Lincoln, Momsen, Shoup and crews scheduled to depart
Published 10:59 pm Friday, March 7, 2008
EVERETT — About 3,600 Everett area sailors are scheduled to leave home next week when three Naval Station Everett warships are deployed to the western Pacific for the next seven months.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln will carry the bulk of the departing sailors, more than 3,000. In addition, the Everett guided-missile destroyers USS Momsen and Shoup will accompany the Lincoln.
The ships are scheduled to leave Everett on Thursday.
The ships will be a large part of Carrier Strike Group Nine, which is led by Rear Adm. Scott Van Buskirk. The Lincoln will head to the San Diego area to pick up air crews prior to heading toward Iraq and Afghanistan.
In August 2006, the Lincoln returned home from a six-month deployment to the western Pacific, and then spent about nine months at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.
A team from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 and a squadron of EA-6B Prowler radar-jamming jets, both fromWhidbey Island Naval Air Station, are slated to go with the strike group. The EA-6B squadron will be the “Lancers” of Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 131.
