USS Nimitz sailors face lives, pandemic at home
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...