USS Kidd (DDG-100)
Template:Short description Template:Other ships Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox ship USS Kidd (DDG-100) is an Template:Sclass (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was on board Template:USS during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first American flag officer to die in World War II. The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 1 of Carrier Strike Group 1<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which is currently headed by the Template:Sclass nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Template:USS. USS Kidd is the only active ship in the Navy officially allowed to fly the Jolly Roger.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Construction and career
Kidd was christened by Admiral Kidd's granddaughters, Regina Kidd Wolbarsht and Mary Kidd Plumer on 22 January 2005, at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Commander Richard E. Thomas of Westwood, New Jersey, served as her first commanding officer until February 2008. Commander Charles P. Good of Huntington Beach, California, took Kidd on her maiden deployment.
While in the midst of final outfitting, the ship was holed and partially flooded at the shipyard docks during Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, requiring a return to dry dock for repairs, which included cutting out a turbine, delaying her commissioning and deployment with the Navy. She was commissioned at Galveston, Texas on 9 June 2007. Kidd is currently homeported in Everett, Washington.
On 5 January 2012, Kidd rescued the 13-member crew of the Iranian-flagged fishing vessel Al Molai from Somali pirates who had been holding them hostage for over 40 days, capturing fifteen pirates in the process with no casualties.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Search for Malaysia Airlines MH 370
On 10 March 2014, the ship joined the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 two days after it went missing over the South China Sea. Kidd was the second Navy ship to be deployed in the search. It joined Template:USS, and more than 40 other ships and 32 aircraft from Malaysia, Australia, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Vietnam, New Zealand, and the Philippines taking part in the search and rescue.<ref name="USSKidMH370">Template:Cite news</ref> On 14 March it was announced that Kidd would be relocated to the Indian Ocean in search of the plane, since new evidence pointed to the possibility of the plane being there.<ref name="USSKidMH370CNN">Template:Cite news</ref>
2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Template:Main On 24 April 2020, the United States Navy reported that a sailor assigned to Kidd had tested positive for the virus after being medically evacuated the previous day from operations at sea.<ref name="kidd.navy">Template:Cite web</ref> After the sailor's test returned positive, the Navy sent a medical team to the ship to conduct contact tracing and test sailors for the virus on board.<ref name="kidd.navy" /> By the morning of 24 April, 17 additional sailors tested positive, with additional cases expected as testing continued.<ref name="kidd.navy" />
The initial patient was stable and recovering at a medical facility in San Antonio, Texas.<ref name="kidd.navy" /> It was planned for Kidd to return to port so that it could be disinfected.<ref name="kidd.navy" /> This was the second instance of the coronavirus being found aboard an American naval ship that had been deployed.<ref name="usa.usni">Template:Cite web</ref>
References
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