Over the past 100 years, naval aviation has grown from a skeptics’ magnet to a force to be reckoned with.
For generations, U.S. Presidents have asked the same question famously attributed to the nation’s 41st President, George H. W. Bush, who said the first question he always asked when national security was threatened: “Where are our aircraft carriers?” In 2011, as U.S. naval aviation celebrates its 100th anniversary, U.S. Navy carrier and expeditionary strike groups support U.S. combatant commanders worldwide with credible striking power from the sea. Naval aviation is the centerpiece of those groups and will be for the immediate future.
