The name has already been selected, announced, and approved. It will be the USS Enterprise, announced on the date of the USS Enterprise, CVN-65’s decommissioning.
The name has already been selected, announced, and approved. It will be the USS Enterprise, announced on the date of the USS Enterprise, CVN-65’s decommissioning.
I saw the Enterprise's inactivation streaming on Navy.mil, so I'm aware. But c'mon Jeff. You and I both know that that the Harry S Truman (CVN-75) was laid down in 1993 as the
United States, but the Clinton Administration changed her name in 1995 - about two years into her actual construction.
I'd say that the point for locking in a ship's name (or at least a carrier's) is after the Christening. But the second Midway-class carrier (CVB-42) was laid down and Christened as the "Coral Sea" but nine days after her Christening President Truman changed her name to the
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Coral Sea being reassigned to CVB-43).
So there's precedent (some recent) out there for renaming a carrier well after a name has been assigned, the ship laid down and even following its Christening.