The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is scheduled to depart its San Diego base Friday for deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East.
The vessels in the strike force include the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill, and guided-missile destroyers USS Gridley, USS Sterett and USS Dewey, carrying around 6,200 sailors among them.
The aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 17, which includes nine fixed-wing and helicopter squadrons, will be aboard the Vinson. The carrier returned from deployment in May 2012 and underwent a seven-month overhaul.
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