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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Enterprise inactivation ceremony Dec. 1 in Norfolk

USS Enterprise (CVN 65) |After 51 years of service, the aircraft carrier Enterprise will inactivate on Dec. 1, in a ceremony at Norfolk Naval Station.

The inactivation ceremony will be the last official public event for the ship, which has had more than 100,000 sailors serve aboard it, a Navy news release said. Thousands of those sailors are expected to attend the event.

The Enterprise was commissioned on Nov. 25, 1961, and was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It is a veteran of 25 deployments to the Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean and Middle East.

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