My comment was directed to the fact that the navy canceled the Kennedy's scheduled COH and announced plans to prematurely decommission the ship in 2006. There has been a push to move one of the Virginia based ships down to Florida to take the Kennedy's place, but I haven't kept up with recent developments.
First I'd heard about a moved up 06 decom date. Thanks. Looks like Bean Town clan is pushing for another shrine. Well she's the last of the conventional steamers. Kinda watch and see if the Mayport pier actually gets another home port carrier or not. The way things are being done they may start using it as a rotating part time carrier port of call instead. Just a hunch.