{"id":238821,"date":"2026-03-27T06:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:31:17","slug":"sailor-on-san-diego-based-uss-lincoln-injured-during-flight-operations-off-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238821\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor on San Diego-based USS Lincoln injured during flight operations off Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/F-18-Lincoln.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/F-18-Lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"F-18 launches\" class=\"wp-image-374738\"  \/><\/a>An F-18 launches from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in late February. (Photo courtesy of the Navy)<\/p>\n<p>A Navy sailor was injured aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USSLincoln\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a> while the aircraft carrier was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea, the Pentagon reported.<\/p>\n<p>Central Command said the injury sustained on Tuesday was not combat related or life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The sailor was flown ashore for additional medical care and is in stable condition. The Navy said the circumstances of the incident are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier is conducting strike missions against Iran in support of Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>Aboard the nuclear-powered warship are three squadrons of Navy F-18s from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnrsw.cnic.navy.mil\/Installations\/NAS-Lemoore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naval Air Station Lemoore<\/a>\u00a0near Fresno and one squadron of Marine Corps F-35C stealth fighters from Miramar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An F-18 launches from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in late February. (Photo courtesy of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19560,349,19378,5923,74,76,75,42452],"class_list":["post-238821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-aircraft-carriers","tag-injury","tag-iran","tag-navy","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-uss-abraham-lincoln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}