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Unfortunately the JFK lends credence to the notion of "jinxed ships" in the Navy. The carrier has had trouble throughout her history. Reportedly, morale is in the toilet ever since the carrier last went into the yards for overhaul--then, only chiefs and officers were supposedly allowed liberty after working hours to go home to wives and children and "JFK" became the acronymn for "Just For Khakis"! In the 70s the ship had two serious scraping incidents with refueling oilers; in the 80s she was once run aground in Norfolk. She was also was one of the first ships to bring aboard women, and paid a big price for it as she was on two occasions barely able to get underway due to a skyrocketing pregnancy rate. She is, IMHO, living up to its namesake as it tries to ply trouble waters: Sexual misconduct aboard, monumental mistakes, political miscues, etc. I expect the ship to be assassinated sometime in the future.

Unfortunately the JFK lends credence to the notion of "jinxed ships" in the Navy.

I never knew the JFK was a hard luck ship in real life. I used to wargame some in law school, and if the Victors didn't get the JFK, the Backfire bombers did. It got to where we would fly the fighters and attack planes off and just use it for ASW work.