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USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi, is the seventh of the Nimitz-class of nuclear-powered supercarriers in the United States Navy. She was commissioned on 9 December 1995. Her temporary home port is Norfolk, Virginia, for her scheduled refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH), which began in 2019. After ...
The new Carrier Strike Group Three flagship, the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), changed its homeport to Bremerton in January 2005, and once there, underwent an 11-month Docking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) 05/06 maintenance and yard overhail period, the first time she had been dry-docked since its 1995 commissioning.
Shortly after, the Stennis/Nine team deployed to North Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean flying combat missions over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom before returning to homeport May 2002. CVW-9 made another deployment less than nine months after returning home in January 2003 to the Western Pacific aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70 ...
Seven of the US Navy's 11 nuclear aircraft carriers are at sea simultaneously for the first time in a very long time.
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Stennis departed from its homeport in Bremerton, Washington, on 16 January 2007, spent one day in port on-loading Carrier Air Wing Nine onto the carrier, and the strike group departed San Diego on 20 January 2006 for its 2007 deployment.
CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln: Nimitz: 11 November 1989 — 35 years, 82 days Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California [72] CVN-73 George Washington: Nimitz: 4 July 1992 — 32 years, 212 days Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California [73] CVN-74 John C. Stennis: Nimitz: 9 December 1995 — 29 years ...
This is a list of aircraft carriers which are currently in service, under maintenance or refit, in reserve, under construction, or being updated. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. [1]