Overview
- The carrier left Hawaii on Monday en route to Bremerton after an eight-month deployment across the Indo-Pacific.
- It will make a brief stop in San Diego to offload part of its air wing at Naval Air Station North Island, the Navy said.
- Salvage teams in the South China Sea are working to recover an F/A-18 Super Hornet and an MH-60 Sea Hawk that crashed in October, with the outcome not yet disclosed.
- During the deployment, the strike group operated in the Indo-Pacific and was diverted for several weeks to the Arabian Sea due to tensions between Israel and Iran.
- Following its return to Washington, the ship is scheduled to round Cape Horn and reach Norfolk by early May to start a yearslong decommissioning.