“Big E” was still serving 22 almost 23 years after the scheduled retirement of 1990. I was with the airwing (VA-94) for the world cruise that brought the home part change from NAS Alameda to NS Norfolk. Today NAS Alameda heavy ship piers are occupied by the USS Hornet museum and some of the Military Sealift Command ships, mostly cargo ships and tenders.
The stars of Star Trek:TOS as well as those from the show‘s spinoffs and the show‘s prequels must‘ve felt sad to hear that the Enterprise CVN-65,a US Navy aircraft carrier,is being scrapped. That ship was built long before the 1st space shuttle got named Enterprise and got put in mothballs years ago.
Glad the name will carry on. So many systems on the ship were so old that they couldn't be serviced or repaired. On CVN-72 we called her the "Ghettoprise" or the "Mobile Chernobyl". The Enterprise will live on though.
Sad to see her no longer on duty!!! I was never FMF; but still a Corpsman....sad....R.I.P. GIRL......SEMPER FI!.... At least you're not w/ Davy Jones' Locker.......
We love you big ghost and be in Hart's forever and are best want you do in wwr 2 and grampa die wen on you in ww2 he said miss you and love you wish he was there see you before you go
The reactor excuse just doesn't hold water. There are nuke subs on display (like Nautilus) and the cargo ship Savanah (on display in Baltimore since 2008), and they didn't have their hulls cut open, and the reactors were more primitive. She could be safely put on display. These excuses sound like the same pathetic ones used to scrap the WW2 Enterprise in the 50s despite congress making law preserving her. No sense at all. She's too valuable, too much history, and some city could make a ton of money by having her on display.
GamePlayWithNolan she was removed from service in 2012, they've removed so much of her systems and will soon be removing her reactors, once that's done there won't be much left. saving her is impossible at this point.
