Editing USS John C. Stennis (section)

===2009===
''John C. Stennis'' departed Bremerton for a 6-month deployment to the western Pacific on 13 January 2009. On 24 April, the ship arrived in Singapore. That same day, one of the ship's sailors was crushed and killed while working from a small harbor boat to secure a drain that discharges oily water from the aircraft catapults.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stennis sailor killed in Singapore identified |first=Andrew |last=Scutro |url=http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2009/04/navy_stennis_sailor_killed_042909w/ |newspaper=[[Military Times]] |date=29 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001011654/http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2009/04/navy_stennis_sailor_killed_042909w/ |archive-date=1 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

On 29 April, the ship's executive officer, Commander David L. Burnham, was relieved by Rear Admiral Mark A. Vance over unspecified personal conduct.  Burnham was reassigned to a base in San Diego, pending an investigation.<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://www.newser.com/article/d97sbbho0/navy-cites-misconduct-relieves-uss-stennis-executive-officer-no-2-in-command-of-carrier.html |title=Navy cites misconduct, relieves USS Stennis' executive officer, No. 2 in command of carrier |date=30 April 2009 |newspaper=[[The Washington Times]] |df=dmy-all |access-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160521014622/http://www.newser.com/article/d97sbbho0/navy-cites-misconduct-relieves-uss-stennis-executive-officer-no-2-in-command-of-carrier.html |archive-date=21 May 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

After participating in exercises with [[Japan Maritime Self Defense Force]] and the [[Republic of Korea]], as well as joint exercise Northern Edge 2009, ''John C. Stennis'' returned from deployment in early July 2009.  Carrier Air Wing 9 debarked on 6 July at NAS North Island,<ref name="CVW9">{{cite web |title=Carrier Air Wing 9 Completes 2009 Deployment |id=NNS090706-15 |date=6 July 2009 |first=MCS1(SW) Steve |last=Owsley |publisher=USS John C. Stennis Public Affairs |url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=46760 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718105610/http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=46760 |archive-date=18 July 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> prior to the ship's arrival at her homeport of Bremerton on 10 July.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/07/ap_navy_stennis_returns_071009w/ |title=Stennis returns to Bremerton |date=10 July 2009 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=Navy Times}}</ref>