The amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney at its homeport in Gaeta, Italy, on Jan. 31, 2025. The flagship of U.S. 6th ...

Quartermaster 2nd Class Deshaud Porter, right, a native of North Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to the Nmitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), is awarded warfighter of the week by ...

The Nimitz-class carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is scheduled to begin its refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH), which essentially marks the “halfway” point in a nuclear aircraft carrier ...

The trend has many exceptions, including the first-in-class USS Nimitz, the USS Carl Vinson, the USS John C. Stennis, and the future Ford-class ships USS Doris Miller and USS Enterprise. Here are the ...

the USS John C. Stennis, and the future Ford-class ships USS Doris Miller and USS Enterprise. Here are the names of the first six supercarriers in the Ford class, poised to become the backbone of ...

USS Nimitz and the USS John C. Stennis. The Navy decided to carry that tradition over to the new Ford class of ships but has also kept up the tradition of occasionally breaking the naming convention.

The choice of name for the seventh Nimitz-class carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) continues to be a point of contention, given the late senator’s criticism of civil rights and racial equality.