Why Living On An Aircraft Carrier Sucks
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 22. 08. 2024
- We've shown you what living on a submarine is like, and why it totally sucks, but today we wanted to take a look at another kind of living situation that could suck possibly worse than living on a sub. We're going to show you what it's like living on a US aircraft carrier and why it's almost like living in prison. Do you think you would be able to handle duties aboard an aircraft carrier as part of the US Navy?
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Iâve lived on an aircraft carrier for 4 years, that has been some of the best sleep of my life â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
AMEN! Once you learn to sleep through a Tomcat on the cat or hitting the trap.. You can SLEEP THROUGH ANYTHING... and pretty much anywhere.
Going NAVY, excited but nervous and hope I dont get carrier
oh yeah yeah
DirtyBirdSpecial why??
@@fantilldeath528trajectory " small boys " is what we call smaller ships like destroyers and frigates.. it's also where you will find non-skid on the walls. You don't end up with that on the forcastle of a carrier, and trust me the food isn't bad!
I'd say 60% of this information is wrong. Coming from someone who is active duty on a carrier
Care to explain?
Brandon Clarke especially getting blasted by the jet blast. Thereâs kind of a wall behind the catapult to protect crew, so thereâs no way to get blasted off
LawGuyEnforcementGuy - That âwallâ is a JBD, or Jet Blast Deflector, raised during takeoff. Jet engines are still turning & burning to maneuver planes around the deck, and yes, sailors have been blown off the deck at times.
What ship are you on?
Tony CJ - Iâm not anymore. I was on the Forrestal (CV-59) from 87-92, then the Kennedy (CV-67) from 96-2K. Been retired since â06.
Edit : If you type in âForrestal Kennedyâ into image search, you will see both ships that I was on sitting side by side in shipyard, rusting away. For me itâs both sentimental and depressing.
Been on a carrier for 3 years, this is like 70% inaccurate
its a youtube vid its just give little information
Christian what is it like? Do you recommend joining the navy? Is there WiFi or phone service and can you get in contact with people?
@@powerailgaming3849 No. There is no Wifi or Phone service. You communicate by going to computer and emailing or using Facebook (if the bandwidth allows). And only during internet hours, which is usually like 2000-0300
Moral comes into question?
Exactly
Sailors in their semi-private racks are definitely using their ipads to view "books".
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Combat jack
Rub n tug
Yes, if "CORN" is considered "books" now!
Itâs hard for me to watch this with an F-16 on the flight deck... đ€Šđ»ââïžđ€Šđ»ââïžđ€Šđ»ââïž
BudgetBugout, I know right Iâm like if this channel doesnât even know what jets go on carriers, they probably shouldnât be making naval videos
Risen Kings at least have an F-4 or F-14
@đHAWG! i dont know much but I believe most aircraft carriers use the F/A-18 but some are using the newer F-35C
So hard to sleep when two f-16s are taking off on the flight deck
Put the correct jet or put no jet
âWhy do you wanna live in this submarine?â âLetâs just say I have experience.â
What experience?
What boat and or boats did you serve on? I served on 3; late 80's to 2008.
USS Hancock CVA -19 launched 1944. Stacked five high in birthing.
We had 3500 sailors on a ship designed for 1800.
My dad served on subs so he wouldn't have to serve on carriers.
@@uncbadguy There was some five-high berthing in one section of male berth and a 18' span of a female berth on the T/S _Kennedy_ as well.
I served on 3 different aircraft carriers and saw the sun whenever I wanted to.I had fun on all the carriers I served on,they are HUGE!!!LOL!!!! GO NAVY!!!!
Hooyah
@@tylerwisniowski5825 no hooyah!
And when they aren't doing flight ops they have a great place to run or walk. The gym is huge compared to a destroyer's.
I wanna enlist when I get out of high school
"With your fellow soldiers" ... sailors ... we're sailors, please just give us that. Army=soldier, Navy=sailor, Marine Corps=marine, Air force=airmen, thank you
hooyah shipmate!
HOOYAH SHIPMATE
It goes to show that the narrator doesn't know what the f'k he was talking about.
Short answer: *You're on a frickin aircraft carrier*
Who was the genius that decided to make a floating runway?
