{"id":1663,"date":"2026-02-13T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/uss-gerald-r-ford-ordered-to-the-middle-east-after-eight-months-already-at-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:05:04","slug":"uss-gerald-r-ford-ordered-to-the-middle-east-after-eight-months-already-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/uss-gerald-r-ford-ordered-to-the-middle-east-after-eight-months-already-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Gerald R. Ford Ordered to the Middle East After Eight Months Already at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ussfordcentcomdeployment_1-460x259.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"US Navy Aircraft Carrier Deployed Iran Middle East\" \/>The U.S. Navy\u2019s newest supercarrier is heading back towards the Middle East having already been recalled across the Atlantic to station off Venezuela. Already in its eighth month at sea, this new assignment \u2013 which will require the third Atlantic transit of its current deployment \u2013 in the midst of heightened tensions between the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy\u2019s newest supercarrier is heading back towards the Middle East having already been recalled across the Atlantic to station off Venezuela. Already in its eighth month at sea, this new assignment \u2013 which will require the third Atlantic transit of its current deployment \u2013 in the midst of heightened tensions between the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}