"MISTER PUSH -A-BUTTON" 1961 U.S. NAVY MOTHBALL FLEET / RESERVE FLEET & MODERN MISSILE NAVY 28654
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"Mr. Push-a-Button", a 1961 U.S. Navy film about the education and responsibilities of a Naval officer, starts with images of the U.S. Navy's mothball or reserve fleet, as a Navy officer receives new orders transferring him from reserve duties to the fleet and in particular, managing one of the U.S. Navy's new surface-to-air guided missile systems aboard the cruiser USS Canberra CA-70. The title of the film comes from the fear that the officer in the film expresses that "men are being replaced by machines" and that automation will replace men in the Navy. He realizes over the course of the film (and during an odd dream sequence seen at 15:20) that nothing can replace the human element when it comes to managing shipboard systems. The film is primarily about managing crewmen aboard ship, and the complex role of an officer thrust into a new position with which he has little experience. At 22:43, a full scale alert drill is undertaken aboard ship.
The weapon system seen in the film appears to be the Terrier, The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships. It underwent significant upgrades while in service, starting with a beam-riding system with 10 nautical miles (19 km) range at a speed of Mach 1.8, and ending as a semi-active radar homing system with a range of 40 nautical miles (74 km) at speeds as high as Mach 3. It was replaced in service by the RIM-67 Standard ER (SM-1ER).
Features images of USS Hartley DE-1029, USS Warrington DD-843, USS Joseph P. Kennedy DD-850, and USS Intrepid CV-11 appears at the 21:00 mark.
The film was produced by Lieutenant Commander Edward Wayne "Brad" Bradford, who also made "A Day in the Life of the President" featuring John F. Kennedy.
USS Canberra (CA-70/CAG-2) was a Baltimore-class cruiser and later a Boston-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Originally to be named USS Pittsburgh, the ship was renamed before launch to honor the loss of the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra during the Battle of Savo Island. USS Canberra is the only USN warship named for a foreign warship or a foreign capital city.
The ship entered service in 1943, and served in the Pacific theater of World War II until she was torpedoed during the Aerial Battle of Taiwan-Okinawa and forced to return to the United States for repairs. Placed in reserve after the war, Canberra was selected for conversion into the second guided-missile carrying warship in the USN fleet. Following the conversion, she was host to the ceremony for selecting the Unknown Soldier representing World War II in 1958, undertook an eight-month round-the-world cruise in 1960, participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis naval blockade in 1962, and was deployed to the Vietnam War on five occasions between 1965 and 1969.
Canberra was decommissioned in 1970, struck in 1978, and broken up in 1980. One of her propellers is preserved at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, while the ship's bell was donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum in 2001.
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Stationed at Dam Neck in 1970. Fire Control A School. After the Navy I worked briefly at Mare Island on the pre-mothballed ships at the North end of the island under the Veteran's Reemployment Act. I was once ordered to go into Canberra for some forgotten task as I was the only Navy vet (other guys were ex-Army) and knew ship layout. Being inside the ship, alone, was an unforgettable experience.
Considering the middle part of this film, that's a really cool story! I was hoping the twilight zone vibe would continue.
An interesting look at a ship my Dad was on from 1956-1961.
Don't hold your breath waiting for a film about the mothball fleet.
God, if I was that officer, you couldn't drag me away from those Battleships and Large Cruisers in mothballs. 😂
USS Canberra was the first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. Canberra was decommissioned in 1970, struck in 1978, and broken up in 1980. One of her propellers is preserved at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, while the ship's bell was donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum in 2001.
Yes, you are correct about the Heavy Cruisers USS Canberra and USS St. Paul. In 1976 I went to Bremerton, Washington - PSNY to see the USS Missouri BB 63 and they closed it to film the movie MacArthur with Gregory Peck. In 1976 the Heavy Cruisers USS Canberra and USS St. Paul were tied up at the pier next to USS Missouri all in the mothball fleet. My dad who passed in 2017 at age 92 served on the USS Louisville CA 28 from 43-46 and witnessed (52) sailors and Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler buried at sea due to (3) kamikaze hits in the Pacific. (1) main 8 inch 55 caliber gun turret found in 2016 in Nevada Desert. Take care!
Great story and history. We are slowly watching as our Greatest Generation passes on.
Commissioned in 1943
My first duty station out of boot camp in 1962 was the PACRESFLT at Rough & Ready Island, Stockton, CA. I also put the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Chicago CG-11 out of commission in 1980. CWO4 USN Ret.
My Dad was on the Canberra in '62/'63 as a communications officer. I told him about this video and sent him the link. He'll get a kick out of it.