@@DarwinskiYT it's important
You just happen to be on an aircraft carrier with Corona Virus spreading âčđšđ·
Jason / coronavirus isnt waterborne
@@jamesknight2952 đ from person to person
Regular sailor: *doesnât see sun*
Naval aviators: ha lol
Flighteagle DIY Facts
@@reijiminato8762 Exactly...
Engineering: the sun is a lie and you cant prove me otherwise
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On 1 carrier deployment I was on in 1966 I want 42 days without seeing the sun, however, the environment onboard a carrier is not as bad as you may it sound. I would say, you got your information from some disgruntled sailors. The navy is what you made, it was then and is now.
Left hand salutes and F-16's landing on the carrier. Nice.
*F-18 or F-35. Im pretty sure the 16's are only used for training or the airforce
@@EMN_Sandwich 1:30 F-16s landing on the deck, seems legit
@@EMN_Sandwich F-16 is definitely a USAF jet. Navy fighter jets would be F-14's, F-18's, and the Navy variant of the F-35.
@@coode6129 what do you mean?
@@aerohead5580 I asked one of the pilots at my command today and they said F-14s are really never on deployment anymore
I served on 5 different carriers during my 20 years in the navy and i must say i enjoyed most of the time i was aboard the ships.
Do you think itâs a good idea for me to join in this day and age?
I heard the aircraft carrier wasnât that bad. Sleeping was nice but the food was great. My Dad has told me many stories of his year on a carrier. He said it was pretty nice but a lot of cleaning and boredom.
no, the food is not great
You have that backwards the food is not great but wile we don't get alot of sleep the sleep you do get is the best.
Sleeping is pretty fire tho
@@alansteel What ship ?
Right now my dad is on the USS Harry S. Truman and from the emails I get from him the food is horrible
*living on a carrier is difficult*
*food is excellent*
Me: Iâm in
The food is NOT excellent lol
Sos Team food is excellent? đđđ
@@ceelt I did a 7 month deployment on the USS Roosevelt in 2017
Depends on the ship
Excellent?
More like excelln't
5:20 "At least the food is almost always excellent"
*laughs in double dragon*
if the food is excellent, prepare for the bad news..
Best thing I ever heard was that each deployment they have a fineite amount of flavor. They use more some nights, and less on others, but once the flavor runs out. Its out
We did have a great bakery department on the Ranger. I'll bet even the three days bread and water guys didn't gripe that much.
There is a reason there is Hot sauce, Salt, Pepper, Ketchup and Mustard on every mess table.
@@whirledpeaz5758 Because people like condiments! Am I right?
Living on an US Navy aircraft carrier was the most awesome 2 years of my life!
Being on a Navy ship was just like being a monk in a monastery. Incels practicing involuntary celibacy. As a civilian and veteran, it was much easier for me to meet females. Such explains why myself and thousands of others annually refuse to reenlist.
It was very cool indeed!
What's wrong with you? Really who hurt you this bad?
Note: When making a video about the Navy Aircraft Carriers, you might want to include graphics of an ACTUAL naval aircraft. F-16s are Air Force only and are not capable of carrier landing.
Just goes to show you that infographics doesn't know what they are talking about. Making things up for those that don't know any better.
Looks like the Navy got the F-16N carrier borne LOL. At least there was an F-35 in the beginning for modern accuracy.
The Navy F-16's are (or were) only used by Topgun & a few VC & VX squadrons for ACM & weapons testing.
The landing gear on an F-16 could never withstand a carrier launch or landing.
Lol can u break it down the foundational difference between air force and navy aviation? And where does Marine aviation fit in all of this?
@@AQUAPHREESH193 if it was easy the airforce would do it ... Marines get all the Navys old stuff... well except the F35B...
This is laughably inaccurate (Source: served 4 1/2 years on carriers)
care to explain
@HowDareYou everyone has their own preferences as to their personal comfort of living. Some people may find the idea of a carrier to be unenjoyable, but for others it my be the ideal way of living. It all depends on what you personally prefer.
why
Cool but how so?
Ok we understand that but some people might've said that it was terrible these are based off other people's story im pretty sure you should know that if you were on a carrier for 4 years
I was stationed in the JFK in the early 80's. I could go up to vultures row or weather decks for fresh air or sunshine anytime. This video isn't entirely accurate
We were berthed alongside the JFK in Norfolk in the 80âs. đđŒ. Thanks for your service, Mate.
