[Mariner]

For Enterprise to have ANY utility in reserve it would have to undergo a complete refit. That cost would far exceed scrap cost.

And you’d still have a 50 year old platform and maintenance headache. And you would not have a functional crew aboard, something that would take 2 years to accomplish.

Nay.

Build new and wear it out.

The problem is NOT the fact that we are scrapping a 50 year old ship, the problem is we have not built enough of them in the last 50 years.

[Haiku Guy]

Name the next CVN Enterprise.

This is how you carry on the legacy.

Would it have made any sense to preserve the CV-6 Enterprise? It would be militarily useless today. So, to for CVN 65.

This ship was always my favorite when I was a kid. The ship got old. So did I.

I am looking forward to CVN-80.

[BroJoeK]

Mariner: "The problem is NOT the fact that we are scrapping a 50 year old ship, the problem is we have not built enough of them in the last 50 years."

Bingo! We have a winner.