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USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
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USS Nimitz Arrives in San Diego Ahead of Deployment; USS Carl Vinson Stops in Guam on Way to Middle East
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) made the trek down the West Coast as it sailed from Bremerton, Wash., to San Diego, Calif., over the ...
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Do Aircraft Carriers Store Planes Below Deck?
Ford (CVN-78), the largest aircraft carrier in the ... Instead, the bulk of a carrier's inventory is kept below the flight deck in the hangar bay. Located below the flight deck, the hangar bay ...
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USS Enterprise: This Might Be America's Best Aircraft Carrier Ever
A major flight deck fire in 1969 helped prove firefighting concepts learned from the Navy’s Forrestal fire. In 2012, CVN-65 was decommissioned. At its very decommissioning ceremony, the ...
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Congratulations, Sir: A U.S. Navy Admiral Just Completed His 1,000th Carrier Landing
Michael Wosje, commander of Carrier Strike Group ONE, landed on the flight deck of the United States Navy’s Nimitz-class nuclear powered supercarrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in a Boeing F/A-18E ...
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USS Carl Vinson Makes South Korea Port Visit
US Navy Photo USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulled in to Busan Naval ... operations on the bridge and observed flight operations from the flight deck. “The Carl Vinson’s carrier strike group ...