USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record deployment
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The USS Abraham Lincoln returned to its home port in San Diego on Thursday, ending a 321-day deployment that included a Navy-record 265 consecutive days at sea without a port call.
Thousands of sailors and Marines were reunited with their families after the aircraft carrier docked at Naval Air Station North Island. The ship, carrying about 5,000 personnel, had left San Diego in November for a Pacific deployment before being redirected to the Middle East following the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in late February.
The deployment had initially been expected to end months earlier but was extended as the carrier supported military operations involving Iran. Several outlets reported that the prolonged mission was marked by shortages of food and basic supplies and concerns about crew morale and mental health.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boarded the carrier at sea on Wednesday and presented its strike group with the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest decoration awarded to U.S. military units. He told the crew that the group had accomplished what “no other carrier strike group has ever done” and rejected portrayals of the ship as a symbol of dysfunction or poor morale.
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