Yeah, and the hangar aircraft elevator doors are usually wide open. The fantail was a great spot too; only closed during recovery and engine tests.
@@michaelmappin4425 good point. I forgot about the fantail.
I was on the JFK in V2.
Flight deck crew.
JFK from 01-06. ET in the mouse shop
I served on a carrier, where did you get this misinformation from because this video is very inaccurate
You are wrong!
@@pz20jacobcouttsrogue did you serve?
@@vtorres7682
Well, why don't you tell us what's inaccurate?
I can safely say, as someone who ACTUALLY served on an Aircraft Carrier, I can safely say whoever wrote this tripe has never set foot, let alone served on a Carrier. There is SO much wrong here.
Can you give us some examples or details??
Any subject that they've covered that I have even a passing knowledge about I've noticed some extreme inaccuracies. Just take anything they say with a grain of salt. My favorite is the vitamin D supplements the ship's doctor gives you.
Can you elaborate?
@@alansteel Yeah, I found that hilarious. Most you get from Medical is a frickin' Z-Pack. A supplement like that would require a diagnosis of an extreme deficiency before that got issued.
That food comment gave me the best laugh ive had in a while.
U just ruined a lot of peopleâs dreams but having a career like this is not for enjoyment
Trust me, it's not as bad as they are making it out to be.
its not that bad
Yeah. Thanx alot for the encouragement, right?
At least it warned them
@@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 its not that true tho lol
F16s on Carrier totally explains the authenticity of whoever wrote this đ
âNever see the sun in weeksâ
**shows them sweeping the flight deck**
âWorking below decks.........â
Iâm sure thatâs a euphemism in the navy
George Patrick itâs actually one of the least imaginative ones.
My girlfriend never complains when I tell her I'm standing a Fire Watch below Decks tonight. She turns red though with the anticipation of the flames and I doing my duty to quench the heat.
@sailorx1976 that only applies if you're hot bunking on a SSBN.
@@Mantreaus Friggin snipe. Lol.
Yup
Infographics show: âat least you donât live on a submarineâ
Guy living in a submarine: ...
Rage Raptor submariner: at least you're not on a gn
@@notdisplayed2617 guy living on a gn: ....
Guy living on a 688
The narrator of this piece, probably was never in the Navy!
Well i think thats true but he might be using this based on other people's storys its just their opinion feel me?
He absolutely was not. He would've had more definitive answers.
They most likely took stories from people who have
-Navy Aircraft Carrier
-All aircraft are F-16's
Hmmmđ€
You are wrong there skippy-
Carriers have at least 10 different aircraft on board!
@@jpecenko I am aware of that, thats why I chose to make a joke about the fact that the video got it wrong.
I bet living with an angry girlfriend is even worse....
EDIT: Thanks for the likes, the GF is less mad now :)
It makes dying look better and better everyday âč
Atleast u have a girl right by ur side
Living with Karen
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itâs on 69 i canât like sorry
I have a feeling that whoever made this video has never been on an aircraft carrier or even talked to somebody who has.
Life on a ship is no cake walk obviously, but there is some downtime. There are also plenty of areas where even enlisted men can walk and get fresh air to include the hangar bay and catwalks. We even used to do huge group workouts and or 5k runs on the flightdeck when operations were down. There were also multiple FOD (Foreign Object Debris) walkdowns on the flightdeck each day. Those who don't see the sun for days on end are those who choose not to. With a bigger ship does come slightly more room, and being on a larger ship means that you don't list in the water as terribly as others. I consider myself lucky that I was on a carrier and not any other ship.
I was in a squadron attached to the USS Saratoga as both a Plane Captain and Aviation Ordnanceman, therefore I worked on the flight deck AND IT WAS AWESOME!
You also... an AO Me too,,USS Coral Sea,USS Enterprise both as ships company weapons dept AND VA196 USS Carl Vinson
USS Constellation, AO, ships company. đ€Łđ
@@4343george USS Coral Sea? Exactly how old are you? đ€Łđ
@@paleamigo8575 65 yrs old as of this April
You hear either a catapult shot or a aircraft landing in the middle of the night and their loud. And you always see someone new, and it's possible they were onboard longer than you.
