I'd fucking love to just be given free reign to go where I please and just explore. The engineer in me marvels at the fact that everything you see and touch has been pre determined and designed with a specific purpose in mind.
Thanks for posting this vid. This vid brings back fond memories: the first time I witnessed a sunrise was the day after I joined the Navy - July 28, 1964 - at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I was only 17 at the time. The first time I saw the ocean was when I served on board the USS Kitty Hawk circa June 1965. I was based at NAS Miramar @ VF-121 F-4 squadron. I did a week on board the Kitty Hawk as a brown shirt plane captain.
In November 1965 transferred to the USS Bennington and served as a ships company blue shirt in V-1 Division. Yup, I saw a lot of sun rises on board the Bennington. I’ll never forget learning the pathways of the ship and learning what those yellow patches on the wall meant. I learned them to perfection and after a month or so never got lost on the Bennington. As I watched this video, I recognized some of the sounds and could almost smell the fuel, hydraulic fluid and humanity -- of the ship. Those sounds and smells will stay with me forever. I matured from an immature teenager to a man during my ’kitty cruse’ service in the Navy and if I could regenerate these tired old 75-year-old bones and body --- WOULD SERVE AGAIN ON BOARD A CARRIER IN A HEART BEAT. Just my 2¢
I did 2 Med cruises on Nimitz '75-'79 and watching this really took me back. The spaces, corridors, places to eat, and all the nooks and crannies. You could get lost quite easily but more importantly, find yourself in a place where your not supposed to be so sightseeing wasn't a normal practice. Like living in a town you generally only go where you need to be and stay in your own neighborhood. I wasn't ships company but part of the airwing. VA-35 Black Panthers.
I started terminal leave for my retirement 2 days before this video was posted. I retired from the _Stennis,_ CVN74. It's funny, it is now 7 years after this video was posted, and 7 years since I last set foot on one of those things, but I had a running tracker going in my head the whole time you were walking around, noting landmarks as you walked past. Yep, remember that electrical box. Yep, remember that hatch over there. Yep, remember that passageway at frame 143 on the O-3. I'll never forget how to navigate the inside of a _Nimitz_ class as long as I live.
How does the signage work? I saw approx. 3 maps in the passageways that had areas highlighted. I also saw numbers printed on everything. Is there any videos that can explain this? BTW, I LOVED this video.
Thank you for sharing, there are lots of documentaries showing the interior but this one really captures the life at a carrier. One thing for sure I would be lost there every day :)
A few "floor plan" changes on the 2nd deck since I was on deployment on the NIMITZ in 1993. For that entire Persian Gulf deployment (Operation Southern Watch) my entire world was no more than 40 or 50 ft. from my berthing space. Port side, about Frame 136 or so; Personnel Office where I worked was right above our berthing space, which was a 9-rack berthing on the 3rd deck along the hull. At the top of the ladder was our Admin head, right next to it was a repair locker which was my GQ station; from there onto the mess decks where the First Class Mess was right in front of me -- my refuge when I wasn't in the office or in berthing. Only time I had to walk anywhere else was to go shopping -- either on the 02 level port-side convenience store, or the "department store" on the 3rd deck just forward of Reactors. Though I was ship's company I have to say that it was the mellowest deployment I ever made; our LCPO and Admin Officer did us right. Best work and berthing spaces imaginable.
Nimitz was my last command as well; I _also_ did five carriers AND a seaplane tender(!) In order: America; Enterprise; Ranger; Norton Sound; Constellation; and Nimitz. Norton Sound was the seaplane tender, a WWII vintage tender which had been converted to a missile-testing platform (AVM-1). I decommissioned the Norton Sound in 1986. It still had wood decks and I'd have given anything to take a piece of it with me when it was decommissioned.
Pretty interesting video. I can't imagine what life at sea must be like in the Navy. I did 6 years in the Army but I have much respect for my Navy brethren.
Apart from the cafeteria, this basically looks like one interminably long boilerroom. 11:00 OMIGOD!!! A hallway where you can almost walk with two abreast.
Me gusta mucho los viajes en el tiempo,creo que de alguna manera todos viajamos así cuando estamos en Estados especiales. Me agrada mucho ver el portaaviones de la famosa película y veo que la realidad supera a la fantasía . Gracias amigos por el vídeo y felicidades por trabajar en un lugar tan mágico de un país maravilloso cómo es "América" Dios os bendiga siempre y abrazos desde un pueblo cerca de Rota -Espana.
