Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2017 6:25:40 GMT -6
A look back at USS Enterprise, set to be decommissioned Friday
The USS Enterprise, which sailed into history as the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will be decommissioned Feb. 3, the Navy announced Wednesday.
The ceremony will take place at Newport News Shipbuilding nearly 59 years to the day from its keel-laying on Feb. 4, 1958.
Known to sailors as the “Big E,” it served the nation from the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Along the way, it plucked astronaut John Glenn from the water after he orbited the Earth and led airstrikes into Afghanistan after the attacks on 9/11.
Read more and watch videos: www.dailypress.com/news/military/dp-uss-enterprise-history-set-decommissioned-friday-20170201-story.html
The USS Enterprise, which sailed into history as the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will be decommissioned Feb. 3, the Navy announced Wednesday.
The ceremony will take place at Newport News Shipbuilding nearly 59 years to the day from its keel-laying on Feb. 4, 1958.
Known to sailors as the “Big E,” it served the nation from the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Along the way, it plucked astronaut John Glenn from the water after he orbited the Earth and led airstrikes into Afghanistan after the attacks on 9/11.
Read more and watch videos: www.dailypress.com/news/military/dp-uss-enterprise-history-set-decommissioned-friday-20170201-story.html