IKE'S HISTGRY Construction of USS DWIGHT D. EISEN- HOWER ICVN-69I, the third nuclear carrier ever built, was authorized by Congress in Fiscal Year 1970. Construction continued for the next five years, and on October 11, 1975, IKE was christened and launched by the ship's sponsor, the late Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower. Work continued, and in mid-April 1977 the precommissioning crew moved aboard ship. On July 15, 1977, IKE was officially placed ln Service and was recognized as a sea-duty command, and later that month went on Builder's Sea Trials. On October 18, 1977, all the work of the precommissioning crew culminated in lKE's commissioning, where-by DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER officially became a United States Ship and achieved special status in international law by her placement into active service in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. In the following month IKE departed Norfolk for training at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, and after the Christmas holidays, traveled to the Roosevelt Roads operating area. On March 17, 1978, IKE proclaimed United States, arriving , and President Jimmy Carter emerged from an SH-3 helicopter for a tour of the ship and to view a Combined Weapons Training Exercise.
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