If everything except the uniforms is the same as when I was aboard (1977-1979) he only shows one of 6 stores total. Two general stores, 2 snack stores, 1 cigarette store (tax-free), and a hobby shop down the corridor to the right from the 02 level general store. Also had 3 barber shops, vending machines. laundry and dry cleaning. I was an "SH" and worked in all of them at one time or another. Coke & Pepsi products came in by the semi-truckload, often 3 trucks at a time prior to deployment. Often took on 100,000 cases at a time and that only lasted a couple of months.
Awesome ! Had the Great luck to visit - being onboard the Nimitz 1986 when it lay at anchor in Wilhelmshaven ( Atlantic -North Sea ) Germany ! Salute :-) !!
Great memories. I was on the Nimitz 79-80 during the Hostage Crisis. An E-4 attached to CTF-77 (Admiral Kirksey’s staff). My favorite spot was sitting on the flight deck bow when we were underway and allowed out there. It was the only place on the ship that was quiet enough to hear yourself think. Other than flat screens, women on board and phone booths, it looked very much the same.
I was stationed about this ship in 1977-78 for a Med Cruise with RVAH-6. We didn't have women or flat screen TVs on board but the ship still looks like it did when I was aboard her.
A couple of notes about the video above. It starts somewhere in Officer's Country with their associated mess. The dude has a two person berth, which indicates a higher position up the Zero, "O," the officer food chain. A close inspection of the logo on the hatch across the passage identifies it as the logo of the Little Beavers Destroyer Squadron 23. This made me assume the quarters across the passage are for the command/liason of this destroyer squad escorting the Nimitz. That made me take a closer look at his door, which is also emblazened with another logo, looking like a knight with shield... which is that of Strike Fighter Squadron 154 of Carrier Air Wing Eleven, AKA, the Black Knights, which is what we see on his berth door. So, it is likely we are dealing with a pilot of the Black Knights... Edit/Added, from Wiki... "... bringing the squadron to CVW-11 aboard USS Nimitz in 2012."
Just the messing areas that were shown in the video cover more square footage than each of the two ships I was on. I love the directions to Vulture's Row.
Thanks for the video, it brings back memories, I spent four years on her from 1980-84, was aboard during a horrific plane crash, did two med cruises and spent my final year in dry dock in Newport News,Va. I met lifelong brothers during my enlistment and I hope to go aboard one more time before they put her away.
I've heard a few people say they were on a carrier for a year, two years and still never saw the whole ship. 5,000+ sailors, plus the air wing component and all of it's support personell and equipment and a Marine security detachment. A floating city!!!
Oe Div 80-83 on Nimitz. Looks the same, only different. Except for the guys, don't miss it for a sec. Loud, Water Fountains smell like Jet Fuel, Long Lines, Crappy Food (esp midrats). Never let anyone glamorize a tour, its not the love boat.
Was on the Kitty Hawk 76 to 80, sure can remember The drinking fountain water tasting like JP5 jet fuel! It was a good and bad experience that’s why most people get the fuck out and don’t reenlist! If you’re poor then it’s free travel, went to school for a year, still use that education today! The food absolutely sucks , What do you expect it’s not a fucking cruise ship and you work your fucking ass off when the ship is at sea , Seven fucking days a week and they never give you a fucking day off! And I’m talking 12 to 16 hours a day between watches and work for a lousy $150 paycheck every two weeks, I figured it out one time and I was making $.50 a fucking hour ! If I had to do it over again I would’ve gone in the Air Force!
1974 when I first come on board nimitz I was one of the few Filipino recruite in the us navy from the Philippines now I am 68 I spend 4years in this ship if you wanna be the best and be the part of the great us navy I ask you to join its experience of a life time.i was the first open the store on board that ship better than a mall in size we have 8 of those and four barber shop 2 forward galley and two mid 23 hours service you can eat breakfast or dinner any time you are off.
To all people that viewed this video. Getting around a ship of this size or for any ship in Navy it is very easy to find your way. Just so you know, you get around by using frame numbers. You see many frame numbers and the numbers are select. Such as for demo purpose a number may say 03-21-36 It means 3 deck above main deck frame 21 back from center of ship and frame 36 from starboard. That was when I was in Boot Camp. Now If it is the same no problems.
That is wrong. 03-21-36 ... 03 means it's 3 decks or (ladders) up from main deck (on a carrier) which is the hangar deck. 21 means it's 21 frames ( 4 feet per frame) from the forward part of the ship after the 'for castle'. And the last number denotes how far it is from the center line of the ship.
What I would do when I was in the navy when I first came aboard a new ship I would keep dried biscuits in my pocket and drop them along the way that way I knew how to get to and fro.. It worked for me.. good Luck you newbies! PS that worked for me until I was caught and spend the next 2 months over side painting the ship fore and aft.
