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USS Kitty Hawk departs Yokosuka
Stars and Stripes
May 25, 2005
An E-2C Hawkeye from Airborne Early Warning Squadron 115 is launched off flight deck of USS Kitty Hawk while conducting carrier qualifications. Air crew must requalify their launch and recovery certifications periodically. (Bo J. Flannigan / U.S. Navy)
The USS Kitty Hawk departed Yokosuka Naval Base on Monday for its “summer underway period,” according to a base news release.
The combined crew of Kitty Hawk sailors and its Carrier Air Wing 5, based at Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Japan, will conduct carrier qualifications, strike training, drills and exercises, according to the release. Monday’s departure followed two months of scheduled maintenance and three days of training at sea.
The Kitty Hawk Strike Group is the largest in the Navy and also includes the guided-missile cruisers USS Chancellorsville and USS Cowpens, and Destroyer Squadron 15.
One of the group’s major objectives is to participate in Talisman Saber ’05, a joint U.S.-Australian exercise scheduled for June in Australia’s Shoalwater Bay Training Area near Rockhampton.
An E-2C Hawkeye from Airborne Early Warning Squadron 115 is launched off flight deck of USS Kitty Hawk while conducting carrier qualifications. Air crew must requalify their launch and recovery certifications periodically. (Bo J. Flannigan / U.S. Navy)
Petty Officer 1st Class Marlon Patterson of Atlanta plots the transit course of USS Kitty Hawk while the aircraft carrier steams out of Truman Bay. Kitty Hawk’s operations specialists are responsible for operating radar, navigation and communication equipment to detect and track air, surface and weapons contacts. (Joshua Wayne LeGrand / U.S. Navy)