Nimitz carrier group to deploy
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More than 7,000 sailors and Marines will deploy next week when the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group leaves San Diego for the Western Pacific.
The commander of the Navy’s Third Fleet says the Nimitz will leave San Diego on Jan. 24 to take over in the Pacific for the carrier Kitty Hawk while it undergoes scheduled maintenance in Yokosuka, Japan.
Among the ships deploying with the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier are the guided- missile cruiser Princeton and the destroyers John Paul Jones, Higgins and Chafee.
The Nimitz carrier group returned in September from a six-month deployment in the Persian Gulf.
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