It is not easy to get around a carrier, frame numbers or not. You learn the way to your work spaces and berthing first. As the months go by, you slowly learn more areas of the ship. But there are always areas which are unfamiliar to you. I wasn't an airdale, so the decks above the hangar bay were not familiar to me (except the crows-nest and bridge). The engineering spaces were off-limits to those not in engineering, same for the weapons spaces.
Yes Sir, USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65), USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN-75), USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63), USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73), USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) served on them all.
i remember being on watch late at night and the whole ship shaking as she steamed like hell kicking up a freaking rooster tail damn near as high as the hanger deck.
@@wadesworld6250 dude then you have never been on a ship in rough sea's. I saw waves breaking over the bow of the ranger and seen her screws come out of the water a few times and she threw water up onto the fantail and safety ramp.
@@wadesworld6250 It can because I've been on the fantail to see it. USS America (CV-66), c. 1977. Took it out on a high-speed run during workups. I can promise you I was at eye level with the rooster tail being kicked up behind the fantail when they got it up to (CLASSIFIED) kts. And America was a conventional-powered carrier!
Now this Makes me wanna join the navy, like I want to go onto the carrier and be there. Below flight deck is safer than 90 aircraft on the deck and a few down at the Hangar Bay / Deck I also am a huge fan of the Nimitz fleet carrier. I would love to join in the carriers crew but just afraid of something might go wrong.
Things could wrong below the flight deck also, like fires, flooding that is not a result of enemy action. That is why there is a sounding and security watch and other roving watch standers
Cool vid, thanks for sharing it. Crazy how many people there are, it's like a small town. What percentage of people there would you estimate you've never spoken with?
Yeah, and on the carrier I was on, they would stop in mid pacific and have swim call. They would lower one of the elevators and drop this huge net down, we would jump off the elevator, man I thought Id never hit the water it was so high, then I'd swim back to the net and hang on and the ship rolling would dunk me and back up again, They had marines in small boat's with guns just in case of sharks when I saw that I scurried back up that neat to the elevator. It was fun tho and the water was very warm.
@@alfonsomartinez8849 in the eyes of infantry this is not a deployment, is a long standing joke. Theoretically it is a deployment why am I wasting my time explaining this to you thank the navy for the support we are all brothers, but try 1 1/2 years away from your family in the sand box eating shit occupying random houses to provide proper living arangments for the night for the platoon. This is a floating hotel.
@@jlightfoot7536 It's like a bad dream. You are trying to get 'there' but the signage confuses you and the people are either clueless or they ignore you. You wake up in a bad mood out of those bad dreams.
Nice to see the inside of the old girl again. I was SEAOPDET in AIMD (IM3 W/C 69A) for the '95-'96 WESTPAC. Broke my hand during workups off the coast of California and got to take a cat-shot in a COD back to North Island. Good times!
Ecstasy!!! what's more exciting than this video. Now I really understand the strength of this economy and the excellence of this country against all,,,
Its kind of like a coordinate system, notice all the frame number signs and space designation, lots of information on where you are in those. The first one as he exits his stateroom shows third deck frame 64... and that S5 division is responsible for the space. The first bulkhead he goes thru is labeled Frame 74 so is further aft.
@@suthernborn3298 Chins? Not crawling through. Walking through so concerned about my shins. Only takes once, maybe twice. Then you learn because it really hurts when you bust your shins on the bottom of the hatch openings.
It's the morning of 12-10-1213, the big sailboat of Captain Achab is sailing the seven seas hunting for his usual enemy: Moby Dick. The sun is about to raise, when all of a sudden a shout shakes the whole boat: "WHALE AT SEA! WHALE AT SEA!", yells the sailor on top of the mainmast. Captain Achab rushes out of his bed, climbs the stairs by twos, despite his wooden leg, slams outwards the door to the main bridge, quickly approach his second in command, stealing the spyglass from his hands: "Give it to me!", barks in his raunchy voice. Captain Achab looks in the spyglass as his own life depends on it, then all of a sudden yells to the whole boat: "ARE YOU ALL OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS?? That's not Moby Dick, you idiots!! That's the Nimitz!! Are we hunting for aircraft carriers now?? Where is the boatswain?? Reverse the course of the boat, let's get the fuck out of here, before they see us!".
Sure does bring on a trip down memory lane! Plankowner USS Boxer LHD4! Not quite the same as a big deck but fully embarked crew and Marines we had about 4500 people on board! I remember the line for dinner was crazy long! We usually just ate sandwiches from sack lunches or dig up one of the better mre's!
As a 60yo AF vet I gotta say I’d volunteer immediately to serve again on a ship like that! DAMN that’s badass! ❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'd fucking love to just be given free reign to go where I please and just explore. The engineer in me marvels at the fact that everything you see and touch has been pre determined and designed with a specific purpose in mind.
