| 08 Jul |
PO3C DAVID SISUNG, OIF, 06/06/03
(Rodney Brewer)
Petty Officer Thrid Class David Sisung, 21, of Phoenix, Arizona. Sisung died as a result of a non-combat related injury while in the Persian Gulf. He was assigned to the USS Nimitz. Died on June 6, 2003. God Bless... |
| 04 Jun |
PO1C THOMAS C. HULL, OIF, 08/02/05
(Rodney Brewer)
Petty Officer First Class Thomas C. Hull, 41, of Princeton, Illinois. Hull died on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Arabian Gulf after being medically evacuated to the carrier for a non-combat related incident. He was an operations specialist assigned to the USS Princeton, home ported... More |
| 25 Mar |
The Final Countdown
(John Robertson)
The Movie was filmed for the most part on the Nimitz....either while we were sitting at Pier 12 in Norfolk or when the Ship wnet out fot Type Training. The Picture that was filmed at Pearl had the Kitty Hawk in it (I Believe). |
| 17 Mar |
top gun movie
(Gregory Fiske)
actually the movie was filmed on the cvn65 boat.If you saw the ngl box on the cats you would know it wasnt a nimitz class carrier |
| 27 Jan |
NIMITZ FIRE
(Bryon Bassett)
I was also there for that fire, was one of the scariest times that I ever had in my life. We lost a couple of good men that day. Chad Hendrickson was on of them and I knew him well. I think of that night still to this day. |
| 24 Dec |
mar det 1991
(Adam Hughes)
adam hughes |
| 29 Apr |
Top Gun
(Abi Steele)
The ship U.S.S Nimitz was in the eight's movie Top Gun. |
| 19 Nov |
Historic Indian Ocean Voyage
The 1980 voyage from Naples, It., to the Indian Ocean ending in a Presidential
Welcoming in Norfolk, Va, featured two modern records. This was the first time that an all Nuclear task force sailed together, Texas, California and Nimitz.
Nimitz set the modern record for continuous time at sea at... More |
| 04 May |
USS Nimitz - CVN 68 - History
Nimitz CVA(N)-68 was commissioned 3 May 1975 and was redesignated (CVN 68) on 30 June 1975. The Atlantic Fleet carrier made regular deployments to the Mediterranean. Nimitz responded to the 1979 Iranian crisis and Operation Evening Light was launched from Nimitz in an attempt to rescue American... More |
