USS Nimitz returns to San Diego after 10 months of deployment
ABC 10News
and last updated 2021-02-26 19:48:08-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - After 10 months at sea, service members with the USS Nimitz returned to San Diego on Friday.
Parent DJ O Grady stood by on Harbor Island to watch the warship sail into the San Diego Bay. We were waving and hoping they would see us, she told ABC 10News. Her daughter is a medic on board the ship.
Approximately 5,000 Sailors and Marines were assigned to the carrier strike group which was the first to set sail after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Service members are returning to a very different home from the one that they left. There s a new president. Hundreds of thousands more people have died from the virus.
After historically long deployment, Nimitz is almost home February 26 Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday speaks with sailors on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz Feb. 24. The carrier strike group is wrapping up an historic 11-month deployment. (MC2 Greg Hall/Navy) 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.
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