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Home at last: USS Abraham Lincoln completes record-setting deployment

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To loud cheers of loved ones waiting eagerly and waving American flags, the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group returned to its Southern California homeport on Thursday after a record-setting 10-month deployment to the Persian Gulf.

In all, the aircraft carrier spent 321 days on deployment, the second-longest since the end of the Cold War. During the over 300-day deployment, the Lincoln spent a record-setting 265 days on the mission without a port visit, the longest in Naval history.

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