This warship fought throughout the Cold War and has recently served on a record seven month deployment.
Despite the rivalry between the United States Army and United States Navy, few sailors seem to complain that they’re deployed on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named for the former General of the Army and later President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower. Commissioned in 1977, the USS
Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is the second of the ten
Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service.
Originally named USS
Eisenhower, much like the lead ship USS
Nimitz, during the construction the name was changed to the present form. As with the other carriers of her class, she was constructed at Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Virginia and since entering service has been overhauled twice. USS