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To: Jeff Head

And they are retiring the USS Enterprise now...


19 posted on 05/23/2012 12:33:47 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross
Yes, she is on her last deployment. Too bad the old lady of the sea is being put away...but she has served over 50 years.

The 1st new Ford Class carrier, the USS Ford, CVN-78 is now (as of April) 75% structurally complete and due to launch in 2013 and commission in 2015. The second, CVN-79, USS John F. Kennedy, started building last year.


USS FORD, CVN-78 - 1st Flight Deck Section lifted into place (April 2012)

She deserves a seperate thread and as she gets closer I will post one.

We'll be down to ten carrier groups until she is launched and commissioned (which will take 18-24 months) and then be back at eleven groups by 2015.

36 posted on 05/23/2012 2:30:58 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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