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The US will send the USS Gerald R. Ford home after a record deployment of about 10 months, easing strain on roughly 4,500 sailors but reducing military firepower in the Middle East as tensions with Iran persist. The carrier, one of three in the region alongside the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George H.W. Bush, is expected to return to Virginia around mid-May for repairs after extended operations and mechanical issues.