The retired U.S. Navy vessel will head to Brownsville, Texas, on a two-week journey that will end with the aircraft carrier's dismantling.

An aircraft carrier is leaving its home at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia to make its final journey on Thursday morning.

"Big John," as it was affectionately nicknamed, was decommissioned in 2007 and has been in Philadelphia ever since. A new aircraft carrier named after JFK will enter service later this year.

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The retired Navy carrier is set to depart from South Philadelphia's Navy Yard around 9 a.m., and will travel to Brownsville, Texas where it'll be taken apart. The USS JFK's departure was ...

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