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USS Kidd (DDG 100)

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USS KIDD is the 50th ship in the ARLEIGH BURKE - class of Aegis guided missile destroyers and the third ship in the Navy named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd.

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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS KIDD. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

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• Click here to read more about the Ship's Namesake - Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd

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Accidents aboard USS KIDD:

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USS KIDD History:

USS KIDD was built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi; her keel was laid on April 29, 2004, she was launched on December 15, 2004, and christened on January 22, 2005. Hurricane-related damage alongside during final outfitting required a return to dry dock and delayed delivery. She commissioned at Galveston, Texas, on June 9, 2007, then sailed to her initial homeport at Naval Station San Diego, arriving on July 19, 2007, to begin post-commissioning combat-systems qualifications and fleet integration.

From 2007 through 2008, the destroyer completed the basic, advanced, and integrated phases of the Pacific Fleet workup cycle from San Diego. In 2009, she conducted a WESTPAC with JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) strike group elements and returned to San Diego by mid-June, resuming local operations and certifications into 2010. In August 2010, the ship took part in Seattle Seafair Fleet Week during a public-outreach port call as she maintained deployment readiness.

KIDD deployed again with the STENNIS team in 2011, departing the Pacific Northwest on July 25 for a cruise that entered the U.S. 7th Fleet area and then shifted to U.S. 5th Fleet for maritime security and carrier escort tasking. On January 5-6, 2012, while operating in the northern Arabian Sea amid heightened regional tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, KIDD's helicopter detachment and visit, board, search, and seizure team freed the Iranian-flagged dhow AL MOLAI and its 13-member crew from Somali pirates, detaining 15 suspects without injuries. The ship completed the deployment and later returned to Pacific Fleet operations.

On January 7, 2014, KIDD departed San Diego for the Western Pacific. Beginning March 10, 2014, she joined the multinational search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand alongside USS PINCKNEY (DDG 91) and allied aircraft, shifted west to the Andaman Sea on March 15-16 as the search expanded, and completed her tasking before returning to San Diego on August 21, 2014.

The Navy announced on September 30, 2015, that KIDD would shift homeport from San Diego to Naval Station Everett, Washington, as part of a Pacific Northwest destroyer consolidation, and she completed that move in 2016. In 2017, she integrated with the NIMITZ (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Group for deployment: after COMPTUEX in April, she departed on June 1, entered the 7th Fleet area on June 21, and operated with the strike group through the Western Pacific and Middle East as CVW-11 aircraft conducted combat sorties against ISIS. KIDD returned to Everett on December 10, 2017.

In 2018, the destroyer completed a Selected Restricted Availability at Everett managed by the regional maintenance enterprise. NAVSEA's year-in-review recorded the SRA's on-time completion on August 31. KIDD then resumed 3rd Fleet training and certifications from Puget Sound.

Through late 2019, the ship was back at sea for underway periods and pre-deployment evolutions in the eastern Pacific, including damage-control and seamanship drills documented that December, and she conducted replenishment events in January 2020, while staging for operations further south. In early 2020, KIDD deployed to the U.S. Southern Command theater for Joint Interagency Task Force South counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean, embarking a U.S. Coast Guard law-enforcement detachment for boardings and interdictions. In late April, a sailor medically evacuated from the ship tested positive for COVID-19. The Navy embarked a rapid medical response team, directed additional support, and temporarily reset the crew in San Diego. After decontamination and re-certification, KIDD returned to sea on June 10 to resume SOUTHCOM tasking and completed the deployment by returning to Naval Station Everett on September 21, 2020. Public releases noted recoveries totaling approximately 805 kilograms of suspected cocaine, assistance towing a disabled fishing vessel more than 200 nautical miles to safety, and a passing exercise with the Salvadoran navy.

KIDD deployed to the Indo-Pacific in June 2021 under Commander, Task Force 71, forming a South China Sea surface action group with USS TULSA (LCS 16) on July 28 and conducting a routine Taiwan Strait transit on August 27. She returned to Everett in late September 2021, concluding operations across the Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and East China Sea.

Following additional workups, KIDD joined CARL VINSON (CVN 70) Carrier Strike Group for a Western Pacific deployment in late 2023, that included a replenishment-at-sea with USNS YUKON (T-AO 202) on December 3, a scheduled port visit to Singapore on December 17, and a strike-group visit to Manila on January 5, 2024. In mid-2024, she participated in ballistic-missile-defense exercise PACIFIC DRAGON around the Hawaiian Islands and continued 3rd Fleet training and presence operations thereafter. The ship completed the cruise and returned to Everett in early May 2024.

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USS KIDD Image Gallery:

The photos below were taken by me and show the KIDD at San Diego, Calif., on March 10, 2008.

The photos below were taken by me and show the KIDD at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on March 23, 2010, (the first photo) and departing San Diego early in the morning on March 25, 2010.

The photos below were taken by me and show the KIDD at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on March 15, 2012.

The photos below were taken by me and show the KIDD returning to Naval Base San Diego, Calif., after a few hours at sea off Coronado, Calif. The last photos show her berthed at the Naval Base shortly afterwards. All photos were taken on May 10, 2012.

The photos below were taken by me and show the KIDD at the Huntington Ingalls Industries Continental Maritime Shipyard in San Diego, Calif., on October 3, 2012.

The photo below was taken by Henry Schnutz and shows the KIDD at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on August 27, 2013.

The photos below were taken by Shiu On Yee during USS KIDD's port visit to Hong Kong June 16 - 20, 2014, while the ship was assigned to the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) Strike Group.

The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning on October 11, 2014, during an open house aboard USS KIDD (DDG 100) as part of Fleet Week San Francisco.

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The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning and show the USS KIDD at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on December 27, 2014.

The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning and show the USS KIDD undergoing her Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) at BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, Calif., on October 2, 2015.

The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning and show the USS KIDD departing Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on April 18, 2016.

The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning and show the USS KIDD at Naval Station Everett, Wash., on June 11 and 12, 2022. Note that KIDD has received an Optical Dazzler Interdictor Navy (ODIN) in front of the bridge.

The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning and show the USS KIDD at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on October 10, 2022. USS KIDD is in the SOCAL Operation Area to support the COMPTUEX of the USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Group.

The photos below were taken by Michael Jenning and show the USS KIDD departing Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on October 11, 2022. USS KIDD is in the SOCAL Operation Area to support the COMPTUEX of the USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Group.

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