Amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) returned home late November 2022 following a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific region, one of the most important areas of operation. Tripoli was in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and maintain stability in the Indo-Pacific. 

The ship left for its first deployment and spent the first few months testing out the “lightning carrier” or “assault carrier” concept with U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs aboard. That testing evaluated how a big-deck amphibious warship can work with a carrier strike group – which proves amphibious assault ships can be a “lethal addition” to the force. Tripoli launched and recovered aircraft day and night and acted as a base of operations for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to conduct operations ashore. 

During Tripoli’s time in the Indo-Pacific, it drilled with aircraft carriers USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) for the Valiant Shield and Noble Fusion exercises. The crew completed 2,052 hours of flight operations and traveled 40,303 nautical miles during exercise support. 

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