Mighty Ike: The U.S. Navy's Second Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier Is a Beast
This warship fought throughout the Cold War and has recently served on a record seven month deployment. Despite the rivalry between the United States Army and United States Navy, few sailors seem to complain that they’re deployed on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named for the former General of the Army and later President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower. Commissioned in 1977, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is the second of the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service. Originally named USS Eisenhower, much like the lead ship USS Nimitz, during the...
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