helping to protect our economy, providing security at sea.