This is hardly the time to be decreasing the number of our aircraft carriers. Not with China’s and India’s navies on the rise.
We should have a minimum of 12 CBGs and one training carrier. The next carrier to be decommissioned is a diesel. After that, it’ll be the Enterprise. Personally, I think the gap between the GHWB and the Ford is too large. In the interim they should build one more Nimitz-class, name it the Ford, and then start on the new class.