Not bad for a ship built in 1975. I hope we get a similar tour of the new Ford Class carrier.
It's mind-boggling, isn't it?
Thanks for posting this vid.
This vid brings back fond memories: the first time I witnessed a sunrise was the day after I joined the Navy - July 28, 1964 - at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I was only 17 at the time.
The first time I saw the ocean was when I served on board the USS Kitty Hawk circa June 1965. I was based at NAS Miramar @ VF-121 F-4 squadron. I did a week on board the Kitty Hawk as a brown shirt plane captain.
In November 1965 transferred to the USS Bennington and served as a ships company blue shirt in V-1 Division. Yup, I saw a lot of sun rises on board the Bennington.
I’ll never forget learning the pathways of the ship and learning what those yellow patches on the wall meant. I learned them to perfection and after a month or so never got lost on the Bennington.
As I watched this video, I recognized some of the sounds and could almost smell the fuel, hydraulic fluid and humanity -- of the ship. Those sounds and smells will stay with me forever.
I matured from an immature teenager to a man during my ’kitty cruse’ service in the Navy and if I could regenerate these tired old 75-year-old bones and body --- WOULD SERVE AGAIN ON BOARD A CARRIER IN A HEART BEAT.
Just my 2¢
Very cool sir!
I did 2 Med cruises on Nimitz '75-'79 and watching this really took me back. The spaces, corridors, places to eat, and all the nooks and crannies. You could get lost quite easily but more importantly, find yourself in a place where your not supposed to be so sightseeing wasn't a normal practice. Like living in a town you generally only go where you need to be and stay in your own neighborhood. I wasn't ships company but part of the airwing. VA-35 Black Panthers.
phosgene11 I was there 01/04/75-09/15/78forgot NorthAtlantic Cruise in 75
You're a Plank Owner?
@@solomonbalancio3001 No i wasnt a plank owner and not ships company. I was with the airwing, VA-35.
Legend has it he's still looking for Vulture's Row to this day. That's why there's no Part II
lol to funny! That explains the mistry shitter
How did you know?? 😂🤣😂
Hahaha 😂
Great tour! No music to have to listen to, just ambient sound.
Yeah no vlog crap with the camera on his big teeth the whole time tryna get famous. Just the good stuff!
I started terminal leave for my retirement 2 days before this video was posted. I retired from the _Stennis,_ CVN74. It's funny, it is now 7 years after this video was posted, and 7 years since I last set foot on one of those things, but I had a running tracker going in my head the whole time you were walking around, noting landmarks as you walked past. Yep, remember that electrical box. Yep, remember that hatch over there. Yep, remember that passageway at frame 143 on the O-3. I'll never forget how to navigate the inside of a _Nimitz_ class as long as I live.
How does the signage work? I saw approx. 3 maps in the passageways that had areas highlighted. I also saw numbers printed on everything. Is there any videos that can explain this? BTW, I LOVED this video.
Building the carrier all the wiring and plumbing just amazing.
Not really. It's pretty bad how they planned it all out.
American made junk!
@@daveboydell2896 commie bitch
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I spent many years on this ship. Thanks for the memories.
Isn't this a breach in intelligence? Or is mostly everything known about the ship?
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This brings back memories, I was stationed on the Reagan, George Washington and Theodore roosevelt.
Unimaginable. Truly a marvel of engineering.
Absolutely amazing! Always wondered how life on aircraft carriers would be. Fantastic tour around the Nimitz
This ship was my home from 2008 till 2011. This video brings back memories for me serving in the navy.
78 to 87
My first deployment was on the Nimitz. World Cruise from 97 to 98.
Same here. Me and you were on the same deployment but never meet lol. Well nice to meet you
@@lotuswar What was your rate? I was a damage controlman.
I was on the 97-98 World Cruise Air Department V-4
It just like a maze down there, it reminds me of when I served on HMAS Brisbane but only way bigger,. Thanks for the tour really appreciated it 👍
Thank you for sharing, there are lots of documentaries showing the interior but this one really captures the life at a carrier. One thing for sure I would be lost there every day :)
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Thank you so much for this lovely stroll.
I've got orders to the Nimitz! So excited !!
Logan idk if you’ll read this, but you should post some videos
Amazing they can build something that big that floats and has every living necessity you need on it eletric water food.
As a civilian, the amazing thing is he mostly knows where he is in that labyrinth of passageways !
Thank You for such a wonderful tour.