Navy veteran here: We see the sun more than you would think. I was abord the USS Ronald Reagan during my time & we almost always had the hanger bay doors wide open when we were out to Sea or on deployment. We just used red lights at night so we weren't visible to the enemy from a far. You were pretty spot-on about everything else though.
Uss ronald mcdonald
You guys don't stop at a country like Japan for a couple of days?
Thanks Jay! My son is on the same ship now. The are preparing to leave Japan any day now. Hoping he will be ok.
Experiences differ. When not on watch every morning I'd see the sun at 0700 during muster (Also on CVN 76). That was very nearly the entire extent of my exposure to the sun. Otherwise there was nothing above the main deck for me, and everything below to keep me from going there. I could see the sun if I wanted, but that is greatly out-weighed by the need for sleep.
@Madtroid what ship where youn on?
Navy Vet here. Spent 2 years on a Tender, been to Iraq, worked my tail off 18-20 hours a day, slept in a âcoffin rackâ, enjoy our Steel Beach Picnics, awesome camaraderie, hung out with my shipmates off-hours, liberty call at exotic ports and learned how to be a responsible adult. Itâs a ship of war and you volunteer to serve.
My advice for anyone interested in joining the military... Go the officer route.
Take my word for it.
J R enlisted party harder my friend
You tell him why you signed up for a role of an officer instead of enlisting lol a guy named J R told me to
I concur going as an officer is something I recommend if you are able to. Also I recommend the Air Force but I am a little biased
@@donnykim9068 officers make more money, better quality of life in the military, fantastic opportunities post military.
Only if you don't wanna work for a living!
For those in the comments section who've been on carriers,
and other Naval ships, thank you for your service.
Anyone in the military will have gone longer than 3 days without seeing the sun before going in their first deployment LOL
My eyes!!!
My dad said he joined the Navy to see the world. But only saw a engine room
Not true
U not allowed to go outside the ship for that long?
You are allowed to do quite a bit in your off time. The hangar bay is always open and thereâs catwalks on the side of the ship.
Seems they didn't get the real skinny on carrier life but yeah it's tough but not as bad as infographics would make it sounds.
doesn't most everyone police call the desk every morning?
@@ghost-lp9cv Huh?
@@donjohnson7189 I think he's Ralph Wiggum on shrooms..
Thatâs why I watch these man, heâs so skilled after all these years at making things sound worse than they are, and itâs kind of incredible in an odd way at this point.
ghost it's called FOD walk down, and yeah it happens a couple times per day
On the Nimitz we had a Coffee shop, multiple vending machines, TVs in most berthings, 2 ship stores to buy random snacks and goodies, multiple gyms, and many different classes and fitness groups (we even had a Tai Chi and Zumba class on board the ship)
I was an ABH3 onboard USS NIMITZ /Air Dept/ Primary Flight Control-V5, from 7/2001 till 6/2006. It was not that bad , and our mission was to take the fight to the enemy. Also there is no hot racking on a Carrier. My time on board CVN68 was great and I was there for the Tic Tac incident.
. I lived on a carrier during the Vietnam war for better part of three years. Yes it was dangerous and I had some real close called myself but It was better than living on a submarine. Of all the ships the Navy has an aircraft carrier is the best one to live on. This is an over-exaggerated video.
As a sailor I can tell you that Aircraft Carriers are known for having the highest quality of living standards out of any vessel in the US arsenal. If you want to call life sucky hit up a sub or a DDG
Jibri L Kea lock it up shipmate.
I will trade you right now. You want to get Nimitzed?
Jibri L Kea minesweeper*
Got a friend on a DDG complaining about food and supplies, and all I can do is tell him about how outside of a crisis, it was worse on the carrier than it is on his DDG. He still has salt and ketchup and cooks that know how to heat food. He'll live.
My heart goes out to those poor Bubbleheads and Blackshoes.
Airdale for life!
I completely agree with those who said that this video is extremely inaccurate. It's as if no one involved with this video served on a carrier, or even interviewed any carrier sailors.
I served aboard the USS Enterprise in the late 70's as a lowly enlisted guy. The experience was incredible. In fact, I can't think of anything I'd change if I had it to do over. There were places other than the flight deck to get some sun... and see flying fish, dolphins, and the occasional whale. And it was really cool to be able to go up into the superstructure and watch the F14's launch. And there were plenty of times when guys (it was an all-male crew then) could lay out on the flight deck, or jog.
