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Aircraft Carrier - CVN; Nimitz class Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, USA STATUS: Awarded: June 30, 1988 Laid down: March 13, 1991 Launched: November 13, 1993 Commissioned: December 9, 1995 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia Namesake: Senator John C. Stennis (1901-1995) Ships Motto: LOOK AHEAD Technical Data: see: INFO > Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier - CVN |
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Deployments / Carrier Air Wings embarked / major maintenance perods: February 1996 - April 1996 with Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) embarked - shakedown cruise - Caribbean Sea February 1998 - August 1998 with Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) embarked - World Cruise, Arabian Gulf January 2000 - July 2000 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean, Gulf September 2000 - March 2001: Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) at Naval Base San Diego, California November 2001 - May 2002 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean, Arabian Sea June 2002 - January 2003: Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) at Naval Base San Diego, California May 2004 - November 2004 with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) embarked - Pacific Ocean, exercise RIMPAC 2004 January 2005 - December 2005: Drydocking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) - at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington January 2007 - August 2007 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean, Gulf September 2007 - March 2008: Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) - at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington January 2009 - July 2009 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean, Arabian Sea April 2010 - December 2010: Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) - at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington July 2011 - March 2012 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf August 2012 - May 2013 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean, Arabian Sea June 2013 - November 2014: Drydocking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) - at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington January 2016 - August 2016 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - Pacific Ocean February 2017 - August 2017: Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) - at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington October 2018 - May 2019 with Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) embarked - homeport change > Bremerton, Washington to Norfolk, Virginia May 2021 - 2025 (est.) USS John C. Stennis is currently at HII Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia for her midlife Refuel and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) |
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 USS John C. Stennis is moved to an outfitting berth in Newport News, Virginia - April 8, 2024  USS John C. Stennis is moved to an outfitting berth in Newport News, Virginia - April 8, 2024  flooding the dry dock at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - April 3, 2024  in dry dock at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 2021  in dry dock at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 2021  arriving at HII Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - May 2021  departing Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia for her movement to Newport News Shipbuilding - May 2021  departing Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia for her movement to Newport News Shipbuilding - May 2021  departing Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia for her movement to Newport News Shipbuilding - May 2021  with training aircraft emberked - Atlantic Ocean - December 2019  Atlantic Ocean - November 2019  Atlantic Ocean - November 2019  with training aircraft emberked - Atlantic Ocean - November 2019  Atlantic Ocean - October 2019  Fleet Week Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia - October 2019  Atlantic Ocean - September 2019  returning to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia after Hurricane Dorian - September 2019  Atlantic Ocean - September 2019  departing Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia in preparation for Hurricane Dorian - September 2019  air power demonstration with CVW-9 - Atlantic Ocean - May 2019  air power demonstration with CVW-9 - Atlantic Ocean - May 2019  Naval Station Mayport, Florida - May 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Strait of Gibraltar - May 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Strait of Gibraltar - May 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Mediterranean Sea - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Mediterranean Sea - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Mediterranean Sea - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Mediterranean Sea - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Mediterranean Sea - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Red Sea - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Strait of Hormuz - April 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Indian Ocean - March 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - February 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - 5th Fleet AOR - January 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - 5th Fleet AOR - January 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - 5th Fleet AOR - January 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - 5th Fleet AOR - January 2019  with CVW-9 embarked - Arabian Sea - December 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Arabian