![]() It too suffered a COVID outbreak in March 2020 when in the West Pacific, prompting a lockdown at the Yokosuka Naval Base, home of the U.S. ![]() President, is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. The USS Ronald Reagan, named after the 40th U.S. The Abraham Lincoln is now taking part in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval exercise near Hawaii. There were talks about a planned visit by the USS Abraham Lincoln in May but it did not materialize. The first carrier to make a port call in Vietnam was the USS Carl Vinson, in March 2018. navy aircraft carrier to visit the country since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs declined to comment on the planned port call, telling BenarNews affiliate Radio Free Asia that "as a matter of policy, we don’t discuss future operations." If confirmed, it will be only the third U.S. Vietnam has now opened to foreign visitors as the government adopts a policy of “living with COVID.” The supercarrier was conducting exercise in the Philippine Sea at the weekend after leaving Guam in late June. ![]() ![]() The last visit was the USS Theodore Roosevelt in March 2020 when all 5,000 crew had to test for COVID-19 upon visiting Danang. aircraft carrier to stop in a port there in more than a year, two local sources said. The USS Ronald Reagan is to visit Vietnam in the second half of July, the first U.S. ![]()
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