Caption:
USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), At Sea (Dec. 7, 2006) - The guided
missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), sails away after a
replenishment at sea (RAS) with USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63).
Guided
missile destroyers are multi-mission anti-air warfare, anti-submarine
warfare and anti-surface warfare combatants. RAS is
the
on-and off-loading of fuel and stores while ships are
underway.
The Kitty Hawk, operating out of Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, is
currently deployed off Okinawa on a regularly-scheduled deployment.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman
Stephen
W. Rowe.
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