[Non-Sequitur]

No, there are actually three carriers older than the JFK including the Enterprise. The difference is that the other two conventional carriers went through about a three year overhaul called a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and the JFK did not. The reason she was passed over for this is because she was supposed to become a training carrier and then a Naval Reserve asset but the continuous commitments that the government keeps getting into meant that she had to stay an active carrier, regardless of how broken down she was.

[Endeavor]

Is she the oldest nuclear carrier? I'm sorry to belabor this, but I thought I saw something on her recently and now it will drive me crazy until I figure out WHAT it was that stood out in my mind (old age is hell!)

[WarEagle]

the continuous commitments that the government keeps getting into meant that she had to stay an active carrier, regardless of how broken down she was.

And she's our only conventionally-powered carrier, so when there's Pacific problems she's our only carrier who can put into port in Japan.

Sucks, doesn't it? Looks like somebody in the Klink Admin would have figured that out and scheduled her for the three year refit.

We need Subic Bay back, bad.