[virgil283]

"Speaking about the Enterprise's 'inactivation,' Capt. William C. Hamilton Jr. told The Press 'This is something nobody wants to do, but it has to be done. So let's have people who love the ship do it. That's the dignity of it."

[freedumb2003]

We knew it was scheduled, but it is still sad.

She can’t even have a decent burial/scuttle since the nuclear engines are integrated into her architecture.

RIP and may your upcoming namesake have fair winds and following seas.

[Chode]

ping...

[mabarker1]

A Sad thing, but we all know at some point it would happen. Too bad we can’t take the classified stuff out and make Her a Museum.

[BigCinBigD]

“The Press said.A ninth USS Enterprise will eventually be built and may include parts of the eighth ship being disassembled”

Just don’t let J.J. Abrams anywhere near it.

[muir_redwoods]

We have nuclear powered aircraft? Who knew?

[muir_redwoods]

We have nuclear powered aircraft? Who knew?

[IronJack]

She’s showing her age in that photo, but still formidable.

[left that other site]

When I was a young girl, the USS Enterprise came to Boston. It was too big to dock, so it moored out in the Harbor. Dad and i sailed out to see it on a 13.5 foot Sunfish.

I will NEVER forget that as long as I live!

[FreeInWV]

I still think the smartest thing to have done would have been to simply give her to Israel. Her compatibility was a problem for us but would not pose a problem to Israeli engineers. It would have cost $0. It would have made Israel more able to defend itself, needing less reliance on us. It would have decreased everyone’s will to invade them.

Heck, I’d even toss in a few surface ships and an air wing or 2. I’m growing weary of futilely trying to keep the peace there. Israel would be more than willing to defend themselves if better armed.

[WVKayaker]

My dad was stationed in Gitmo, when Enterprise arrived for her shake-down cruise. He arranged for me and my brother to go out one day on her training schedule.

When they say powerful, I laughed. I remember the rooster tail she made as they headed South from Cuba... and I followed her in 1968 in the South China Sea, on a WW2 era Fram2 Tin Can (USS Perkins). I don't know her true speed, but she was FAST!!!