A few "floor plan" changes on the 2nd deck since I was on deployment on the NIMITZ in 1993. For that entire Persian Gulf deployment (Operation Southern Watch) my entire world was no more than 40 or 50 ft. from my berthing space. Port side, about Frame 136 or so; Personnel Office where I worked was right above our berthing space, which was a 9-rack berthing on the 3rd deck along the hull. At the top of the ladder was our Admin head, right next to it was a repair locker which was my GQ station; from there onto the mess decks where the First Class Mess was right in front of me -- my refuge when I wasn't in the office or in berthing. Only time I had to walk anywhere else was to go shopping -- either on the 02 level port-side convenience store, or the "department store" on the 3rd deck just forward of Reactors. Though I was ship's company I have to say that it was the mellowest deployment I ever made; our LCPO and Admin Officer did us right. Best work and berthing spaces imaginable.
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Great video. As a Air Force veteran I enjoyed seeing how the other half lived!
I served on her and retired there in Nov 2006. That was my 5th carrier served. Weapons Dept.
Nimitz was my last command as well; I _also_ did five carriers AND a seaplane tender(!) In order: America; Enterprise; Ranger; Norton Sound; Constellation; and Nimitz. Norton Sound was the seaplane tender, a WWII vintage tender which had been converted to a missile-testing platform (AVM-1). I decommissioned the Norton Sound in 1986. It still had wood decks and I'd have given anything to take a piece of it with me when it was decommissioned.
Holy macaroni!! That's one hell of a ship! thanks for the tour!
Pretty interesting video. I can't imagine what life at sea must be like in the Navy. I did 6 years in the Army but I have much respect for my Navy brethren.
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Wow! Just Wow! Thanks for sharing this
You're welcome, just you're welcome!
WOWWW...This is AMAAAAZING!!! Thank you!!
WOW!!! I would be lost after two steps, and remain that way. It is a city at sea. I'm sure there are many areas not even included. Great job.
Thanks for the memories served on the from 1984 to 1986 i was a ms.
Pretty Amazing the Midway launched in 45 and This in 75. They look so Similar. One is a museum one still fights.
Wow... I didn't know there's so many people in the carrier. It looks like a city. Small city. Nice to watch it.
Ship's company has around 3,000 sailors permanently assigned to the ship. When the air wing comes onboard the population swells to about 6,000.
Brings back a few memories. I was onboard Nimitz in 1980 attached to Medical.....looks like there have been just a few changes since then...
@21:13 just a dude shooting hoops next to a bunch of people watchin a movie on a projector xD. Awesome vid!
Apart from the cafeteria, this basically looks like one interminably long boilerroom. 11:00 OMIGOD!!! A hallway where you can almost walk with two abreast.
Enjoyed watching your video. Thank you.
Me gusta mucho los viajes en el tiempo,creo que de alguna manera todos viajamos así cuando estamos en Estados especiales.
Me agrada mucho ver el portaaviones de la famosa película y veo que la realidad supera a la fantasía .
Gracias amigos por el vídeo y felicidades por trabajar en un lugar tan mágico de un país maravilloso cómo es "América" Dios os bendiga siempre y abrazos desde un pueblo cerca de Rota -Espana.
A little bigger than "Old Ironsides" but same purpose.
Thanks to all who serve.
If everything except the uniforms is the same as when I was aboard (1977-1979) he only shows one of 6 stores total. Two general stores, 2 snack stores, 1 cigarette store (tax-free), and a hobby shop down the corridor to the right from the 02 level general store. Also had 3 barber shops, vending machines. laundry and dry cleaning. I was an "SH" and worked in all of them at one time or another. Coke & Pepsi products came in by the semi-truckload, often 3 trucks at a time prior to deployment. Often took on 100,000 cases at a time and that only lasted a couple of months.
SH2 onboard USS Albany CG-10. SUPPLY Rocks! (and takes care of its own)..
Awesome ! Had the Great luck to visit - being onboard the Nimitz 1986 when it lay at anchor in Wilhelmshaven ( Atlantic -North Sea ) Germany ! Salute :-) !!
motorrebell I was on her first North Atlantic cruise in 1975Germany was first port awesome time 20years old
Great memories. I was on the Nimitz 79-80 during the Hostage Crisis. An E-4 attached to CTF-77 (Admiral Kirksey’s staff). My favorite spot was sitting on the flight deck bow when we were underway and allowed out there. It was the only place on the ship that was quiet enough to hear yourself think. Other than flat screens, women on board and phone booths, it looked very much the same.
I was stationed about this ship in 1977-78 for a Med Cruise with RVAH-6. We didn't have women or flat screen TVs on board but the ship still looks like it did when I was aboard her.
Bob Marioni I am a Plankowner stationed on board 01/04/75-09/16/78Weapons Dept. Sam Division
@@tomprince159 Gitmo, St Thomas, the Med. We were there!
