Sadly, until 2025 the US Navy will not have a USS Enterprise.

[SEIndSAM]

CVA-65 officially decommissioned today. The next USS Enterprise is being built.

Navy decommissions 'legendary' carrier that shaped history | Fox News

 

[HoughMade]

I'm just glad it was available in '86 when Chekov needed it.

 

[printcraft]

I'm just glad it was available in '86 when Chekov needed it.

[video=youtube;yc6OeFmcJ0g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6OeFmcJ0g[/video]

 

[wabash]

"the ship retired from service in 2012"


"The Navy has spent the last few years defueling its reactors."



nuclear stuff takes a long time.

 

[Leadeye]

I wonder how long they kept all 8 reactors operating, any surface nucs here know?

 

[Trigger Time]

I don't understand any of this so I'm just gonna talk really loud now to seem important

i hope the mew one boldly goes where no man has gone before. Mew ships are cool. They have that mew ship smell

 

[Shadow]

Mew ???? hmmm I think TT is doing cat again

 

[Birds Away]

They actually do have that new ship smell.

 

[Trigger Time]

Mew ???? hmmm I think TT is doing cat again

super troopers lol

 

[oldpink]

Yet another piece of history that will never go to sea again.

 

[w_ADAM_d88]

Being from Norfolk, VA this ship is a staple to the area. My Dad also works at Newport News Shipyard and has spent a lot of time on board the Big E. Hate to see it go but that ship has done it's job and served it's country well, for a long time.

 

[BugI02]

Does the military commission dredges, because I could see some bottom sucker being called the USS Clinton

 

[actaeon277]

I wonder how long they kept all 8 reactors operating, any surface nucs here know?

Well, I can't seem to find anything on the internet. But, I thought that the 8 submarine reactors were later replaced with 2 aircraft carrier reactors.
I find it hard to believe that they kept 8 reactors as some of the news articles state, when follow on carriers had two reactors.

 

[Woobie]

Does the military commission dredges, because I could see some bottom sucker being called the USS Clinton

Good thing I had already swallowed my coffee. Otherwise it might have come back out my nose.

 

[Woobie]

Yet another piece of history that will never go to sea again.

You Navy guys get all the history. What's a grunt to do? Take his grandkids to a tree and tell them "here's where I froze my tail off pulling security all night."

 

[actaeon277]

You Navy guys get all the history. What's a grunt to do? Take his grandkids to a tree and tell them "here's where I froze my tail off pulling security all night."

Right. Cause there's no battlefield monuments anywhere.

 

[Woobie]

Right. Cause there's no battlefield monuments anywhere.

But it's hard to drag the battlefield home from Europe.

 

[miguel]

You Navy guys get all the history. What's a grunt to do? Take his grandkids to a tree and tell them "here's where I froze my tail off pulling security all night."

Right. Cause there's no battlefield monuments anywhere.

[video=youtube;_gQb7gZ0aIw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQb7gZ0aIw[/video]

 

[Lil Bob]

I believe the navy maintained all 8 reactors on-board her. I deployed on her November 98 to May 99 and she had 8 reactors at that point. Overall she was a good ship. We limped back off of the deployment. At that point we were involved with the Bosnian war, and USS Teddy Roosevelt (CVN-71) was over there launching air strikes. I am sure that if we did not have an engineering problem we would have detoured over to that area before coming home. We were coming out of the Persian Gulf. Of 180 days deployed, 168 were underway at sea, and we spent 12 days in port. Fun times it was. We dropped a whole lot of bombs on Iraq during that deployment.