For instance, contact with the submarine did not occur at 0300 local to our time on the ship. We were operating on JST and the collision was just after 2200.

Aboard the kitty hawk for a race riot, boiler that blew and a officer in a jet intake. Still we all got thru it all.

I was there from June 1981 to march 1985. I remember 21march 1984 at 2200 we just left Pusan South Korea when we ran over the Russian sub 41 years ago unbelievable

Did any fires occur on board the Kitty Hawk while you were on board?

Simmons where were you I was in supply from 81 to 84 I flew on board in a ch 46 shot off in a c2. I watched them scraping her on before I realized a tear rolled down my check I saw the place where I did my first reenlistment

I served on the kitty hawk 3 years.. 82 83 and 84..it was an amazing experience that I talk about constantly. I hope to be able to visit her one day!

I also served under Capt. ‘Tooter’ Teague when he was the Carrier Air Group (CAG-11) commander on the Kitty Hawk prior to taking command of the ship. He was an awesome CAG commander, almost too tall to fit in the F-8 fighters. I was factory trained on the ‘new’ F-14 Tomcat avionics but never was assigned to an F-14 squadron. Later, as a reservist, I did my obligatory weekends and two weeks a year with the ‘RAG’ squadron out of Miramar and two weeks at Fallon, Nevada.
However, my active duty time with CAG-11 and ‘Tooter’ Teague on my last ‘West Pac’ is still very memorable, as was my previous last ‘West Pac’ on the Kitty Hawk.

My brother served on the USS Kitty Hawk in 1979- 1983, he loved it, it was when they we’re trying to save the hostages in Iran. Unfortunately my brother passed away a year after he got out of the Navy. Please I am writing this for him, Please save the ship!!!