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The supercarrier, alongside guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., arrived on September 19 and left the next day. Lincoln is 307 days into her deployment, 19 short of the record set earlier this year by the USS Gerald R. Ford, and is now just weeks away from San Diego. Meanwhile, two flattops are on station in the Middle East supporting blockade operations, and the USS Ronald Reagan has rejoined the fleet after an extended maintenance availability.\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbraham Lincoln Departs Guam, Continuing Her Journey Home\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Washington and George H.W. 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After leaving Thailand on September 6 following a five-day liberty port call, Lincoln topped off the Petersen Jr.\u00a0in the Gulf of Thailand and linked up with two Royal Australian Navy frigates for joint training in the South China Sea. Publicly available flight tracking data shows the carrier transited the Balabac Strait eastbound around September 13, and the Surigao Strait northbound two days later to enter the Philippine Sea. After going dark for a few days, she resurfaced in Guam and moored at Kilo Wharf over the weekend.\n\n\n\n\nLincoln transits the Philippine Sea. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\nLincoln transits the Philippine Sea. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\n\n\u201cDue to the brief nature of the logistics stop, the crew were afforded on-base liberty to access base services and attend a Navy Entertainment-sponsored concert,\u201d CSG-3 spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Tyler Barker wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes. The carrier took on stores, mail, and equipment, according to Barker, and 13 Fleet and Family counselors are now aboard to run return-and-reunion classes but \u201cthe crew and ship remain focused and ready.\u201d\n\n\n\nUSS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) arrives in Guam on Sept. 19, 2026. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\nA homecoming date has not been announced publicly. Unless Lincoln makes another stop (in Hawaii, for example) or conducts additional training on the way, she should arrive in early October just shy of Ford\u2019s record. The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Daryl Caudle, said in June that Lincoln would likely shift her homeport to Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in Washington state, which aligns with TWZ\u2019s reporting that she is expected to begin a Drydocking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) after returning stateside. The timeline for the DPIA is unclear.\n\n\n\nGeorge Washington and George H.W. Bush Project Power In The Middle East\n\n\n\nThe American public got a rare look at ongoing combat operations aboard the USS George Washington when two reporters embarked earlier this month. Fox News\u2019 Trey Yingst and CBS News\u2019 Tom Hanson reported live from the flight deck, as F-35C Lightning IIs and F/A-18E/F Super Hornets launched behind them, in hits that aired September 11 to 14. The only other publicized media embark since the war began on February 28 went to CNN\u2019s Pamela Brown, who reported on the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln while the flattop was still in theater.\n\n\n\n\nAn F-35C launches from Washington. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\nA pair of Super Hornets on Washington. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\n\n\u201cLast weekend, the aircraft carrier came under Iranian missile attack; the first of three attacks on US warships in the last week alone,\u201d Yingst said, indicating it was the USS George Washington, and not the USS George H.W. Bush, that was targeted by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in early September. The Navy declined to comment when TWZ asked which carrier was targeted after Iranian state media claimed the strike had been successful. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty much employing all our capabilities right now,\u201d Washington\u2019s commanding officer (CO), Capt. Nicholas DeLeo, told Yingst.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNight flight ops aboard USS George Washington. U.S. Navy photos \n\n\n\n\n\u201cThe GW is surrounded by four to five guided-missile destroyers at any moment,\u201d Yingst also reported. He flew out to USS Shoup, positioned off the starboard side at the time, to make the point and speak with the warship\u2019s CO. Shoup is the only destroyer officially confirmed to be part of CSG-5. \u201cMy ship is in charge of coordinating defense amongst the various other units, allocating defensive assets to it, be it potentially a missile to shoot something down or just aircraft to go identify and monitor the picture,\u201d Capt. William Buford said. Based on that description, Shoup\u2019s CO appears to be coordinating Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) for the strike group, a question we\u2019ve been asking the Navy to confirm. TWZ understands additional destroyers operating in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) AOR are also escorting Washington, but a U.S. official declined to say which ones.\n\n\n\nHanson asked DeLeo about the recent IRGC ballistic missile threat targeting Navy ships in the region. \u201cWe have a variety of ways to protect, both offensively and defensively, a Navy ship, and we employ all these methods,\u201d he told the network. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we train to.\u201d Hanson also pressed the commander of CSG-5, Rear Adm. Jeff Heames, on whether he was concerned about the munitions stockpile, a dynamic TWZ detailed in a special feature yesterday. \u201cOf course we\u2019re concerned about the expenditure to some degree, but I have no concerns locally at my level here,\u201d Heames replied.\n\n\n\nGun shoot aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73), Sept. 15, 2026. U.S. Navy video\n\n\n\nIn addition to Washington, Bush is still working the blockade from the Arabian Sea, nearly six months into her deployment. As of CENTCOM\u2019s latest social media update on September 21, U.S. forces in the region had redirected 110 commercial vessels to ensure \u201ctotal compliance\u201d with the blockade. More than 50 ships \u201csupporting humanitarian efforts\u201d have been allowed through, according to the command. CENTCOM recently stopped publishing the number of ships boarded, seized, or disabled kinetically.\n\n\n\nAn MH-60S Sea Hawk lifts cargo from the flight deck of USS George H.W. Bush, Sept. 18, 2026. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\nRonald Reagan Rejoins the Fleet\n\n\n\nThe USS Ronald Reagan is officially back. The Navy, in a recent statement, confirmed the flattop \u201creturned to the fleet capable and mission-ready.\u201d The carrier had been out of action since March 2025 for a DPIA at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington state and completed four days of sea trials in early September. While the Navy does not comment on upcoming deployments due to operational security, current speculation points to a spring 2027 deployment, but that is not confirmed.\n\n\n\nCounter measure wash down on USS Ronald Reagan in the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 6, 2026. U.S. Navy photo \n\n\n\nReagan is the only carrier currently homeported at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in Washington. Previously, she was America\u2019s only forward-deployed carrier based in Yokosuka, Japan, until swapping hulls with the USS George Washington in 2024. USS Nimitz was stationed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton before circumnavigating South America to Naval Station Norfolk this summer, where she is being used primarily for training before deactivation in 2027. The yet-to-be-commissioned PCU John F. Kennedy, the second and newest Ford class supercarrier, is slated to homeport in Washington state no earlier than 2029.\n\n\n\nU.S. Navy Big Deck Fleet At A Glance\n\n\n\nOverall, three U.S. carriers are deployed (with one heading home), one is preparing to deploy in the near term, three are working up in various states of readiness, three are in current or upcoming maintenance, and one is being used primarily for training before deactivation next year. 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