{"id":131426,"date":"2026-05-16T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/uss-gerald-r-ford-us-aircraft-carrier-returns-home-after-record-deployment-that-included-iran-war-maduro-capture\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:27:14","slug":"uss-gerald-r-ford-us-aircraft-carrier-returns-home-after-record-deployment-that-included-iran-war-maduro-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/uss-gerald-r-ford-us-aircraft-carrier-returns-home-after-record-deployment-that-included-iran-war-maduro-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Gerald R. Ford: US aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment that included Iran war, Maduro capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7emx1w000x28p6gmeqgtgw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The USS Gerald R. Ford, America\u2019s largest and newest aircraft carrier, returned to port in Virginia on Saturday after nearly a year at sea that included participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/23\/americas\/venezuela-maduro-fort-tiuna-compound-operation-reconstruction-intl-invs\">capture of former Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, the Iran war, a shipboard fire and repeated plumbing issues.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envlc0002356sudqe342m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It goes down in history as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/12\/politics\/uss-gerald-ford-iran-venezuela-navy-trump\">longest operational deployment by a carrier<\/a> since the end of the Vietnam War, a voyage that has seen the ship serve as a focal point for a string of President Donald Trump\u2019s military objectives overseas.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0003356swe0v1pyz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For families of the sailors, the return is a long-awaited end to what has been a nerve-wracking year when their service members were regularly participating in military operations that dominated the news. They gathered in Norfolk on Saturday to welcome to the carrier home, cheering as it made its way to the dock. Sailors aboard waved to a crowd that held several handmade signs, including one that said, \u201cI missed you! Glad you\u2019re back.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8g6s5q00003b6rvcuinhsf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhat the Ford Carrier Strike Group did, and these destroyers did, was exceptional, phenomenal,\u201d said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who joined families in welcoming the sailors home.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8d8mcp000k3b6r1xxvea4k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Victoria Dobson \u2014 who, along with her 2-year-old daughter, wore a white dress with American flags on it to welcome her husband home, told CNN\u2019s Brian Todd, \u201cI\u2019m very excited, I\u2019m very relieved.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8d92za000p3b6rcrhscaft@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe most difficult part was definitely the single parenting. When he left, she was a baby, and now she\u2019s a big girl,\u201d she said. \u201cAll the transitions, like no more high chair \u2026 no more baby bottle, I did all that without him and it was hard.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8cmcyp00053b6r5290194f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Adm. Daryl Caudle recognized the difficulties of the longer-than-expected deployment, stressing that he doesn\u2019t \u201cwant that to be a precedent.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8ehwea00033b6rou4kv4a3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Aircraft carriers are designed to deploy for up to seven months, but the Ford was at sea for 11.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8doa6u00103b6rs3ym77rf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            While Caudle acknowledged that a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime \u2026 confluence of events\u201d led to the long deployment, including US\u2019 war with Iran, he added, \u201cWe really want to deploy our ships for the length of time they\u2019re designed to.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0004356sg94q61aa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Amini Osias, whose daughter is an aviation electrician who served on the Ford, told CNN before the carrier\u2019s return, \u201cNow I can actually relax and breathe and go back to a normal sleeping pattern.\u201d He said he planned to go out to eat with his daughter, hear her account of the deployment and just be a dad with her.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0005356sm95bzljx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It was a rough journey at times. A fire broke out in the Ford\u2019s laundry area in March that took the crew roughly 30 hours to put out, clean up and prevent from reigniting. Some 600 sailors lost access to their bunks due to the damage, but none were seriously injured. The damage meant the ship couldn\u2019t do laundry for a stretch, adding to the challenges for the crew.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8cvsu9000f3b6rf98ef3vh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Caudle said Saturday that the fire is \u201cstill under investigation.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8nuxyu00033b6rrupf2cy5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Dakota Klinedinst, a Petty Officer First Class who serves as an aviation structural mechanic on the Ford, told CNN that the extended deployment was \u201ctough\u201d but emphasized how the sailors aboard \u201cworked as a team.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8nwtvv00053b6reng77xig@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe crew did a great job,\u201d Klinedinst said. \u201cI think we all held together, we all held each other up and even, even, like, when things like the fire happened, like, nobody gave up.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0006356sthwgaodb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The fire happened months into the ship\u2019s deployment after it had already experienced repeated issues with its toilet system that resulted in intermittent partial outages, a hassle for the crew that required a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/18\/politics\/us-ford-carrier-fire-iran-war\">port visit for repairs<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0007356sdk3qrzx8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Even though the Ford is technically advanced and the newest carrier in the fleet, Osias said, families of the sailors \u201cstill had those doubts that something can happen.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmp8jyzte00013b6rqqj5685y@published\" class=\"image_large-elevate vossi-image_large-elevate  image_large__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image_large\" data-name=\"GettyImages-2275918839.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image_large--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.667\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2275918839.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_860,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"undefined\" width=\"860\" media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2275918839.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_860,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"undefined\" width=\"860\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2275918839.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_860,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0008356sq00oodho@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Current and former military officials say the $13 billion ship has been indispensable in the US military operations in Iran and Venezuela. For the Venezuela operation the ship launched aircraft that participated in the capture mission, and in Iran the ship served as a platform to send wave after wave of fighter jets into action.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld0009356s47wfbizk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The ship\u2019s electronic catapult system allows it to launch anything from small drones to big aircraft, giving commanders an array of firepower options, Brent Sadler, a 26-year veteran of the Navy and former submarine officer, previously told CNN. The other 10 US aircraft carriers don\u2019t have that capability, according to Sadler.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp7envld000a356spwqeibgk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After pulling away from Virginia last June, the Ford moved across the Atlantic, initially heading to the Mediterranean and up to Norway as part of its scheduled trip before being pulled to the Caribbean for the operation to capture Maduro in January. Then the ship was ordered to rapidly make its way to aid in a potential Middle East conflict, where it contributed to Iran war operations, until it began heading home and passed into the Atlantic from the Mediterranean Sea earlier this month.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmp8e3qtt00003b6r4hpue4e7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>This story was updated with additional information. <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/16\/politics\/ford-iran-war-venezuela-maduro-record\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USS Gerald R. 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