article_snippet: (CNN)The aircraft carrier USS Ranger, which saw action in the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm and had appearances in the movies "Top Gun" and "Star Trek IV," is on its final journey, a five-month cruise at the end of a tow cable from Bremerton, Washington, to a scrapyard in Texas.
article_snippet: The Ranger, which left Bremerton on Thursday, follows two of its predecessors in the Forrestal class of carriers -- the Forrestal and the Saratoga -- to scrapyards in Brownsville.
article_snippet: Another carrier, the USS Constellation, part of the Kitty Hawk class, was towed to Brownsville last year.
article_snippet: Like the Ranger, the USS Constellation was stored in Washington and because of the USS Constellation size had to be towed all the way around the southern tip of South America, as the USS Constellation would not fit through the Panama Canal.
article_snippet: the Ranger's final journey is expected to take four to five months, the Navy said.
highlights_snippet: Aircraft carrier USS Ranger's final journey likely will take four to five months, Navy says .
  