NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Twenty-nine sailors will receive their U.S. citizenship aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in Norfolk.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says the ceremony is scheduled for Thurs- day on the Nimitz-class carrier, which is homeported at the Navy base. The sailors serve aboard the Eisenhower, the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher, and amphibious assault ships USS Kearsarge and USS Iwo Jima.

The 29 sailors were born in 13 nations: Anguilla, Belize, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico,

Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Lucia. They hail from hometowns across the United States.