SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Ships from the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (Nimitz CSG) returned to San Diego June 28, concluding a seven-month deployment to U.S. 3rd and 7th Fleet areas of operations (AO).,
[edit] Nimitz on her first deployment in 1976 alongside nuclear-powered cruisers California and South Carolina Nimitz (right) alongside HMS Ark Royal at Norfolk Naval Station in August 1978...
Nimitz deployment: a timeline April 1, 2020: Many Nimitz sailors board the ship at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton for quarantine. Late April: After testing more than 8,000 sailors and...
After heading over the horizon last April, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to upend life across America, the aircraft carrier Nimitz and its strike group are heading home, completing the Navy’s longest deployment since the Vietnam War. The carrier arrived in San Diego Friday to drop off Carrier Air Wing 17, its crew and any other sailors who call San Diego home and will then steam up to its home port at Bremerton, Washington, in the coming days. The strike group’s sailors will ha...
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The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group left San Diego, Calif., on Saturday for a Western Pacific deployment, USNI News has learned. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) left its pier at Naval Station North Island at aroun...
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The Nimitz returned from a historic deployment in March 2021. It was gone for 11 months, departing as the COVID-19 pandemic was in its first stages of raging around the world. Sailors...
A sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier Nimitz tested positive last week for the novel coronavirus as the ship continues to ramp up in preparation for a deployment this summer to the Pacific. The sailor is the first individual who has physically been onboard the carrier to test positive, Politico first reported. Another crew member assigned to the Bremerton, Washington-based ship who previously contracted the virus had not yet boarded the vessel. Nimitz medical staff have removed the sailor fr...
The aircraft carrier Nimitz and portions of its strike group left San Diego Monday for a deployment. ; Navy officials declined to say where the 45-year-old carrier and its warships were headed. ; Sailors assigned to the strike group were quarantined on land for 14 days and were tested for COVID-19 prior to getting underway, according to a Navy statement.