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| We salute the USS Kidd for flying the Jolly Roger on its way back to port |
| 2020-09-24 |
| [Task&Purpose] The Defense Department may be cracking down on unusual banners within the ranks, but at least one guided missile destroyer seems intent on letting its freak flag fly. First spotted by our eagle-eye friends at The War Zone, the USS Kidd recently returned to its homeport at Naval Station Everett north of Seattle, Washington sporting a Jolly Roger following a deployment to the 4th Fleet area of operations. The Kidd had deployed with embarked detachments from the "Wolf Pack" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 75 (HSM 75) and the Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) closer to Venezuela in April 2020 as part of a beefed-up U.S. counternarcotics presence in the southern hemisphere, according to the Navy. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #4 I've heard that on the last voyage of the USS George Washington SSBN598,she was restricted to shallow depths submerged because of her age. Subsequently, rammed and sank a Japanese freighter. She was denied the use of a Rising Sun flag on the periscope. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-09-24 18:44 |
| #3 Which for some reason I find both grand and disappointing. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-24 10:28 |
| #1 It's unclear what action, if any, warranted the flying of the Jolly Roger: ....One of those 'If we told you, we'd have to kill you' moments. And BTW, if you saw Tom Hanks' Greyhound, you saw the first Kidd (DD-661) - she's a museum now, and a good chunk of the movie was filmed aboard her. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2020-09-24 04:21 |