I spent some time when the E was in Norfolk in the 90’s.
Naval enthusiasts requested that Enterprise be converted into a museum. By 2012 this was deemed too expensive to make such an effort practical, in addition to the fact that the ship would need to be partially dismantled anyway to remove the eight reactors safely
It was a huge vessel. If I recall, there were over 5K men assigned to the crew back when I was there.
Twas a city on the water.
Funny thing is, out of five thousand fellow crew members, I’ve only rarely seen anybody from that ship once I left it.
Everyone’s gone into the Way-Back memory bank. “PooF!”