Aircraft Carriers III

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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Aug. 28, 2015) The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) departs Norfolk Naval Shipyard following successful completion of its drydocking planned incremental availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Shayne Hensley/Released)

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By Mike Hixenbaugh
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 29, 2015
NORFOLK

It was nearly a year later than planned, but the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower on Friday steamed out of Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth and back out to sea for the first time in more than two years.

The ship - originally scheduled to leave the yard in November and deploy later this year - needed much more work than originally planned, according to the Navy.

Because of the delay, the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman will deploy in the Eisenhower's place later this year.

It was an unprecedented stretch at the shipyard and required a lot of work for the crew: Shipyard workers, contractors and sailors logged "more than 1.2 million man-days of work" over the 23-month span in the yard, the Navy said. The 40-year-old ship required 50 percent more maintenance than planned, including extra work on numerous ship systems, such as the shafts, rudders and distilling units.

It was the longest and most comprehensive carrier overhaul ever completed at one of the Navy's public shipyards.

"I promise it was not always easy," Capt. Steve Koehler, the ship's commanding officer, said in a statement. "Every department had their share of long days and nights, but through it all, the work was completed and our sailors still managed to garner several awards along the way."

The ship headed out to sea Thursday morning to begin basic sea trials, the first step in a months-long process in preparation for deployment sometime next summer.

And in October, the ship will take on a high-profile task: The Navy plans to test F-35 fighter jet flight
 
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Jeff Head

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I do not like the title that says after two years of "repairs," as if though the carrier took damage somewhere due to some mistake, or untoward occurrence.

it was a "a 23-month dry-docking planned incremental availability (DPIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY)." IOW, this was a planned maintenance period.
 
That's right Jeff. It's just maintenance. Not damage. ...
... but
Eisenhower went into a planned 14-month availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in September 2013 after returning from back-to-back deployments. The workload continued to grow, and the availability was extended several times – and eventually
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to give Eisenhower’s fall 2015 deployment to Truman.
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Air Boss: Carrier Truman Will Only Have 40-Day Workup; Ike, Bush Likely Compressed Too
The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
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of its docking planned incremental availability – but the scheduling problems it created will trickle through the carrier fleet, the Navy’s air boss said Tuesday.

Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of Naval Air Forces, said the American Society of Naval Engineers’ annual Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium that the massive amount of extra work required on Eisenhower led to USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75) being put on a greatly abbreviated training schedule before deploying this fall and will likely compress the training schedules for Ike and USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) in the coming years.

Eisenhower went into a planned 14-month availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in September 2013 after returning from back-to-back deployments. The workload continued to grow, and the availability was extended several times – and eventually
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to give Eisenhower’s fall 2015 deployment to Truman.

In all, the Eisenhower maintenance availability took 23 months, and the ship will have to hurry to prepare for the next planned Atlantic Fleet deployment next year. With Eisenhower finally out of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Bush can go in for maintenance but may face some schedule pressure afterwards to meet the already-planned deployment schedule despite its maintenance delay.

As for Truman, Shoemaker said the scheduling headache caused by the carrier deployment swap was compounded by a maintenance extension of its own.

“Instead of a full six-month [maintenance availability], [Truman] got a three-and-a-half-month carrier increment availability. And that actually extended, almost double the time and double the manpower to get Truman out,” he said.

That maintenance period extension ate away at an already tight training and workup schedule for Truman.

“What’s normally planned from flight deck certification, that first event you do post-availability, to the start of COMPTUEX, our major evaluation exercise – planned for 154 days normally in our optimized fleet response plan. Truman will get 40. 40 days, that’s almost a quarter of the time, so the risk the strike group commander, the carrier [commanding officer] and the air wing commander are having to manage and absorb there is significant,” Shoemaker said.
“There’s no white space between major events as they work up where you can kind of take the lessons learned from the last exercise, kind of build upon those, let the squadrons work through that, and then be ready for the next event.”

