Nuclear carrier to be based in Mayport

[unhappycamper]

Mayport’s former carrier, the conventionally powered John F. Kennedy, was decommissioned in March 2007.


Nuclear carrier to be based in Mayport
By Mark D. Faram and Philip Ewing - Staff writers
Posted : Monday Nov 17, 2008 17:55:12 EST

A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be based at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., Navy officials announced Monday.

“We have selected a preferred alternative, which is to homeport a CVN in Mayport,” Navy Secretary Donald Winter said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. “The principal rationale for that has to do with the vulnerability of the concentration we have right now in the Tidewater area and the desirability to be able to have an additional resource for homeport operations and support.”

But the move will require at least $426 million and five years to complete before any carrier will call Mayport home.

“We do not anticipate having the required military construction completed until 2014,” said Lt. Sean Robertson, spokesman for the Navy at the Pentagon. “We will not homeport a nuclear carrier in Mayport until all the necessary infrastructure is in place.”

Robertson also confirmed that the carrier will be the only new ship sent to Mayport, saying that “there will be no additional surface ships in the move.”


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/11/navy_mayport_111708/%2e

[Submariner]

1. Mothers....Hide your daughters....here comes the fleet

With about 5,000 party hardy drunk sailors unleashed in Mayport expect a population explosion of new babies. At least that's the way it was when my shipmates and I hit the beach. But as submariners we were suave and debonair babe magnets, so that may not be the case with the bird farm deck apes. :rofl: