What are they going to replace it with? Let me guess: we don’t need a military and a navy anymore because Obama’s contant appologizing has made the world into a peaceful, love-sick planet filled with butterflies and rainbows, puppy dogs and cotton candy meadows where children laugh and play with terrorists. We don’t need a space program either because space will come to us.
You have the wrong picture up. Those airplanes you describe as F18 super hornets are prop planes, so are the ones on the deck.
Well done good and faithful servant.
Spock would tell Hussein to “Go to Hell,” except that Leonard Nimoy is a leftist freak.
Another feather in Hussein’s cap!
What is kind of sickening is that today’s “Global Force For Good” will not name another carrier “Enterprise”. We are now politically correct, so screw tradition. Farewell, Enterprise - and thanks for 51 extremely good years. Thousands of us who sailed on you will always have fond memories to cherish.
Hail and goodbye to a legendary ship which was the basis for the famous starship of another legendary series, “Star Treck”, its own version of the Enterprise.
Being retired. Wow.
I remember going to the launch ceremony at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock when I was a teen.
Next ship in the series will be the U.S.S. Welfare.
In the spirit of obama’s new “flexibility” perhaps he will see fit to just donate it to Putin.
Bravo Zulu “CLIMAX”. You served us well.
Why is this ship not being preserved as a museum? You would think that the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, one of the longest-serving ships ever in the Navy, and the namesake of the Navy’s most decorated ship of World War II would be worth preserving and saving for future generations instead of “dismantling and recycling.” Then again, the mighty CV-6 wasn’t saved either.
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Unfortunately in our politically correct world we now are naming navy ships after Caesar Chavez. Under Obama I fear our once proud navy will be reduced to a few dilapidated frigates bearing names like Chairman Mao and Gertrude Stein
I had never heard about this. She almost didn’t make it past her first decade!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57556318/tragedy-remembered-as-uss-enterprise-is-retired/
Sell it to Israel.
My son-in-law was aboard the Enterprise that fateful day of Sept. 11, 2001. Needless to say, after the long cruise, my daughter was in tears knowing he would be gone even longer.
A good buddy served aboard the Enterprise, he must have been a LT at the time. He is quite sad, no doubt most who served aboard are as well. Luckily he was able to score tickets for him and the family to attend the ceremony.
Read that William Shatner will be present at the deactivation in Norfolk.
Ceremony begins at 1300 ET on 1 December 2012.
I didn’t serve aboard the Big E, but the first work I did after retiring from the Navy was installation of the LAN on her. I served on John F. Kennedy, Nimitz, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
I used to joke about the carriers, that there was 4 classes of carriers (at the time), Midway, Forrestal, Kitty Hawk, and Nimitz along with “the experiment” and “the bastard stepchild.” The experiment was the Enterprise, “let’s see if we can build a nuclear powered carrier.” The bastard stepchild was the JFK, the ship that was supposed to be the lead of the new nuclear carriers but was built conventional because Congress didn’t want to spend the money.
Watching a news report on Big E this morning almost brought tears to my eyes. It’s sad to see a ship die.
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