Navy News Service (NNS496) New Aircraft Carrier Homeporting Plan Announced WASHINGTON (NNS) -- For sailors stationed on aircraft carriers, the future of their ships' homeport just became a little clearer. A new plan, which details proposed CVN/CV homeporting out to FY 08, recently was approved.
Aircraft carriers will continue to be homeported in Norfolk, Mayport, San Diego and Bremerton, Wash., while the new homeport in Everett, Wash. will receive a carrier in 1996. One carrier will continue to be forward-deployed, operating from Yokosuka, Japan.
Quality of life and deployment schedules were major factors in the homeporting decisions. "The lives of more than 40,000 sailors and their families will eventually be affected, that's why we need to plan so far in advance," said VADM Skip Bowman, Chief of Naval Personnel. "Planning ahead now lets us minimize the impact these changes will have on our Sailors later when they are implemented.
The moves also are based on force structure requirements, 1993 base closure decisions, nuclear carrier maintenance requirements, ships' maintenance schedules and the ratio of nuclear-powered carriers to conventionally powered carriers.
The Navy's newest homeport in Everett, Wash. is planning on getting USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) from Alameda, Calif. in 1996 as a result of base closure actions. USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) will also change homeport from Alameda to Washington State, slated to arrive in Bremerton in 1996.
John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and United States (CVN 75), the Navy's newest nuclear carriers, will arrive in their new homeports; of San Diego and Norfolk, respectively, when completed in 1998. CVN 76, the as yet un-named new carder, also will be homeported in San Diego in 2005.
| COMNAVAIRPAC | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Current | New | Date |
| USS Independence (CV 62) | Yokosuka | North Island Decom | FY 98 |
| USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) | North Island | No change | |
| USS Constellation (CV 64) | North Island | Yokosuka | FY 98 |
| USS Nimitz (CVN 68) | Bremerton North Island | Newport News | FY 98 FY 01 |
| USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) | Alameda | Bremerton | 1996 |
| USS Lincoln (CVN 72) | Alameda | Bremerton Everett | 1995 1996 |
| Stennis (CVN 74) | Newport News | North Island | FY 98 |
| CVN 76 | Newport News | North Island | FY 05 |
| COMNAVAIRLANT | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Current | New | Date |
| USS Saratoga (CV 60) | Mayport | Decom | FY 94 |
| USS Enterprise (CVN 65) | Newport News | Norfolk | FY 94 |
| USS America (CV 66) | Norfolk | Decom | FY 96 |
| USS Kennedy (CV 67) | Philadelphia | Mayport | FY 95 |
| USS Eisenhower (CVN 69) | Norfolk | Newport News | 1995 |
| USS Roosevelt (CVN 71) | Norfolk | Newport News | FY 08 |
| USS Washington (CVN 73) | Norfolk | Newport News | FY 01 |
| United States (CVN 75) | Newport News | Norfolk | FY 98 |
By the way, although America is the newest conventional carrier, she is being decommissioned because she is the only one that has not received SLEP (a very thorough refit designed to extend the service life of a carrier from 30 to 50 years.
This information was included in the CZ Digest V 18 Issue #01. It is available from cz- request@stsci.edu Internet. It covers computer and board Harpoon and modern naval matters. If you can geE access to the Internet, it's worth a look.
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