{"id":429757,"date":"2026-08-11T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429757\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:28:25","slug":"destroyer-uss-pinckney-returns-to-san-diego-after-helping-u-s-wage-war-against-iran-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429757\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroyer USS Pinckney returns to San Diego after helping U.S. wage war against Iran \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney returned to Naval Base San Diego Saturday after a deployment in which it fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran during Operation Epic Fury and was part of the air defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2026\/03\/first-us-navys-mod-2-ddg-makes-combat-debut-in-epic-fury-strikes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">group<\/a> that protected the San Diego-based carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/999860\/uss-pinckney-ddg-91-supports-operation-epic-fury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinckney also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/1003285\/pinckney-conducts-blockade-operations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">helped<\/a> enforce a naval blockage against Iran during its roughly nine-month deployment, which included a stop in Singapore for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has not indicated whether the 22-year-old destroyer will need to be laid up for months for additional repairs and upgrades before it embarks on its next deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney returned to Naval Base San Diego Saturday after a deployment in which it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,181,23,1703,100,3054,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-429757","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-north-county","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429757","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=429757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}