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I would love to go to that. I served on two of those, Nimitz and Eisenhower. Did an overhaul period in Newport News on Ike, where I got to walk underneath the ship while in drydock. They are huge!!!! BTW, I also did a tour on the JFK during my 20 year Navy career

Yea but did you ever crawl inside the boiler of the JFK and climb to the base of the stacks :>} Done that on CV-66 in 1978. Walked under it in 79&80.

Looks like the Navy is fixing to decomm JFK as well. She'll go to Boston Harbor you can bet the bank on it. JFK was done much like the AMERICA. Oddly enough KITTY HAWK has out lived them all. JFK was the last conventional but was not a KH Class carrier but rather a KENNEDY Class. The only one.

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No boiler tours, but being an ET, climbed to the top of the mast on all three ships, and going up the Truman's mast in a couple of weeks, for the command I work at here in Norfolk.