Vol 3 No 4 July / August 1998
Update: 27th August
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Lincoln BG Unloads
Lincoln Battlegroup fires 70 Tomahawks at Terrorist Targets
August 20th: Seven ships from the Lincoln Battlegroup and the 5th Fleet operating in the
Arabian Sea fired 64 Tomahawk missiles at terrorist targets in Afganistan and a further
6 at a chemical plant in Sudan. The missiles destroyed the factory and did considerable damage
to the terrorist camps.
Welcome to the eleventh issue of Carrier Aviation News, a regular newsletter
that brings you the news around the Carrier Navy.
Want to contribute? then mail me David McCandless and maybe I can
publish it here. Thanks to all those who have sent me mail and
sugestions.
CVN-77
$125mill wanted for 1999
Only $50mill appropiated for 1998
$18mill appropiated for R&D 1997, a further $300m may be found in the
current budget
Commissioning: 2008
USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75)
Builders Sea Trials June9-12, Atlantic August19 Schedule: Med Cruise August 2000
USS John C Stennis (CVN-74) CVW-7 AG Med/Gulf '98 cruise...more
JTFEX 98-1 west Atlantic Jan14-26
Mar7 Suez Canal, Gulf Mar12-May6, Jebel Ali May13, Southern Watch May20-July8,
Arabian Sea July 15, Indian Ocean Jul31, Fremantle July28, Hobart August5, EastPac August10,
Pacific August15, Pearl August19
Schedule: new homeport SanDig Sep'98
USS George Washington (CVN-73) CVW-1 AB
Standown Oct1, in transit West Atlantic Oct3-10, Malta Oct18,
Norfolk Apr3, West Atlantic May6
Schedule:
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) CVW-14 NK
Deployment June11, Eastpac June11-24, WestPac July1-15, Gulf Jul31
Jebel Ali Aug10-13, Arabian Sea August19-20 Milestones: 72000th Trap June 19 1998
in transit EastPac Apr8, East Pac May6-13, RIMPAC 98 June22, EastPac July1
RIMPAC98 July15-31, Pacific August10-15
Schedule: Underway 7 weeks from June 22 1998, Nov '98 WestPac Cruise 98/99
USS Eisenhower (CVN-69) CVW-17 AA
West Atlantic June10-17, Med June24, Adriatic Sea July1-July8, Cannes July15,
Med Jul31, Med August10-13, Corfu Greece August19
Schedule: Homecoming December
Decommissioning Sept. 30, 1998
South China Sea Jan24, off Malaysia Jan28, Gulf Feb5-Apr1, Bahrain Apr8, Jebel Ali Apr22,
Jebel Ali May6, Southern Watch May13, in transit Arabian Gulf May20, Strait of Hormuz May 23
Yokosuka June6, EastPac July15-31
• Seal of the Association of Naval Aviation 55 Squadron
Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
through her great spaces in the sky,
be with them always in the air
in darkening storm or sunlight fair,
Oh hear us when we lift our prayer
to those in peril in the air.
-The Right Stuff-
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