USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) was a United States of America aircraft carrier seagoing vessel in US Navy service in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 1995, Captain Leon Ruszkowski of the USS Theodore Roosevelt noted the Eisenhower' location as being 3,000 miles away from his ship in the Mediterranean Sea while his crew attempted to ascertain the origin of airplane fighters entering their RADAR range, meaning that the planes could not be from that friendly vessel. 


 * The Eisenhower was based on a real ship in service at the time of the book's writing in 1987. Although author Diane Carey could not have known then that the ship would be diverted from its normal Mediterranean patrols to the Persian Gulf because of the war of the early 1990s, it is still likely that the ship could indeed have been within 3,000 miles from the Mediterranean in 1995, although it would have to take place sometime before June 1995 when Eisenhower would enter drydock for a two-year overhaul.