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USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, At Sea (NNS) -- Launching from USS George Washington's (CVN 73) flight deck on the afternoon of Feb. 25, aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 fired 17 live missiles onto a range over the Arabian Sea in two separate waves. The history-making missile exercise took place during a routine deployment for the George Washington Strike Group, deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The ordnance was delivered by Fighter Squadrons (VF) 11 and 143 flying F-14B Tomcats, and Strike Fighter Squadrons (VFA) 131 and 136 in F/A-18C Hornets. Clearing the way for the...

Story Number: NNS040304-06 Release Date: 3/4/2004 12:26:00 PM By Chief Journalist (IUSS) Henry W. Rice, USS George Washington Public Affairs ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, At Sea (NNS) -- Golf superstars Tiger Woods and Mark O’Meara took time in between holes March 3 and visited the crew of USS George Washington (CVN 73) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7, who were on station in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During the little more than an hour they were aboard the ship, Woods and O’Meara, who are in the region playing in the Dubai Desert Classic this week,...

USS George Washington Joins U.S. 5th FleetStory Number: NNS040217-01Release Date: 2/17/2004 10:26:00 AM From USS George Washington Public AffairsABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, At Sea (NNS) -- The USS George Washington (CVN 73) Carrier Strike Group navigated through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea to join forces with the U.S. 5th Fleet Feb. 16. The transit into 5th Fleet places the GW Carrier Strike Group at the tip of the spear in the global war on terrorism, and on a new level of involvement in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. While assigned to 5th...

Official U.S. Navy file photo of USS George Washington (CVN 73) underway. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group will deploy Jan. 20. View Larger Download HiRes   George Washington Strike Group to DeployStory Number: NNS040113-05Release Date: 1/13/2004 4:15:00 PM   From U.S. 2nd Fleet Public AffairsNORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Nearly 7,600 Sailors will leave their homeport as the USS George Washington (CVN 73) Carrier Strike Group (GWCSG) deploys to the Central Command area of operation Jan. 20 in support of the global war on terrorism. The strike group wrapped up a month-long Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) in mid-December,...

NORFOLK - An arresting wire broke during a fighter jet landing on the George Washington on Thursday afternoon, injuring about a dozen crew members, including five who had to be airlifted off the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier. One crew member was seriously injured, according to Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for the Naval Air Force Atlantic. Another spokesman for the Navy said none of the injuries was life-threatening, although some of the injured were taken to the Level I trauma unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. The F/A-18 Hornet caught the flight deck's No. 4 landing wire, but the jet fell into...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.AN F/A-18 Hornet jet fighter crashed into the sea today when a cable snapped as it attempted to land on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington off Virginia, injuring several crew members on the flight deck, a navy official said. Three of the injured crew members were flown to shore for medical treatment, said the official, who asked not to be identified. "The aircraft crashed into the water, and the pilot safely ejected and was immediately recovered," said the official. The mishap occurred at about 4pm local time as the George Washington...

Navy says about 12 people injured when jet skids off deck ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — About a dozen crew members on the USS George Washington were injured Thursday when a fighter jet skidded off the deck of the aircraft carrier off the Virginia coast, a Navy spokesman said. THE THREE MOST seriously injured crew members were airlifted to shore for medical treatment, Navy spokesman Mike Maus said. He said he did not have details on how serious their injuries were. An F/A-18 Hornet was landing on the carrier when its gear that catches an arresting cable broke off,...