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From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Carriers in the Gulf: Risky?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 03:44:36 GMT
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From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)

>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.
>

Actually, the first FIVE are conventionally-powered.  The ROOSEVELT
is, as you surmised, CVN-71.

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

Probably undergoing routine maintenance, overhaul, training, etc.  More
than 60% of our present-day carriers are conventionally propelled (all
five above, plus USS FORRESTAL, USS INDEPENDENCE, USS KITTY HAWK, and
USS CONSTELLATION (NCC-1700, right?).

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

Yes, there already IS a CVN-72 -- USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN.  She was recently
in San Diego for a change of command ceremony, and a real beauty!  Probably
one of the only times I'll ever see a carrier with just one coat of paint!
She's homewported in Norfolk, VA.

Three more carriers are slated for deployment in the near future; they are:

CVN-73, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON
CVN-74, USS JOHN C. STENNIS (former Senate Armed Services Comm. Chair)
CVN-75, USS UNITED STATES.

-shane