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Current Status
On 7 March 2007 the Roosevelt began a nine month Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) in Norfolk, which will see the addition of RAM missiles among other upgrades.[2] The ship returned to Naval Station Norfolk on 28 November 2007.[citation needed]
Captain C. Ladd Wheeler became Theodore Roosevelt's eleventh commanding officer on 11 January 2008.[citation needed]
CVW-8 and Theodore Roosevelt participated in Joint Task Force Exercise 08-4 Operation
Brimstone off the coast of North Carolina between 21 July and 31 July 2008.
The British carrier HMS Ark Royal, the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima with
associated units and the Brazilian Navy frigate Greenhalgh (F-46) and the
French submarine Améthyste also participated in the event
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Roosevelt left Norfolk on September 8 for a six- to seven-month deployment to
the Middle East.
On board were Carrier Air Wing 8 with strike fighter squadrons VFA-15, VFA-31, VFA-87 and
VFA-213; tactical electronics warfare squadron VAQ-141; carrier airborne early warning
squadron VAW-124; and helicopter anti-submarine squadron HS-3.
In transit the ship is scheduled to stop at Cape Town, South Africa.
This would be the first visit to Cape Town by a nuclear-powered vessel since the
German cargo ship the Otto Hahn in the 1970s