I just joined for the adventure and to see some of the world (Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong and Perth Australia). But when I got out and decided to go to college, I was grateful for the GI Bill, and was able to get a business degree because of it.
ive been to 3 carriers of 3 different countries and i can say that its not that bad living in there, foods actually pretty good there and besides, you will have a superpower called "being able to sleep through anything"
The planes shown are F16s. That's an Air Force plane, not a Navy one.
That was painful to watch..drove me crazy
Came looking for this comment
Hard to take this video serious when they can't even get the planes right.
Everyone keeps complaining about the portrayal of planes. No one is commenting on all the people with goatees though. And lets be honest, these videos aren't made to be wonderfully artistic. I would imagine they are recycling plane visuals from other videos.
You are correct I believe some variants still have a tail hook. But yes the F/A-18 would have been more appropriate.
Navy recruiters are going to be mad at this videođ
pretty realistic... but at a basic level.. everything is true .. but theres a deeper understanding of living it..higher highs lower lows.. people on board are closer than family...no matter of race, creed or religion...and everyone's life and survival is dependant on everyone else
No, Navy recruiters are going to love this video. There are lots of lies/misinformation in this video that make the Navy sound great. It's a recruiter's job to do exactly that.
You know it.
What about working on a destroyer or cruiser
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I was stationed on a carrier for 4 years. Spent year and half on deck then transferred to Reactor, life wasnt bad what so ever. On deck was lomg hours but some of the greatest views and in between ops he most peaceful i have evee been. Below decks was cake, some of the best sleep I have ever gotten. Everyone is different but life on a carrier is pretty easy, multiple gyms, pre covid plenty of ports.
I love it when someone who has never had a day of Navy service tells you what living on an aircraft carrier is like
As a person who was on an aircraft carrier for 5 years, when tf did we get a movie theatre onboard??? We set up a projector in the hangar bay for movie nights.
@LosDosFancyPants that's it! Nothing like movie night in hangar Bay 2! Or with your friends in the berthing lounge.
Movie theater in hangar Bay 2. And hanging in the berthing lounges.
it was next to the mcdonalds
Me: *finally going to sleep at midnight after working in the propulsion plant all day and then standing watch for 5 hours
Someone with a needle gun on the deck right above berthing: "Let me play for you the song of my people"
That is the worst and my birthing was right off the mess decks so everyone use our head. It was so nasty.
My rack was right against the bulkhead with a weapons elevator on the other side of it. So every night I fell asleep to the sweet sound of hydraulic pressure and the 3rd deck ballistic hatch slamming shut.
I can't complain though, at least I didn't sleep on the 03 level underneath the catapults đ
When I was in deck I slept on the 01 just aft of the Focsul and the cats were loud there too. Now though Iâm in AIMD and sleep just off the hangar bay. Itâs so quiet in there for the most parg
Your comment sums it up perfectly.
Could be worse, you could be like the ABs on the Nimitz who's Berthing was right under the Water brake... I got lucky and was in the berthing with the QMs, near the aft end of the ship
I serve 1year and it was best time of my life.
You feel patriotic in the end of service. And frankly i wasnât bored for a second. Captain was funny and friendly and always strict and he is right most of time. I was radar monitor
Life aboard a carrier is also a once in a lifetime experience that I would not trade for almost anything, giving me life skills I use to this day.
Fact of the day:
A Blue whale's heartbeat could be heard from more than 3 kilometers away.
- Daily Fun Facts
Daily Fun Facts I thought you had a channel
I must Have Alzheimerâs because I donât remember asking
Really? đ±
That's cool
That's actually cool
So it's safe to say that the person that did this has never served on a carrier. How about doing more homework before making overly broad generalizations.
They most likely wanted to make a topic on this so they went researching and found stories from people who have served on a carrier that said they didn't like their time on the carrier
Worked on a flight deck as an aircraft handler for 2 years when I was 18. Loved every minute of it. Great job, slept right under the "cat" and would wake for a moment during launches but quickly got used to it.
My brother served on a Destroyer, one of his favorite disaster stories is from when they needed to flush the plumbing and someone forgot to inform the XO who just happened to be shaving at the time. My brother was passing by heading to his duty station when hears the XO screaming and cursing, he peaks in to see what went wrong only to catch sight of the XO covered in sewage. He immediately runs away before he could be spotted and spent most the morning chuckling about it, much to the confusion of the enlisted men under him.