DD-537 USS The Sullivans destroyer is shown at the 1:01 mark, the USS North Carolina
BB 55 and USS Washington BB 56 are shown at the .52 mark, and he boards either the battle cruiser USS Guam or USS Alaska at the 2:30 mark. Also, you can see the stern area of both battle cruisers when seeing the bows of the North Carolina class battleships. The USS The Sullivans is a great museum ship in Buffalo New York and the USS North Carolina is a great museum at Wilmington, North Caroline and I have visited many times.
Those are DEs at 1:01 - 537 was the Rizzi.
Yes, you are correct!
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19:56 Warrington and Joseph P. Kennedy.
he had the perfect job, driving around doing nothing.
I wish I had a job like that
That 'perfect job' could easily have been a career ender for an officer looking for promotion to Lieutenant Commander (O-4) from Lieutenant (O-3). He was at the point in his career that if he didn't get selected after three times in front of the Selection Board LT Lincoln truly becomes 'Mr. Lincoln,' forced out before ten years of service. That truly was a 'dead end job.'
@@robertf3479 Yes, the "perfect job" for a Marine Captain I was once shooting with at Quantico, was O in C of the rifle range there. He was already passed over twice, because by his own admission, he loved to spend the day shooting so much he didn't want to do anything else. I don't recall ever scoring a better rifleman though.
I did security; it truly sucked.
They sure don't make documentaries like this today with soft orchestral music in the background! Wow the technology we had in 1962!
"Projection of Power at Sea."...mission statement of the Navy when it still had balls. - CM3 Ray(USNR-ret).
"Gentlemen, gunpowder first extended the reach of a weapon beyond the strength of a man's arm."
Trebuchets would like to know your location.
Depends on how you look at it. a trebuchet is simply a combination of a number of simply machines that transferred stored energy ,represented in a suspended weight into a single motion. It take the strength of many man’s arm to suspend that weight in the first place. That is the same for all of pre gunpowder artillery
@@MrSheckstr No, it really doesn't depend on a fricking thing. I was technically correct, the best kind of correct there is and if you want to argue about it, use beasts of burden for the heavy lifting, and we'll add the manpower necessary to make gunpowder - every bit of it. And the really important thing about this, and I can not stress it enough, is how humorless you are to have needed to try to top that, all the way down to helping everyone know what a trebuchet is. Your reply was bad and you should feel bad.
Poor swabbie has to give up his coffee to the LT at 27:00
Guided missile cruiser shoots down a prop driven plane in about what, 3 whole minutes from the time of contact, And can hit it within 10 miles of the ship! Wow! Amazing! Can you imagine what the future will bring?!
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Yeah, but only if they know the direction from where the threat originates. Also, it helps that there's only one threat at a time.
Sure would be nice to watch these video’s without have the timer at the bottom of the screen.
In 1969 I was station in Portsmouth, VA at INACTSHIPFAC. Its long gone now, but it was a spooky place to work at night...
They used this movie at the Naval Academy for midshipman training in the 1970’s.
Really nothing to do with mothball fleet.
Good show to us navy types!
I’d have a hard time being at sea with beautiful dame at home like her!
For sure. I want me one of them.
I remember when I got transferred out of the mothball fleet in Bremerton Washington 1965
Kinda curious, other than (likely) boredom, is there other reasons why someone would want out of mothball? I think I'd like it. Course I'm 38 with no naval experience.
His wife's at home drinking!
" the big navvy hero ith finally home"
Whilst I love technology and it’s abilities to make life easier I can’t help but think that our modern military could be left impotent if someone somewhere somehow manages to find a way to disable that advanced technology, rendering our forces obsolete with “the push of a button”.
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Having a team that knows the task inside out and back to front is ok, but you need a team that knows it’s task AND be cohesive, good morale and not afraid to speak up when something or someone threatens that stability and teamwork, having spent a good proportion of my 24 years service managing small and large teams of aircraft technicians I appreciate what man management needs to be a successful team leader, some people have natural leadership qualities and some (like me) learned it over many years, and it’s not easy most of the time,but when it works a team would do anything for their leader.
7:35 oooh it moves that gaugey thing in a circle !
Wow!! That was kind of interesting.
My ship USS Benner DD-807 went to the morhball fleet at Bremerton WA them was scrapped eventually.
There was a fleet in the Hudson River I used to look at late ‘60’s early ‘70’s then they moved it. I was SO disappointed
Bayonne closed in 1962 ,where this is filmed . that's why alot of the ships there were transferred out or sent to scrap
This training film was old when I first watched it in 1974. The beginning of the film was set at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard's 'Mothball Basin.' Some of the ships in that mothball fleet were still there when my ship pulled a short upkeep period there in 1986. Ships included Battleship Wisconsin (being prepared for towing out for reactivation somewhere on the Gulf Coast, the three Des Moines class CAs, 2 Essex class carriers (Shangri La was one I think,) a butt load of destroyers and fleet auxiliaries plus one old diesel electric sub that someone told me was so infested with mold that she couldn't even be taken out and sunk.
