Now granted – this photo is a couple of years old, but am I the only one who remembers that a huge collection of vital war-fighting ships in one location at the same time is a bad idea?In this pic you can see the aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., the world’s largest naval station.
Nine “Flattops,” five aircraft carriers, and four amphibious assault ships, are crammed together here at Norfolk among smaller ships and nuclear submarines. The nine flattops alone, number more than all eight battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
This cohort of ships at Norfolk were all together for the last time as sixty percent of U.S. ships were headed to the Pacific and the carrier USS Enterprise fell to decommissioning after 52 years of service. Ships serving in the Pacific Fleet generally call the Naval Base in San Diego home, making it the largest Navy base on the West Coast.