First commissioned in 1977, the Eisenhower is the second oldest aircraft carrier in the United States ... Navy has a 21-day menu that has already been set, and it’s the same across the board ...

If you only count ships built from the ground up to serve as aircraft carriers, then the first true US Navy carrier was the .

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