USS Abraham Lincoln Returns in Time for Holidays After Mission of Firsts

‘So glad to be home’: USS Abraham Lincoln makes San Diego homecoming after sailing in harm’s way in Red Sea

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln made a joyous holiday-season return to San Diego on Friday, ending a deployment in which its escort destroyers had to repel missile and drone attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in the Middle East. The aerial assault came last month while the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was in the Red Sea, helping to protect Israel from a possible strike by Iran. Israel had recently killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. …

USS Abraham Lincoln Returns in Time for Holidays After Mission of Firsts

The USS Abraham Lincoln returned to Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado Friday after a five-month deployment. Loved ones awaited the aircraft carrier with signs and smiles as it arrived at Lima Pier. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Special for Times of San Diego)The USS Abraham Lincoln returned to Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado Friday after a five-month deployment. Loved ones awaited the aircraft carrier with signs and smiles as it…

Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group returns home just in time for the holidays

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- After a five-month deployment, Sailors aboard a guided-missile destroyer assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group have returned to San Diego. The servicemembers arrived to their Friday, just in time for the holidays. The crew has been out at sea on the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance, with Naval Base San Diego serving as their homeport. They departed back in July and were deploy…

USS Cole set to return to Norfolk — just in time for Chrismas Eve

The destroyer has been deployed for more than 200 days.

Thousands of Lincoln Strike Group sailors return to San Diego for the holidays

Just in time for the holidays, thousands of sailors with the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, including its flagship Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, returned Friday to their homeport of San Diego.