Don White wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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I recently got some officially released US Navy photos.

The first is our younger son John manning the rail as the USS Harry S
Truman got underway from Norfolk Oct 13th for a six month deployment.

John is a newlywed and his bride was one of the hundreds on the pier
seeing the ship off. (Note the shiny new wedding band)

I think the picture says it all.

The second is an impressive shot of the Carrier in transit.



I believe the Trueman was the first nuke powered carrier to visit my home
port. This was just after the first Gulf War and the papers said it
delivered the most ordinance of any ship over there. The Eisenhauer and
Lincoln came after that but the new troubles have kept all away since. We
did get a visit from the Salpan (small carrier)and it's escorts a couple of
weeks ago.



Don't think so. The Truman was commissioned in 1998. It was followed by
the USS Ronald Reagan and Congress has recently approved the building of
the USS George H.W. Bush. All are nuclear powered Nimitz class carriers.

My son-in-law spent 3 of his 4 years in the Navy stationed on the USS
Saipan. As you pointed out it is a smaller, conventionally powered
carrier for Marine helicopters and Harrier jets that can launch and land
vertically.

Eisboch