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The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt will change homeports from San Diego, California, to Bremerton, Washington -- taking with it about 3,000 sailors and their families, the Navy announced.The shift comes after a difficult 18 months for the carrier.The ship and its crew deployed in January 2020, only to have the cruise derailed by an outbreak of COVID-19. The ship, which ended up spending about one-third of that deployment docked in Guam, saw many crew members moved into hotels and other facilities as it was disinfected. However, the coronavirus spread rampantly among its personnel, eventually infecting about one-quarter of the sailors on the ship....The carrier will see a "system retrofit to accommodate the F-35C Lightning II mission capabilities," the Navy said. Once complete, the Roosevelt will be only the second carrier in the service with the ability to carry the Joint Strike Fighter.
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Topic: Deployment-Worn Theodore Roosevelt to Change Homeports, Get F-35 Upgrade (Read 540 times)
