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Bremerton: More than 2,000 sailors headed out of Sinclair Inlet on the USS Nimitz on Monday for a global deployment that begins just as the holiday season ramps up. Sailors who said farewell to loved ones this weekend will return in several months. The Navy declined to specify what global areas of operation the ship and its strike group will visit or how long it will be gone. “The sailors assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11 are manned, trained and certified to deliver combat-ready naval forces to deter, and if necessary, win conflicts through sustained and forward naval presence,” Rear Adm. Christopher Sweeney, commander of Nimitz’s Carrier Strike Group 11, said in a statement to the Kitsap Sun.

MEEGAN M. REID/USA TODAY NETWORK Kinslee Voigt, 10, yells “Dad!” as she and her sister Mila, 7, watch the USS Nimitz with their mother, Jessica, on Monday.