Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Na June 1998 CCDG-3 deployed to the Persian Gulf. Nke a bụ nke mbụ e mere n'ụgbọ mmiri USS "Abraham Lincoln". N'abalị iri abụọ n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ n'afọ 1998, ndị otu ahụ sonyere na Operation Infinite Reach, na-agbapụ Tomahawk cruise missiles megide ụlọ ọrụ Sudan Al-Shifa na-emepụta ọgwụ. A na-enyo ụlọ ọrụ a enyo na ọ na-enyere Osama Bin Laden aka imepụta ngwa agha kemịkal. Ndị agha agha ahụ bidokwara nke abụọ nke Tomahawk cruise missiles megide ogige ọzụzụ ndị na-eyi ọha egwu nke Bin Laden na Afghanistan. Onyeisiala Bill Clinton nyere iwu ka e jiri ụgbọelu ndị a na-agagharị agagharị mee mwakpo ụbọchị iri na atọ ka ndị na-eyi ọha egwu
gbagburu ndị nnọchi anya US na Kenya na Tanzania. Rear Admiral Kevin Green nyefere iwu nke otu ahụ na-abata Rear Adm. Phillip Balisle na 3 Disemba 1999, n'ụgbọ mmiri "Abraham Lincoln".