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Shipbuilders swarm Capitol Hill to lobby for aircraft carrier funding
The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition wants $600 million to secure building of the years-delayed CVN-82.
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USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
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USS Nimitz Leaves San Diego on Final Deployment
The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier departed San Diego Bay on Wednesday for what is expected to be its last deployment, USNI ...
From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
With the arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan in Bremerton in 2024, the city now hosts two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft ...
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USS Nimitz Arrives in San Diego Ahead of Deployment; USS Carl Vinson Stops in Guam on Way to Middle East
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) made the trek down the West Coast as it sailed from Bremerton, Wash., to San Diego, Calif., over the ...
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Oldest aircraft carrier USS Nimitz departs for what is likely to be its final deployment
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western ...
‘It’s world class training’: USS Gerald R. Ford works through COMPTUEX exercise
On Your Side got an up close look at USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during their COMPTUEX Training Exercise. The aircraft ...
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US Navy prepares Ford carrier strike group for possible deployment scenarios with COMPTUEX
With aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) and its carrier strike group (CSG) preparing for deployment later in 2025, ...
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From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
VA in 2026 and proposes to homeport the Ford-class USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) as early as 2029. Although two carriers with their thousands of crew members means a busy homeport, it's not the ...