The Bremerton-based USS Nimitz aircraft carrier Friday cruised through the Strait of Hormuz and into the waters of the Persian Gulf, the ... carrier as part of its war games and that highlight ...

Nov. 27: The Pentagon orders Nimitz back to the Persian Gulf region to help provide deterrence as troop withdrawals come in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dec. 21: The USS Nimitz reaches the Horn of ...

Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ... Gulf of Sidra incident, inspired the final dogfight scene in the movie Top Gun. During the 1990s, the ...

For instance, the USS Abraham Lincoln, the last carrier before Nimitz in the Persian Gulf, was at sea for 295 ... deployment of a carrier since the Cold War. The Nimitz has trained with another ...

Last February, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its strike group launched massive attack into Somalia in response to growing IS threat.

The USS Nimitz joined the Navy in May 1973 ... to protect Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf from Iranian attacks during the Tanker War of the late 1980s. It was the largest naval convoy ...

with USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) having commenced RCOH in 2013.” Throughout its extensive service history, Nimitz has seen multiple threat theatres. During the Cold War, Nimitz was awarded the ...

All 52 hostages were eventually released and returned to the U.S. The carrier provided support for Operation Desert Storm in the Arabian Gulf ... Global War on Terrorism. In 2012, the Nimitz ...

The aircraft carrier USS ... War II — the sailors and Marines can be proud of both their victory over COVID-19 and their ship’s operations from the South China Sea to the Persian Gulf and ...

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is set for decommissioning ... strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s Sukhoi Su-22 Fitters. – The Persian Gulf War AKA Operation Desert Storm, January 17.to February 28, 1991; all ...

Christian Flores and thousands of others on the USS Nimitz sailed through the Persian Gulf and the South China ... longest deployment since the Vietnam War. It was lengthened by COVID-19 protocols ...

This incident, known as the Gulf of Sidra incident, inspired the final dogfight scene in the movie Top Gun. F-14A Tomcat 160403 on the deck of the USS Nimitz the day after the aircraft shot down a ...