“...the John F. Kennedy featured in the Gulf War....” Odd wording.
Anything to get the Kennedy name out there. I was on Saratoga in the Gulf War. We were on station a week after Saddam invaded Kuwait. Fastest translant in history from Jacksonville to the Suez Canal and Red Sea. We were there during the entire 6 month build up to the war and then until the conclusion of the conflict. Over 12,000 launches and recoveries during that time. The non-skid on the deck was stripped to bare metal. But oohhhh, it was sooooo important that we wait until Kennedy could arrive...Thats what gave the media tingles up their legs...
The same JFK also tried or was preparing to wind down and get out, not jump in with both feet(LBJ did jump in) , to a regional war that would likely become nothing but a hellhole and a drain on this nation when it was already in the midst of a Cold War, civil unrest and itching for reform in its own gubamint.
Add the carrier’s fate to his scrapped legacy.