And the Prince of Wales and Repulse and other British battlewagons operated out of Singapore for many years before 1941, when the paradigm shifted radically against them.
All of those carriers operated in the Persian Gulf during G.H.W.Bush on the War on Terror.
Not times of peace without expected risk or opposition.
My point is that Operating in the Persian Gulf, and transiting the Persian Gulf during times of conflict is not something new and different.