Popeye's Sea Stories
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Only at a high speed is the force great enough to suck a person under. Or as I described if someone feel between ships during an UNREP(RAS) they will more than likely get sucked under the ship.
In my experience at sea I know of only four persons that deliberately jumped off the ship of the several dozen that fell overboard..
From this thread...
Re: PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme..News & Views
Never thought of life on aircraft carriers that way. But I suppose the newer Nimitz class carriers are more comfortable for the crews compared to the older ones. Especially the USS Hancock (CV-19) which is a WWII aircraft carrier. A aircraft carrier is still better than a DDG! Imagine you have to stay on a ship like that for months on end.
It seems that the USN is becoming more and more creative to keep their crews busy during off hours. Here is a picture of crew members on board the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) watching the Super Bowl in the hangar deck.
Never thought of life on aircraft carriers that way. But I suppose the newer Nimitz class carriers are more comfortable for the crews compared to the older ones. Especially the USS Hancock (CV-19) which is a WWII aircraft carrier. A aircraft carrier is still better than a DDG! Imagine you have to stay on a ship like that for months on end.
It seems that the USN is becoming more and more creative to keep their crews busy during off hours. Here is a picture of crew members on board the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) watching the Super Bowl in the hangar deck.
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Re: PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme..News & Views
I served on Nimitz in 1991. And she was more comfortable that Hancock.
Can't imagine it..my son made two WESTPAC deployments aboard USS Paul F Foster (DD 964).. and endured this from time to time;
Not really.. just a new way to do an old tradition. Ships have been showing movies for a long long time. And in the last 20 years or so Super Bowl events always happen at sea.
Movies. Aboard Nimitz these was a channel on the TV called NBO.. Nimitz Box Office. they showed movies 24/7. Except during ship wide training evolution's. . that was 23 years ago...The other ships I served on showed movies usually on the F'scole or crews lounge.
Crews aboard US Navy ships have enjoyed movies since at least WWII.
I served on Nimitz in 1991. And she was more comfortable that Hancock.
Can't imagine it..my son made two WESTPAC deployments aboard USS Paul F Foster (DD 964).. and endured this from time to time;
Not really.. just a new way to do an old tradition. Ships have been showing movies for a long long time. And in the last 20 years or so Super Bowl events always happen at sea.
Movies. Aboard Nimitz these was a channel on the TV called NBO.. Nimitz Box Office. they showed movies 24/7. Except during ship wide training evolution's. . that was 23 years ago...The other ships I served on showed movies usually on the F'scole or crews lounge.
Crews aboard US Navy ships have enjoyed movies since at least WWII.
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From popeye's salty old brain...Enjoy!
In January 1986 while returning to Diego Garcia from "Environmental and Morale Leave" I flew on a C-5A from Travis AFB CA to Hickam AFB in Hawaii. Then on the same aircraft to Anderson AFB in Guam. When we landed in Guam on January 28, 1986 we discovered the Columbia space shuttle had suffered an explosion.
We next took the same aircraft to Clark AFB in the Republic of the Philippines. We had a 24 hour+ plus layover there because of an alleged hard landing. Next up we flew to my destination Diego Garcia British Indian Ocean Territory so I could finish out my tour there.
In case you gents did not know the C-5A has a passenger compartment on the top deck above the main cargo bay seating 70+ passengers...and trust me..It gets cold up there. When we took of from Clark AFB the cold air from the air conditioning caused a cloud to form in the passenger compartment..
Here's a little glimpse of that compartment...
And.. this is how you embark the compartment..
Keep 'em flying boys!
In January 1986 while returning to Diego Garcia from "Environmental and Morale Leave" I flew on a C-5A from Travis AFB CA to Hickam AFB in Hawaii. Then on the same aircraft to Anderson AFB in Guam. When we landed in Guam on January 28, 1986 we discovered the Columbia space shuttle had suffered an explosion.
We next took the same aircraft to Clark AFB in the Republic of the Philippines. We had a 24 hour+ plus layover there because of an alleged hard landing. Next up we flew to my destination Diego Garcia British Indian Ocean Territory so I could finish out my tour there.
In case you gents did not know the C-5A has a passenger compartment on the top deck above the main cargo bay seating 70+ passengers...and trust me..It gets cold up there. When we took of from Clark AFB the cold air from the air conditioning caused a cloud to form in the passenger compartment..
Here's a little glimpse of that compartment...
And.. this is how you embark the compartment..
Keep 'em flying boys!
From another forum..
C-5A story continued;
If memory serves me correctly there was a real latrine/head/lavatory/restroom on the top deck. Similar to an airliner.
I remember the crew serving us box lunches. I remember landing in Guam and the cafeteria was closed in the air terminal. But we stayed there long enough to get a decent meal.
Myself and this Filipino sailor I was hanging around with wanted some beer. We we bought a couple of Sann Miguels but the cafeteria did not have a bottle opener. San Miguel did not have twist of caps. So we opened them..Pilipino style by opening them on a table top.
Place said San Mogoo bottle cap on the edge of a table. perferably not wood.
Make a fist.
Hit the bottle cap of the San Migoo with stated fist.
Drink San Moogo.
Simple...
C-5A story continued;
C.Puffs;7520617 said:
If memory serves me correctly there was a real latrine/head/lavatory/restroom on the top deck. Similar to an airliner.
I remember the crew serving us box lunches. I remember landing in Guam and the cafeteria was closed in the air terminal. But we stayed there long enough to get a decent meal.
Myself and this Filipino sailor I was hanging around with wanted some beer. We we bought a couple of Sann Miguels but the cafeteria did not have a bottle opener. San Miguel did not have twist of caps. So we opened them..Pilipino style by opening them on a table top.
Place said San Mogoo bottle cap on the edge of a table. perferably not wood.
Make a fist.
Hit the bottle cap of the San Migoo with stated fist.
Drink San Moogo.
Simple...
They've been gone a while now...but I still miss those Spruance destroyers.
They were good vessels, quiet for ASW, and built with growth in mind.
They even added the VLS to them showing off how they had been designed for growth.
But they were not AEGIS and the Burkes flew in and knocked them out of service.
Now...it is the Burkes that are the excellent US Navy destroyers...and a LOT of them, and also built for growth and modernization as their production long run is proving.