Bob Marioni We were the best in the Navy bubba
You won't need to have a magazine collection anymore.
I never imagined that they'd let some goof ball run loose on an aircraft carrier with a video camera.
I've been called a lot of things but I have to say I like goof ball!!!
A couple of notes about the video above. It starts somewhere in Officer's Country with their associated mess. The dude has a two person berth, which indicates a higher position up the Zero, "O," the officer food chain.
A close inspection of the logo on the hatch across the passage identifies it as the logo of the Little Beavers Destroyer Squadron 23. This made me assume the quarters across the passage are for the command/liason of this destroyer squad escorting the Nimitz.
That made me take a closer look at his door, which is also emblazened with another logo, looking like a knight with shield... which is that of Strike Fighter Squadron 154 of Carrier Air Wing Eleven, AKA, the Black Knights, which is what we see on his berth door.
So, it is likely we are dealing with a pilot of the Black Knights...
Edit/Added, from Wiki...
"... bringing the squadron to CVW-11 aboard USS Nimitz in 2012."
Thank you for this info!
Thanks for the tour. I stood next to her and the Kennedy in 2001, at NAS Mayport. Wished I could also go on board a carrier for a visit
I went on a med cruise on Kennedy in 2002 I wish I could go back so bad
Muito instrutivo e bem apresentado!
Very instructive and well presented! (Google Translate)
Just the messing areas that were shown in the video cover more square footage than each of the two ships I was on. I love the directions to Vulture's Row.
Fantastic video!!! Bye from Italy
Thanks for the video, it brings back memories, I spent four years on her from 1980-84, was aboard during a horrific plane crash, did two med cruises and spent my final year in dry dock in Newport News,Va. I met lifelong brothers during my enlistment and I hope to go aboard one more time before they put her away.
1985-88
Much respect! Greetings from Munich/Germany.
This is "Big Ant house" on the sea~~Wow
Excellent. Merci pour ce très beau reportage. Good Bless América.
Excellent. Thank you for this beautiful report. Good Bless America. (Google Translate)
I've heard a few people say they were on a carrier for a year, two years and still never saw the whole ship. 5,000+ sailors, plus the air wing component and all of it's support personell and equipment and a Marine security detachment. A floating city!!!
Oe Div 80-83 on Nimitz. Looks the same, only different. Except for the guys, don't miss it for a sec. Loud, Water Fountains smell like Jet Fuel, Long Lines, Crappy Food (esp midrats). Never let anyone glamorize a tour, its not the love boat.
You say it's not but with the amount of people cupcaking in the fwd mess decks after taps it might as well be.
Definitely noisy. Slamming doors in metal boxes doesn't mix well...
Was on the Kitty Hawk 76 to 80, sure can remember The drinking fountain water tasting like JP5 jet fuel! It was a good and bad experience that’s why most people get the fuck out and don’t reenlist! If you’re poor then it’s free travel, went to school for a year, still use that education today! The food absolutely sucks , What do you expect it’s not a fucking cruise ship and you work your fucking ass off when the ship is at sea , Seven fucking days a week and they never give you a fucking day off! And I’m talking 12 to 16 hours a day between watches and work for a lousy $150 paycheck every two weeks, I figured it out one time and I was making $.50 a fucking hour ! If I had to do it over again I would’ve gone in the Air Force!
1974 when I first come on board nimitz I was one of the few Filipino recruite in the us navy from the Philippines now I am 68 I spend 4years in this ship if you wanna be the best and be the part of the great us navy I ask you to join its experience of a life time.i was the first open the store on board that ship better than a mall in size we have 8 of those and four barber shop 2 forward galley and two mid 23 hours service you can eat breakfast or dinner any time you are off.
So you came aboard before it was commissioned in 1975?
@@muckdonald8986 You have no idea what you're talking about, yet you continue...
Plank owner. Very nice!
@@muckdonald8986 Yeah, sailors are attached to ships before they're even finished being built...
I came on board March 1975Planked of September 15,1978Weapons Dept/ Sam Division
Thanks! This was fun to watch.
I was on the Nimitz at the time this was recorded. Pretty cool!
To all people that viewed this video. Getting around a ship of this size or for any ship in Navy it is very easy to find your way. Just so you know, you get around by using frame numbers. You see many frame numbers and the numbers are select. Such as for demo purpose a number may say 03-21-36 It means 3 deck above main deck frame 21 back from center of ship and frame 36 from starboard. That was when I was in Boot Camp. Now If it is the same no problems.
