Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicatc.we can not consecrate ... we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ... that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom...and that government of the people... by the people ... for the people shall not perish from the earth. given on the battlefield near Gettysburg Pennsylvania November 19, 1863

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USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN CVN 72 m the story behind the legend... USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) is America ' s fifth Nimitz-class carrier. The ship was named in honor of our nation ' s 16th president and is the second ship in the U.S. Navy to bear his name. The ballistic missile submarine Abraham Lincoln (SSBN 602) was in service 1961-81. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ' S keel was laid Nov. 3, 1984 at Newport News, Va. Four years later the ship was christened and began a series of perfor- mance thals leading up to commissioning Nov. 11 , 1989 at Norfolk, Va. After completing shakedown and acceptance trials, ABRAHAM LINCOLN departed Norfolk in September 1990 for an interfleet transfer from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship completed a tran- ABRAHAM LINCOLN led a 23-ship armada that sealifted 20,000 evacuees. The armada moved nearly 45,000 people from the Subic Bay Naval Station to the Visayas Province port of Cebu. With Operation Fiery Vigil completed, the ship took up station in the Arabian Gulf in support of allied and U.S. troops remaining in the region for Operation Desert Storm. Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW 11) the embarked Air Wing, provided combat air patrol, reconnaissance and support operations over Kuwait and Iraq. Abraham Lin- coln remained in the Gulf for more than three months. The ship spent early 1992 in a Selected Re- stricted Availability (SRA) at Naval Air Station Al- ameda. It deployed again June 15, 1993 for the Western Pacific. After a brief port visit to Hong Kong, it returned to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch, the U.N. sanctioned enforcement of a no-fly-zone over Southern Iraq. In October 1993, ABRAHAM LINCOLN was ordered to the coast of Somalia to assist U.N. hu- Brazil, Argentina and Chile. and surrounding areas, backing American eration Desert Shield Desert Storm. While enroute to the Indian Ocean, the ship was divert- ed to support evacuation operations following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on Luzan Island, Repub- lic of the Philippines. Operation Fiery Vigil became the largest peacetime evacuation of active duty military personnel and family members months in SRA and prepared for the next deploy ment.