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When Carl Vinson (CVN)-70) completes her refuling, the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) will most likely commence her 3 1/2 year refuling, thereby leaving the navy with 11-commissioned carriers, and ten active from 2009 to 2012.
From 2008 (CV-63 Decommissioned/2009) through 2015, due to leave rotations, SRA, ESRA, DPIA, PIA, RCOH, etc., active carriers will average between nine to ten semi-annually and or annually while 4 to 6 carriers will make deployments if the level of threat in the middle east doesn't pick up.
Commissioned U. S. Aircraft Carrier Status As Of 2006/07
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The USS Kennedy (CV-67) is scheduled to decommission in 2007, most likely around the same time USS George W. Bush (CVN-77) commissions due to manning relaties, leaving our navy with eleven active carriers due to USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) RCOH, being towed from Naval Station Norfolk to Northrop Grumman's Newport News Shipbuilding in order to begin the Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) 11 November 2005, where she will be completely refitted, and the nuclear fuel that powers the Nimitz-class carrier will be replenished in a period of 3 1/2 years; commencing planning for 2005's RCOH upon return from her second around-the-world deployment and home port transfer from Bremerton, Washington, upon conclusion of her six-month deployment 31 July 2005, her tenth Indian Ocean deployment and fifth Arabian Sea/Gulf (Persian Gulf deployment) in support for Operation Iraqi Freedom on her first Gulf of Aden and Red Sea voyage, on her first Suez Canal transit and second voyage in the Mediterranean Sea.
With Carl Vinson (CVN-70) (58th) under going a 3 ½ year RCOH (July 2009 scheduled to complete) USS Nimitz (CVN-68) kicking off Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) six-month maintenance period on 5 March 2006, Harry S. Truman CVN 75 (63rd) scheduled to complete DPIA (Docked-Planned Incremental Availability) thanksgiving 2006, commencing January 2006. The number of active carriers from January to thanksgiving was 9, remaining 9 until around March 2007 because USS George Washington (CVN-73) will begin a DPIA in the Fall of 2006 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) commencing DPIA work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from September 5 2006 through mid-March of 2007; thereby leaving the US Navy with 9 active carriers until mid-March of 2007 or earlier if CVN-72 completes DPIA before CVN-73.
With the decommissioning of John F. Kennedy (CV-67), former CVA-67 (the 55th Aircraft Carrier of the U. S. Navy) scheduled in FY 2007 and provided George H. W. Bush is commissioned before CV-67's decommissioning, the US Navy will retain 12 commissioned carriers with CVN-70 out of commission until July 2009.
In 2008, USS George Washington (CVN-73) is to replace the conventionally powered carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan and soon after CV-63 is scheduled to decommission at which time the US Navy will a have 11 commissioned aircraft carriers until the commissioning of CVN-78 (1st ship in the CVN-21 class) with the initial capability set for FY2015. Actual construction is to begin in January 2007 at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard.
In 2008, the USS George Washington (CVN-73) is to replace the conventionally powered carrier USS Kitty Hawk(CV-63) at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan and while the hole of Japan may be divided on the idea, Yokosuka mayor Ryoichi Kabaya told Japanese reporters prior to April 24, 2006, that the city would be willing to accept the deployment of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft, according to a report in the Asahi Shimbunand
The U.S. Navy is planning to set up an emergency operations center in the event of an accident involving the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier it plans to deploy in 2008 to its base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, sources said August 4, 2006.
From 2008 (CV-63 Dec.) through 2015, due to leave rotations, SRA, ESRA, DPIA, PIA, RCOH, etc., active carriers will average between nine to ten semi-annually and or annually while 4 to 6 carriers will make deployments if the level of threat in the middle east doesn't pick up.
President George W. Bush will deliver the principal address at the christening ceremony of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, named for his father, former President George H. W. Bush, at a 10 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Oct. 7 at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipyard, Newport News, Va.
You'd think we would have a carrier under going SLEP right know just in case we need to replace Kitty Hawk with a CV or for that matter, needed an extra carrier for back up. These very issues are one reason I decided three years ago to do something to get the Navy to start focusing on there carrier strengths and enlistments.
It could be the Navy is relying on our subs with there rearmament package of nonnuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (Conventional Trident Missiles) that will give America a necessary quick-strike weapon in the war on terror, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said June 7.
Maybe 12 to 15 carriers won't be needed. If that's the case a lot of hurt will be felt by someone but I don't see how subs will be able to police the sky in order to prevent major escalation in the theater of operations in the Mid East in particular.
COMMISSIONED U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER STATUS AS OF 2006
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U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND THE CARRIER INDUSTRIAL BASE AS OF YEARS END 2006 & 2007
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End Note:
Lend lease America (CV-66), former CVA-64 to Australia and build several LPH/jeep carriers, and put Independence (CV-62), former CVA-62 and Constellation (CV-64), former CVA-64 in a 2nd SLEEP.
SUBGRU/SUBRON/SUBDEVRON/DSRV MASTER
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We no longer have an LPH that a jet fighter can land on with the exception of the Harrier Jet flown by our marines.
COMEXSTRKGRU/PHIBRON Amphibious Squadrons/Ship's Master
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U. S. Navy DESRON's MASTER
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USN, USMC and USCG Helicopter Squadron's
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DoD, Homeland Def. Natl. Guard, OEF/OIF-U.S Military Master
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U. S. NAVY STRUCTURE/COMMANDS/FLEETS/UNITS
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