USS George Washington (CVN 73) is currently the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier in Seventh Fleet. Whereas other carriers are homeported in the U.S. and deploy periodically, USS George Washington is permanently forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan and spends about half of each year at sea. More @Wikipedia
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