The 49-year-old USS Nimitz (CVN-68) pulled away from the carrier pier at Naval Air Station North Island after arriving in San Diego on Monday. The carrier left Wednesday morning local time with ...

Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base Kitsap on Mar. 21, 2025, for a deployment to the Indo-Pacific.

The time to say goodbye to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier forever is getting closer — both for Washingtonians and the rest of the nation. In approximately a year the Navy's oldest active ...

Sailors prepare to man the rails of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in San Diego on June 28, 2023. U.S. Navy Photo Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) will make one last homeport change ...

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific on Friday. This will likely be the last deployment for the USS ...

USS Nimitz returned to port in January and underwent a nearly seven-month-long maintenance period – which was longer than initially extended, but necessitated by the U.S. Navy's decision to ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier passed by Seattle for what was likely its final deployment before it will leave Naval Base Kitsap next year ahead of its planned decommissioning.

The USS Nimitz arrived in San Diego on Monday to spend a few days preparing for what the Navy says is likely to be the final deployment for the nation’s oldest aircraft carrier. The 50-year-old ...

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz with Cdr Herbert E. Schonland and LCdr Bruce McCandless aboard USS San Francisco (CA-38), in December 1942. PD. Although Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz were the two ...