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Enjoyed your site very much. People like you are helping to protect allot of other countries and allies by keeping them aware that even if they think the United States can be a pain in the ass they also really believe they are making a difference and consider a honour to be known as a protector of other nations. You can bet aggressive countries see these sites. So thanks again.
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@@guerrillaentrepreneur5999 what?
@@Reckyj Pausing the video constantly.
Pausing - interrupt action or speech briefly.......definition
@@guerrillaentrepreneur5999 ok. Well I react. If I wanna say something I pause the video. And yeah, sometimes it’s not a very good spot. But I react. If you don’t like it. I’m a 100% sure you find a reactor that fits your mold perfectly. Stay safe
I've toured many aircraft carriers (USA and UK) here in Perth, Australia. The USA carriers are monsters at sea level, and the hanger bays are huge...and now with the Ford class carriers, they are even bigger than the Nimitz class!
I don’t think anyone can appreciate how big it is. Sure you see it on RUclips and movies etc.. but being close to it or on it in real life! Overwhelming!
Even the old world war II carriers were massive. We've got the USS Yorktown in my hometown harbor, it's a floating museum now. I got to go through the shipyard up in Virginia where they are building the Ford class carriers, the scale of literally everything was just bonkers.
@@Alex-dh2cx I was doing pro bono graphic arts work for a group that was trying to bring the decommissioned JFK carrier to Miami as a museum, like the one you mention and the Midway in San Diego and Intrepid in New York.
The Navy has incredible requirements to retire Carriers this way. They would rather tear them apart for salvage than disrespect their memory by handing them over to a private enterprise who just promises to respect their legacy but doesn’t have the deep financial pockets to guarantee they can make it happen.
The JFK was a natural for Boston Harbor, because he was from Massachusetts. That/those groups trying to do it failed the Navy’s requirements, as did my group trying to bring it to Miami.
These ships are INCREDIBLE tourist attractions, and not just for your typical tourist shmuck. During their lifetimes, hundreds of thousands of sailors served on each one…maybe millions…
And every single one of these ex-sailors…covering years and years and decades…yearn to set foot on them once again, especially with their families.
@@Ira88881 As a civilian (tourist) I visited the Kennedy years ago in New York and again in the 1980s in Miami for Armed Forces Day. There were so many aircraft on board I couldn't count but probably 50 to 60 airplanes.
@@annfrost3323 I didn’t know the JFK “toured” at all, especially to NYC, since the Intrepid is permanently docked there.
I got involved with the project around 1996.
Was it still an active carrier then? Must have been. I forget the history.
During my time in the US Navy, I wa stationed on board the USS Joh C Stennis.
You asked about leisure time and shift rotation, so here goes...
Qhile at sea,, typically your shift is 12 hours on 12 hours off, every 4 days you work 24 hours.
Leisure time is spent playing cards, video games, dominoes, answering mail, movies, or basically anything you want to do, within reason, but you have to manage your time to make sure that you are at your work station on time the next day.
There are usually 4 meals served each day to make sure everyone has the opportunity for hot meals.
Kif you have any questions I would be happy to answer what I can.
How many rotate on one spot?
@@Reckyj of the average 6000 people on board, @5000 are part of the duty roster
@@Reckyj When i was in (75-95) the air wing usually worked 12hrs on/12hrs off 7 days a week.
Only if you are an airdale the rest of the ship has a very different schedule.
@@thomasgoodrich3864 Not on the Stennis, on the carriers.
I love how the "hey, let's attach a pallet that likely weighs a ton (literally) onto a zipline between two points that are both independently moving" is the safer option.
i agree. Like it is nothing!
I was an Engineer on USS Eisenhower CVN 69 in '86-'90. I was a mechanical operator known as a 'Machinist Mate'. My job involved operating and maintaining the ship's main engines, ship's service generators, desalination plants and support equipment.
Three of my favorite stats are:
1. The rudders and anchors and propellers are all the same weight at 30 imperial tons each (27,272 kgs).
2. Each catapult launch consumes 200 gallons (757 Liters) of fresh water as steam.
3. The 4 desalination plants can produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water per day each.
15:54 Deterrence is the English word you are looking for I think. A carrier is refueled at least once in it's lifetime. It involves cutting holes in the ship for another (new & improved) nuclear core. Other upgrades & overhauls are done on the ship at the same time. Last I heard it was 2 year process.
That was the right word!
The Ford carriers won’t be refueled during its service life. The US reactor tech has improved to the point that they last the entire service life of the vessel.
I believe this holds true for the new Virginia class fast attack subs and the Columbia ballistic missile subs as well.
I believe the Seawolf class could be refueled but will likely be decommissioned instead of refueled and replaced by newer Virginia class.
@@mjc1389 Ah! Good to know.
@@Reckyj look up the uss America sinking if you want to see what they can withstand
The word you were looking for is "Deterrence" - meaning:
"The action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt, or fear of the consequences."
But I thought that you said it just fine. "Stopping war before it happens" is exactly the intent.
A new word to me. Recky just got educated!
I was thinking "Prevent" but deter is proabably the better word.
@@Reckyj English is a huge language that has taken on words from many others. Don't stress yourself not knowing a few here and there when there are native speakers that go their whole lives without ever learning even half the less common or specialized words. I mean really, we even have a word for throwing somebody out of a window. Defenestration. I can promise you your grasp of English is far firmer than my understanding of Swedish is ever likely to be.