Sea - December 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Arabian Sea - December 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Philippine Sea - November 2018  hangar bay - Philippine Sea - November 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - October 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - October 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2018  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - April 2018  returning to Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton, Washington - October 2017  CVW-9 carrier qualifications - Pacific Ocean - September 2017  CVW-9 carrier qualifications - Pacific Ocean - September 2017  CVW-9 carrier qualifications - Pacific Ocean - September 2017  departing Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington for trials after a six months Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) period - August 2017  Pacific Ocean - December 2016  carrier qualifications - Pacific Ocean - December 2016  Port Orchard, Washington - October 2016  arriving at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington - August 2016  arriving at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington - August 2016  departing Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - August 2016  returning to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii after exercise RIMPAC 16 - August 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - August 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - August 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - exercise RIMPAC 16 - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2016  arriving in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - June 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Philippine Sea - June 2016  aircraft from CVW-9 and CVW-5 over USS John C. Stennis - Philippine Sea - June 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Philippine Sea - June 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - South China Sea - March 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - off Japan - March 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - off Japan - March 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - South China Sea - March 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Philippine Sea - February 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Philippine Sea - February 2016  with CVW-9 embarked - Philippine Sea - February 2016  Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, Washington - January 2016 > continue - CVN 74 image page 2 < |
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John C. Stennis
 
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John Cornelius Stennis (August 3,
1901 - April 23, 1995): ... was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for his last eight years. He retired from the Senate in 1989. Family: Stennis was the son of Hampton Howell Stennis and Margaret Cornelia Adams. His great-grandfather John Stenhouse emigrated to Greenville, South Carolina from Scotland just before the American Revolution. According to family tradition, the local residents would habitually mispronounce his name, forcing him to legally change it to Stennis. Early life: Born in Kemper County, Mississippi, Stennis received a bachelor's degree from Mississippi State University in Starkville (then Mississippi A&M) in 1923. In 1928, Stennis obtained a law degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity. While in law school, he won a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives, in which he served until 1932. Stennis was a prosecutor from 1932 to 1937 and a circuit judge from 1937 to 1947, both for Mississippi's Sixteenth Judicial District. Stennis married Coy Hines, and together, they had two children, John Hampton and Margaret Jane. His son, John Hampton Stennis (1935–2013), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U.S. Representative Thad Cochran. U.S. Senator: Upon the death of Senator Theodore Bilbo in 1947, Stennis won the special election to fill the vacancy, winning the seat from a field of five candidates (including two sitting Congressmen, John E. Rankin and William M. Colmer). He won the seat in his own right in 1952, and was reelected five times. From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside James Eastland; thus Stennis spent 31 years as Mississippi's junior Senator, even though he had more seniority than most of his other colleagues. He and Eastland were at the time the longest serving Senate duo in American history, later broken by the South Carolina duo of Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings. He later developed a good relationship with Eastland's successor, Republican Thad Cochran. Stennis wrote the first Senate ethics code, and was the first chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee. In August 1965, Senator Stennis, who was known as "Mr. Integrity", protested the Johnson administration's emergency supplemental appropriation request for the Vietnam war and the lack of information about the future costs of the conflict. In January 1973, Stennis was seriously wounded by two gunshots after being mugged outside his Washington home by two teenagers. In October of that year, during the Watergate scandal, the Nixon administration proposed the Stennis compromise, wherein the hard-of-hearing Stennis would listen to the contested Oval Office tapes and report on their contents, but this plan went nowhere. Time magazine ran a picture of John Stennis that read: "Technical Assistance Needed." The picture had his hand cupped around his ear. Stennis lost his left leg to cancer in 1984 and subsequently used a wheelchair. Stennis was named President pro tempore of the United States Senate during the 100th Congress (1987-1989). During his