Escalation: USS George Washington arrives in CENTCOM
USS George Washington entered the U.S. Central Command theater on Aug. 19. The carrier is transiting the Arabian Sea toward the Gulf of Oman.
It is in theater to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a scheduled rotation. With the handover, Washington takes on Lincoln’s mission around the Strait of Hormuz.
By Thursday, Lincoln was en route to the United States. As of Monday, it had still been in the region.
George Washington joined the USS George H.W. Bush and other U.S. warships already operating there. Because Washington is the Navy’s forward-deployed carrier from Japan, its shift left the Western Pacific without a U.S. carrier.
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