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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

USS John F. Kennedy to make final voyage to Massachusetts

USS John F. KennedyThe USS John F. Kennedy makes its final visit to Boston this March before a scheduled decommissioning in late spring.

Mothballing the 38-year-old ship will reduce the number of aircraft carriers in the Navy's force from twelve to eleven.

The vessel will remain in a (quote) "state of preservation" until the U-S George H.W. Bush, a new nuclear powered carrier, is commissioned in late 2008 or early 2009.

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