US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group to Return Home Friday After Mideast Deployment

The strike group of the USS Dwight Eisenhower aircraft carrier is scheduled to arrive in home ports on Friday after a seven-month mission to the Middle East, the US Navy announced.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – While deployed, the strike group provided maritime security, conducting combat missions and launching F/A-18 Hornet jet strikes against the Daesh terror group in Syria and Iraq, which is outlawed in the United States, Russia and many other countries.

The Eisenhower carrier, the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto, the guided-missile destroyers USS Mason and USS Nitze will return to Norfolk, Virginia. The USS Roosevelt will be back in Mayport, Florida. They carry more than 6,000 sailors.