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Anna Betts

US aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East to relieve troubled USS Lincoln

fighter jets on an aircraft carrier
The US navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington transits the strait of Malacca on 13 August. Photograph: US Navy/Reuters

The USS George Washington aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, where it is expected to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln from its record deployment amid concerns about poor living conditions and morale.

US Central Command announced on Thursday that the Washington arrived in the area on Wednesday, and posted an image of sailors working on the flight deck as the ship transited the Arabian Sea. No date has yet been announced for the Lincoln to return to the US.

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