The San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying destroyers have completed a nine-day exercise off Alaska to test capabilities “in a challenging and geographically strategic location.”

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyers USS O’Kane, USS Michael Murphy, and USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., along with nine squadrons from Lemoore-based Carrier Air Wing 9, operated in the Gulf of Alaska and through the Aleutian Island chain.

Flying from the Lincoln along with Navy aircraft was a squadron of Marine Corps F-35C stealth fighters based at Miramar.

Operation Northern Edge 2025 involved more than 6,500 service members, approximately 125 Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force planes, and seven U.S. and Canadian naval vessels.

“I am incredibly proud of the Abraham Li

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