Senate career he chaired, at various times, the Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, and the Armed Services, and Appropriations Committees. Because of his work with the Armed Services Committee (1969-1980) he became known as the "Father of America's modern navy", and he was subsequently honored by having a supercarrier, USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) named after him. He is one of only two members of Congress to be so honored, the other being former Georgia Democrat Carl Vinson. Civil rights record: Originally, Stennis was an ardent supporter of racial segregation, like most Southern Democrats at the time. In the 1950s and 1960s he vigorously opposed the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and he signed the Southern Manifesto of 1956, supporting filibuster tactics to block or delay passage in all cases. Earlier, as a prosecutor, he sought the conviction and execution of three sharecroppers whose murder confessions had been extracted by torture, including flogging. The convictions were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case of Brown v. Mississippi (1936) that banned the use of evidence obtained by torture. The transcript of the trial indicated Stennis was fully aware that the suspects had been tortured. Later in his political career, Stennis supported one piece of civil rights legislation - the 1982 extension of the Voting Rights Act, which passed in the Senate by an 85-8 vote. A year later, he voted against establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday. Stennis campaigned (along with Governor Bill Allain) for Mike Espy in 1986 during Espy's successful bid to become the first black Congressman from the state since the end of Reconstruction. Opposition to Bork: Stennis opposed President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court. On October 23, 1987, Stennis voted with six Republicans and all but two Democrats to defeat Bork's nomination by a vote of 58 to 42. Retirement: In 1982, his last election, Stennis easily defeated Republican Haley Barbour in a largely Democratic year. Declining to run for re-election in 1988, Stennis retired from the Senate in 1989, having never lost an election in 60 years as an elected official. He took a teaching post at Mississippi State University, his alma mater, which he held until his death in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 93. At the time of Stennis' retirement, his continuous tenure of 41 years and 2 months in the Senate was second only to that of Carl Hayden. (It has since been surpassed by Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond, Ted Kennedy, and Daniel Inouye, leaving Stennis sixth). John Stennis is buried at Pinecrest Cemetery in Kemper County. In an obituary, the New York Times called Stennis the "conscience of the entire institution." source: wikipedia |
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Ship's history: John C. Stennis (CVN-74) was laid down on 13 March 1991, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, Va.; launched on 13 November 1993; sponsored by Mrs. Margaret S. Womble, daughter of the late Senator Stennis; and commissioned on 9 December 1995 at Norfolk, Va., Capt. Robert C. Klosterman in command. On 1 December 1993, Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton announced the first assignment of women to combat ships to begin by June 1994, pending notification of Congress as required by the fiscal year 1994 Defense Authorization Bill. Aircraft carriers Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) were scheduled to be the first carriers to embark women, followed by John C. Stennis at the end of 1994. Lieutenants Dane L. Dobbs and James F. Skarbek of Fighter Squadron (VF) 101 made the first arrested landing on board John C. Stennis in a Grumman F-14B Tomcat, on 18 January 1996. Lt. Francis D. Morley landed on board on board John C. Stennis in F1, the first McDonnell Douglas F/A-18F arrested landing on the ship, on 18 January 1997. In 1998 the United States Central Command launched Operation Desert Thunder I, a large-scale deployment to the Middle East to pressure the government of Iraq and to bolster the United Nations’ negotiating position that included the planned continual availability of two aircraft carriers. On 18 January, U.S. aircraft carriers George Washington (CVN-73) and Nimitz (CVN-68) and British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible (R.05) operated in the area. A total of more than 50 additional allied ships and submarines, including amphibious assault ship Guam (LPH-9), deployed to the region during the year. British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious (R.06) turned-over with Invincible in the Arabian Gulf while operating with aircraft carriers George Washington and Independence (CV-62), on 3 March. John C. Stennis relieved George Washington in the Arabian Gulf on 12 March. A resurgence of tensions later in the year led to additional deployments as part of Operation Desert Thunder II. Following three years of studies the Navy announced the revision of carrier home ports on the West Coast, on 31 January 2000. In early 2002 Nimitz (CVN-68) was to join John C. Stennis, already stationed therein, followed in 2005 by Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, Calif. The announcement stipulated that Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) would remain at Everett, Wash. The need to replace, in 2003, Constellation (CV-64) following her retirement, and in 2008 Kitty Hawk (CV-63), forward deployed to Japanese waters, prompted the moves. F/A-18C Hornets flying from John C. Stennis pounded Iraqi air defense targets in the southern no-fly zone on 6 April 2000, flying the raid in response to antiaircraft fire. On 11 September 2001, Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four