India, May 18 -- USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group 12 has been awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for the group's actions during their record-setting, multi-month deployment.
This was announced by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth who was on hand with his wife and senior Navy leaders at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, to welcome home sailors assigned to the Strike Group after a prolonged deployment.
The strike group returned to Norfolk after a 326-day deployment, the longest U.S. aircraft carrier deployment since the Vietnam War, surpassing the previous post-Vietnam mark set by the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's roughly 295-day deployment in 2020.
"Extraordinary sailors and crew of Strike Group 12: for nearly ...