That is wrong. 03-21-36 ... 03 means it's 3 decks or (ladders) up from main deck (on a carrier) which is the hangar deck. 21 means it's 21 frames ( 4 feet per frame) from the forward part of the ship after the 'for castle'. And the last number denotes how far it is from the center line of the ship.
What I would do when I was in the navy when I first came aboard a new ship I would keep dried biscuits in my pocket and drop them along the way that way I knew how to get to and fro.. It worked for me.. good Luck you newbies! PS that worked for me until I was caught and spend the next 2 months over side painting the ship fore and aft.
It is not easy to get around a carrier, frame numbers or not. You learn the way to your work spaces and berthing first. As the months go by, you slowly learn more areas of the ship. But there are always areas which are unfamiliar to you. I wasn't an airdale, so the decks above the hangar bay were not familiar to me (except the crows-nest and bridge). The engineering spaces were off-limits to those not in engineering, same for the weapons spaces.
We called them TAC numbers, not frame #'s when I was onboard in 88-02.
One day we`ll have people living like this in space.
This absolutely amazing, it is very impressive indeed
Wow, that aircraft carrier is huge. Looks like a submarine too. Nice looking crew girls on it also.
Carriers are just amazing. I was lucky enough to get a tour around the same time.
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i remember being on watch late at night and the whole ship shaking as she steamed like hell kicking up a freaking rooster tail damn near as high as the hanger deck.
David George , I recall the same experience on the USS NewJersey. Amazing experience!!
A carrier does not kick up rooster tail as high as the flight deck, or even the fantail. Don't tell me different. USS Nimitz, 86-88.
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@@wadesworld6250 dude then you have never been on a ship in rough sea's. I saw waves breaking over the bow of the ranger and seen her screws come out of the water a few times and she threw water up onto the fantail and safety ramp.
@@wadesworld6250 It can because I've been on the fantail to see it. USS America (CV-66), c. 1977. Took it out on a high-speed run during workups. I can promise you I was at eye level with the rooster tail being kicked up behind the fantail when they got it up to (CLASSIFIED) kts. And America was a conventional-powered carrier!
What a brilliant video!
cool tour, thanks for showing us...
Now this Makes me wanna join the navy, like I want to go onto the carrier and be there. Below flight deck is safer than 90 aircraft on the deck and a few down at the Hangar Bay / Deck I also am a huge fan of the Nimitz fleet carrier. I would love to join in the carriers crew but just afraid of something might go wrong.
(I'm 18 years old ._.)
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Things could wrong below the flight deck also, like fires, flooding that is not a result of enemy action. That is why there is a sounding and security watch and other roving watch standers
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Cool vid, thanks for sharing it. Crazy how many people there are, it's like a small town. What percentage of people there would you estimate you've never spoken with?
+Demarini71691 Well, these ships have a crew of like ~5,000 so
Demarini71691 Atlanta 6,000 or 8,000. Maybe even 10,000 people
I love the restaurants
Big city . It"s huge ,i got dizzy ... Thanks for video .
The fact of this amazing giant ship who contributed to its construction are great peoples
Obviously an officer. Everybody has to get out of HIS way.
Sort of a embarrassing that a naval officer can not find his way around his own ship. A 90 day wonder.
There seems to have been other civillians onboard. Perhaps a visit of some kind?
@@KaydenF901 it is called a tiger cruise. Normally a ship will go out for 8 hours with family members on board before a ship is deployed.
@@SamSurplusSales a tiger cruise is done at the end of a deployment not before
it is not obvious that this person is an officer as you never see or hear him refer to as such
Is this a Tokyo apartment tour?
😀😀😀
No, but a nuclear submarine.
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I don’t think you understood
Super footage.Good job👍
Very interesting to see, thanks for sharing.
My home away from home 1982-85
"The Bottom Deck" aka The Hangar Bay
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love the shots on the fantail
and we had boxing matches and rock concerts in the hanger bay, picnics on the flight deck when we were not flying of course.
Yeah, and on the carrier I was on, they would stop in mid pacific and have swim call. They would lower one of the elevators and drop this huge net down, we would jump off the elevator, man I thought Id never hit the water it was so high, then I'd swim back to the net and hang on and the ship rolling would dunk me and back up again, They had marines in small boat's with guns just in case of sharks when I saw that I scurried back up that neat to the elevator. It was fun tho and the water was very warm.
And you call that a deployment? Hilarious.
@@aaahonoluluhandymanservice3557 if you're away from your family for 6-9 months and defending America, yes... That's a deployment.
@@alfonsomartinez8849 in the eyes of infantry this is not a deployment, is a long standing joke. Theoretically it is a deployment why am I wasting my time explaining this to you thank the navy for the support we are all brothers, but try 1 1/2 years away from your family in the sand box eating shit occupying random houses to provide proper living arangments for the night for the platoon. This is a floating hotel.
when do we get to see vulture's row?!
