Washington:
The United States has turned its Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington toward the Middle East amid reports of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been supporting the American war against Iran so far.
The USS George Washington left port in Da Nang, Vietnam, last week, a Navy statement said. The carrier, along with a cruiser and a destroyer, has since been spotted crossing the Singapore Strait.
Quoting a Navy official, the Associated Press reported that the Washington was in the Strait of Malacca, which links the Pacific and Indian oceans, and the US has put the carrier on a course to head into the Indian Ocean.
This came after the Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Washington would replace Lincoln as one of the two aircraft carriers now stationed in the Middle East.
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