Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Pipiri 1998 i tukuna te CCDG-3 ki te Persian Gulf. Ko te whakarewatanga te tuatahi i runga i te USS "Abraham Lincoln". I te 20 o Akuhata 1998, i uru te roopu ki te Operation Infinite Reach, i te whakarewatanga o nga pere pere Tomahawk ki te wheketere rongoa a Sudanese Al-Shifa. I whakapaehia tēnei wheketere i te āwhina i a Osama Bin Laden ki te hanga patu matū. I whakarewahia hoki e te Rōpū Pakanga tētahi ngaru tuarua o ngā hōia Tomahawk ki ngā puni whakangungu kaiwhakatuma a Bin Laden i Āwherika. I whakahaua ēnei whakaekenga perehi rerenga e te Perehitini Bill Clinton 13 rā i muri i te whakaekenga o ngā kaiwhakatuma
i whakaeke i ngā whare karere o U.S. ki Kenya me Tanzania. I tukuna e Rear Admiral Kevin Green te whakahau o te roopu ki te Rear Admiral Phillip Balisle i te 3 o Tihema 1999, i runga i te kaipuke rangatira "Abraham Lincoln".