"In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime..."
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My son was on that boat when Operation Iraqi Freedom started. They were returning from a 6-month deployment when the war started. They were at Hawaii when they were turned around to head back to the Gulf.
He was a newly wed and took it a lot better than I would have. Good kid who is now a CPO on the verge of retirement.