Anyone can go on the flight deck at least once a day for fod walk down. It's just that those who work below deck often don't care too.
Yeah, this is terribly inaccurate video. You'd think with all the effort they put into animating this, that they'd actually do some research or talk to carrier personnel. You're exactly right. I was a Nuke MM and rarely saw the sun, but it was by choice.
"When war breaks, you'll be the first to know, but that also means you'll be the first to be attacked"
Me: Oof
Actually, I believe it would be the combat support ships that would be attacked first. You take out the replenishment, you take out a lot more.
@@refrigeratoraptitudetest204 against the Geneva treaty to do that though. Aside from ww3, that wont happen.
Maurice Marshall war is war, rules of engagements will be broken by all sides, so he is right
@@refrigeratoraptitudetest204 from the ww2, japanese aircraft carrier 1st to be taken down in the fleet. not the destroyer or even support ship
@@refrigeratoraptitudetest204 Incorrect. The first thing that you would attack is what can attack you. Standard military tactics.
I am very entertained by the arresting cable passing through the island at 1:35. Thanks bud.
low budget infographics :)
4 years on the USS Harry S Truman, 2 of which working on the flight deck. So long as flight ops isnt being conducted the flight deck is typically open for anyone to be on deck unless otherwise closed. If you cant find a way to get top side or on the fantail for some sun you got issues. We never had to hot bunk with someone else and we were deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. We had around 6200 people on board with attached airwing.
I live aboard a carrier for 4 years. Done two tours to the Gulf. I love every minute of it. Seen 10 countries and 1/2 the world. Sub do have better food. We have jet flying things in every day. I only had 25 men in my breathing area. And hanger deck is where you can see the sun every day.
*Last time when I was this early Corona was a beer*
@scrubo da pufferfish eugh nah not cursed enough
I grew up right outside of NAS Miramar in San Diego. It's a big Navy town. I heard stories from Sailors all throughout my youth. That's why I joined the Air Force
The planes shown on the aircraft carrier are F-16 fighting falcons, wich are Air Force planes. The planes that should have been there would be the F/A-18 hornet, the F/A-18 super hornet, the F/A-35 lighten, and the C/2-A Greyhound
I was stationed on a carrier for 4 years. It was actually fun
Donât lie to me! Really? My next duty station is most likely going to be a carrier, maybe Iâll like it
Thank you for your service
@@calebwhite7436 this channel has a history of being misleading just assume what the guy is saying is wrong in this video
@@hilly9433 What things are misleading that theyâve said previously?
@@Critical_HitZ look at their roller coaster one
Careful what ya wish for; I was part of the bridge crew (QM3) and spent a lot of time outside, rain or shine, hot or cold, often with little cover from sun or wind while on top of the ship so to speak. I often envied the guys below while standing lookout/watch on cold windy nights or weathering hot tropical days.
Can confirm smell is by far the most flashback inducing memory of the Navy.
Jack Ryan was on a carrier for about 10
mins and he got a uniform , saw the bridge , and had coffee with an admiral. And he wasnât even in the navy
Dad was a signalman on Antietam, never heard him complain about living on a carrier. BTW, the bathroom is called the head in the Navy.
Funny that they had F-16s running off of the carriers lol.
Xephonia and there were railings and life preservers too smh
I saw a beach chair. LIES! :-D
Yeah, showing F-16's on the flight deck bothered me the most I think. I half wondered if I was being trolled with that one.
Iâve been on one. For a fifth grade field trip, the hallways are more narrow than two people and the stairs are as steep as a cliff
You probably went on an old one like the Midway or other one that's not in service anymore
@Rich Lopez I've been on the Theodore Roosevelt and the hallways were tight and the stairs were steep
@@nukeylukey775 No doubt.Today's aircraft carriers are way larger than ones like the Midway on display and they all still have steep stairs and narrow hallways like any military ship
I bet you have a hallway in your house smaller than the ones on the ship! Depends on where you go the ship too!
I was assigned to a carrier when I was in the Marine Corps (FMF) I loved it, no regrets
Everyone :Itâs Horror Because Like Almost Everyone Has Covid-19
Info graphic show : NOPE WRONG
The captain of the Theodore Roosevelt should have sent this with his letter.
