The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has left the Middle East as it heads home to San Diego after a demanding nine-month deployment that included 200 days in a combat zone. 

The guidelines for the Naval Air Station Sigonella community were issued just days after an American tourist was fatally struck by lightning while in a restricted section of the roughly 11,000-foot-tall Mount Etna.

President Donald Trump said that the U.S. was not in talks with Iran, while insisting the Strait of Hormuz was open and clear of sea mines.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln’s Middle East deployment has included few regular port calls because the nearest common stops have been within range of Iranian missile and drone attacks.

A small drone was found at Naval Support Activity Naples’ Support Site, prompting security forces to take precautionary measures.

Personnel at Naval Air Station Sigonella were using sweeper trucks to clear ash deposits from base runways, hangars and flight lines.

Naval Support Activity Naples said 19 service members and DOD civilians remain displaced by the magnitude 4.7 quake that struck the Naples region in the evening hours of July 31.

Family members and sailors say the roughly 5,000 service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have endured food and water shortages, disrupted mail service and long workdays with little time off.

O’Neill, a helicopter pilot who was commissioned as an officer in 2003, now commands the only base in Europe capable of hosting a Navy aircraft carrier pier-side.

More than a dozen members of the U.S. military community in Naples have been put out of their homes by a damaging earthquake that struck the region.