{"id":313727,"date":"2026-10-25T03:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313727\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:02:07","slug":"south-philadelphia-family-welcomes-home-uss-lincoln-sailor-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313727\/","title":{"rendered":"South Philadelphia family welcomes home USS Lincoln sailor \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A South Philadelphia<\/a> family welcomed home Master-at-Arms Second Class Santino Roccuzzo on Saturday after he spent 322 days at sea on the USS Lincoln<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The USS Lincoln arrived in San Diego Bay earlier this month after undergoing the second-longest amount of time overseas for a U.S. ship since the Vietnam War. The aircraft carrier played a key role in the Iran War and made national headlines for having eight suicide attempts while on deployment<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Being home, it’s unbelievable,” Roccuzzo said. “I’m not going to lie, it’s a lot better than where I was at. The food, the people, the love, the affection, the care, the passion, the emotion. Everything is beautiful. I love it. I’m feeling amazing. I’m having a great time.” <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe USS Lincoln was out on deployment for nearly a year, and a South Philly native was welcomed home with a party on Saturday. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle has the story.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A portion of 12th Street was shut down for the homecoming block party on Saturday night, where the Roccuzzo’s got to celebrate with the community that they value so much. <\/p>\n

“I’m not surprised. South Philly has been amazing to us, to her, my family, the Roccuzzo’s, in general. I grew up here, raised here, born here. South Philly can never be topped. You find another city, another state, you let me know. South Philly, it can never be beat.”<\/p>\n

And, although many people were happy to see Roccuzzo, no one was as happy as Shawn Gallo-Roccuzzo, Santino’s mother.<\/p>\n

“I call Santino the baby of the family. I call him my breath, and I was literally holding my breath for 11 months,” she said of Santino’s deployment. “I didn\u2019t know what was going on. You hear things, you see things.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when the USS Lincoln finally returned to San Diego Bay, Shawn took off her shoes and ran into her son’s arms. <\/p>\n

“I was like oh boy here she comes. I had to catch her. It was a good feeling,” Santino said. “It was really good to feel that love again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Philadelphia family welcomed home Master-at-Arms Second Class Santino Roccuzzo on Saturday after he spent 322 days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,645],"class_list":["post-313727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}