https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/01/18/uss-kitty-hawk-headed-for-the-scrapyard/
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Thank you for your service. Job well done, she is still afloat. Even if not for long.
There is something a little sad when the navy sends a ship with damn near a half a century service to the breakers.
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A fine ship. They used to let our 180’ Coastie boat park right next to her when we went to Yokosuka for yearly training.
I got to go onboard both the kitty and midway while I was in the navy in the early 90’s. Was serving onboard my home USS Comstock but got to go onboard those historic vessels for parts. I love the history of these 2 vessels. It’s a shame they didn’t find a home for the kitty hawk like they did for the midway.
Served in her Task Force wake onboard the USS Robert E. Peary FF-1073 back in the days of the Iran hostage crisis…
The Shitty Kitty
the fate of most ships, the bottom or the breakers.
Why don’t they give it to the Afganis?
Son lives just above the navy base. A whole line of old carriers and other vessels at dock waiting for the scrapyard…and a whole history of the last 50 years of the Navy. All served us well.
When I was a kid, living on Navy bases, I would go down to where the ships were tied up and try to get sailors to take me aboard for a tour.
So I spent a good deal of time looking at the ships. One of the most vivid memories for me was the first time I saw a carrier close up, and it was the Kitty Hawk.
As I stood on the pier looking up, the tails of Phantoms spotted next to each other on the flight deck peeked out, looking like so many tail feathers on an arrow.
As a young boy of maybe 10, it was something to see.
Thanks to her, and all the men who served on her.
Hmm. I thought the USS JFK was the last oil-fired carrier built. Perhaps the Kitty Hawk was the last oil-fired carrier in service...
This the ship that suffered a race riot during a Southeast Asian deployment.