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USS George Washington CVN-73 History:
USS George Washington (CVN-73) is the sixth Nimitz class
nuclear-powered supercarrier, and the fourth ship of the US Navy to
be named after the first president of the United States. She was
laid down on August 25, 1986; launched on July 21, 1990; and
commissioned on July 4, 1992.
George Washington is 1,092 feet long, 257 feet wide, and is as
high as a 24-story building at 244 feet. The supercarrier can
accommodate approximately 80 aircraft and 6,250 crewmembers. There
are over 2,500 compartments on board requiring 2,520 tons of air
conditioning capacity, enough to cool over 2,000 homes. Her four
distilling units can make 400,000 gallons of potable water each day
and her food service divisions serve 18,000 meals per day.
Since commissioning, George Washington has made six Mediterranean
Sea/Persian Gulf deployments. In 1994, during her maiden deployment,
she served as the backdrop for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. In
1996, she was host to a historic meeting of the Joint Military
Commission composed of the military leaders of the Former Warring
Factions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also played a vital
peacekeeping role in Operation Decisive Endeavor in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and enforced the no-fly zone over Southern Iraq as part
of Operation Southern Watch.
On September 6, George Washington was presented with the 2000
Battenberg Cup, which was awarded annually to the Atlantic Fleet
ship or submarine with the greatest crew accomplishments during the
previous calendar year. It was the second time the ship had won the
award; the first time was in 1997. The crew also accepted the
Flatley Award for aircraft carriers with the best aviation safety
record. On June 23, George Washington was presented with the 2002
Battenberg Cup for the third time.
On September 13, 2004, GW sailors returned to sea to perform
carrier qualifications, conduct training drills and fine tune their
warfighting skills, in order to keep the surge carrier in top form
if the need to deploy should arise. On November 3, 2004, George
Washington welcomed Strike Fighter Squadron 122 (VFA-122) "Flying
Eagles", the Fleet Replacement Squadron for the Navy's newest
fighter, the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet. It was the first time the
fighters had been launched and recovered on the carrier.
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