Photo Gallery: USS Nimitz Returns Home After 11 Months Total Away

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is now home, 331 days after sailors left their homes and families for a marathon of quarantines, training and a deployment to the Middle East and Pacific.

Nimitz pulled into Naval Base Kitsap on March 4, bringing sailors home after they first boarded the carrier on April 1, 2020, for a 27-day restriction of movement (ROM) period – the first such quarantine period for a carrier crew since the pandemic began in earnest in the U.S. the month before.

Sailors quarantined aboard the...

https://news.usni.org/2021/03/05/photo-gallery-uss-nimitz-returns-home-after-11-months-total-away

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