[Colorado Cowgirl]

The USS Nimitz was delivered to the Navy in 1975, the USS George Washington, was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and was commissioned 4 July 1992. While I disagree with scraping any carrier group. I would pick a carrier that was 17 years older! I would then use the Nimitz carrier as a training platform at Pensacola NAS.

[Tallguy]

I would expect that the USS Washington would be maintained in a higher level of readiness so that she could be taken out & readied in event of war or a future fleet expansion. The USS Nimitz is going to be decommissioned either way. I don't know that there would be that much savings to the USN when you consider that as a nuclear vessel she would require an engineering staff just to maintain the reactor. If they removed that there wouldn't be much point to the whole exercise.

[fallujah-nuker]

The USS Nimitz was delivered to the Navy in 1975, the USS George Washington, was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and was commissioned 4 July 1992. While I disagree with scraping any carrier group. I would pick a carrier that was 17 years older! I would then use the Nimitz carrier as a training platform at Pensacola NAS.

My guess is that this is based upon which ship is next for a mid-life refit.