USS Nimitz

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson moves out of dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, in April 2020.

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Navy's crucial Bremerton shipyard squeezed as vaccine deadline looms

Ed Ronco

At last check, 58 percent of workers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard had been vaccinated.

Ashleigh Bishop, 19, a quartermaster from Lynchburg, Virginia, who joined the Navy a year ago, waves a flag at the forward edge of the flight deck to alert a refueling ship of the bow’s position. “Every job on this ship is important," she said.

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Ahead of deployment, Bremerton-based aircraft carrier takes pandemic precautions

Ed Ronco

The USS Nimitz is one of the country's 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and it's homeported in Bremerton. It's expected to set out to sea in the near…

Carrying some 5,000 sailors, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz docks for a port call in Hong Kong water in 2010.

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3 aircraft carriers could be sharing Bremerton

The Associated Press

BREMERTON, Wash. — Three aircraft carriers could end up at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at the same time in the next couple of months.The Kitsap Sun…