Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A watan Yunin 1998 CCDG-3 da aka tura zuwa Tekun Fasha. An tura shi ne na farko a kan jirgin USS "Abraham Lincoln". A ranar 20 ga Agusta 1998, kungiyar ta shiga cikin Operation Infinite Reach, inda ta kaddamar da makamai masu linzami na Tomahawk a kan masana'antar magunguna ta Sudan ta Al-Shifa. An zargi wannan masana'antar da taimakawa Osama Bin Laden wajen kera makamai masu guba. Kungiyar ta kuma kaddamar da makami mai linzami na Tomahawk na biyu a kan sansanonin horar da 'yan ta'adda na Bin Laden a Afghanistan. Shugaba Bill Clinton ne ya bayar da umarnin kai wadannan hare-haren makamai masu linzami kwanaki 13 bayan da 'yan ta'adda suka kai harin bam a ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka da ke Kenya da Tanzania
Ka yi haƙuri. Rear Admiral Kevin Green ya ba da umarnin rukunin zuwa ga mai shigowa Rear Adm. Phillip Balisle a ranar 3 ga Disamba, 1999, a cikin jirgin ruwa mai suna "Abraham Lincoln".