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From: dps@otter.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith)
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Subject: Re: Carriers in the Gulf: Risky?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 01:39:26 GMT
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From: dps@otter.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith)

I noticed something about the carriers listed as deployed:

America
Ranger
Midway
Forrestal
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt

Aren't all except the last two conventionally powered? And all
except the last one, which is brand spanking new (CVN-71?), in
the region of twenty-plus years old?

Perhaps this is an accident of rotation, but it looks to me
as if a decision has been taken to husband the CVNs.

Otherwise, where are Enterprise, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nimitz and
Carl Vinsen?

Duncan

ps Is there going to be a CVN-72(?), maybe named Paul Revere?