
🇺🇸🇮🇷 326 days. The longest U.S. carrier deployment since Vietnam. The USS Gerald R. Ford left for a routine Mediterranean rotation in June 2025. It came home having cycled through Venezuelan tensions, Red Sea operations, and the Iran war. Every one of the world's current crises is on that ship's logbook. Absolute unit. Hegseth was on the pier at Norfolk today to welcome the Gerald R. Ford strike group home.


























