What You Need to Know: The USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has returned to Yokosuka, Japan, to serve as the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed ...

On the morning of April 11, Capt. Brent Gaut, the commander of the USS George Washington -- an aircraft carrier undergoing major shipyard work at Newport News, Virginia -- got on the ship's intercom.

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture—The USS George Washington aircraft carrier arrived at the U.S. naval base here on Nov. 22 for its second deployment to the city. The ship is replacing the USS ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is deployed with F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter jets. USS George Washington: Yokosuka, Japan The George Washington remained pierside at Yokosuka naval base ...

The USS George Washington, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier launched in 1990, is in port for a mid-life refueling. The work, which would replace the nuclear fuel that powers the carrier’s ...

The George Washington ... The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1975 and has a life cycle of approximately 50 years. Sailors direct aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz while underway ...