Just days after the Navy announced the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln, the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt is scheduled to deploy to the Middle East, according to a new report.
The nonprofit U.S. Naval Institute reported Wednesday that the Roosevelt is preparing to leave San Diego in the coming weeks for what is expected to be a seven-month deployment.
The USNI said the Roosevelt and its accompanying guided-missile destroyers will replace the Japan-based USS George Washington, which was normally patrols in the eastern Pacific Ocean but was ordered to the Arabian Gulf so that the Lincoln could return…