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US aircraft carrier leading mission against Houthis said ordered home
The USS aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower sails in the Red Sea on June 12, 2024. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
US officials reportedly order the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the aircraft carrier leading America’s response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, to return home.
The US Naval Institute’s news service reports, citing an anonymous official, that the Eisenhower would be returning home to Norfolk, Virginia, after an over eight-month deployment in combat that the Navy says is its most intense since World War II.
The report said an aircraft carrier operating in the Pacific would be taking the Eisenhower’s place.
The closest American aircraft carrier known to be operating in Asia is the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
