The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt on Jan. 15 recorded its 200,000th trap.
Capt. Benjamin Hewlett, deputy commander of Carrier Air Wing 1, made the arrested landing in an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, with Capt. Daniel Grieco, the ship's skipper, along for the historic ride.
"It was an amazing opportunity to highlight an accomplishment of the USS Theodore Roosevelt and making history during her 28th year in the fleet," Grieco said in a press release. "This is a benchmark for the ship. People see our aircraft carrier and see an amazing piece of equipment that can support our nation but don't realize that she is only half way through her lifespan and has landed an incredible 200,000 airplanes. So in the years to come, with TR moving forward, she will likely land upwards of 400,000 airplanes before she is decommissioned."
The sailors who operate the ship's arresting gears stripped the arresting wire used in the milestone landing and planned to mark the event by handing out pieces as souvenirs.
The ship and its crew are conducting conduction a Composite Training Unit Exercise, or COMPTUEX, off the Florida coast. Theodore Roosevelt will move from Norfolk, Va., to Coronado later this year to keep a six-carrier presence in the Pacific when the carrier Ronald Reagan switches its homeport from Coronado to Yokosuka, Japan. That move is to support the refueling and complex overhaul of George Washington, which is scheduled for 2017.
