The carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is returning to San Diego after leading the RimPac multi-national war games off Hawaii and is expected to be at its berth by the middle of next week, Navy sources told the Union-Tribune.<\/p>\n
The flattop will then prepare to deploy to the western Pacific, and possibly the Middle East, in September, about a month early, according to the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.<\/p>\n
The T.R., as many call it, left San Diego on June 15 to serve as the command ship of RimPac, a five-week maritime exercise that occurs every two years. At the time, President Donald Trump was considering diverting the carrier to the Middle East due to tensions with Iran.<\/p>\n
Trump ended up sending the carrier to Hawaiian waters to oversee<\/a> RimPac\u2019s 30 other surface warships, five submarines and more than 190 aircraft.<\/p>\n The near-term future of another San Diego-based carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is less clear. The carrier is in the Middle East, serving as a lead combatant in the U.S. war with Iran. It has been at sea for more than 220 days<\/a> without a port call, an unusually long period of time. The Navy has not said when the Abe<\/a> will be allowed to turn for home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is returning to San Diego after leading the RimPac multi-national war games off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,181,23,1703,100,74,84,76,75,3055,1696],"class_list":["post-419887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-south-county","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419887","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=419887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}