USS John F. Kennedy will be decommissioned March 23 in a ceremony at its homeport of Mayport, Fla.
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Carrier to be retired
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MasterBates
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Wow, I wonder if it is really going to happen..
First carrier I landed on, both as a pilot (60B), and as self loading bagage in a COD.
First carrier I landed on, both as a pilot (60B), and as self loading bagage in a COD.
JFK's finally gone ... FINALLY !!! It was a mess ... much like Ranger. I wonder how long it would have taken to die had it been named the USS Richard Milhous Nixon ???
Long live the 'Hawk. *sigh*
Long live the 'Hawk. *sigh*
For those of us who weren't around (well in the Navy anyway) then, what was the story with USS Ranger? Another underfunded post-Cold War political football? Wikipedia seems to have nothing to say on the subject . . .
I've heard rumors about this for awhile. Glad to hear they are finally carrying through. I've only been on nukes myself, and have heard nothing but bad things from my friends who've been on the connie, kitty hawk, and especially the kennedy. So the kitty hawk is the last conventional carrier than right? Any more word on it?
Always a pig-boat ... always having major engineering casualties ... air conditioning down, cat's down, fresh water evaporators down, engine rooms down, dragging a screw behind her .... stuff like that. Plus, like the rest of the Forrestal's ... she had a BAD flight deck design/layout. The elevator locations were inefficient and poorly thought out, for example.
When you HAD to depend on a carrier ... the Ranger wasn't it .... she was a joke when I was in .... "anywhere but Ranger" was the mantra.
The 'Hawk has @ one more cruise left in her and I think she's comin' home .... next year .... ???
And just to be the exception that "breaks" the rule ... the 'Hawk was a great ship for most of the time I was on her ... one bit of engineering trouble dogged her for a while --- engine room explosion --- we actually went to abandon ship stations during the fire --- but she still made speed for flight ops with no natural wind and no bingo fields after the Joe's fixed her in Subic ... not bad for a temporarily sick ship. The rest of the time she was as good as any ....
Look at how long she's carried her weight. A pig-boat can't do that ... not for all those years.
Only one more cruise in her you say?? Thats what we say too and unfortunately the big navy heads think otherwise. Shes out of SRA soon and we'll be stuck with her till sometime in late '08 maybe '09. At one time the Kitty might have been nice, but that time isnt now...
TWO cruises left in her???
Be still, my beating heart. She's a feeder ... or at least, was .... 
Yes, Kitty Hawk will the the last one if they do follow through with the decom of JFK....which they should. It's time. Good luck getting a nuke carrier in Mayport though to replace her.
Yeah, what's the plan/intent there. Is Mayport saying goodbye to carriers for now, or are they going to go ahead with their basin dredging/fuel facility plans? I'm sure the afternoon drive crowd isn't shedding any tears over her departure.
Brett
MasterBates
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Last I heard, they were looking at a Nuke and/or an L-Class or 2.
Wonderwood apparently solved the evac issues (2nd road out of town) with a Nuke, Basin is deep enough. CVNs come in there a couple times a year.
The mornings are worse, normally. Wonderwood has solved most of the BAD Mayport Rd traffic issues.
Wonderwood apparently solved the evac issues (2nd road out of town) with a Nuke, Basin is deep enough. CVNs come in there a couple times a year.
The mornings are worse, normally. Wonderwood has solved most of the BAD Mayport Rd traffic issues.
The dredging was for the other side (north) where the fuel facility was supposed to go.
Brett
I did the 2004 cruise on the JFK. It's like A-4's was reading from the post cruise report...
dragging screws, bad AC, CATS down, water hours, etc. It's kind of scary that right after our cruise the entire flight deck was downed. I don't think that all of the things that are wrong with her broke after cruise.
dragging screws, bad AC, CATS down, water hours, etc. It's kind of scary that right after our cruise the entire flight deck was downed. I don't think that all of the things that are wrong with her broke after cruise.