100 years of aircraft carriers: US Senate resolution honors the ‘cornerstone’ of the Navy
MARCH 05, 2022 DAVE RESS - DAILY PRESS
Aircraft carriers got a shout-out in the Senate on Thursday, as Virginia’s Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner introduced a resolution to mark the centennial of those Navy mainstays.
It “acknowledges that, in a time of great power competition that the world has not seen for over 30 years, aircraft carriers will continue to be an absolutely vital strategic platform … to ensure security and stability throughout the world, now and well into the future.”
Carriers, the resolution said, are the “cornerstone” of the Navy.
In recent years there’s been occasional rumbling around Washington about whether the Navy needs so many of the nuclear carriers built at Newport News Shipbuilding — even, at one point, a short-lived suggestion from the Obama Administration not to undertake the multi-billion-dollar refueling and overhaul of USS George Washington that the yard has nearly completed. That would have in effect cut the size of the carrier fleet from 11 to 10.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/03/100-years-of-aircraft-carriers-us-senate-resolution-honors-the-cornerstone-of-the-navy/
