The Vinson was accompanied by two other ships, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett, which returned to their homeport of Naval Base San Diego.
In March 2015, during a naval exercise off the coast of Florida, the French nuclear attack submarine Saphir achieved a simulated victory by "sinking" one of the world's largest nuclear-powered warships, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, along with several of its escorts.
Thousands of servicemembers with USS Carl Vinson and its strike group returned to San Diego after a four-month deployment to the eastern and northern Pacific.
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