Army and Weapons | Deadly USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), The Ike | USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) ("Ike") is an aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1977, the ship is the second of ten Nimitz-class super carriers currently in service, and is the first ship named for the thirty-fourth President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ship was originally simply called as USS Eisenhower, as the lead ship of the Nimitz class, but the name was changed to its present form on May 25, 1970. The carrier, like all others of her class, was built at Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Virginia, with the same design as the lead ship, but the ship has been revised twice in order to adapt it to the standards of the more recently built.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) offers a wide range of flexible mission capabilities, to include maritime security operations, expeditionary power projection, forward naval presence, crisis response, sea control, deterrence, counterterrorism, information operations, security cooperation and counter- -proliferation.
The ship began the air wing is capable of projecting tactical air power over the sea and the inland and the supply of sea air, surface and underground defense capabilities.
The ship began the air wing is capable of projecting tactical air power over the sea and the inland and the supply of sea air, surface and underground defense capabilities.
Since its commissioning, Eisenhower participated in Operation Eagle Claw implementations including during the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, and the Gulf War in the 1990s and more recently in support of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On June 29, 1970, Newport News Shipbuilding of Newport News, Virginia was the contract for the construction. On June 30, 1975, its name was changed from CVAN, CVN-69 to 69.
On June 29, 1970, Newport News Shipbuilding of Newport News, Virginia was the contract for the construction. On June 30, 1975, its name was changed from CVAN, CVN-69 to 69.
She was recorded as hull number 599 on August 15, 1970 in Newport News shipyard at a cost of $ 679 million ($ 4.5 billion in 2007 U.S. dollars), launched October 11, 1975 after christening by Mamie Eisenhower-Doude, and commissioned 18 October 1977, Captain William E. Ramsey commissioned. Since her commissioning, Ike has 13 commanding officers.
After the commissioning, replacing them with the aging of World War II-era carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the fleet.
Eisenhower was initially assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and after receiving more than one year of training in the spring of 1978 the ship was visited by President Jimmy Carter, a golf ball from the cockpit into the Atlantic Ocean . In January 1979 she sailed for her first deployment to the Mediterranean. During this effort, while the coast of Israel, the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin visited Eisenhower. The carrier returned to Norfolk Naval Station in July of that year. Under the command of its second commander, Captain James H. Mauldin, her second deployment was in 1980 when she was sent by President Carter to the Indian Ocean, in response to the Iran hostage crisis. She relieved the USS Nimitz 3 days after the Iranian hostage rescue attempt.
As a result of tensions in the region, Eisenhower remained on station off the coast of Iran for more than eight months, and was at sea for a total of 254 days. During that time, sailors and marines two beers (1 time) enjoyed after 45 days without a port call. Following the 154 days at sea, then enjoyed two more occasions. After the first six months at sea, Ike had a three-day port visit to Singapore.
She was relieved by the USS Independence. She returned home to Norfolk on December 22, 1980, just in time for her Airwings and crew to celebrate Christmas with their families.
For over 20 years, held the record for the longest peacetime deployment for an aircraft carrier in history. Prior to this, her sister ship, the USS Nimitz, was the previous record holder. Eisenhower's record was broken by another of her "sister ships", the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
On her third effort in 1982, she returned to the Mediterranean, and spent several days at sea again. Her new commander was Captain EW Clexton, formerly her Executive Officer several years earlier under Captain WE Ramsey.
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After the commissioning, replacing them with the aging of World War II-era carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the fleet.
Eisenhower was initially assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and after receiving more than one year of training in the spring of 1978 the ship was visited by President Jimmy Carter, a golf ball from the cockpit into the Atlantic Ocean . In January 1979 she sailed for her first deployment to the Mediterranean. During this effort, while the coast of Israel, the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin visited Eisenhower. The carrier returned to Norfolk Naval Station in July of that year. Under the command of its second commander, Captain James H. Mauldin, her second deployment was in 1980 when she was sent by President Carter to the Indian Ocean, in response to the Iran hostage crisis. She relieved the USS Nimitz 3 days after the Iranian hostage rescue attempt.
As a result of tensions in the region, Eisenhower remained on station off the coast of Iran for more than eight months, and was at sea for a total of 254 days. During that time, sailors and marines two beers (1 time) enjoyed after 45 days without a port call. Following the 154 days at sea, then enjoyed two more occasions. After the first six months at sea, Ike had a three-day port visit to Singapore.
She was relieved by the USS Independence. She returned home to Norfolk on December 22, 1980, just in time for her Airwings and crew to celebrate Christmas with their families.
For over 20 years, held the record for the longest peacetime deployment for an aircraft carrier in history. Prior to this, her sister ship, the USS Nimitz, was the previous record holder. Eisenhower's record was broken by another of her "sister ships", the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
On her third effort in 1982, she returned to the Mediterranean, and spent several days at sea again. Her new commander was Captain EW Clexton, formerly her Executive Officer several years earlier under Captain WE Ramsey.
