Sailors aboard the USS Nimitz count down the final days of a six-month deployment, and the crew has a name for what happens to morale as the ship turns toward home: "Get Home-itis." This episode of the Carrier series follows that stretch, when excitement about seeing family collides with anxiety about what has changed while they were gone. Sailors talk openly about relationships strained by months of separation, spouses and children who have moved on in small ways, and the fear that shipboard bonds forged under pressure will not survive the return to civilian routine. The episode shows goodbyes on deck as shipmates who have shared cramped quarters and long shifts scatter back to separate lives, some eager, some visibly uneasy. Rather than treating deployment's end as simple relief, the episode sits with the ambivalence: pride in the work finished, dread about the reunion ahead. It is a small, specific window into a phenomenon anyone who has served on a long deployment recognizes by name, even if no one outside the Navy has heard of it.