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About 3,000 sailors and their families will relocate to Bremerton, Washington as part of the move, according to the U.S. Navy

Thousands of U.S. Navy sailors bid their farewells to America’s Finest City as they embarked on a journey to a new homeport in Washington aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

USS Roosevelt is relocating to Washington so local sailors are saying their farewells to loved ones in San Diego. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford speaks with a commanding officer for more on the voyage.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt will depart San Diego July 16 for Bremerton, Washington, where the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will undergo planned maintenance and upgrades at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, it was announced on Tuesday.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt returned home in San Diego on May 25, 2021.

Commanders of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier failed to enforce social distancing and withdrew sailors too early from quarantine last year, aggravating an outbreak of COVID-19 among the ship’s crew, according to a report from a Pentagon watchdog, NBC News reports.

The U.S. Navy ended the search for the sailor that possibly went overboard off the coast of Southern California on Thursday.

NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia has the details.

Crew aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt are conducting a search and rescue mission after a sailor possibly went overboard off the coast of Southern California on Thursday, the U.S. Navy confirmed.

NBC 7’s Marianne Kushi shares what you need to know in San Diego County on the morning of October 19, 2020.

Petty Officer Adrian Stanton was on his first navy deployment. He lost the ship’s commander, caught the coronavirus, spent weeks in quarantine, then returned from this long strange trip to a life and home he barely recognized. When USS Theodore Roosevelt left for the South China Sea, the coronavirus did not seem to Stanton like the U.S. Navy’s problem....

The ship recently returned to sea after being docked in Guam as the 4,800 crew members went through rotations of quarantine after more than 1,000 of them tested positive for the coronavirus.

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The USS Theodore Roosevelt has left Guam and gone out to sea for training after nearly two months sidelined at the pier with a coronavirus outbreak.

At least 14 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt who had recovered from COVID-19 have tested positive for a second time, raising questions about immunity and whether people can catch the coronavirus shortly after getting better, NBC News reports.

Five sailors on the aircraft carrier sidelined in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have gotten the virus for the second time and have been taken off the ship, according to the Navy.

The former Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt returns to the ship to prepare sailors to get back to their mission after 1,100 sailors were sickened in the coronavirus outbreak.

The San Diego-based nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is preparing to get back to sea following weeks in Guam after more than 1,000 sailors tested positive for COVID-19. NBC7’s military reporter Bridget Naso spoke to the ship’s new commanding officer about getting back to the mission.

The San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt has 1,102 active COVID-19 cases, the Navy reported on Thursday, in what will be its final report on virus cases aboard the aircraft carrier and USS Kidd barring “significant changes.”

Acting Navy Secretary James E. McPherson said on Wednesday that he has ordered a second investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak aboard the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt, as the preliminary inquiry into the outbreak left him with “unanswered questions.”