Following the 2004 Asian tsunami, the USS Abraham Lincoln led relief efforts.
With the four-year overhaul of the USS Abraham Lincoln, combined with the delay of the USS Gerald Ford, the Navy will still require additional deployment flexibility.
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Bob Woodward famously slammed the president after he suggested, at the Newport News shipyard in Virginia, that maintenance of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln would be delayed.
But, President George W. Bush said on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, Iraq was just one battle in a war that stretches around the world.
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He delivered his remarks standing in front of a submarine propeller at the shipyard where scheduled maintenance on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been delayed due to the cuts.
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from jails, and the Pentagon has said it has delayed scheduled maintenance on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
It was May 1, 2003 when President George W. Bush made his dramatic landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, arriving in the passenger seat of a Lockheed S-3 Viking fighter jet.
He points out that Democrats are not beyond showmanship themselves for instance, by presenting President Bush with the Iraq spending legislation on the fourth anniversary of his now infamous "mission accomplished" speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
"Clearly, putting 'Mission Accomplished' on an aircraft carrier was a mistake, " he said of his now-infamous speech May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, in which he declared the end of combat operations in Iraq.
Phillips has traveled the world to cover and investigate a wide range of breaking news, including four tours reporting in Iraq, first as an embedded journalist aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, then covering the war, and its affect the Iraqi people.
One of the largest of them, the USS Abraham Lincoln (which I visited in April), weighs almost 100, 000 tons, has a full-time crew of about 5, 000 (including its permanent air wing) and can travel over 30 knots per hour.
What I can tell you is that the USS Abraham Lincoln transited through the Strait of Hormuz without incidence -- without incident, rather -- as part of our regularly scheduled movements, undertaken in accordance with our longstanding commitments to the security and stability of the region.
Earlier on Monday, the Pentagon said the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as a British Royal Navy frigate and a French warship, had passed through the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf without incident, following Iranian threats to block the trade route.
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