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USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi, is the seventh of the Nimitz-class of nuclear-powered supercarriers in the United States Navy. She was commissioned on 9 December 1995. Her temporary home port is Norfolk, Virginia, for her scheduled refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH), which began in 2019. After ...
USS John C. Stennis (25 April 2014) Southern California operations area (30 April 2015) On 27 June 2013, the carrier John C. Stennis began a scheduled 14-month-long overhaul when it entered drydock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Bremerton, Washington (pictured).
On July 16, 1957, the first shovel of earth was thrown, marking the beginning of the Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS), which was commissioned July 19, 1961. Captain W.F. Krantz, USN received the golden key to the air station, and senior Mississippi U.S. Senator John C. Stennis was the guest speaker for the ceremony that opened the $60 million base.
Also, on 15 June 2007, the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis recorded its 100,000th arrested landing with the trap of an F/A-18F Super Hornet from the Strike Fighter Squadron 154 (VFA-154) flown by Commander Clark Troyer and Lt. John Young following a close-air-support mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. [63]
Carrier Strike Group 5 led by USS Ronald Reagan with Air Force B-52 Stratofortress and Navy F/A-18 Hornet aircraft in September 2018. Carrier Strike Group 5, also known as CSG 5 or CARSTRKGRU 5, is the U.S. Navy carrier strike group assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet and permanently forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet.
CVW-8 deployed on board USS John C. Stennis in February 1996, for a Joint Fleet Exercise. This was followed by deployed operations to the North Atlantic while embarked on USS John F. Kennedy with port calls to Dublin, Ireland and Portsmouth, England. In April 1997, CVW-8 embarked on USS John F. Kennedy for a Mediterranean/Persian Gulf ...
USS Theodore Roosevelt and CVW-8 team returned home on 22 September 1995 and on 1 November 1995, CVW-8 was reassigned under the operational control of the John F. Kennedy Battle Group, forming the team of USS John F. Kennedy and CVW-8. [1] The air wing embarked in USS John C. Stennis in February 1996, for a
It appears that Kennedy transferred to another carrier group in 1995, as the announced 31 August 1995, listing of Carrier Group Two's composition included USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) and USS San Jacinto (CG-56). In addition, USS Monterey (CG-61) was intended to join the group in 1996–97. [21]