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Mission and Capabilities of the CVN-74

The mission of John C. Stennis (named for Democratic Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi) and her wing is to conduct sustained combat air operations while forward-deployed.  The embarked air wing consists of eight to nine squadrons.  Attached aircraft are Navy and Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet, EA-18G Growler, MH-60R, MH-60S, and E-2C Hawkeye.

The air wing can engage enemy aircraft, submarines, and land targets, or lay mines hundreds of miles from the ship. 

Currently the USS John C. Stennis is at Norfolk, Virginia for refueling complex and overhaul, which began in 2019.  After completion which should be this year, she will return to Bremerton, Washington.

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USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy ship named after George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and the first president of the United States.  Her keel was laid on 25 August 1986, she was christened on 21 July 1990 by First Lady Barbara Bush, and she was commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk on 4 July 2992.  In 2008, USS George Washington became the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier to be forward deployed at naval base Yokosuka, Japan.  Since August 2017, the carrier has been in her four-year Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH), which is expected to be completed by August 2021. 

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USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the Untied States Navy.  She is the second Navy ship to have been named after the former President Abraham Lincoln.  Her home port is NAS North Island, and she is a member of the United States Pacific Fleet.  She is administratively responsible to Commander, Naval Air forces Pacific, and operationally served as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Nine and host to Carrier Air Wing Two until 2012.  She was returned to the fleet on 12 May 2017, marking the successful completion of her refueling and complex overhaul carried out at Newport News Shipyard.  On 1 April 2019 USS Abraham Lincoln was deployed to the Middle East as the flagship for Carrier Strike Group 12 and Carrier Air Wing Sever assigned to her.

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In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"

To our men and women in uniform, past, present, and future, May God bless you and thank you for your service.  Home of the Brave and Land of the Free.

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is the fourth Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered, aircraft carrier in the United States Navy.  The aircraft carrier is the fourth ship named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, three bearing his full name and a fourth with just his last name.  Another three U.S. Navy ships have “Roosevelt” in their names in honor of members of the Roosevelt family.  The carrier’s radio call sign is “Rough Rider”, the nickname of President Theodore Roosevelt’s volunteer cavalry unit during the Spanish-American War.  She was launched in 1984 and saw her first action during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

The picture is a shock test during sea trials in 1987