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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 ...
In October 2018 CVW-9 began an around the world cruise on board USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) as part of Carrier Strike Group Three that would take them through operations in the Western Pacific, South China Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean. During this historic deployment CVW-9 squadrons conducted ...
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]
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).
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is the group's current flagship. Other group units include Carrier Air Wing 11, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Lake Erie, and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer's USS John S. McCain, USS Halsey (DDG-97), and the USS Daniel Inouye.
With the transition, the squadron left CVW-2 and moved to CVW-9 attached to USS John C. Stennis on 1 June 2013. August 2019 the Squadron lost an F/A-18E Super Hornet flown out of NAS Lemoore, it crashed into the wall of what is known as "Star Wars Canyon", near Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake. The aviator did not survive. [2]
VFA-41 joined CVW-9 in 2010 and started workups for a WESTPAC deployment in 2011. [13] From 27 July 2011 to 26 February 2012, CVW-9 deployed on board USS John C. Stennis to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, counter-piracy and maritime security operations. VFA-41 supported Operation Enduring Freedom and the final combat missions of ...
John C. Stennis US Navy: CVN-74 Nimitz: Supercarrier [notes 1] CATOBAR: 1995–present John F. Kennedy US Navy: CV-67 Modified Kitty Hawk/John F. Kennedy Supercarrier CATOBAR: 1968–2007 John F. Kennedy US Navy: CVN-79 Gerald R. Ford: Supercarrier [notes 1] CATOBAR — Under construction, planned commissioning 2024 Juan Carlos I Spanish Navy ...