Civilian face may replace Garner

IN typical Hollywood-style fanfare, the four-seater Viking jet named Navy One – with President George W. Bush in the co-pilot seat – made a tail-hook landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California. 

Dressed in a flight suit and helmet under his arm, the US President had come on board to welcome home the men and women in uniform after almost 10 months at sea and to announce that the military phase of the war in Iraq was over.