The Ford is finally heading home and the twitter idiots don't understand that its been deployed for far too long....

 

U.S. pulls back one of its aircraft carriers from the eastern Mediterranean.

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it was sent just after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, in the "coming days," two U.S.… pic.twitter.com/btT1Uqao08

— Clash Report (@clashreport) December 31, 2023

Read the comments on the above. Irritating in the extreme.  The Ford is a new carrier.  Its undermanned.  Its basically running a skeleton crew.  Its been deployed for a long time and you have people like Craig Hooper that are basking in the glow of a "lightly" crewed aircraft carrier being put to the test...talking about how much is being learned.

This is how you make people bail on the Navy.