Feature page for the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group's scheduled 2025 deployment.
The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG) is manned, trained, and equipped to deliver combat-ready naval forces to maintain peace through strength and sustain credible deterrence alongside our allies and partners. The ships and aircraft of ABECSG consist of more than 5,000 Sailors and Marines, who are highly trained, tested and certified in all warfare areas.
Feature page for the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group's scheduled 2025 deployment.
The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG) is manned, trained, and equipped to deliver combat-ready naval forces to maintain peace through strength and sustain credible deterrence alongside our allies and partners. The ships and aircraft of ABECSG consist of more than 5,000 Sailors and Marines, who are highly trained, tested and certified in all warfare areas.
ABECSG consists of Abraham Lincoln, embarked staffs of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 3 and Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 21, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9, Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) as the integrated air and missile defense commander, and Destroyer Squadron 21’s USS Spruance (DDG 111) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112).
CVW-9 is comprised of nine aircraft squadrons representing over 70 aircraft aboard Abraham Lincoln: two helicopter squadrons operating the MH-60R & MH-60S Seahawk; three F/A-18E/F Super Hornet squadrons; one EA-18G Growler squadron; one U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Lightning II squadron; one E-2D advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning squadron; and one CMV-22B Osprey squadron for carrier logistics. show less
U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department 2nd Division (IM-2) aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are responsible for breaking down, rebuilding, inspecting and testing the jet engines that power the carrier air wing.
