ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 29, 2011) The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. George H.W. Bush is underway conducting a composite training unit exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/Released)

George H.W. Bush (top) conducts an ordnance transfer with Harry S Truman off the East Coast in 2011

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy.^[1] She is named for the 41st President of the United States and former Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, who was a naval aviator during World War II. The vessel's callsign is Avenger, after the TBM Avenger aircraft flown by then-Lieutenant George H.W. Bush in World War II. Construction began in 2003^[9] at the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard's Dry Dock 12, the largest in the western hemisphere.^[10] She was completed in 2009 at a cost of $6.2 billion^[2] and her home port is Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

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