USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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The Ship Unz cc Ci y Annual Operating Budget Annual Payroll While Deployed: Meals Total Meals Served Gallons Of Water Generated Electricity Generated Total Ship ' s Store Sales Laundry Une [People Number Of Sailors Number Of Chiefs Number Of Officers With the Air Wing $50 Million $5.9 Million 11,300 Per Day 2.75 Million 325,000 Per Day Enough To Power Minneapolis $3 Million 8,400 lbs. Per Day Over 3,000 Over 170 Over 200 Over 5,000 Total All 50 States are represented. Over half the crew is between the ages of 17 and 25. {jnterpnsmq c Jtatistics Type Of Ship: Enterprise Class Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier Horsepower: More Than 280,000 Maximum Speed: More Than 30 Knot Length: 1,123 Feet Breadth: 257 Feet Height (Keel To Mast): 250 Feet Anchors: 2 (30 Tons Each) Propellers: 4 Rudders: 4 (35 Tons Each) Reactors: 8 Catapults: 4 Compartments: More Than 3,500 Area Of the Flight Deck 4.47 Acres 22

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V k £- ir - 6 ' l» g vlM I 5 ok 1 :- v ii .aP!B i I ' -S. forces 1 - « fc. - V Jf. ! jyment June 28. The Big E enforced no- nes in two of the world ' s most critical ;, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Operation Joint rdifadwcria avor) and Iraq (Operation Southern ( H«tts.cit»u :h), flying nearly 5,000 missions. Big E led more than 50,000 miles during 140 at sea, and launched and recovered more 13,000 aircraft which logged 25,000 toseaSqi t hours. During the deployment, the s F-14 squadron, VF-103 became the first jKjtBBfctasidi e the Low Altitude Navigation and EoaBibefaaes iting Infrared System for Night TTIRN) pod. Big E also was the first ;ar-powered carrier to visit Souda Bay, , and Bahrain. The deployment marked iram ' s3J00 il tkpl .: : - ' li toftrf ' i Km? inLA ifflflvflBf TA trade agreement signed, anitarian relief to Somalia, Earth mit held in Rio, Clinton wins idency. Film: Unforgiven vJ Hubble telescope repaired in -Ae, huge floods in Mississippi, European vcoupi tet begins. World Trade Center bombed, e in Waco, Film: Schindler ' s List. -r Earthquake hits L.A., IRA cease U.S. troops seize Haiti, Arafat returns the end of an era when VA-75 retired the A-6E Intruder from the Navy. iyy In February, Enterprise entered Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. for an extended selective restrictive availability lasting four-and-a-half months. The Big E left the yards for sea trials and a visit to Mayport, Florida in October. lyyo Enterprise began work-ups to its 16th overseas deployment, blazing through TSTA I,n,m and IV, COMPTUEX and JTFEX. Big E visited St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands in August before deploying from exile to Gaza, Mandela becomes President of South Africa, Rwanda genocide. Film: Forrest Gump. 1 S S O Dayton, Ohio peace agreement on Bosnia, Oklahoma City bombing, Israeli P.M. Rabin assassinated, Hutu massacre in Rwanda. Film: Braveheart y 7U War in Chechnya ends, Clinton re-elected, Strikes against Iraq, Hurricane Fran hits East Coast, Bosnian elections, overseas Nov. 6 to relieve the USS Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Arabian Gulf. Adm. Boorda suicide. Film: The English Patient. 1997 Princess Diana killed, Film: Titanic

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