Where are the Carriers? | |||||
![]() "When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it's no accident that the first question that comes to everyone's lips is: 'Where's the nearest carrier?'" President Bill Clinton March 12, 1993 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt
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DEPLOYED | Pre-Deployment Workup | Post Deployment | In Overhaul | Building |
Fleet Response Plan [FRP] Progression |
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Carrier | Date | Evolution | |
Forward Deployed | |||
CVN-76 Reagan | [news] |
08 Feb 2021 |
homeport in Yokosuka |
Deployed | |||
CVN-71 Roosevelt | [news] |
08 Mar 2021 08 Feb 2021 23 Dec 2020 |
Celebes Sea, near Borneo WESTPAC in Philippine Sea Departed San Diego for WESTPAC |
CVN-69 Eisenhower | [news] |
08 Mar 2021 14 Feb 2021 08 Feb 2021 |
transits Gibraltar into Med deploys to Middle East COMPTUEX in Florida waters |
Pre-Deployment Workup | |||
Post-Deployment | |||
CVN-68 Nimitz | [news] |
26 Feb 2021 08 Feb 2021 |
homeport in San Diego WESTPAC in South China Sea |
Maintenance | |||
CVN-70 Vinson | [news] |
08 Feb 2021 Mar 2019 |
south California Operating Area 1-year dry-dock maintenance complete |
CVN-73 Washington | [news] |
Aug 2021 ?? 04 Aug 2017 04 Oct 2016 2016 |
Return to Fleet 48-month refuelling and complex overhaul (RCOH) deploying from Norfolk, Hurrican Matthew relief refuelling and complex overhaul (RCOH) - DELAYED !! |
CVN-77 George H.W. Bush | [news] |
Feb 2021 2019 |
complete Dry-dock Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) start 28-month Dry-dock Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) |
CVN-72 Lincoln | [news] |
17 Jan 2020 01 Apr 2019 |
271 day record deployment deployed MED 2019 |
CVN-75 Truman | [news] |
20 Dec 2019 18 Nov 2019 |
arrived 5th Fleet AOR departed homeport |
CVN-78 Gerald Ford | news |
2024 14 Feb 2021 23 Oct 2019 2018 22 Jul 2017 April 2017 |
Phase III Crew Certification underway in Atlantic conducting carrier qualifications propulsion plant completion date (PPCD) 2016 : first deployment commission delivery |
CVN-74 Stennis | [news] |
Jan 2025 15 Jan 2021 14 May 2019 |
4-year refueling overhaul complex RCOH complete 4-year refueling overhaul complex RCOH start arrived Norfolk for RCOH |
Building | |||
PCU-79 John F. Kennedy |
2024 29 Oct 2019 Apr 2017 2017 22 Aug 2015 29 May 2011 |
delivery launched 27% complete 20% complete keel laid named |
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PCU-80 Enterprise |
31 Mar 2032 23 May 2016 |
completion $16,4 B contract award |
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PCU-81 Doris Miller |
20 Jan 2020 31 Jan 2019 |
named authorized |

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