American airliners, crashing two into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York City, and one about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pa., and flew American Flight 77, a Boeing B-757, into the Pentagon. In the last horrific event, the impact of the plane thrust it into the reinforced building and severely damaged the newly opened Navy Command Center. The attack at the Pentagon killed 189 people: all 64 on board American 77 including Naval Reservist and pilot Capt. Charles F. Burlingame III; and injured 125 including 33 sailors and nine Navy civilians. The strikes killed an estimated 2,977 people on 9/11. The Department of Defense declared Force Protection Condition Delta, the highest alert. Aircraft carrier George Washington sailed from Norfolk to protect New York City. The carrier responded to tasking from NORAD, and supported Military Sealift Command, operated hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) during the relief efforts. Aircraft carriers John C. Stennis and John F. Kennedy (CV-67) positioned themselves to defend the East and West Coasts, respectively, while across the globe many aircraft ashore sortied. Coast Guardsmen began to escort Navy ships during their departures or arrivals at ports. John C. Stennis relieved Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the Arabian Sea and launched her first strikes in Operation Enduring Freedom on 16 December 2001. Two days later, French Task Force 473 rendezvoused with U.S. Task Force 50 about 50 miles off the Pakistani coast. The combined group comprised four aircraft carriers: John C. Stennis, Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), French Charles de Gaulle (R.91), and Italian Guiseppe Garibaldi (C.551). At that time nearly 100 coalition ships and submarines operated across the Indian Ocean. On 3 and 4 March 2002, the coalition began Operation Anaconda, a thrust to trap al-Qaeda terrorists and their Taliban supporters in the Shah-e-Kot valley of southeastern Afghanistan. Veterans afterward describe Anaconda as some of the fiercest fighting of the Global War on Terrorism. John C. Stennis and Theodore Roosevelt supported allied troops at times during the first several days of the battle. F/A-18C Hornets flying from Theodore Roosevelt strafed their stubborn adversaries. Naval aircraft dropped Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) and BLU-118 thermobaric bombs directly into caves during the first combat deployment of thermobarics, a class of fuel-rich compositions that generated higher sustained blast pressures for use against tunnels and underground facilities. Within the first 24 hours USN, USMC, and USAF aircraft dropped 177 JDAM GBU-31s and GBU-12 laser-guided 500-pound bombs. Lockheed P-3C Orions flew intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. The fighting raged through 18 March. During Summer Pulse 04 the Navy tested changes to operational methods that resulted from the Fleet Response Plan. Beginning in June 2004, aircraft carriers Enterprise (CVN-65), George Washington, Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), John C. Stennis, John F. Kennedy, Kitty Hawk, and Ronald Reagan deployed in five theaters, at varying times. The operations of those ships extended into September during scheduled deployments, surge operations, and joint and international exercises. John C. Stennis, Nimitz, and amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) led seven other ships through the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Gulf for an exercise demonstrating U.S. resolve in the face of increased tensions with the Iranians (23 May - 6 June 2007). Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 began the deployment of the initial operational squadron equipped with Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawks when John C. Stennis sailed from NB Kitsap, Bremerton, Wash., to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Arabian Sea (13 January - 10 July 2009). John C. Stennis deployed from Bremerton to the western Pacific, including more than 60 days in the South China Sea (15 January - 14 August 2016). The ship carried out dual flight operations with Ronald Reagan at one point, and took part in exercises Malabar with Indian and Japanese forces, Foal Eagle with the South Koreans, and RimPac (Rim of the Pacific) with nearly 25,000 people, 40 ships and submarines, and over 200 aircraft from 26 other nations. John C. Stennis marked more than 8,500 aircraft launches and recoveries, replenished at sea 30 times, and took on approximately 13 million gallons of fuel during her voyage, and called at ports in Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea. 2017 From February to August 2017, USS John C. Stennis was in overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. 2018 On 2 August 2018, the Navy announced that USS John C. Stennis would change homeport to Norfolk, Virginia in advance of her refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding. USS Carl Vinson will move from San Diego to Naval Base Kitsap to go through a period of maintenance at Puget Sound and USS Abraham Lincoln will replace Carl Vinson at San Diego. On 12 December 2018, USS John C. Stennis launched her first combat sorties in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel in Afghanistan. 2019 On 16 May 2019, USS John C. Stennis arrived in her new home port of Norfolk, Virginia in preparation for her refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) in 2020. RCOH is expected to be completed sometime in the mid 2020s. 2021 On 7 May 2021, USS John C. Stennis went into Newport News for her midlife Refuel and Complex Overhaul (RCOH). The overhaul is expected to be completed by 2025. source: US Naval History & Heritage Command |
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