The carrier spent nearly a decade based in Japan before arriving back in the states this week.
The aircraft carrier's departure comes at a time of growing tension in the face of increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific.
The Navy relieved Cmdr. Cameron Dennis in February, just a few months after he assumed command of the Japan-based warship.
Antietam's homeport shift is part of a broader rearrangement of vessels in the West Pacific.
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