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To: ManyMoose who wrote (21332)	3/12/2012 7:37:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

This wooden ship lasted a lot longer en.wikipedia.org of course while its still commissioned (a wooden hulled frigate outlasting the first nuclear carrier...) its not exactly part of naval operations anymore the way the Big E still is for a time. The previous Enterprise (CV-6) was broken up for scrap. I wonder if that will happen to CVN-65? I also wouldn't mind seeing another carrier in the future with the same name, or named Yorktown, or named after one of the other early WWII carriers, rather than naming them after politicians (and not even long dead "legendary" politicians, but people that are still alive.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (21332)	4/3/2012 4:07:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

The Final Voyage of the Enterprise By Mark Krikorian March 12, 2012 8:48 A.M. Enterprise Departs on Final Deployment USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea (NNS) — The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) departed Norfolk Naval Station March 11 on the ship’s 22nd and final deployment. Enterprise is slated to deploy to the U.S. Navy’s 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation as part of an ongoing rotation of U.S. forces supporting maritime security operations in international waters around the globe. … Enterprise is scheduled for deactivation and eventual decommissioning following its anticipated return later this year, marking the end of the carrier’s legendary 50-plus years of service. What, you thought I meant something else? Hopefully the Navy will come up with a better way to honor the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier than its esteemed predecessor, the WWII Enterprise, CV-6, which was chopped up for scrap in New Jersey. (A new book traces the history of CV-6; here’s the author’s presentation at the Pritzker Military Library.) Not every carrier can or should be preserved, and they’re very expensive to maintain, which is why there are only six, I think, decommissioned carriers serving as museums. But apparently there’s a possibility its island, the part that sticks up above the flight deck, might be placed somewhere as a memorial, which would be a lot cheaper to maintain, and really cool. Anyway, it’d be better than self-destructing and crashing into the Genesis planet. But after this year the U.S. Navy will no longer have an Enterprise, which is why there’s a petition to name the next planned carrier, CVN-80, the USS Enterprise. Sign it, because we’ve gotten into the habit of naming our greatest warships after politicians, and not even dead ones — one of the newest carriers is the USS George H. W. Bush. Look, I voted for the guy, and he was a whole lot better than the current occupant, but nothing named by the U.S. government — not a building, not a scholarship program, certainly not one of the greatest warships built by mankind — should be named after a living person. Except for posthumous Medal of Honor recipients, it seems to me you should be dead for 50 years, preferably 100, before your name is even eligible to be considered for a naval ship. And while we’re naming ships after Jimmy Carter and John Murtha and Bob Hope, keep in mind there’s no USS Lexington or Yorktown or Saratoga or Midway or Khe Sanh or, if we want to name them after people, Benjamin Franklin or John Adams or Jefferson or Madison or Monroe or Jackson. There have been nearly 1,000 Marine and Navy combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan — any one of those is more appropriate as the name of a ship than the USS Gabrielle Giffords. nationalreview.com ...Enterprise has had so many alterations and additions that it can feel as much like a contemporary art sculpture as a warship, with clear seams in the metal all over the ship as evidence of many welders’ handiwork. Boxes, dials and other equipment carry red signs that say “retired in place,” meaning that, although they don’t work anymore, the Navy doesn’t think it’s worth the effort to fix them or even rip them out. And although any supercarrier is big and confusing at first, Enterprise has a distinct M.C. Escher quality, with spaces that can be reached only after baffling trial and error. “It definitely takes awhile to learn your way around at first, but you end up learning real quick because you’re walking around so much,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Aircraft Handling) Airman Josh Manes... ... Once the Navy dismantles and recycles the ships’ reactors, there will be nothing left to turn into a museum, he said; virtually everything two decks below the hangar bay would have to be cut apart. Honors did mention that it might be possible to slice off Enterprise’s iconic island and use it as a memorial, but those decisions are above his paygrade, he said. “Fortunately, my job is not to inactivate the ship,” he said. “My job is to operate the ship until its work is done.” navytimes.com