Posted on 01/16/2007 10:24:22 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Wiki also states that the USS JFK will be decommissioned this September. The USS Kitty Hawk will be decommissioned at the same time the USS George H. W. Bush is activated in 2008. If I'm reading this right, since nothing new is replacing the USS JFK, we're dropping a carrier group?
From that article: "Nimitz (CVN-68), the lead ship of the class, was commissioned in 1975. As of 2006, George H. W. Bush (CVN-77), the tenth and last of the class, was built by Northrop Grumman Newport News and will enter service in 2008. Bush will be the first transition ship to a new class of carriers (CVN-21) to start construction in 2007 and will incorporate new technologies including a new multi-function radar system, volume search radar and open architecture information network, and a significantly reduced crew requirement. To lower costs some new technologies were incorporated into Ronald Reagan, though not nearly as many as will be involved with Bush."
Course this all depends on future defense spending...
All Hospital ships are currently run by MSC , Military Sealift Command . Civilian Sailors .The Hospital Ship would be USNS Bill Clinton .Bankok ? I am putting in for the crew . I did 15 years with MSC , Mostly tankers .
CVN-78
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