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USS Gerald R. Ford is Now Operating in the Red Sea

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is now operating in U.S. Central Command, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News on Friday. Ford departed the Eastern Mediterranean Sea late last week and is now in the Red Sea after a Suez Canal transit. Destroyers USS Mahan (DDG-72) and USS Winsto

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Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is now operating in U.S. Central Command, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News on Friday. Ford departed the Eastern Mediterranean Sea late last week and is now in the Red Sea after a Suez Canal transit. Destroyers USS Mahan (DDG-72) and USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) also made the transit into the Red Sea. The Associated Press first reported the transit on Friday. Ford departed Split, Croatia, on April 2, after repairs following a March 12 laundry room fire while the carrier was in the Red Sea. The carrier broke the post-Cold

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