Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA
Sigh...I've never had so much trouble posting in a forum..I've lost probaly 50+ post here. Then half the time the icons don't work for me?? Like right now the only thing I can do is type a post. I think it's a server problem.
Anyway..Jeff posted...""Kitty Hawk CV 63 (one of the last two remaining conventionally powered US carrier in active service) is still out there and going, I guess to be replaced by CVN 77 George Bush in 2008. Hard to believe that is only a little more than 2 years away. She'll be what? 47 years of active service at that time. What a tribute to her builders and the naval personnel operating and and maintaining her!""....
Yes the Kitty Hawk is stil going strong. One of the thinghs that keep it going is the fine work of the Japanese shipyard workers in Yokosuka.
You know it is very expensive for the USN those conventional powered ships going. Just what ship will replace the Kitty Hawk in Yokosuka is unknown. Some think it will be the JFK. Others think it will be a nuclear CVN. The move of a CVN to Japan would have to be negoiated with the Japanese government. it was erronousely reported two years ago that the US and and Japan had reached an agreement on the move of a CVN to Japan.
Personally I think the US will move the entire CVN battle group to Guam if not allowed to place a CVN in Japan. The USN also presently plans on stationing a second carrier in Guam or Hawaii.