US Navy / USN Challenge Coin - USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Commisioning 2009

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US Navy / USN Challenge Coin - USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Commisioning 2009:
$20.00

US Navy / USN Challenge Coin

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

Our Best Days Are Yet To Come

Commissioned January 10, 2009

Freedom at Work

1.75\" Diameter

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy. 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. Bush\'s callsign is Avenger, after the TBM Avenger aircraft flown by then-Lieutenant George Bush in World War II. Construction began in 2003 at the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard\'s Dry Dock 12, the largest in the western hemisphere. She was completed in 2009 at a cost of $6.2 billion and her home port is Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

USS George H.W. Bush was commissioned 10 January 2009 at Norfolk Naval Station prior to her official delivery to the Navy. 15,000 people were in attendance including veterans of USS San Jacinto, the ship George Bush served on during World War II. President George W. Bush delivered the principal address, George H.W. Bush set the first watch, and ship\'s sponsor Dorothy \"Doro\" Bush Koch gave the order to \"man our ship and bring her to life!\" A GM-built Grumman TBM Avenger like the one then-Lieutenant junior grade George Bush flew in World War II performed a fly-over.

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