@Simo Which one? I was referring the aircraft carrier in recent new due to its coronavirus outbreak.
SEAZNDragon I think the captain was right
And he got sick even so he had a tiny bit more space, these ships are breeding grounds for contagious viruses not just American ships and subs but everyone else's military ships and subs as well
We want our skipper back :(
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After viewing this video, I can say that I would have a hard time believing the writer has ever even seen a photo of an aircraft carrier.
When I joined the Navy, I purposely chose a rating that would get me on a carrier. I get motion sick very easily. Carriers are so big, the sea has to really be rough before you feel much motion. I also got some of the best sleep in my life on a carrier once I got used to the various background noise made by the ship's operation and the planes landing or launching.
I also learned that carriers are never more than 5 miles from land. It's just straight down.
Iâve recently pulled in from deployment on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower. 206 days with no ports.
Imagine the aircraft carrier also fly
My brain: not today bruh.
7hund3r Temp3st what
like in avenger or a zeppelin aircraft carrier?
I think CNN must have produced this video. As a man that served on a Carrier there is almost no truth to anything said in this video! Sure you can't go on the flight deck during flight ops unless you're supposed to be there, but there are plenty of times you can get out on deck! There are places where you can actually watch flight ops if you're off duty. As for the passage ways there is plenty of room on a modern carrier for 3 guys to pass by each other. F16's which you constantly show on this video are/were flown by the Airforce and not onboard Navy carriers. I actually enjoyed carrier life. We ran out of things a lot slower than the smaller warships. We had supply aircraft coming in every day almost. You should be ashamed of this video!!!!!
This is a wonderful story about a place the author has never been.
Green shirt here, lived on the 03 just aft of the 1 wire and worked on the roof. Had the crud the whole time. Always able to find some solitude on the weather decks and the stars were amazing. Chow was great, never missed a meal. Donât regret it for a moment.
Hard to believe how many stars are out there and how dense the Milky Way is.
It was one of the best experiences aboard the LPH when I was in the Marines.
Starts talking about arresting wires snapping
*Shows F-16 with wires that stretch across the deck and not even going down the runway*
F-16 jets belong to the USAF not the Navy, So you wonât find them on an aircraft carrier!
Knew I'd find others who caught this as well. So lazy
That is a very rare event these days. If you look close @ real video of 'NAVY' aircraft landing,
you'd see the buckle where they change the flight deck 'ribbon' before that particular piece of arresting wire reaches 100 strikes.
You caught that too? Yeah there's just a very few Navy F-16N's, and none in carrier ops. If you got business up there during recovery ops, your head has to be on a swivel. A broke off cross deck pendant will cut you in half quicker than a heart beat.
The CDP (Cross-Deck Pendant) is changed after 100 hits, so the chances of that happening are greatly reduced. That said, I have seen an arresting-gear failure. the cable that failed was on the arresting-gear engine belowdecks, and failed because it had been mis-reeved during the last main arresting cable replacement. We lost an F14, but the pilot and RIO ejected and were recovered. Nobody on deck was injured.
1:33 Nice F-16 landing on a carrier, amazing offset to starboard you just run over a lot of deck crew and the arresting wire goes straight trough the island.
GekkeGerrie Probably the reason why the Navy acquired Hornets instead of Falcons for jets
@@reijiminato8762 yes it was sarcasm
Been there done that. USS Saratoga, CVA 60, Med Cruise, 1970. I saw 4 deaths in 2 months, ended up in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda MD. After that was 2 years, 9 months and 22 days with VC-8, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. A man I was stationed with there, my best friend for 48 years died 12/27/2020 on the operating table. Give him a hand salute. He deserves it!
My father was in the Navy in the 60's.. liberty launch was 24 hours off carrier.. well... he lost most of his hearing sleeping under the resting gear. He is no longer with us... but what he did for us i am proud of
Have to disagree. Served on a carrier for 4 years. There's plenty of time to see the sun in your off time. As for cramp it's spacious for a warship.
I can see the sun from the smoke pit or the hangar bays. You dont go weeks without the sun, and we exercise almost daily in the hangar bay between operations.
