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Adelaide, Kitty Hawk at final stage
By LCDR Brian Chase
Volume 50, No. 18, October 04, 2007 |
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MEMORIES: CMDR Rob Slaven with Kitty Hawk.
Photo: ABPH Nadia Monteith |
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Operating at close range to the USS Kitty Hawk during Exercise Malabar was a bit of déjà vu for CMDR Rob Slaven, Commanding Officer of HMAS Adelaide.
Watching Kitty Hawk’s aircraft taking off and landing from Adelaide brought back fond memories for CMDR Slaven, who was a part of the Sea Combat Staff Course aboard Kitty Hawk in 2001.
CMDR Slaven’s most vivid memory was of the extreme adrenalin rush at being catapulted from Kitty Hawk’s deck in the front seat of an S3 Viking, then barrelling to a rapid halt on landing after having bombed an old target hulk. The Kitty Hawk and Adelaide also share another common theme as both ships are at end of their commissioned period.
Adelaide, along with the tanker HMAS Sirius, recently participated in the biggest international maritime exercise to be held this year. Joining the Australian ships were more than 20 other ships and submarines from nations including Japan, United States, Singapore and India. Malabar represents Adelaide’s swan-song as she will decommission early next year. Kitty Hawk returns to Yokosuka, Japan, in preparation for her return to the US early next year where she too will decommission.
Exercise Malabar
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