UnRep, an Underway Replenishment
USS Kitty Hawk Aircraft Carrier Photo.

A view from the catwalk as operations begin. At this time the Kitty Hawk is having an Un-Rep (Underway Replenishment.  

One thing about the sodas. We drink a lot of sodas. Sodas are also treated like gold much as like in prisons, prisoners use cigarettes for money.  Many of the maintenance shops on the Kitty Hawk would have their own refrigerators where we kept our sodas. It was customary to write your name on a piece of tape and stick it on the soda before you put it in the refrigerator.

If you needed a soda, and you didn't have one in the refrigerator, you many times had to stand in line for twenty minutes just to buy one from the soda machines. This is why we treated them like gold. It was terrible to go and have to stand in line to get a soda.