Families reunited as USS Lincoln comes home after troubled Gulf deployment
The USS Lincoln docked in California on Thursday ending a record deployment of 265 days of uninterrupted time at sea. Crew members were reunited with family they had not seen in nearly a year after their mission was prolonged by the war in Iran.
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