The Big E is being decommissioned? WTF??? Obama needs to go. Now.
I don’t think it’s an Obama thing. The Enterprise is the oldest combat ship active in the Navy right now (47 years old) and plans have apparently been in the works for years to retire her. Sadly, if the Wikipedia article on the Enterprise can be trusted, because of what they have to do to de-fuel the reactors upon decommissioning, they won’t even be able to turn her into a floating museum because there won’t be enough left of the ship to do it.
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Actually I was wrong, she’s not 47 years in service, she’s 51 years in service. Commissioned in November 1961.
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She over due a deserved retirement as it is. She a Nuke/Steamer. That means the nuclear reactor heats water & generates steam about 1200 PSI worth of super heated steam. That pressure the size of a pencil lead can dismember you and you'd never know the leak was there. She was built after Constellation CVA/CV-64 {decomissioned conventional} and followed by conventionals America CVA/CV- 66 & Kennedy CV-67 both decomissioned.