US Navy says the Ford carrier strike group is finally heading home after its first full deployment was upended by war

• The Navy's new aircraft carrier is returning to the US after being sent into waters near Israel.
• The USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group was sent to stop the Israel-Hamas war from expanding.
• The CSG's deployment was repeatedly extended.

The US Navy is finally bringing the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group home after it was abruptly tasked to the eastern Mediterranean in response to the Israel-Hamas war and kept at sea longer than planned.