After a 286-day deployment that included 264 consecutive days at sea to support operations in the Middle East, the USS Abraham Lincoln reached Thailand in early September. The USS George Washington, which had been in Japan, replaced it, so while the United States was able to maintain carrier coverage in the Middle East, it could […]
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