Naval Aviation
U.S. Naval Aviation was born 8 May 1911, with a purchase request made by Captain Washington Chambers for the Navy's first aircraft.
Pacific Fleet
CVN 70 USS Carl Vinson unofficial site
CVN 74 USS John C. Stennis
Atlantic Fleet
CVN 69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
gouge
(U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard – particularly aviation) Informal information channel; the grapevine; the straight dope; inside information. Gouge is passed on by the gouge train.