San Diego-Based Supercarrier May See Homeport Shift To Bremerton, Wash.

In March, the United States Navy’s oldest active nuclear-powered supercarrier, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), began a homeport shift from Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash., to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., in advance of the warship’s decommissioning next March. Current plans call for a Gerald R. Ford-class supercarrier, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), to be homeported in Bremerton, but this week the Chief of Naval Operations suggested another U.S. Navy flattop could be based at the facility in the Pacific Northwest to better align with the increased focus on the Indo-Pacific as part of great power competition with China….