Talk:USS George H.W. Bush

Who cares about ancillary bits of history and trivia regarding CVN-77? Let's talk about performance. I know the Hyundai National container ship is capable of 32 knots in open sea for extended periods. It has the same basic dimensions as CVN-77 with about 1/3 the power and more drag. Therefore, it is probable that CVN-77 is EASILY capable of 50 knots or greater. The S.S. United States did 50 m.p.h. long ago as revealed by the N.Y. Times in a FOIA request, so 50 knots or more for CVN-77 is entirely realistic. Very impressive equipment for sure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.200.194.157 (talk) 01:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Does anyone have a definitive cite for this piece of information?

Here is a source for the info: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cvn-77.htm

The fourteenth paragraph states, "On December 9, 2002 Secretary of the Navy Gordon England officially named the Navy's 10th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, CVN 77, in honor of World War II naval aviator and former President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush during a ceremony at the Pentagon."

Here is the official announcement from US Navy Navy to name newest carrier in honor of former President--SElefant 07:10, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

No need to repeat a whole section of a referenced article seeing how small the source is. Revprez

I can't source it, but it was also announced at the christening of the USS Ronald Reagan. But, Wikipedia doesn't seem to like primary sources (since you're going off of a lot of faith at that point), so take that as you will. —the preceding unsigned comment is by Izuko (talk • contribs) 21:38, December 11, 2005

Name of Article/Ship

Until she's actually commissioned, the official name is PCU George H. W. Bush (CVN-77). Should it be changed for accuracy, or left for ease of understanding?--Mtnerd 07:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, we don't refer to de-commissioned ships as "The former USS Iowa (BB-61)", which is the technically correct name. --rogerd 11:36, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Think of it as premptive naming. It is true that the ship is still technically a Pre-Commissioning Unit, but one day it will become a United States Ship. Thats why the article is named USS and not PCU. TomStar81 20:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, neither is right. Right now, the future GHWB is just a hull sitting in drydock at NGNN. I passed by there yesterday, and I didn't see an island on her (though it was darkish and I didn't didn't have time to look closely). If they haven't done the island landing, then they certainly haven't christened her yet. Once they do that, she'll go from just being a hull to being the "George H. W. Bush," not the "PCU-77" or "PCU George H. W. Bush." The PCU is the crew and the command, not the ship, since the ship is not yet Navy property. This is, of course, assuming they continue with how they did it for the 75 and 76. Can't say for what was done before those two, since they're the only ones I've precommed. Izuko 01:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

The builder has a site about this ship [1] and they refer to it as "The Aircraft Carrier George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)". --rogerd 02:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Updated photo

...is available at [2]. If no one else gets to it, I'll do this later this week. Jinian 13:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Differences = Features

It's not clear from the text of the Features section that this relates to the sentence asserting the differences - hence my tagging with a specify tag. I thought that might be the case, but wasn't sure. I'll make revise the wording to make this more clear. Ronnotel 15:43, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Succession

This article (and others) discuss the ship's future role which will replace the Kitty Hawk. However many articles, including Kitty Hawk’s, state that George Washington (CVN-73) will replace the Kitty Hawk. This is confusing.

Kitty Hawk is presently stationed in Japan. George Washington is to take over Kitty Hawk's role in Japan, while GHWB will replace Kitty Hawk after Kitty Hawk is decomissioned. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Now I see. Thank You GavinSimmons 21:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

New Photograph

I added Image:DCS06-627-25.jpg from the Newport News website and used it as the ship picture, while moving the original photo to the body of the article text.Marcd30319 (talk) 20:09, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

It's a great photograph, but I'm concerned that it may not be public domain. If the photo was taken by Northrup-Grumman, and not U.S. Navy personnel, it wouldn't automatically be public domain. Do you have further information about the photo? TomTheHand (talk) 20:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.18.122.205 (talk) 22:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your concerns. I believe that the use of the photogragh meets fair use, and I unloaded a low-rez version.Marcd30319 (talk) 14:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed name was USS Lexington.

If someone wants to work this in Library of Congress apparently this carrier was proposed to have been named USS Lexington. --Brad (talk) 00:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Minor change to opening paragraph

I changed " ... Is to be the last Nimitz-Class," to " ...Is the last Nimitz-Class," as with its commissioning, it is no longer in the future tense. Kaenei (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Aircraft Carried

Something tells me that the list of Aircraft Carried (10 B-52 20 Raptors 30 sea kings 1 Typhoon) is not accurate. Does anyone know where to find the correct information?Aef6259 (talk) 08:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

That was vandalism, since reverted. Maralia (talk) 14:30, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Annual cost

It should be noted that it will cost about a billion dollars a year to operate this one carrier. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/virginia-florida-spar-over-carrier-money-2009-03-15.html It might also be worth noting in this article where each of the many US aircraft carriers are based. This carrier is currently based in Virginia. rumjal 12:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs)

Any controversy that she was laid down a week after BushJr became president?!

