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Article: USS Kitty Hawk to Be Retired in 2008.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- May 14, 2004
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SEOUL, May 14 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Navy will retire its aircraft carrier deployed in Japan, USS Kitty Hawk, in 2008 amid speculation the conventionally-powered flattop will be replaced by a nuclear-powered ship, an American military newspaper reported Friday. The Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy's oldest active aircraft carrier, has been based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture as the successor to the USS Independence since 1998. The ship was commissioned in 1961. "We will use the Kitty Hawk until 2008," the Stars & Stripes quoted Rear Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet. Greenert made the remarks while clarifying reported comments by his ...