Origin: USS Abraham Lincoln Deploys to Pacific
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) departed Naval Station San Diego for a Pacific deployment on Nov. 21, 2025.
The carrier is sailing as the center of Carrier Strike Group 3 with Carrier Air Wing 9 embarked and the destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) serving as the strike group's air‑defense commander platform.
The sortie comes less than a year after the strike group's previous deployment, which concluded after 162 days in December 2024, and followed sustainment exercises through 2025, including participation in the Northern Edge exercise off Alaska in September.
The Lincoln's deployment breaks the Navy's Optimized Fleet Response Plan cycle, which schedules roughly 36 months of maintenance, training and deployment between carrier deployments; San Diego‑based carrier Carl Vinson likewise departed outside the planned OFRP cycle last year.
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