The aircraft carrier, which has been on an Indo-Pacific patrol over the last three months, lost a sailor overboard in July.
The U.S. Coast Guard employed a Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter to fire at and disable a smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific.
China's military released a statement Wednesday that the destroyer Higgins entered the South China Sea unlawfully, according to several reports.
The U.S. Navy destroyer Higgins and littoral combat ship Cincinnati were shadowed by a Chinese navy ship, but no incidents were reported.
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