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Iran launches ballistic missiles at a United States Navy facility in Bahrain, targeting the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Iranian drones strike residential areas of Manama. The Bahraini interior ministry urges citizens and residents to seek nearest safe locations.
2026-02-28

The U.S. military shoots down an Iranian Shahed 139 drone on approach to the aircraft carrier USS "Abraham Lincoln" with an F-35 fighter jet.
2026-02-3

In separate incidents, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F-A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet of the United States Navy, both operating off of the Nimitz aircraft carrier, crash in the South China Sea. All crew of both craft are rescued.
2025-10-26

Yemen's Houthi movement claims that it launched a missile attack targeting the USS "Harry S. Truman" aircraft carrier and accompanying warships of the United States Navy in the Red Sea.
2025-01-15

The USNS "Big Horn" of the United States Navy runs aground and is damaged off the coast of Oman while operating in the Middle East after replenishing the USS "Abraham Lincoln" carrier strike group.
2024-09-24

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin orders the USS "Abraham Lincoln" aircraft carrier strike group and the USS "Georgia" SSGN cruise-missile submarine to the Middle East to defend Israel from possible retaliation from Iran and to strengthen the U.S. military position in the region.
2024-08-12

United States Navy F-A-18s operating from the USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" aircraft carrier carry out another wave of airstrikes on Houthi missile launchers in Yemen, with explosions reported in Al Hudaydah.
2024-01-20

The United States Navy confirms the first death of a sailor serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS "Theodore Roosevelt". Over 500 sailors on the ship have tested positive for the virus.
2020-04-13

United States Navy Captain Brett Crozier, recently relieved of his command of the aircraft carrier USS "Theodore Roosevelt" after his letter pleading for aid for the coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship was leaked to the press, tests positive for COVID-19.
2020-04-5

The Enterprise 6, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is officially inactivated in ceremonies held at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, completing a 51-year career in the United States Navy. In a pre-recorded speech, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announces that the U.S. Navy's third Gerald R. Ford carrier, CVN-80, will be named "Enterprise".
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