USS Nimitz CVN68 Welcome Home San Diego, 06/2008

Welcome home USS Nimitz!

The arrival home of the carrier USS Nimitz CVN 68 in San Diego in June of 2008.

Welcome home to all the crew.

USS Nimitz has left San Diego for Bremerton Washington in early December 2010. I have posted a film of the departure. This departure from San Diego is permanent. CVN 68 will be in maintenance at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Bremerton, through 2011.

On Thursday December 9, 2010, the Navy announced that CVN-68 will be home ported in Everett Washington following the year of maintenance.

Active Nimitz-class carriers:
(I have six of these ten massive ships in several original films at my channel, TallSky)
Nimitz (CVN-68) Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) George Washington (CVN-73) John C. Stennis (CVN-74) Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

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[fishpokergolf]

I was a Chief onboard during this video. That was my last deployment. I retired in Aug '08. Thanks for the footage.

[TallSky]

@fishpokergolf You're very welcome, Thank you Sir!

[RCKTBOY7]

My dad flew F-14s off this exact carrier in the 80s for VF-84 Jolly Rogers.

[TallSky]

RCKTBOY7,

Very cool. You must be very proud.

[fataleclipsx]

why dothey all stand on the ship? i know they are coming back, but is it a rule? i dont kno wmuch about these things. im just watching the video because i know somone who used to be on this.

[TallSky]

fataleclipsx,

Sorry to be so long getting back to you. This is called "manning the rails." During deployments, and homecomings, roughly 2-300 sailors are given the task of standing at arms length from one another along the rails. Sometimes they wear white, sometimes black, often depending on the weather. Manning the rail is considered a method of saluting or rendering honors used by naval vessels.

[TallSky]

fataleclipsx,

Also, on some of my carrier videos of homecomings, you will notice people in civilian clothing on the flight deck. Those people are specially chosen families and friends of crew, who have just been given a "thrill ride" from Pearl Harbor to San Diego. The "tiger cruise" is the name given those privileged riders, and there are some great tiger cruise videos on youtube, if you search for them.

[atheena61]

My son is no longer on the Nimitz...but just watching this gives me chills and chokes me up. Awesome!

[eq9lover4life]

Hi i was wndering is you sell these videos? You did a Video of the USS Cleveland of them deloying and i also wanted to know if you were going to tape their homecomming.... i would love it if you did and i'll pay you for video copys. thanks Navywife of someone on the uss cleveland

[HHodges710]

for the 9 years i served in the navy and all but one of them was serving on the USS Dale CG-19, USS Frank Cable AS-40, I have several times been one of many to stand on deck and in cases where i was off duty during that time, i was told to wear my civilian clothes.

[RCKTBOY7]

I am and I'm gonna join the navy and fly fighters like him.

[TallSky]

zayd221,

Yes, of course. It is Mike Schmid's "Back to You". He has a Web site, "MikeShmid (dot) com. FYI, He authorized my use of this song by the way, after youtude notified me that the original song (Chris Daughtry's "Home") had to be replaced.

...and you are quite welcome!