The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Strait of Hormuz as an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the Nightdippers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5 lifts off from the flight deck. (U.S. Navy photo).
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) moved into the Persian Gulf for the first time since since it was scrambled to the Middle East in May, even as its replacement, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is back at sea with its air wing in final preparation to deploy after an electrical failure, US Naval Institute News reports.
Lincoln and its strike group were on deployment earlier this year and hurried to the Middle East after then-National Security Advisor John Bolton called for an increased presence to counter Iranian aggression. The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, though, spent all these months steaming in a tight operational box in the North Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman, with occasional port calls at Duqm, Oman.
