Navy?Īdmiral Samuel Paparo: It's an aircraft carrier and its airwing is capable of 150 strike or air-to-air sorties per day, with at its surge levels, the ability to deliver 900 precision-guided munitions every day, and reloadable every night Norah O'Donnell: When you talk about ships, what's the most powerful in the U.S. It was a short flight to the ship…īefore Admiral Paparo rose to lead the Pacific Fleet, he flew jets and graduated from the school known as "Top Gun." The Cold War-era transport plane takes people and supplies back and forth from land to the carrier.
marines recaptured it two and a half years later, and the island, about the size of Chicago, became an indispensable strategic foothold in the Western Pacific, as it remains today.įrom Guam, we boarded a Navy C-2 Greyhound.
Guam was taken by Imperial Japan two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. To reach the USS Nimitz, we first traveled to America's westernmost territory, the island of Guam, in the middle of the Pacific. TOPGUN graduates compare the film to the real thing.military would defend Taiwan, which is a democracy and the world's leading producer of advanced microchips. President Biden has declared four times, including on 60 Minutes, that the U.S.
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