CORONADO -- The USS Ronald Reagan, the Navy's newest and largest aircraft carrier, sailed out of San Diego Bay Wednesday on its first deployment.
The $4.5 billion carrier will lead five ships and 6,500 sailors on a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean. The ship is not scheduled to sail to the Persian Gulf.
Michael Reagan, the former president's son, visited the USS Reagan this week to bid the crew farewell.
"I said, `My father would be awfully proud of you men and women on the USS Ronald Reagan,"' Michael Reagan said Wednesday. "I thanked them on behalf of America and told them, 'Win one for the Gipper."'
San Diego has been the Ronald Reagan's home port for 18 months. The ship was christened in July 2003.
Rear Adm. Michael H. Miller, commander of the strike group, said that two recent training exercises showed the carrier, its support ships and aircraft wing are a "formidable fighting force."
The carrier will be accompanied by three San Diego-based ships, the cruiser USS Lake Champlain and the destroyers USS McCampbell and USS Decatur. It will be joined later by a supply ship from Bremerton, Wash., and a submarine from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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