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The Navy used a bubble strategy combined with testing to keep ships at sea — but it took a physical and psychological toll on sailors.

More sailors undergoing a forced rating conversion can now separate early 5 hours ago Sailors heave in line as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Mitscher prepares to depart Souda Bay, Greece, March 24. (MC2 Kaleb Sarten/Navy) More active duty sailors who are being forced to switch ratings now qualify for early separation, should they decide to leave the active Navy. Previously, only sailors with up to 12 months before the soft expiration of their active obligated service qualified to separate. But now, sailors 36 months out from the end of their contractual obligations ar...

BREMERTON — Skyler Record was eight days into a COVID-19 quarantine aboard the USS Nimitz when his wife, Miranda, gave birth to their second child at Naval Hospital Bremerton. Despite being just 5 miles away from this wife while aboard the ship, the machinist's mate would have to wait almost an entire year to meet little Raelyn Rose, who'd already learned to walk by the time her father came home Sunday.  "His eyes are blue, his boots are black, after 340 days, we got our sailor back," the family's sign read as the Nimitz arrived at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.  The 46-year-old Br...