By Navy Wire Service
July 8, 1999

WASHINGTON (NWS) -- Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has ordered USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to the Arabian Gulf. Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon made the announcement July 6. Theodore Roosevelt will be passing through the Suez Canal later in the  week and is scheduled to remain in the Arabian Gulf until late August. "She'll leave the Gulf and return to Norfolk by late September, spending a little bit of time in the Mediterranean on the way through, but only a little bit of time," said Bacon. Theodore Roosevelt will relieve USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), which is currently deployed to the region.

VF-14 is part of CVW-8 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).