My favourite chill areas were the fantail and the sponson under the LSO platform..
not everyone does bud, definitely gone over a month multiple times without seeing any hint of daylight, all depends on your job
David Nurse you exercise daily in the hangar bay. I go to one of the other gyms. I also work nights so.
exercise daily? must have been one of those 9-5r's with no watch standing or maintenance duties.
@@phiksit no. It was 12 hours on and 12 hours off unless you were in security or doing holiday routine on Sundays. There were people exercising daily because some people worked nights, and some days. So during the day night crew was working out and vice versa. Also you could go to your LPO during work hours and ask for some PT time. It is mandatory for them to allow sometime for you to PT.
Donât like how infographics makes so much content only to find most of the information is not relevant.. not the first time they do this
I served on carriers 50 years ago and even then most of this information is wrong. The worst thing was the noise when aircraft were taking off and landing and he doesnât even mention that.
I spent two years on the Midway and disagree with about 90 percent of this drivel.
Same here.
Robert Stowe the midway looks cool I went to the museum in San Diego
4 yrs USS Coral Sea, your sister ship...I completely agree with you, video is mostly BS
I've lived on 5 different aircraft carriers in my career and you have some information correct, but most is wrong. You can see the sun everyday if you wanted. The hangar bays are always opend and plenty of sponsons also vultures row. Also, anyone can go to the bridge... you will be told to leave if it gets to busy. Sailors not soldiers don't go up there often because they are working, but mostly because the CO is up there, but you aren't going to the brig.
So if you are interested in Joining the Navy I wouldn't use this video as your recruitment video. There is plenty of information out there for you.
What h meant by that was you won't be able to go on the aircraft because you'll get run over or something. oh i know i'm late.
Joined up after high school. Spent several years on the Kitty Hawk working mostley on the flight deck at night. Very dangerous.
It sill beats being a soldier and sleeping in the open in the rain (See the movie "Platoon"). Sailors always have a warm dry place to sleep, even if it's the deck plates in the engine room.
PROS: When A Zombie Apocolaypes break out you'll be on the safest spot.
Jay Y Unless the breakout starts on the ship
Or spreads before people know whatâs up.
Food shipments would stop and you'd have to eventually get back to land.
Corona says hold my beer.
That didn't stop Covid-19.
I was on the aircraft carrier USS Midway before the virus hit. It was huge and really easy to get lost down below the flight deck. It takes several hours to see everything, but was all pretty cool.
Most Amazing History Guy I went to on the USS Yorktown before
You see the sun plenty when they roll out the bbq grill and picnic on deck
I think we had one in my four years onboard... whoopee
I have to disagree with much of what was said in the video. Because of my job in the Navy I had assignments to various types of ships. I was never actually ship's company due to the nature of what I did, but I definitely preferred being assigned to an aircraft carrier over all other ships with the possible exception of supply ships for a variety of reasons. The main reason for my preference of carriers is that there is so much more to do on carriers. The ship's store is larger. The mess decks are larger (with more food choices as well). There is a chapel where it possible to just sit in silence and a chaplain is always assigned to carriers whereas for smaller ships it was hit or miss. Medical services are better (I was once on a smaller ship that only had a corpsman and I had a dental problem that he did not handle very well - I really needed to see a dentist).
By the way - a carrier never goes into a hostile scenario by itself. It is always accompanied by a phalanx of other ships whose primary duty is to protect the carrier. Those ships have awesome capabilities, so it would be almost impossible for an enemy to directly attack carriers themselves. Plus, if a carrier really does need to bug out of an area, it can do so with a speed that would surprise most landlubbers. I know this from direct experience.
LOL "You resign yourself to your bunk and luckily have an ipad for...books. My mind went in a totally different direction lol
I imagine just living off the edge an aircraft carrier in the ocean would be terrible
stupidest comment ev er.
rusty saw it happen in North Atlantic. Looked for him for two hours then had to leave. Hypothermia killed him by then if the fall didnât.
I lived in a carrier for over a year. Wasn't bad at all. Plus everyone is allowed to go on the flight deck at least daily.. this video is so full of misinformation
Whoever did this video doesnât know what heâs talking about. Try working the deck and having to sleep underneath the number 3 wire. Youâll be so tired that landing aircraft wonât even bother you. Made 4 cruises on board the old Independence CV-62, as part of 2 different A-6 squadrons. Loved that boat.