USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) 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 Ronald Reagan is
permanently forwarddeployed to Yokosuka, Japan and spends about half of each year at sea.
USS Ronald Reagan, when combined with guided missile destroyers and cruisers, creates a carrier
strike group of up to 12 ships and 75 aircraft. These forces have a higher operational tempo than other
Navy vessels, and being forward deployed cuts an average of 17 days transit time to the region compared
to forces based in the continental U.S. The Navy may assign another aircraft carrier to Seventh Fleet for
temporary operations, adding 70 more aircraft and numerous ships to our long range strike capability.
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