USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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Zl ip of IIS. walk part- ng l' deral 'ite i. and V .T 4 P 'freer I fzgft. I .A-- I V , .u,Yf::3,4,.X F 'Q H i. ffm ! is' 'fe'rL1f1vqZfgifilEe, i ! i week of meetings with Kremlin leaders, rettuned to Washington with a strategic arms pact. ' . 6 ' 1 ENTERPRISE departed Alameda on September 12. for its sixth combat deployment to Southeast Asia. On station in the Gulf of Tenkin in 1973, ENTERPRISE and me werid received ' news that a peace accord was signed in Paris on January 27. thus ending U.S. involvement in the Wetnam War. North Wetnam released 590 POWs and on March 29, the last U.S. troops retumed home. ' Also in March, ENTERPRISE eamed its second 'iBattle E. On July 30, ENTERPRISE sailed from Alameda for the Bremerton Naval Shipyard for a six month overhaul With the war in Wetnam over, the major news story of the year was Watergate. On January l l, l5, and 30, seven defen- dants of the Watergate break-in pleaded guilty and were con- On Apu: 30, Nixon aides nu. Haldeman, John D. 0u.Jlme25..lohnDean Depumnent WG!

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gggggt ,.. Y . ' sf 'Y Jaan We ff. -L ' ' . o .:.:r,,a-' r r '- resigned oflice on October l0, pleading nocontest to tax evasion charges. vt' i N In I974, ENTERPRISE rctumed to Alameda in ernly February. In August, the Big E won its third 'Baile E' and on September I7, left for its seventh WESTPAC. Impeachment hearings against President Nixon were opened on May 9, by the House Judiciary Committee. In tele- vised heruings July 24-30, theJudiciary Committee recommended three articles of impeachment against Nixon. On August 9, Gerald R. Ford was swom in as the 38tIr President ofthe United States after Nixon resigned office. Nixon received an uunconditional pardon from President Ford for crimes that he committed or may have committed while Presi- dent ofthe United States. X91 ir In l975, New Years found ENTERPRISE in Subic Bay where it also had spent Christmas. It left Subic on January 7, to begin another excursion into the Indian Ocean. Following a40- ' day Indian Ocean cnrise., ENTERPRISE was called upon to help E9 -. I8 retumed On May I2, the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez and its crewof39werecapturedintheGuIfofSiam by Cambodian forces. On orders from President Ford, U.S. MaHnes attacked Tang Island. The Mayaguez and its crew were released, but I 5 Marineswerekilledinbattleandanotlrer23 werekilled ina helreopta' crab. ,tn 6 The United States eerebmred is zoom birthday on Jury 4. I976. One of the highlights of the celebration was New York City's Operation Sail' where tall ships from around the world passed in review to an audience of six million people. That same month, July 30. EN'I'ERPRISE departed on its eigllh WESTPAC. Highlighting this deployment was the Big E 's in Operation Kangaroo, a joint exercise with the Australian and New Zealand navies. Following the exercise, the drip visited Hobart. Tasminia October 29 through November 5. X977 On January IS, I977. ENTERPRISE departed Subic Bay lirrtlre first all-nuclear-powered excursion into the Indian Ocean since l964. 'Ihe ship was joined by the guided missile cruisers ' LONG BEACH and TRUXTON and the submarine TAUTOG. 'Ihe longdeploymenterrded March 28, when ENTERPRISE returned to Alameda. On January 20. Jimmy Carter was swom in as the 39th President ofthe United States and on January 27, he pardoned more than l0.llll Vietnam Wardraft evaders. ,ot fi sewer rruben H. rrumprrfey, 66. died January 1 3. 1978, alter losing a battle tocaneer. He had accumulated 32 years of service to the nation, including four years as Vice President. OnApril l8,theSenate votedtotrrmcontrol ofthe PanamaCanal overto Panama. Two weeks before that. on April 4, EN'I'ERPRISEdepaned for its ninth Westem Pacific deploy- mem. Soon aherleaving port, the Big E participated in RIMPAC-78, a four-nation exercise involving 42 ships, 225 ailcraftarrd nearly 22,0lXI men from the United States, Canada. Australia, and New Zealand. Aftervisiting the Philippines in May, ENTERPRISE rescued I3 Vietnamese refugees from a sinking sampan about 90 miles westof Luzon, R.R During the deployment. ENTERPRISE also nrade a 33-day excursion into the Indian Ocean. making a port visit to Perth in August. After leaving Perth. August I 2, the ship participated with HMAS Stuart and the Royal Australian Air lhce in a two-day exercise, Beacon South. After Beacon South, the Big E proceeded to Singapore to participate in exercise Merlin VI. On its way home, ENTERPRISE stopped off at Hong Kong and Subic Bay, evading a large storm in the South China Sea. On October I2, the ship made a brief stop at Pearl Harbor to pick up ZIXJ Tigers tfatlrers, brothers, or sons of crewmembers! for the last week of the deployment. X979 EN'I'ERPRlSE set sail again January 9, I979 but this time for Bremerton, Washington. For the next 30 months the ship underwent a comprehensive overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval .x ' . V I , ' yr. , . 1 far. .. h '4 . , , ., - ' .' .. -' --lpzfg - . 2.-ff. - ff' ' M ' , , ., . :li .,..-.A . .ig WY . 1 F - . - --1...e-- ---- ,,, ,A A , ,-14,53 Y , , - F - y l tg--3,5-.5-X M N -' ,r .1 1iwiIf'lJHOi' .. Qlll' ILMIIIIU I ' r .ftitlfltd llllr K tiliilclhd' hm! H. Znlnoll. , -f . - .r ll' in ' Wm On L . rrr I lh 'L 11'irNlldlHCl' ..' I ' C get .ir llvlltm ' ill ' y ' ,iliivlliffm . 1 . lnlilllil -W VWNLAEL x I I q.uPrnW ' .r X ir 55 rirlllle l lilljlllillllol -- , ir 'llilllllItm N L U. - l . , i.riclNli1r1lsl0'W1 ' cmixrn on the -lllf ' Ur: iflllltrl ol the PIC in-nml2.wW I' Trio rr cdr In .ini liru litllllldfd ill lrrlrgo hold in hun Il1.Sl.Hcic lN.i11.nxinic11Iltlarl iluiloiiiiclrrirlithat Oniktcmi rrlrilluliliiciiliriir' lrziltliligillhrr In Roluld RCU iiltluliilftisliilhtl rclcrrcdllic.I111c1'ii On ihrclr Ii HIliCitiCl.1l', R. Iirrliiiigliwiiiiillrrii iv,

