Aircraft Carrier Fight Pains Gov. Jeb Bush

[Kadie]

Aircraft Carrier Fight Pains Gov. Jeb Bush
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, February 8, 2005



(02-08) 14:45 PST Washington, DC (AP) --


President Bush's defense blueprint calls for eliminating an aircraft carrier, and that's making life difficult for his brother Jeb, governor of Florida where the USS John F. Kennedy is based.


Florida has been thrust into a high-stakes, highly political budget fight that also involves Virginia, home of a major Navy port at Norfolk, and its two senators, John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and George Allen, up for re-election in 2006.


While the budget doesn't say which carrier could be scrapped, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based ship is a likely candidate because it's the Navy's third-oldest carrier and one of only two in the fleet powered by steam turbines. The Kennedy, commissioned in 1968, is scheduled to be retired in 2018.


Underscoring the stakes, Jeb Bush came to Washington for a two-day visit this week, arriving one day after the president rolled out his budget. The governor, who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008, is to lobby lawmakers on Wednesday to keep the carrier at Mayport Naval Station.

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[Placebo]

1. 40+ years later...

and the republicans are still killing JFK.

[corbett]

6. The Irony Is So Thick We Can Taste It!

[donheld]

2. And it's named for a Democrat they hate

:grr:

[Career Prole]

3. "one of only two in the fleet powered by steam turbines"

Only two convential carriers left?!?!?!?!
Man, have I been out of the Navy a long time! :wow:
I knew mine had been sold for scrap, but jeez...all but two?
Bite me Jeb...my problem's bigger than yours. I'm...I'm...old
:cry:

[happyslug]

4. USS JFK and the USS Kitty Hawk are the last two left

Now you do have some in the reserve Fleet,

Here is a list of ALL Aircraft Carriers:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-list1.html
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/

The following are being held to be donated as museums:
Forrestal (Forrestal Class)
Midway (Midway Class)

Actual Museums (All Essex Class Carriers):
Yorktown
Lexington
Hornet
Intrepid

Saratoga: (Forrestal Class) Stricken from the Navy List 30 Sep 1994; berthed at the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, R.I., 7 Aug. 1998

Held in Inactive Reserve Bremerton, Wash. (All Forrestal Class):
Ranger
Independence
Constellation

List of ALL US Navy Ships:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/

[Career Prole]

5. Great links!

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[Charon]

7. Carrier Propulsion

Note. All American aircraft carriers are drive by geared steam turbines. The source of the steam on the USS John F. Kennedy and the USS Kittyhawk is oil fired 1200 psi boilers. On all of the remaining carriers, the steam source is nuclear reactors.

[pompano dem]

8. Nice Clarification

I was confused b/c they said Steam Turbines as though that was different from our Nuke driven ships.

I toured the Kennedy a while back when it was in Lauderdale. Cool ship.