After a little over eight months, the USS Thomas Hudner pulled into its home port this weekend. In February, it was one of several Navy ships moved from the Caribbean to the Middle East, along with the aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R. Ford. The guided-missile destroyer fired several of its Tomahawk land attack missiles at Iranian targets in the first month of the war. This year’s deployment to the Middle East was the second time in recent years that the Thomas Hudner was involved in fighting with Iran. The United States maintains a large naval presence around the Middle East, anchored by the carriers USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George H.W.