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 Bremerton-based carrier s sailors are returning to a world different than they d left it. A pandemic spurred the shutdown of restaurants, movie theaters and schools. Protests for racial justice reverberated across the nation. And in all that time, the USS Nimitz s sailors traversed the Pacific and Indian oceans to defend the nation.
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