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Posted on 04/27/2008 12:50:39 PM PDT by imintrouble
The write ups on this event can be found at a number of newspaper websites - they are listed on Google.
PBS in L.A. are going to begin the series at 9 PM Pacific - and these times will adjust across the nation I assume.
These series parts will continue until next Thursday.
The intent is to interview the regular crew members rather than the officers and flight crew who are seen more often by the public.
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CVN-68 bttt! I knew the Captain, in the mid-80’s, then-Capt. Conner. He retired as a 2-star admiral and now plays tennis in Williamsburg, Va. His wife is my mom’s best friend.
Ollie North did a great piece on Admiral Nimitz last night.
He interviewed the Admirals daughter.
Thanks for that update - hope the media aren’t too tough on the crew and their officers - it’s like living on a small city and no doubt there are personality issues before their tours are unloaded for respite and rest.
First time I saw a carrier in San Diego I nearly fell over at the size of the creation! I’ve had a fascination ever since - looking at carriers in photos or even motion pictures doesn’t really give you the immensity of the craft.
I’ve been from one end to the other, and up and down on several carriers. It is really overwhelming.
An aircraft carrier is BIG! I think it was the Wasp that was in Boston Harbor, when I was a kid.(1940s) My brother and I sailed our little sailboat out near her. BIG!
I had a chance to be on the Nimitz, for Family Day, when a son was a naval aviator. Quite a town! They served 15,000 meals a day! When a sailor was giving a small group of us a tour, I asked him if it seemed strange having so many women on board. His answer? “It’s the perfume, Ma’am”!!!! LOL!
Good show so far!
Watching it as we speak. Eighty minutes into it. So far so good.
SAR = one MILLON dollars.
I don’t know. I took it more as matter-of-fact rather than no-big-deal. Overall I think they’re capturing the different types of people you get in the military very well. So far I’m not seeing any kind of agenda, but we’re only 20% into it.
In this case they didn't launch one. The ship remained in position, the muster was taken, it was identified as a false alarm, and no additional funds were expended. They did bring out how serious false alarms are treated very well, though.
I served 20 years in the Navy, about 10 on carriers, just over three years on Nimitz, 3 1/2 years on John F. Kennedy, and 3 years on Dwight D. Eisenhower. Made five “6-month” deployments (you almost never got home on schedule). The “Ike” was the first combatant ship to receive female crewmembers, and it caused some interesting changes to be made. My biggest problem is that I couldn’t go to the head (bathroom) in the middle of the night in my skivvies.
There are 5000+ crew on the carrier. For me, it’s hard to see what they had to film. For 6 months, it was nothing but work, eat, sleep; with an occasional port call. Every day is the same old, same old.
Yes the ship is huge. The first time I ever saw one up close I drove down the pier in Norfolk in a Triumph Spitfire (top down) between the Nimitz and Independence. I looked up in awe.
But for 6 months, that ship gets mighty small.
I worked electronics in the Navy. I have climbed to the top of the mast on all three (see my last post). My last ship (Ike) spent time in drydock while I was stationed there. I got to walk all the way UNDERNEATH the ship. Talk about IMMENSE!!
She stated that the punishment wasn’t a big deal. In the old days she would have spent a lot of time in the brig or latrine duty.
If we're thinking about the same female sailor, I think she went to Mast for something connected with drinking and not false alarm man overboard. This is the woman who called her old man - got 45 days restriction, docked half her pay, and a suspended bust?
Thanks for your service and sacrifice.
Thanks for setting the issue straight.
Love the personal stories here from people - thanks for making the program even more interesting reading from those who have ‘been there’.
Just thinking about walking near a dry-dock carrier gives me the willies...
All those personalities having to make it through a work shift and then eat/sleep and get along together must be one amazing study in human adaptation. Haha the Chief reminded me of a little banty rooster!
Thanks for the posts !
How to simulate being a Sailor
Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.
Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.
Repaint your entire house every month.
Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the showerhead to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down.
Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.
Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbor’s house. Ignore his complaints.
Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them.
Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors, so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.
Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off.
On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.
Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can’t turn over without getting out and then getting back in.
Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain.
Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say “Sorry, wrong rack”.
Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.
Have your neighbor come over each day at 5 am, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout “Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up”.
Have your mother-in-law write down everything she’s going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 6 a.m. while she reads it to you.
Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 3 pm.
Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not.
Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.
Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.
When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle stations.
Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.
Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.
Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.
Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread.
Set your alarm clock to go off a random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the back yard and uncoil the garden hose.
Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout “Man overboard port side!” Rate your family members on how fast they respond.
Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don’t plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup “Stove manned and ready”. After an hour or so, speak into the cup again “Stove secured.” Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.
Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals. This is best when the weather is worst. January is a good time.
When there is a thunderstorm in your area get a wobbly rocking chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.
For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long.
Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.
Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.
Mount a florescent light under your coffee table and sleep under it for a month.
Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.
Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.
Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for “liberty”. At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.
Are you ready to go to sea, again?
Watched the end of part 2 tonight, and there was a seaman who got booted from the Navy over a “racist” incident. Can anyone elaborate on what occurred?
See you got your reply from Longhorn too....thanks Longhorn!
I had ‘drop in visitors’ last evening - I almost didn’t answer the doorbell but thought they might leave by 9pm...
no such luck and I missed that segment too.
From now on I am going to record the rest of the series in case I miss it...
Ha that was a hoot - thanks!
I’d never make it shipboard - certainly not the size of the Navy vessels and the lifestyle!
The new pioneers!! Living conditions according to Navy rules.
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