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Did Sterett ever serve with Enterprise?

Andrew Sterett's command of the schooner Enterprise prompts a search for a later deployment of USS Sterett with the aircraft carrier Enterprise.

Question

Did USS Sterett ever serve with the aircraft carrier Enterprise?

Short answer

The service record discussed in the video does not identify such a deployment.

Notes

Andrew Sterett commanded the schooner Enterprise during the Quasi-War and Barbary Wars. That namesake prompts the episode's direct question: did the later USS Sterett ever serve with the aircraft carrier Enterprise? No such deployment appears in the service record discussed here, despite Sterett's long Pacific and Gulf of Tonkin career. Her area-air-defence weapons, five-inch gun, Standard and Harpoon missiles, ASROC, and later Phalanx made her useful near an active theater even when North Vietnam posed little surface threat.