You heard those directions, so he's still looking for it...
LMAO..terrible directions, from an officer no less..
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It's like a bad dream. You are trying to get 'there' but the signage confuses you and the people are either clueless or they ignore you. You wake up in a bad mood out of those bad dreams.
Nice to see the inside of the old girl again. I was SEAOPDET in AIMD (IM3 W/C 69A) for the '95-'96 WESTPAC. Broke my hand during workups off the coast of California and got to take a cat-shot in a COD back to North Island. Good times!
Thanks for the tour.
I would skip the mile high club and try for the sea level club
10:33 -- Target acquired. ;)
Very cool. I was curious though, who were all the civilians and how did they get to come aboard while underway?
Tiger Cruise, parents and family on board for five days. (No spouses or SO's)
I had the same question !
@@jimbeck553 Thanks for answering, as I had the same question.
Very interesting, thanks. I didn’t think I could see the bay of this ship.
Ecstasy!!! what's more exciting than this video.
Now I really understand the strength of this economy and the excellence of this country against all,,,
Feel bad for the tall guy at 11:35
He probably always duking
and he prob needs to put his legs off the rack to fit
Sneltyr j
I am 6-04. I was always ducking. You learn to duck and left your leading leg in one motion to pass through the bulkhead opening.
Prolly feels mad cluster phobic
@@Will-xl7xp No. You just need to adapt to your surroundings or you'll constantly have a head ache. :(
U need a gps to find ur room? That carrier is huge!
A crew of a little over 6,000 I think it is. So....yeah.
In a little over a week you will know where you need to go. You be surprised how easy it is to figure out.
Just ask an enlisted.
Its kind of like a coordinate system, notice all the frame number signs and space designation, lots of information on where you are in those. The first one as he exits his stateroom shows third deck frame 64... and that S5 division is responsible for the space. The first bulkhead he goes thru is labeled Frame 74 so is further aft.
@@coltsrule5150 Ship's Company: 3,000-3,200, Air wing: 1,500, other: 500
Don't remember the galley / mess decks looking this good on the USS America (CV66) 1974 - 1977.
I can’t breathe just watching this!
I would probably smash my head and knees on every pipe and doorway in there.
Believe me, you learn real quick.
Done that. Plus a few of the pipes were extremely hot when I visited a carrier.
You learn the below deck walk. It becomes natural after passing through a few bulkheads.
you will bust your chins until you get use to raising your feet over the hatches
@@suthernborn3298 Chins? Not crawling through. Walking through so concerned about my shins. Only takes once, maybe twice. Then you learn because it really hurts when you bust your shins on the bottom of the hatch openings.
It's the morning of 12-10-1213, the big sailboat of Captain Achab is sailing the seven seas hunting for his usual enemy: Moby Dick. The sun is about to raise, when all of a sudden a shout shakes the whole boat: "WHALE AT SEA! WHALE AT SEA!", yells the sailor on top of the mainmast.
Captain Achab rushes out of his bed, climbs the stairs by twos, despite his wooden leg, slams outwards the door to the main bridge, quickly approach his second in command, stealing the spyglass from his hands: "Give it to me!", barks in his raunchy voice.
Captain Achab looks in the spyglass as his own life depends on it, then all of a sudden yells to the whole boat: "ARE YOU ALL OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS?? That's not Moby Dick, you idiots!! That's the Nimitz!! Are we hunting for aircraft carriers now?? Where is the boatswain?? Reverse the course of the boat, let's get the fuck out of here, before they see us!".
MrGilRoland lol
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Thank you Christopher for your excellent report. Next please you go to cabin living room bedroom. Admiral I don't know..
Thank you.
All the Best.
Sure does bring on a trip down memory lane! Plankowner USS Boxer LHD4! Not quite the same as a big deck but fully embarked crew and Marines we had about 4500 people on board! I remember the line for dinner was crazy long! We usually just ate sandwiches from sack lunches or dig up one of the better mre's!
SHIP IS FUCKEN HUMONGOUS!!!!! YOU CAN GET LOST SO EASY.
surfing raichu Avendano if you notice every door had a sighn which tells you exactly where you are in the ship.
And this is the smallest and oldest carrier in the fleet...
I love US Navy!
Cool to feel like you're walking those pways again.
Thanks for posting.
Excelent tour. USS Nimitz it´s a city in the ocean. US Navy is the best!
That was a fine looking female LT. at 2:00!
glad he showed the hangar deck its really incredible how big that place is
My God this thing goes on forever and ever.!