Seems pretty messed up to order an aircraft carrier named after your still-living pops a week after being sworn into office... Aadieu (talk) 16:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Your "facts" are a bit messed up. The ship was not named until December 9, 2002. Also, at that time, there were 4 living former presidents: Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, and Clinton. Carter has a sub named for him, the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23). I can't find the exact date, but it was certianly named before Clinton left office in Jan 2001. The USS Ronald Reagan was named in March 2001 under the GW Bush Administration. That left only 2 living presidents to chose from, and I'm darn sure that no matter who the former Republican president had been, they wouldn't have named it after Clinton! But I'm sure he's next. - BilCat (talk) 17:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

There was always the option of not naming it after a president. But of course the Republicans in Congress just loved naming carriers after Republican presidents. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 06:37, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Every conceivable modern Democratic president had a ship named after them too. Clinton's too recent, Carter has the Best Submarine Ever, LBJ's too controversial thanks to Vietnam, the Kennedy just got decommissioned, the Truman's still active, Roosevelt had a destroyer replace his carrier. And of course, we have two supercarriers named after Democratic Congressmen. Every opportunity to name a ship after a Democratic president was acted upon. -LtNOWIS (talk) 06:49, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Like I said, they could have just not named the ship after ANY president, of either party. Or they could've named it after an early president who's popular by Democrats and Republicans alike, such as Thomas Jefferson (who hasn't had a ship named after him since 1985). Naming ships after living people at all is a break with the usual tradition, and it's becoming entirely too common. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 09:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

This is purely speculation, and unless you can provide evidence that there was a reasonable level of dispute/controversy about the naming, then this discussion is not going to help to improve the article - that, after all, is the only reason for this discussion page. Fourth ventricle (talk) 13:45, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

As a foot note, the Department of Defence announced on 27 May 2011 that CVN-79 will be named John F. Kennedy.Jhunph (talk) 09:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

WOMEN ONBOARD

Was having a discussion with one of my old high school buddies and I was telling him the amount of women that was on my ship, the USS Sierra. I told him there was probably 30% women onboard and there were women on many ships now including carriers. I was wondering what the amount of women there were on carriers. Especially the newest one, USS George Bush. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.89.185 (talk) 18:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Characteristics - sensors/weapons counts, CVN upgrades

I believe that quantity (3) Mk-91 NSSMS ... with (3) Mk-95 Radars may be incorrect, CVN-77 should have been designed and built with the newer, single and integrated missile system (1) NSSMS Mk-57, consisting of (along with the two Mk-29 guided missile launching systems (GMLS) already listed) a quantity of four Mk-9 tracking illuminator systems (TIS) [instead of (3) Mk-91 guided missile fire control systems (GMFCS), as on earlier CVN's, some with six Mk-78 guided missile directors (most fitting only on older style mast & radar tower configuration), two of each director slaved to one of three guided missile launchers]. CVN-77 missile systems are similar to the prior CVN-76. Also, the quantity (3) Phalanx CIWS guns may also be incorrect (maybe should be just two, in the back of the boat); one of three CIWS's (along with one of three Mk-57/Mk-91/Mk-95 NSSMS system-subsystem-sets) may have been designed-away when more physical space was needed to allow for two RAMS missile launchers to then newer (2001) CVN's defensive systems designs. 144.183.224.2 (talk) 22:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

does it have any CIWS 20mm, or not

Does CVN-77 have the phalanx Close-In Weapon System Mk 15? The characteristics block lists three (3) but I have not seen any in the photographs; (I look for two (2) on the back end and one forward right next to NSSMS Mk 57/GMLS Mk 29/GML Mk 132). Predecessor ship Reagan CVN-76 was designed and built with Capstone AAW w/SSDS Mk 2 Mod 1 and without any CIWS, about 2003. Also, I believe that predecessor ship Nimitz CVN-68 had its CIWS removed and not replaced during RCOH (2001), in anticipation of Capstone AAW w/SSDS Mk 2 Mod 0. And predecessor ship Ike CVN-69 (RCOH next after CVN-68) article lists no (0) CIWS. 144.183.224.2 (talk) 19:00, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Christen/Launch Date Seems to Be in Error

Presently, the article gives the Christen and launch date as 9 October 2006. The information provided in the article's reference seems to confirm that date.

However, I've seen two other sources I believe to be more authoritative/dependable indicating the correct date should be 7 October 2006, not the 9th. I'd like to cite these Web pages:

1. This Washington Post article, dated Saturday, October 7th, references the same date in the body of their article, and seems to confirm my suspicion.

2. Additionally, another Navy Web page also indicates a Christening date of October 7th.

I would have posted the change myself, but didn't want to risk an error with the HTML. For Wikipedia's consideration ...

TonyRony (talk) 19:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

First Deployment and OPSEC

I don't think there is anything in the First Deployment section that has OPSEC concerns considering they are all past events, but just be cautious posting information about the ship's deployment status. Thank you. Zm69051 (talk) 15:03, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello ZM69051. Wikipedia generally uses secondary sources for the information in its articles, so anything that is posted here will have already been released by the mainstream media anyway. Best wishes Antarctic-adventurer (talk) 15:13, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Very true Antarctic-adventurer. Just more of a cautionary comment than anything. Thank you for your response. Zm69051 (talk) 17:02, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

The ship's seal.

Additionally to the part where it talks about the overhead profiles, " Above the carrier are overhead profiles of a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (representing Bush’s days as a Navy pilot), an F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter", the RED overhead profile is actually an F-35C, The Navy aircraft carrier variant of the Lightning 2. Maybe they were thinking about the near future of Naval aviation, like looking to the future, when they decided to use it; but that's exactly what it is. Here's an image of the top view of each F-35 variant. The Navy doesn't have any other aircraft that looks like that from the top view. Dchagwood (talk) 23:51, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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Referring to ship as "she" or "her"

Referring to a ship as she or her is unnecessary personification. Wikipedia's goal is to present the truth, and the truth of the matter is that ships have no reproductive organs. English, unlike some other languages, does not tend to assign gender to most words. For example objects such as television, table, apple, car, shovel, lamp, and so on have no gender assigned.

Neutralizing a word's gender also denotes equality between the sexes. For example: Police Officer instead of policeman, Fire Fighter instead of fireman. Referring to an object as a "she" is objectifying to women. After all would it make sense to refer to the ship as "he"? I recommend that the ship be referred to as "it".