ABC News reported that the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier strike group will be departing the region after more than two months in the Mediterranean Sea, where it was stationed in the shadow of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
According to the report, the group will return to its home port of Norfolk, Virginia, to prepare for future deployments — as it was originally scheduled to do in early November.
The nuclear-powered Ford, a small, floating city of over 4,000 people with eight squadrons of aircraft, became a powerful symbol of American resolve by rushing closer to Israel after it was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, aiming to prevent a larger regional escalation.
A second strike group, the USS Dwight Eisenhower, is currently in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen to deter Houthi attacks on merchant ships. The report said that it is slated to remain in the Middle East for now. READ MORE