Were you on board when it did?
No my ride ended in October 1980. But I do know for a fact it did the Suez transit in 1981. America came out of a one year overhaul in October of 1980 a few days after I got out.
We did almost go to the Indian Ocean in 1979 though when the hostage crisis started. The ships went on alert for about 12 hours. As a matter of fact they took the brow down. We were a few days away from going from the base upstream to the shipyards for a year when the hostages were taken. It took about 12 hours for the Pentagon to decide which carrier was going. I think the JFK drew the short straw and we went into overhaul. It would have meant a trip around the Horn to get there too.