Vol 3 No 5 September / October 1998
Update: 6th October
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Locations
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CVX-78
Planned start in 2006
$110mill R&D for 1999
CVN-77
Planned start in 2001
$213mill 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 John C Stennis (CVN-74) CVW-7 AG ...more Med/Gulf '98 cruise
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, EastPac August26, SanDig Aug26.
Milestones: 8,400 sorties, 10,000 traps, 132 days on station on maiden deployment.
Schedule: maintenance until April 99, WestPac cruise January 2000
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, Arabian Gulf August26-Sep21 Milestones: 72000th Trap June 19 1998
in transit EastPac Apr8, East Pac May6-13, RIMPAC 98 June22, EastPac July1
RIMPAC98 July15-31, Pacific August10-26, EastPac September21
Schedule: November '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, Med August26-Sep21, Marsaille September17,
Rhodes September30
Schedule: Homecoming December
from May 29 1998 Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News(33 months)
USS John F Kennedy (CV-67) CVW-8 AJ
West Atlantic Apr8, May13, Fleet Week N.Y. May20, West Atlantic May27-June3,
July31, August19, September 2
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
ops West Atlantic Apr22-May13, June10-17, July31, St Thomas USVI August10-13,
Caribbean August19, STORM EVASION EX. Atlantic August26
Schedule: Med '98 November
• 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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