What was the name of the ship that was the subject of the PBS miniseries CARRIER?
CARRIER was a ten-part series that originally ran in spring of 2008. Described as “a character-driven, edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction drama and a once-in-a-lifetime total immersion in the high-stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier”, the program followed the deployment of a supercarrier from home port to the Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom. It took seventeen filmmakers shooting 1,600 hours of footage to create the unique series.
The aircraft carrier that was the series’ focus was commissioned in the 1970s and has been nicknamed Old Salt and Uncle Chester. It is still in active service.
So what is the name of the titular carrier that was the subject of the 2008 PBS miniseries CARRIER?
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