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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 with that name, after George Washington, Founding Father, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States.
The air wing deployed on USS George Washington as a component of Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group Two on 20 May 1994. Following refresher carrier qualifications, the Battle Group transited to Portsmouth , England to participate in the Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
The squadron conducted a Southern Seas deployment aboard USS George Washington in 2015. [11] On 26 April 2017, an MH-60R Seahawk of HSM-78 crashed off the coast of Guam during a deployment to the Western Pacific on the guided missile destroyer USS Dewey. All three crew members were safely recovered. [12] [13] [14]
The Strike Group Flagship is the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) which also embarks Strike Warfare Commander, Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW 5) and its nine squadrons. As of June 2015, CSG 5 includes two Ticonderoga -class cruisers and Destroyer Squadron Fifteen (CDS 15), which serves as the Sea Combat Commander and is ...
USS Washington, a lateen-rigged two-masted galley, was built in the autumn of 1776. USS George Washington was a 24-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1798. USS Washington (1814) a ship of the line, was the second such to be launched by the Navy, and was on active service from 1815 to 1820. USS George Washington, in commission 1959–1985.
On 14 January 2014, the U.S. Navy announced that USS Ronald Reagan would replace George Washington as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Five. George Washington was scheduled to undergo its mid-life complex refueling and overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia.
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In 1961 the system proved its effectiveness when it tracked USS George Washington on her first North Atlantic transit to the United Kingdom. [1] The first detection of a Soviet nuclear submarine occurred on 6 July 1962 when NAVFAC Barbados recognized and reported contact #27103, a Soviet nuclear submarine west of Norway coming into the Atlantic ...