Sailors man a fueling station aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) during a fueling-at-sea with Military Sealift Command chartered ship motor tanker Badlands Trader ...

An MH-60S Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 taxies on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) while conducting routine operations in the ...

Sailors from the USS Nimitz embrace their family after returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, on Tuesday from a nine-month deployment. (MCS2 Peter K. McHaddad/U.S. Navy) The USS Nimitz aircraft ...

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Aircraft Handling) 1st Class Christopher Settle, center, from Columbus, Indiana, assigned to air department’s flight deck crash and salvage division, demonstrates how to ...

Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command. (Photo: U.S. Navy) Adm. Karl Thomas assumed command of U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) during a ceremony aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft ...

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz docked at Naval Base Kitsap on Tuesday after completing a 270-day deployment that likely was its last before retiring.

The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975. Huntington Ingalls Inc. has received an $18.4 million contract from U.S. Naval ...

More recently, the supercarrier has deployed to the South China Sea and the Middle East. On its final deployment following nearly half a century of service, the Navy’s oldest operational aircraft ...