The U.S. Navy's Newest Class Of Aircraft Carriers: The Gerald R. Ford Series. (wii, computer)
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Men and women have been suppressing their hormones for years; otherwise we'd never get any work done!.
I used to think that would be a problem however at least in a general sense i'm sure it works out fine now as males and females work together in most fields of employment today in the civilian world and besides they will always threaten you with UCMJ and trust me as i learned once about what UCMJ is all about for not getting back to the ship in time as i missed ''mustering at quarters'' in the morning as i had partied the nite before till like 3:00 a.m. and so i got busted by the CO and had to do 45 days restriction on board the ship and 45 days extra duty at nite from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. as that isn't fun at all when you cannot leave the ship after working hours like your buddies can as learned not to let that happen ever again
I would have liked to see that carrier engage the Japanese in that movie.
I assume they'd just keep their distance and use Superbugs (or I guess A-6s at the time of the movie) to start putting paveways right thru the flight decks of their carriers, then pick off the escort ships with air-launched harpoons.
I'm surprised it's taken them this long to replace the steam catapults as we were phasing out the Adams Class steam turbine propulsions and replaced them with Spruance Class Gas Turbines some twenty five years ago back in the 80's
Who can forget the movie ''The Final Countdown'' made back in the 1980's when the USS Nimitz was sent back in time by a time warp storm to dec 6, 1941 and had to make a choice whether to attack the entire japanese attack force that was going to bomb Pearl Harbor dec 7, 1941 or stay out and not change history
Like our motto states ''Once a squid always a squid''.
Go Navy
I'm shocked too.....the steam catapults are very dangerous and outdated WWII technology...we've had electromagnetic rail technology for decades. Also the nuclear reactors....if memory serves me....were based on the Navy's first submarine reactors from the Nautilus.
I would have liked to see that carrier engage the Japanese in that movie.
I assume they'd just keep their distance and use Superbugs (or I guess A-6s at the time of the movie) to start putting paveways right thru the flight decks of their carriers, then pick off the escort ships with air-launched harpoons.
Now that would be a cool movie.
I'm not sure if they had A-6 Intruders but i do remember seeing that they had A-7 Corsairs and F-14 Tomcats and they were using P-3 Orion's to monitor the Japanese armada off the Hawaian coast.
The CO and his top officers were always debating about whether they should destroy the Japanese ships or allow them to attack as they worried about how that would have altered history including them and the 1980's carrier they were on.
Where was the Nimitz stationed at ?? Norfolk or the west coast ??
Anyway we had the Forrestal and the Saratoga carriers stationed at Mayport (Jacksonville, Florida) during the 80's as when both carriers were out to sea we loved it as the nite clubs around the base were half empty and so alot of single ladies appeared but when one or both carriers were in port then sadly they all disappeared .
Ahh the trials and tribulations of being single in the Navy
I wasn't on the Nimitz, I'm not even sure it was a set of blue prints when I was in the Navy. I was on the Sara, out of Mayport. Spent a total of about 6 weeks there, at sea or in the yards (philly) for the rest of the time.
The Saratoga and the Forrestal are currently in Providence RI, and the Navy has just decided that the Sara will be scrapped. There was a move on to make it a museum like the Intrepid or Yorktown
I used to think that would be a problem however at least in a general sense i'm sure it works out fine now as males and females work together in most fields of employment today in the civilian world and besides they will always threaten you with UCMJ and trust me as i learned once about what UCMJ is all about for not getting back to the ship in time as i missed ''mustering at quarters'' in the morning as i had partied the nite before till like 3:00 a.m. and so i got busted by the CO and had to do 45 days restriction on board the ship and 45 days extra duty at nite from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. as that isn't fun at all when you cannot leave the ship after working hours like your buddies can as learned not to let that happen ever again
Yea, but at the end of the work day, everyone goes their separate ways, aren't a captive audience on a ship at sea. Longest 'at sea' without at least pulling liberty somewhere was 63 days. Everyone was nuts by the time we dropped anchor.
I'm not sure if they had A-6 Intruders but i do remember seeing that they had A-7 Corsairs and F-14 Tomcats and they were using P-3 Orion's to monitor the Japanese armada off the Hawaian coast.
The CO and his top officers were always debating about whether they should destroy the Japanese ships or allow them to attack as they worried about how that would have altered history including them and the 1980's carrier they were on.
I'm shocked too.....the steam catapults are very dangerous and outdated WWII technology...we've had electromagnetic rail technology for decades. Also the nuclear reactors....if memory serves me....were based on the Navy's first submarine reactors from the Nautilus.
Wow ... i didn't even know that they had that technology (electromagnetic) for the catapults around for that long as it does make you wonder why they went with steam for so long?
I know i've told this before but again when my friend who was a Machinist Mate gave me a tour of the #1 Engine Room and told me that if the steam lines that feed the turbines had developed a pin hole leak that the PSI was so powerful that it would instantly cut in half anything including a person if he walked across it's path as that technology was definitely outdated back in the 80's and they did phase it out by the end of the 80's.
Oh yeah the temps in the Engine and Boiler rooms were incredibly hot as i remember the temp gage was showing F140 degrees as they had to constantly pipe in refrigerated cold air down there and still they were required to rotate out of there every so often during their 4 hour shifts as i assume these Gas Turbine ships Engine Rooms are extremely cooler in temperatures.
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Yea, but at the end of the work day, everyone goes their separate ways, aren't a captive audience on a ship at sea. Longest 'at sea' without at least pulling liberty somewhere was 63 days. Everyone was nuts by the time we dropped anchor.
Point well taken on that as i do remember hearing about how the carriers were always out to sea for long periods at a time where as we on a destroyer were always pulling into a port somewhere in the world.
OK, had to log onto Netflix and put this in my queue. There is also a bonus version with a different outcome which I also ordered.
A different outcome .... as i'm wondering what it will entail? Anyway i won't say what happens at the end for those who want to watch the movie however when the entire Japanese invading bombing force was in the air about 50 miles off the coast of Pearl Harbor the Nimitz CO launches every F-14 and A-7 into the air to confront them and then ..... you gotta watch the movie
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