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' I -A 715' i New Years found ENTERPRISE in transit from the ' Arabian Sea. with special guests on board. On January 20. I 983. the Big E set anchor in Fremantle. West Australia fora six-day port visit. In March. ENTERPRISE participated in the combined exercise TEAM SPIRIT off the coast of South Korea and in April. ENTERPRISE rendezvoused with MIDWAY andCORAL SEA for FLEETEX 83- I in the Northwest Pacific. Completing another successful deployment. ENTER- PRISE retumed to Alameda on April 28. On September I . the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean airliner. killing all 269 passengers and aircrew. The Soviet Union claimed the plane had flown into USSR airspace and was on a spying mission. ln Beinrt. 2-ll American Marines and Sailors were killed October 23. when a tenorist crashed a I N I -laden truck into the A larine's headquarters and barracks. Two days later. U.S. Marines and Amry Rangers invaded the small island nation of Grenada. The invasion resulted in lrurrdreds of American citizens being evacuated safely and the Marxist regime disposed in just a few days. . A ENTERPRISE was at sea in its work-ups when President Reagan moved all Marines out of Beinrt. February 26. l984. and onto ships offshore after the Lebanese govemment of President Amin Genrayel started to deteriorate. Two months later. Reagan became the second U.S. President to visit China. April 26 to May I . ENTERPRISE departed on its l lth Westem Pacific deploy ment. May 30. During the deployment. the Big E participated in nine exercises including RIMPAC, after leasing port and FLEETEX-iust before retuming to Alameda on Decem- ber 20. so l and in arltistoric move, selected afemale, GeraldineFerraro, ashis running mate. X, 5153 ENTERPRISE remained in port until May undergoing an i ambitious and highly successiirl Ship's Restricted Availability QSRAD period. In the meantime, Konstantin Chemenko, 73, was the third Soviet leaderto die in office in three years. He died March 10, 1985 and was succeeded by 54-year old Mikhail Gorbachev as the new party secretary. On May 2. the Big E left Alameda for six days to ' e operate in waters od' Northem Califomia. On the east coast. the day after ENTERPRISE got underway, John Walker. his son ' Michael and brother Arthur were arrested for espionage. Tluoughout the yean ENTERPRISE went in and out of pon conducting training until it was drydocked at Hunters Point for hull repairs. On June I4. Shiite tenorists hijacked a commercial airliner I flying from Athens to Rome. The terrorists released all the hos- ' rages except for40 American men. The extremists then killed one American, U.S. Navyman Michael Stetham. and released the remaining 39 after Israel released several hundred Moslem pri son- ers. Terrorists struck again when tive members of the Palestine Liberation Front seized the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro on October 7. 'Dre terrorist murdered Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year- old wheel-chair stricken American, before escaping into Egypt. I-Iowever. while the hijackers were fleeing Egypt. Navy F- l4s intercepted the airliner they were on and forced it to land in Italy on October I I. Four of the terrorists were arrested and charged with murden On December l l. Congress passed the Gramm-Rudman- I-Iollings bill as a last-ditch effort to cut the burgeoning federal deficit. 1 f' I 0nJanuar'y l2, I986. ENTERPRISE departed Alameda for its l2th major deployment. It reached Pearl Harbor. its first port call, on January 29. The day before it arrived, the nation and world were stunned when the space shuttle Challenger exploded after take-off. killing six astronauts and a New Hampshire school teacher, Christa r McAuliiTe. 1 Irt February, two heads of state left their countries in exile. 5 In I-Iaiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier ended 28-years of family dictator- ' ship when he fled to France. In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos I anisreahiszayearrure when henedro Hawaii. i During this political turtnoil, ENTERPRISE was in the Philippines, from February I7-24. It then sailed to Singapore where it set anchor. March 2, for a four day pon visit. On April 5, terrorists bombed a West German disco popular with American servicemen, killing two. The terrorists were soon linked to Libya and nine days later, U.S. Navy and Air Force warplanes struck targets in Tripoli and Benghazi. Libya. 1 On April 9. Wee President and Mrs. George Bush visited ENTERPRISE while it wasoperating in the North Arabian Sea. 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