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From: clee@td2cad.intel.com
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Carriers
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.034406.2519@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 03:44:06 GMT
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From: clee@td2cad.intel.com



In article <1991Jan22.013926.18118@cbnews.att.com> dps@otter.hpl.hp.com
(Duncan Smith) writes:
=
=I noticed something about the carriers listed as deployed:
=
=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?


	I heard this several weeks ago so it might be obsolete.
Enterprise is supposed to be in for an engine refit which is suposed to
last ~ 2 years.

	The Abraham Lincoln was just deployed to Alameda, no idea where
it is now. 
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