USS Ronald Reagan arrives at new homeport in Bremerton, Washington

The plane provider Ronald Reagan arrived in Bremerton, Washington, this week after being primarily based in Japan for almost a decade.

The provider, which obtained underway from Yokosuka, Japan, in Might, steamed into its new homeport at Naval Base Kitsap on Tuesday, and is poised to finish a routine upkeep interval.

“I’m extremely happy with our crew and the work they’ve achieved in our time because the Navy’s solely forward-deployed plane provider,” Capt. Daryle Cardone, commanding officer of the Ronald Reagan, stated in a press release. “They had been requested to carry out on the highest stage and exceeded these expectations. Now we’re trying ahead to creating upgrades to the ship, and much more well-deserved time stateside for the crew.”

The ship, which swapped some crew members with the plane provider George Washington in San Diego earlier than heading to Washington, participated in Valiant Protect 2024 en path to the West Coast. The train, primarily based out of Guam, included U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s joint forces and Japan Self-Protection Forces working collectively throughout domains.

“Regardless that Ronald Reagan’s time in seventh Fleet is over, we’re nonetheless within the combat,” Cardone stated. “The success of our earlier deployments is a testomony of the crew’s warfighting functionality and shows our adaptability in an ever-changing theater. All the pieces we achieved whereas forward-deployed carries over as we proceed to enhance the ship and put together the crew for Ronald Reagan’s subsequent chapter.”

The George Washington is slated to switch the Reagan in Japan because the Navy’s lone forward-deployed provider. The Navy beforehand homeported the ship in Yokosuka from 2008 to 2015.

GW accomplished its mid-life refueling and complicated overhaul upkeep, or RCOH, final yr, and is finishing a Southern Seas 2024 deployment because it transits to Japan.