USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - Naval Cruise Book

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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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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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Shipyard. its tlrst since being Commissioned. The feature gf the two-day transit to Bremerton was the S00families who were also embarked. While the nations tirst nuclear-powered carrier was beginning its overhaul, nuclear power became headline news across the nation. On March 28, Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania had a major accident result- ing in radioactive gases escaping into the environment. Another major headline ofthe year was Iran taking 63 hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran on November 3. The captors were militant student followers ofthe Ayatollah Khomeini. X950 On January 4, 1980. President Carter announced a series of punitive measures against the USSR as a reprisal for the Soviet's invasion of These measures included an embargo on the sale of grain and high technology. In addition, at 51.2, .,., -,...,....,.-......-..... M. ....l...4. f Yojfz Hinckley attempted the assassination. Columbia was the nations first space shuttle launched into orbit when it lifted off at Cape Canaveral on April 12. It com- pleted a successful mission two days later. Sandra Day 0'Connor became the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, September 21, when the Senate voted 99-0 for confirmation. X932 On February 1 1, 1982 the Big E departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard like new. One of the most visible changes was seen onthe island structure. The bee hivev radar dome that made ENTERPRISE look distinct. was no longer part of the the comprehensive overhaul, ENTERPRISE the request of the President, the U.S. Olympic Committee voted, tmdeitook the largest habitability self-help program ever at- April 12, to boycott the Summer Olympics held in Moscow, tem by a The crew refurbished every beithing and head Two weeks later, on April 24, eight were incl 5,200 new modular berths, and live wounded in an ill-fated attempt to rescue the American redesigninglenngest in new lockers and improving the C ' hostages heldinlmn. andvventilfnion- Mt. St. Helenseruptedonamlm Sunday morning, May C . September 1, departed Alameda fOr 18, in a violent blast estimated to be 500 times more its ld3P10YmCm- me me Big the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. y n I E 'cond11tIi3edfexercisesv in the Sea of Japan and twice operated On December 8, the music world and nation was ' g Q when John Lennon was shot and Ms f t C l r .y 1 CVCHTS Of the Yeaf included the Equal Rights building in New Yak, t 2 e l being defeated ta 10-yearsiruggle for ratifica- XQHQ Ronald Reagmt ww as me Y US- highest lmemiioymem me Since 1949 at the United States on J 'y 26, l l. 'Fmt day, t fwef 11 PCOPIC Uf WQYKL Lefinid released the America homes wang 444gyS t 2 Generai ofthe Soviet Union died November On Moen 30, no Predbnt we me ion 2 75 a Clerk, 6.1, becamesie first recipient Of 2 w. Hintney, Jr. mmm the , S Decembefl V Q., VV V , ' V, . ., , g . NG,