 Complete the following phrase:  After their ship returned to service, Vermonts crew began preparations to perform the normal spring target practice off the Virginia Capes, but the exercises were cancelled when the situation in Mexico worsened. Vermont steamed out of Hampton Roads on 15 April, bound for Veracruz. There, she joined her sister , the pre-dreadnought , and the dreadnoughts and . Vermont contributed twelve officers and 308 men to a landing force that 