According to the analysis of military expert PY, the US Navy's retired aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk" has begun the dismantling project and is finally completely "finished." This aircraft carrier is the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the United States, and its successors are the Enterprise and the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier . For China, this aircraft carrier is "notorious" because it once broke into the waters of the Yellow Sea in 1994, arrogantly approached the Chinese coastline, and took off and landed carrier-based aircraft to track Chinese nuclear submarines.
The "Kitty Hawk" has long served as the flagship of the Seventh Fleet. It has been stationed in Yokosuka, Japan for the longest time, so it has also become an "evil" warship in Japan. In September 2002, the U.S. Navy announced a series of incidents related to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. In August of that year, the ship returned to Japan after completing its cruise mission in the Middle East. The ship's officers and men committed many crimes, resulting in the captain being dismissed for losing control of the situation. These serial crimes include a naval petty officer who beat and robbed a 68-year-old Japanese man on August 11 and was arrested by Yokosuka police at the entrance of the naval base.
Two days later, a 19-year-old soldier was arrested after he attacked a 43-year-old Japanese woman driving at an intersection and then fled. Ten days later, when a Kitty Hawk naval petty officer attempted to smuggle a kilogram of marijuana from Bangkok to Japan via Narita Airport, Japanese customs officials arrested him on the spot. The Japanese people are outraged. Lieutenant General Robert Williard, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet , was forced to relieve Captain Thomas Hagel of his duties and ordered Captain Robert Barabi of the cruiser USS Seattle to rectify discipline.
On February 13, 2003, Captain Baraby’s immediate boss, Rear Admiral Stephen Kunkel, captain of the Fifth Detachment of the Seventh Fleet, was dismissed because he had “an inappropriate relationship with a female naval officer.” While reporting on the troubled USS Kitty Hawk, two British journalists exposed the ship's institutionalized racism, similar to the situation when the ship had riots during the Vietnam War. After visiting the ship, Roland Watson and Glenn Owen wrote about their feelings: boarding the aircraft carrier was like being transported back in time to the segregated southern states of the United States.
On the bottom floor of the "Kitty Hawk", the crew stayed there for 6 months. 12 people slept in a room. Most of the workers were black or Puerto Rican . They work in extremely hot kitchens and machine rooms and earn less than $10,000 a year. As you walk up 11 compartments to the pilot's barracks below decks, the living quarters get a little larger, the air a little cooler, and the skin tone a little brighter. White officers almost completely ignored the chaotic world below them, where stories of murders, shootings and drug abuse circulated. Text/PY
