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The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is not up for sale to the Indian Navy as it has already “outstretched” its life, a senior US Navy officer said Wednesday. "The ship was meant to last 48 years. It is in Wilmington (North Carolina) and not for sale. There is no intention to sell it. It has already outstretched its intended service life," Rear Admiral Allen G. Myers, the Director (Warfare Integration) of the US Navy, told IANS. This puts to rest all reports of the decommissioned carrier being offered to India, which, at one stage, expressed interest in the vessel....

Story Number: NNS040311-07 Release Date: 3/11/2004 11:33:00 AM From U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs HONG KONG (NNS) -- A Sailor assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 195, embarked aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), died March 9 while on liberty here. Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Thomas Francis Doughty, 25, of Nashville, Tenn., was on liberty in Hong Kong and was transported to Fenwick Pier where he stopped breathing. Resuscitation efforts were initiated by three U.S. Navy hospital corpsmen who were on duty at the pier’s first aid station. An ambulance was summoned and arrived four minutes later. Doughty was taken...