The carrier routinely deploys to the Indo-Pacific region, where the warm weather adds to the heat on the deck and steam from the catapults. Moore's complex duties only get harder when the carrier does nighttime flight operations.
The carrier returned to San Diego in summer 2020, but that homecoming was brief. Now, after a "double pump" deployment, the carrier and about 3,000 crew members are switching homeports to Bremerton, Washington.an upgrade to enable the flight deck to handle the F-35C.
"In 2019 the carrier was more limited," said Morgan, who participated in the exercise for the first time this year. "We had to be closer to shore. We had more flexibility this time because our pilots were certified to operate farther from land." Sailors signal an F/A-18E Super Hornet before it launches from USS Theodore Roosevelt during exercise Northern Edge 2021, May 4, 2021.A person in water that cold can only survive about 20 minutes, said Ensign Jorge Miguel, a bridge officer of the deck. That leaves an extremely small window to maneuver the carrier and the resources necessary for search and rescue if someone goes overboard.
Poor weather also caused problems for pilots one day during the exercise, forcing them to divert to an Air Force base inland, Morgan said. With the pandemic ongoing, the crew did not want to strand pilots overnight.
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