🔻American sailors, as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln returned to California, reunited with their families.

The carrier, after more than 10 months of duty including operations in the Middle East during the war with Iran, returned to the port of San Diego in California.

With a crew of about five thousand personnel, the ship was deployed to the Middle East in February 2026 after the start of the war between the United States and Israel with Iran, and remained in the region until late August.

This long deployment was accompanied by shortages of water and food supplies, plumbing problems, and concerns about the crew’s mental health.

The U.S. Navy has said that eight sailors in the carrier’s strike group attempted suicide.