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Photo Gallery: USS Nimitz Returns Home After 11 Months Total Away
March 8, 2021 11:24 AM
Sailors assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN 68) walk to greet their families after returning from deployment. on March 7, 2021. US Navy photo.
This post has been updated to reflect that some Nimitz sailors departed the ship on March 4 during a stop on Indian Island, Wash., when the Navy announced the carrier had returned home in a news release. Remaining sailors departed the ship and returned home on March 7, when the carrier pulled into Naval Base Kitsap, Wash.
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Nimitz (CVN-68) is now home, 341 days after sailors left their homes and families for a marathon of quarantines, training and a deployment to the Middle East and Pacific.
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Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) arrives Naval Air Station North Island, Feb. 26. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David Mora Jr.)
SAN DIEGO, CA More than 5,000 sailors and Marines assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group returned to San Diego Friday after nearly 11 months deployed in the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation.
The carrier strike group was the first to embark on a deployment for the Navy after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and was comprised of aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, the cruiser USS Princeton and the destroyers USS Sterett and USS Ralph Johnson. Embarked Carrier Air Wing 17 was also aboard the Nimitz.
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