Editing USS Enterprise CVN-65 (section)

==1980 TO 1989==

•	1982: Enterprise's 10th WESTPAC deployment. 

•	1984: Enterprise's 11th WESTPAC deployment. 

•	November 2, 1985: Struck Bishops Rock on the Cortes Bank during exercises damaging outer hull and propeller. Continued operations and later went to dry dock for repairs. 

•	December 2, 1986. Kenneth Thacker Reports aboard USS Enterprise while she is in dry dock in Alameda, Ca.

•	1986: Enterprise's 12th WESTPAC deployment. 

•	April 28, 1986: Enterprise was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal. She went from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean to relieve Coral Sea, on station with America off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours. It was the first time in over 22 years that Enterprise was in the Mediterranean Sea. 

•	April 1988: Enterprise, on its 13th deployment, was assigned to Operation Earnest Will, escorting reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf while stationed in the North Arabian Sea. 

•	14 April 1988: Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian mine in international waters. 

•	18 April 1988: [[Operation Preying Mantis]] was launched in retaliation against Iranian targets involving both surface and air units. Carrier Air Wing 11 aircraft from Enterprise were the major aviation participants. The initial American strikes centered around a surface group action against two Iranian oil platforms that had been identified as support bases for Iranian attacks on merchant shipping. Aircraft from CVW-11 provided air support for the surface groups in the form of surface combat air patrols, flying A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsair IIs, and combat air patrols with F-14 Tomcats. 

•	September 1989: Enterprise began her 14th overseas deployment. 

•	Early December 1989: Enterprise and Midway, participated in Operation Classic Resolve, President George H.W. Bush's response to Philippine President Corazon Aquino's request for air support during the rebel coup attempt. Enterprise remained on station conducting flight operations in the waters outside Manila Bay until the situation subsided, and then proceeded to her scheduled deployment to the Indian Ocean.