That compressed workup schedule may apply to the next two East Coast carriers as well. Eisenhower will face a pressurized workup period before deploying next year, “and on the backside, because of her delay and Truman’s delay, Bush, which is the next carrier at Norfolk Naval, is probably at risk as well right now and looking at some compressed workups.”

Shoemaker attributed Eisenhower’s nine-month delay to a variety of factors. In part because of the back-to-back deployments, the ship needed two-and-a-half times more work than engineers had planned for. A crane operations mishap at Norfolk Naval Shipyard led to restrictions that slowed down work on the carrier, he said. Many ship systems weren’t turned on until final testing, which showed many previously undiagnosed problems with the ship. And the yard faced some efficiency problems as the end date continued to slide to the right.

As the deadline would shift to accommodate problems in one part of the ship, “all the rest of the work seemed to expand to fill that new date. So if we all agreed we would slide the date from November, our first move was to January, and kept moving right from there – but as that happened, instead of just the other contracting topside work saying okay, let’s just get that all done so we can focus on what’s left in the plant, or whatever it may be, it seemed like … the rest of the work sort of expanded to fill whatever the new date may be,” Shoemaker explained.

“We’ve got some work to do and lessons to apply there,” he said.
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The US Navy can handle most contingencies. Trust me this is nothing new at all. All schedules are subject to change. things happen.

In 1972 the carrier deployment schedule was all out of wack. Aboard JFK we spent 10 1/2 months deployed. So did FDR...Midway spent nearly 11 months deployed..Saratoga and America were sent from the east coast to Vietnam..Forrestal caught fire at the pier in Norfolk and was delayed deploying...so on an so forth.

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July 10, 1972 Naval Base Norfolk, Va. Because of arson there was a fire aboard the carrier while in port. The fire caused heavy damages below the flight deck and many computers were destroyed.
The repairs took at least three month.

The schedule was all out of wack in '72 & '73...

More recently, 2012 & 2013, the USN had to change CVN schedules because of sequestration.

I could give a few more instances but I'm at work..gotta go!

Things happen and things change. Nothing new going on here. Nothing.
 

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The US Navy can handle most contingencies. Trust me this is nothing new at all. All schedules are subject to change. things happen.

In 1972 the carrier deployment schedule was all out of wack. Aboard JFK we spent 10 1/2 months deployed. So did FDR...Midway spent nearly 11 months deployed..Saratoga and America were sent from the east coast to Vietnam..Forrestal caught fire at the pier in Norfolk and was delayed deploying...so on an so forth.

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The schedule was all out of wack in '72 & '73...

More recently, 2012 & 2013, the USN had to change CVN schedules because of sequestration.

I could give a few more instances but I'm at work..gotta go!

Things happen and things change. Nothing new going on here. Nothing.

Exactly, and now the Ike has a month to find some "sub-optimal conditions" for those F-35C jockeys to "enjoy" along with lots of cats and traps in the "dark" OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH! I can't wait till the boy wonders start parking those Charlies on the IKE, I guess this is another two ship outing???

While you're here, pray for our old Sailor, he went to the ER presenting with stroke symptoms, and was flown to DePaul in St. Louis, where they found elevated blood levels of a heart attack??? but by this evening the old sailor asked my daughter not to
"let him forget breakfast in the morning?" his name is LD
 

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While you're here, pray for our old Sailor, he went to the ER presenting with stroke symptoms, and was flown to DePaul in St. Louis, where they found elevated blood levels of a heart attack??? but by this evening the old sailor asked my daughter not to
"let him forget breakfast in the morning?" his name is LD
"Old sailor," as in a member of your family? A friend?

Whomever, prayers up for him from here in Idaho!
 

Air Force Brat

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"Old sailor," as in a member of your family? A friend?

Whomever, prayers up for him from here in Idaho!

He enlisted when he was 17, his Mom had to go down with him to enlist.
Hes my Father in Law, served on USS Drew, and attended nearly every ship reunion till they ran out of crew, he's 88, participated in the beach landing on Okinawa and several other islands, later served on the shake-down cruise of a Destroyer that served up to and through Vietnam, but the Drew was his first ship! his name is LD Scott
 
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