I should note, I talked to a Chief I knew there about what had happened the next day and he told me soon after that pretty much every Seaman who lived off the ship who had been assigned to the clean up that night had also been allowed off the boat in much the same condition as the guy living across the hall from me. (He said that some of them had been stopped by various base security members who had related their conditions to their superiors.)
Interesting story. Just one more to add to my Kennedy file.
I honestly think if she had been christined any other name, she would have been gone before Saratoga and Independence. But its a political thing for Democrats to be able to talk about the Kennedy being on station in the worlds hot spots. And reporters would rather be onboard her than any other ship just to say "Reporting live from the USS John F Kennedy".