发布于2026年5月16日美国东部时间早上5:00 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：肖恩·林加斯
2026年3月22日，在地中海东部海域航行期间，水兵们在杰拉尔德·R·福特号航母的飞行甲板上开展日常操作。
塔吉·佩恩二级公共传播专家/美国海军
美国最大、最新型的航母杰拉尔德·R·福特号将于周六返回弗吉尼亚州港口，结束近一年的海外部署。此次部署期间，该航母参与了抓捕委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗的行动、对伊朗作战，还发生过舰上火灾，且多次遭遇管道故障。
此次部署将成为越南战争结束以来美军航母持续时间最长的一次作战部署，这艘航母也成为唐纳德·特朗普总统一系列海外军事行动的核心支点。
对于水兵家属而言，这是期待已久的结局。过去一年里，他们的亲人频繁参与占据新闻头条的军事行动，这段经历令人揪心。
“现在我终于可以放松下来，睡个安稳觉，重新恢复正常的作息了，”阿明尼·奥西亚斯告诉CNN。他的女儿是福特号上的航空电工。奥西亚斯表示，他计划和女儿一起外出就餐，听听她讲述此次部署的经历，好好享受父女相处的时光。
此次部署并非一帆风顺。今年3月，福特号的洗衣区发生火灾，船员耗时约30小时才将火扑灭、清理现场并防止复燃。约600名水兵因火灾造成的损毁无法使用床铺，但无人受重伤。此次损毁导致航母在一段时间内无法提供洗衣服务，进一步加剧了船员的困境。
这场火灾发生在部署数月后，在此之前，航母的马桶系统已多次出现故障，导致间歇性局部停运，给船员带来诸多不便，迫使航母靠港维修。
尽管福特号在技术上十分先进，是舰队中最新型的航母，奥西亚斯仍表示，水兵家属们“始终担心会出事”。他将此次火灾列为担忧的原因之一。
现任和前任军方官员表示，这艘耗资130亿美元的航母在美军针对伊朗和委内瑞拉的军事行动中发挥了不可或缺的作用。在委内瑞拉行动中，该航母出动战机参与抓捕任务；在伊朗局势中，该航母作为平台，一批又一批地派出战斗机投入作战。
曾在美国海军服役26年、担任过潜艇军官的布伦特·萨德勒此前告诉CNN，福特号的电磁弹射系统可以发射从小型无人机到大型战机的各类装备，为指挥官提供了多样化的火力选择。据萨德勒介绍，美国其他10艘航母都不具备这一能力。
福特号于去年6月离开弗吉尼亚州，横跨大西洋，最初前往地中海，随后前往挪威执行预定任务，今年1月被调往加勒比海参与抓捕马杜罗的行动。随后，该航母被紧急调往中东支援可能爆发的战争，参与对伊朗作战行动，直到本月早些时候启程返航，从地中海进入大西洋海域。
US aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment that included Iran war, Maduro capture
Published May 16, 2026, 5:00 AM ET / CNN
By Sean Lyngaas
Sailors conduct routine operations on the flight deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford while underway in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, on March 22, 2026.
Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tajh Payne/US Navy
The USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, is set to return to port in Virginia Saturday after nearly a year at sea that included participating in the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Iran war, a shipboard fire, and repeated plumbing issues.
It will go down in history as the longest operational deployment by a carrier since the end of the Vietnam War, a voyage that has seen the ship serve as a focal point for a string of President Donald Trump’s military objectives overseas.
For families of the sailors, it’s a long-awaited end to what has been a nerve-wracking year when their service members were regularly participating in military operations that dominated the news.
“Now I can actually relax and breath and go back to a normal sleeping pattern,” Amini Osias, whose daughter is an aviation electrician who served on the Ford, told CNN. He said he planned to go out to eat with his daughter, hear her account of the deployment and just be a dad with her.
It was a rough journey at times. A fire broke out in the Ford’s laundry area in March that took the crew roughly 30 hours to put out, clean up and prevent from reigniting. Some 600 sailors lost access to their bunks due to the damage, but none were seriously injured. The damage meant the ship couldn’t do laundry for a stretch, adding to the challenges for the crew.
The fire happened months into the ships’ deployment after it had already experienced repeated issues with its toilet system that resulted in intermittent partial outages, a hassle for the crew that required a port visit for repairs.
Even though the Ford is technically advanced and the newest carrier in the fleet, Osias said, families of the sailors “still had those doubts that something can happen.” He cited the fire as a cause for worry.
Current and former military officials say the $13 billion ship has been indispensable in the US military operations in Iran and Venezuela. For the Venezuela operation the ship launched aircraft that participated in the capture mission, and in Iran the ship served as a platform to send wave after wave of fighter jets into action.
The ship’s electronic catapult system allows it to launch anything from small drones to big aircraft, giving commanders an array of firepower options, Brent Sadler, a 26-year veteran of the Navy and former submarine officer, previously told CNN. The other 10 US aircraft carriers don’t have that capability, according to Sadler.
After pulling away from Virginia last June, the Ford moved across the Atlantic, initially heading to the Mediterranean and up to Norway as part of its scheduled trip before being pulled to the Caribbean for the operation to capture Maduro in January. Then the ship was ordered to rapidly make its way to aid in a potential Middle East war, where it contributed to Iran war operations, until it began heading home and passed into the Atlantic from the Mediterranean Sea earlier this month.
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