All they have there now are one or two Ticonderoga CGs, about ten Perry class frigates and a small assortments of auxiliaries, small and medium size assault ships and CV-67 (ex John F Kennedy.) While some of the frigates MAY see sale and reactivation by other nations everything else INCLUDING CV-67 are awaiting sale to a shipbreaker or use as a target ship in a fleet exercise.
I bet each one has a heck of a story to tell too! Awesome!
You killed a B-17; how can U smile?
those were the days.
No coffee in the wardroom? NOW you can lose your sh*t.
What was the yellow funnel thingy on the end of the nose cone?
I was stationed at Dam Neck at OS A School twice as an instructor.
Pushed through the school in ‘83. The smell of the pig farm and swamp gas in the morning on base was amazing!
@@peterpoertner7042 I went through as a trainee from September 86 to February 87. I was already an OS3 then. Was a striker on my 2nd ship. Made OS2 off the March 87 exam and OS1 in 90.
"Check the gate", and ponder that somehow, somewhere, you screwed your career to end up in this dead end assignment.
Wait! If this were realistic, that officer would have to fill out a log book to show every sighting and reading he did. They'd have a storeroom full o' those logs! And no one would ever look at them.
Not a bad video, but the time stamp in the bottom middle is really quite distracting.
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@PeriscopeFilm while i understand to some degree, it still pains me as realistically this is not your footage.
And it was not taken by you. Or even ordered to be done by you.
I get that you preserved them and this is your way.
It's just still a bit painful and always will be
If I recorded war footage I wouldn't want timestamps and watermarks on it a hundred years from now.
I get it. But I can also still be dissatisfied.
Battle "E" awarded.
pongan este documental en Espanol si es posible.
Funny I was earlier looking at Dam Neck on Google earth, no surprise the buildings I remember from C school in 71 are gone as is the old gun line. Guess there is no need to teach the 5" /38 guns anymore.The big electronic thing hanging and rotating from the class room overhead may have been the rotating package for the AN SPG 51 B fire control radar for the Tartar missile system. May well have been the same class room I was in for the 51C class.
I saw the 5" guns fire from the beach at Dam Neck during FT A School in 1970.
In 1988 Crane was still doing tests on the 5" rounds. Of ones made during the Korean War. Mk28 Mod2 were in use on the Iowa's so were still in use until 1992. The USCG still has two ships with 5"/38s but both of them are soon to be gone if they haven't already been stricken and given to the Vietnamese Coast Guard.
Jeez! That job must be killin him! lol!
We used raz push buttons all the time for doing nothing all day. I was Hull Tech and my body's paying for it at 60. But I'm not bitter much. Lol
its tom sizemore...as a young upcomin actor
In 1956? Geez how old is he?
Can you say "Twilight Zone"?
The same equipment he "Loves to run" is still there, 60 years later, only with boondocker prints all over it.
Did they shoot down a B-17 at 26:34?
Those aircraft were used a lot as target drones.
Jake Raven you sick bigballs
What?
He's just another troll, Jake. B-17's were converted to QB-17 drones as far back as 1946 when they were used to sample the air after the big nuclear tests in the Pacific. They were used as targets for missile tests during the 50's but were rapidly wearing out by the last half of the decade. The last one was retired in 1959. The Navy never had QB-17's, and a Terrier missile would have been shooting a much faster drone by then, probably a Panther variant. The missile "hit" was inserted in the film and looks like a fake. If you look closely, the plane explodes but no missile hits it. A 1959 version of CGI graphics.
Unmistakeably yes.
It is ironic that someone pushes a button at the other end the entire city is destroyed
Look up the definition of irony and get back to me.
Would an officer normally get such in depth training down to circuits and troubleshooting.
Of course. He would be likely have earned an EE or Mechanical Engineering degree (or one of the other STEM concentrations) prior to even entering the Navy. Circuits and troubleshooting are something he's already expert with.
Mr Push Button would not make it in todays Navy. Maybe he should switch to being a Diversity Officer.
Yep, typical officer. Thinks the whole world revolves around him.
I think that was point of the film.
Sam C...How about the Admiral laying his coffee cup on the deck at 28:00? Looks like the Captain is thinking...hey asshole, you mother doesn't work here.
Weird. Periscope films are usually information rich -- not dramatic. This guy supposedly had a personnel issue, but this does not really show how he solved it. A mile of celluloid, failing to make its point.
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