Posted on 01/01/2024 5:11:13 PM PST by hardspunned
The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group is heading back home after 244 days on deployment, U.S. 6th Fleet officials announced on Monday.
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is now set to depart the Eastern Mediterranean and return to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., after its deployment was extended twice by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, according to the announcement.
“In the coming days, the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group will redeploy to its home port as scheduled to prepare for future deployments,” reads the statement from U.S. 6th Fleet.
Ford’s move back to its Naval Station Norfolk, Va., homeport follows the move of amphibious warships USS Bataan (LHD-5) and USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) from the Red Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean to rejoin USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19) after five months in the Middle East, USNI News reported last week. The ARG will be joined by an unspecified number of guided-missile destroyers to augment the formation, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News.
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Yep, bet it re-stations off the Chinese coast after a “pit stop” in Norfolk.
Maybe they can't strike back effectively at Houthi positions. If that is true, we had better come up with some other way to stop Houthis (Iranians) from disrupting commercial shipping.
Or we can pack up our toys and go home. That would be a stunning new world order very quickly. I do not believe we would enjoy the results.
God knows, I hate seeing Gerald Ford’s name on a ship as if he is on an equal with Dwight David Eisenhower. Oh yeah, I voted for Ford in 1976.
Ford was a good man. Not perfect, but a good man in a remarkably difficult time for the USA.
I’m glad that I was wrong when I predicted Soror, Biden and Milley were sacrificing Ford and her crew. Godspeed Ford.
It’s going to get interesting in the eastern Med w/o the Ford there, especially with the Iranians getting more active.
Ford was a Navy Lt. Commander during the war.
Did they get the problems with the emails (catapults) straightened out?
I didn’t know there was a problem.
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