Complex sentence: She departed Norfolk for her maiden deployment in July 2007, visiting various nations around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, as well as circumnavigating the continent of Africa as part of Task Group 60.5, the U.S. Navy's Southeast Africa task force.
Split into simpler sentences: She departed Norfolk for her maiden deployment in July 2007, visiting various nations around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. On that deployment, she circumnavigated the continent of Africa as part of Task Group 60.5, the U.S. Navy's Southeast Africa task force.