India, April 16 -- USS Gerald R. Ford has broken the record for the longest carrier deployment since the Vietnam War.
The sailors of USS Gerald R. Ford said goodbye to their families in Norfolk last June thinking they would be back before the holidays. But after being ordered from the Mediterranean to the coast of Venezuela and then to the Middle East, Ford on Wednesday broke the record for the longest modern carrier deployment.
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