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.[2]
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.[6] 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.[6] By the morning of 24 April, 17 additional sailors tested positive, with additional cases expected as testing continued.[6]
The initial patient was stable and recovering at a medical facility in San Antonio, Texas.[6] It was planned for Kidd to return to port so that it could be disinfected.[6] This was the second instance of the coronavirus being found aboard an American naval ship that had been deployed.[7]
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