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From: btiffany@pbs.org
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Subject: Re: USN forces off the Arab world
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.030406.20787@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 03:04:06 GMT
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From: btiffany@pbs.org

In article <1990Aug22.025203.15894@cbnews.att.com>,
	PMURPHY@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Peter T. Murphy) writes:

>     The Eisenhower CVN-69 was scheduled to be relieved in the Med
> by the America CVN-66 on or around 27 August.  Anyone know the
> location/status of the America?  (I'm a reservist, and I was disappointed/
> relieved to learn that my application for AT aborad the Ike (23Aug-8Sep)
> had been denied... but maybe I'll get aboard soon some other way.)

	I was down at the Norfolk Naval Base on August 12, and the America
was there, along with the Kennedy and the Washington.  I think the Kennedy
was getting ready to go out.  However, as I recall, 66 was the Washington,
not the America.  I think the USS America was 71.  Whenever I get my slides
developed, I'll know for sure.  :-)

-- Bruce Tiffany

[mod.note: USS America is CVA-66 (non-nuclear). Eisenhower is CVN-69.
CVN-71 is the Theodore Roosevelt. - Bill ]