Kitty Hawk Gets Underway as Upkeep Period Ends
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS051025-07
Release Date: 10/25/2005 11:31:00 AM
By Journalist 3rd Class Christopher Koons, USS Kitty Hawk Public Affairs
USS KITTY HAWK, At Sea (NNS) -- USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) returned to sea Oct. 24, commencing its fall underway period.
This brought an end to Kitty Hawk’s two-month-long inport period, which saw the ship’s crew experience several changes and challenges, including an extensive maintenance schedule.
“There were 246 Ship Repair Facility (SRF) jobs, 85 contractor jobs and more than 700 ship’s force jobs that were completed during the upkeep,” said Lt. Cmdr. William Partington, Kitty Hawk’s maintenance officer. “That did not include all the detailing and preservation that the crew performed out of pride for their ship during preparations for the [Commander, Naval Forces Japan] change of command.”
According to Partington, Kitty Hawk Sailors and civilian contractors worked long hours to ensure the ship was ready to get underway.
“There were not only thousands of man-hours spent on material maintenance, but great strides were made on administrative aspects of the maintenance process,” he said. “The SRF and ship’s force team worked feverishly to perfect an integrated work-tracking process.”
Overall, Kitty Hawk is in as good shape as it has ever been, said Partington. “During this upkeep period, we got the job done,” he said.
The Kitty Hawk Strike Group is the largest carrier strike group in the Navy and is composed of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, the guided-missile cruisers USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) and USS Cowpens (CG 63), and Destroyer Squadron 15.
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