| 12 May |
USS Kitty Hawk Collision with Russian Sub
(Kurt Eskildsen)
I was working in he wheel well of and A-6E Intruder the evening of this event. There was a heavy thump and most of us thought we hit a large whale or something. Suddenly the ship made a hard starboard turn and I recall having to hang onto the hardware in the wheel well to keep from falling. The... More |
| 03 Feb |
Sub
(Charles Newton)
Thats is odd. We had a screen guard all over
the Pacific(in 62 the Mattox).Who with a group
that chased a Necular one all the way home and
made her surface. I ran into one of her crew
in 04. He said it was hairy.The had the whole
Russian Navy/Air Force around them.
Charles Newton |
| 20 Jan |
hawk hits sub
(Scott Gaehle)
it was 1984 when the hawk hit the russian sub we had just left pusan korea just getting dark and headed to pi before the io. mr corchran was the ood who was my division officer at the time. i just crawled into my rack when i was woke up and told, i didnt believe it at first. well the sub kept... More |
| 23 Dec |
Oct '77 Marine Storeroom Fire
(Chris Kranenberg)
Little, if nothing, is mentioned about the fire located in the Marine Storeroom above Engine Room #1 that ignited while navigating out of San Diego Harbor at the onset of the October 1977 WESTPAC. In fact, the incident is not mentioned in the declassified captain's report who was in command at... More |
| 15 Dec |
LT NATHAN D. WHITE, OIF, 04/02/03
(Rodney Brewer)
Lieutenant Nathan D. White, 30, of Abilene, Texas. White was killed in action. White was the pilot af an F/A-18C Hornet lost over Iraq. He was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Niner Five (VFA-195, based in Atsugi, Japan, and currently deployed with Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW 5) aboard USS... More |
| 19 Nov |
fire # 1 Main Machinery Room Dec 73
(Jeffrey Hotson)
I was in sleeping compartment for X-Divison on 03 level at night trying to splice a broken cassette tape. Over the 1MC came the fire alarm for a class B fire in the #1MMR. The speaker was LCDR Buck, our officer from the ship's 3-M Office who had bridge watch that evening. He was nervous. Informed... More |
| 28 Aug |
We don't brake for no Russian subs
(Gary Beard)
Sometime in 1985, somewhere in the Pacific; a Russian sub had been shadowing us for almost 2-weeks. We could hear her radar bouncing off our hull, when below-decks. Our Captain decided to shake her. While coming up onto an onrep (we just had one a couple days before?), we switched places with... More |
| 26 Jul |
a bump in the night
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hawk and soviet sub collision |
| 18 Apr |
HOT BLACK DEAD IN THE WATER
(Tad Mckinley)
MM3 MCKINLEY P1 DIV 1MMR IT DOES GET HOT DOWN THERE DID IT A FEW TIME BUT THOSE SNIPES WORK HARD TO GET LIT OFF YOU CAN MAKE A SKIPPER MAD IF THEY GOT BIRDS IN THE AIR THERE WAS ONE TIME WE LOST EVERTHING AND HAD TO START FROM SCRATCH I PREFERED 8 BURNIN AND 4 TURNING FULL POWER RUN I STUD THE... More |
| 05 Apr |
Commands
(Mary Lynch)
Kitty hawk CV-63 2002-2006
NSA Souda Bay 2006-2007 |
