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After a brief period of final fitting out, the CARL VIN- SON began at-sea training and provided carrier landing qualification services for fleet aircraft squadrons. January 1983 saw AIRWING FIFTEEN joining the CARL VINSON for the pre-cruise work-up process which involved three phases of type training, honor- ing the skills of the ship-airwing combat team. In March the CARL VINSON and AIRWING FIFTEEN departed Norfolk for the Caribbean and the Operational Readi- ness Exam. 10
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Construction continued at Newsport News Shipbuild- ing, and crewmembers began living aboard in August 1981, changing the CARL VINSON from an inanimate collection of parts to a living testimonial to its namesake. The ship completed Builder ' s Trials on January 26, 1982, and Acceptance Trials during the week of February 15 when the Navy ' s Board of Inspection and Survey mea- sured the ship systems against the Navy ' s specifications. March 13, 1982, was Commissioning Day for the U.S.S. CARL VINSON and two days later the newest addition to the U.S. Navy moved to its homeport, the U.S. Naval Station, Norfolk, Va.
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-- v . , 1 Following the ORE, CARL VINSON crossed the Atlan- tic for a month of operations in the Mediterranean and a port call in the beautiful principality of Monaco. Then it was back through the Strait of Gibraltar for the transit around Africa to the Indian Ocean. The transit gave the CARL VINSON an opportunity to call upon a couple of ports rarely visited by U.S. warships, Casablanca, Moroc- co and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The next nineteen weeks were spent in the Indian Ocean with a port visit to P erth, Australia to break it into two manageable parts. The ship and airwings were intimately involved in two major exercises, BEACON FLASH with the government of Oman; VECTOR SOUTH with the government of Soma- lia. Finally proceeding east through the Strait of Malacca, the Vinson made port calls in Subic Bay, Philippines; Hong Kong; Pusan, Korea; Sasebo, Japan; and Honolulu, Hawaii. Tiger cruise participants joined the ship in Honolulu and enjoyed an exciting week aboard the star- ship enroute to our new homeport, NAS Alameda. It was eight months of learning and growing aboard the CARL VINSON on her 1983 Around the World maiden cruise, with memories none of us will ever forget. 11
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