@@hackerx7329 thank you! Having a second language in Swedish is common. 9 outta 10 we speak English. My dad is 70 he speaks English with a few hiccups
@@Reckyj Most school systems require students in the US to study a foreign language for 2 credits/semesters/years (depends on the school system) and most students choose Spanish because it is the most common language in the US other than English. But like so many other things learned in school if you don't keep using and practicing it you are ether going to be quite bad at it or forget it entirely. I can fumble my way through some basic communications here and there in Spanish but I'm very glad we can now all walk around with translators in our pockets.
I worked on the naval ship yard in Newport News Virginia as a welder many years ago. The first night I was on the shipyard I had walked to my car during break at 1:00am. The parking lot was half a mile from the area where I was welding. And the walk back was directly beside the Chesapeake Bay. As I was walking back I saw something coming up beside me. It was a aircraft carrier coming in for maintenance and repair. When you are standing there and see the extreme size of one of these things… I was just in shock and stood there and watched it go by that first time.
WOW! Thats what i meant. You cant understand how big it is, until you stand next to it
The corollary is that a shipyard that can build carriers is very very big.
BTW, you asked what happens after the 25 years, the ships don't get decommissioned, they get put into dry dock for maintenance for about a year, during that time, there is a large hole cut into the ship from the flight deck and the fuel rods in the reactor are replaced, then the ship is rebuilt/repaired/updated equipment installed.
Afterwards the ship has to undergo several 'qualifying ' missions before returning to full service to the fleet. Just like a person having surgery, you have to pass all your tests before returning to full active service.
So recharge and then another 25 years... insane
@@Reckyj when refueling US aircraft carriers it actually takes 3 years instead of one year. Aircraft carriers are usual refilled at the 20-year Mark instead of 25 years just to be on the safe side. When an aircraft carrier goes in for refueling if they're stationed on the west coast of the US then their ship does a World Cruise where they start off at their home port and they end up in Norfolk, Virginia. U.s. aircraft carriers are actually too big to go through the Panama Canal so when they do the world Cruise they actually go through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea instead of going all the way around Africa or South America. My mom did a world Cruise on the USS Carl Vinson in 2005 and they started out in Bremerton, Washington and ended up in Norfolk, Virginia.
2-3 years for a refueling. Since they have to cut open the ship to refuel they also do a refit while refueling, so each ship comes out of refuel with updated systems.
NOW we just need'ta find another job, if possible, for tha spent fuel"nuclear waste" or DISCARDING of it, right now we basiclly just store it or bury it till we find something better, or run out of storage space!!lol
Doesn't most of it get processed into depleted uranium for Abrams armor and ammunition?
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Aircraft Carriers are also some of the most capable disaster relief ships due to their ability to fly disaster relief supplies and personnel into remote areas on land.
My first carrier, the USS Constellation (it's been decommissioned and scrapped) did a COMREL or Community Relations project to Mazatlán, Mexico. We were turned into a floating lumber yard and had a detachment of Seabees and their equipment on board as well. The Seabees and many of the ship's crew helped build houses. If I remember correctly, we were there for a week and they built 12 houses.
For that matter, so are Amphibious Assault ships, like LHD's. CAVERNOUS cargo areas, flight decks- and they are specifically designed to move large amounts of people and equipment across the globe and put them ashore. They look like the love child of a baby aircraft carrier and an automobile hauler, but they darn sure get the job done. Disaster relief is the peacetime equivalent of that mission.
True. The USS George Washington was a great help when Typhoon Haiyan devastated my country (the Philippines) nearly a decade ago.
They have also been known to use their nuclear reactors to provide power to cities with power outages after disasters.
"Stopping War Before It Happens!" That is exactly the best way to put it. Many people throughout history have either mocked America for dragging its feet before getting involved in WW1 and WW2 or.... they ridicule America for being a "police force" of the world. But what many don't know, the reasons America drug its feet in WW1 and WW2 has A LOT to do with the fact America has a large German population...so neither side was going to go without hurting relationships. And why does America "police" the world. Just like you said...to stop wars before they happen. Yes, there have been conflicts but look how many times nations have stopped rattling their sabers once a US battle fleet showed up off their coast. The reason is simple.
WW1 US Combat Deaths - 116,114 in 19 months.
WW2 US Combat Deaths - 405,399 in 4 years
Total Deaths between - 521,513 dead American soldiers - in under six years of combat, the US lost over 1/2 a million soldiers.
In the 78 years since WW2, the US has 103,180 from 30 total military campaigns. So, we rationalize, don't get involved, put out the fire....and risk more deaths?
The US lost 36,516 soldiers in the Korean "Conflict" and another 58,220 soldiers died during Vietnam. That's the bulk of those losses over 78 years. In our 20 year war in Afghanistan and our war in Iraq, the US lost 6,817 lives.
Put that into perspective. 6,817 died from a two front war that lasted twenty years. But in 1944, the US lost 8,157 in one battle and another 19,276 in a second battle...in ONE year. In 1945, the US lost 12,513 in ONE battle. When you look at it that way, losing a life is a tragedy in all eyes. But it's drastically reduced the number of flag draped caskets being sent back home.
Exactly ---> "Stopping War Before It Happens!"
@@Reckyj the policy name for that is "deterrance" and has been pointed out, is actually pretty effective.
The idea is not to necessarily be a bully, but to make sure everyone knows fighting you would be a bad idea. As Teddy Roosevelt famously said "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
In 1968 I was part of the fleet that was assembled and sent to the sea of Japan to stand off the North Koren coast after they had captured the USS Pueblo. It was the largest US fleet put together since WW II. I was aboard a submarine.
Wow! Thank you for sharing!
I was there on the Ticonderoga CVA14. We went there from Yankee Station off North Vietnam. After 3 days we went to Singapore. It was cool, it was the first time an American carrier had been there in 50 years. I went to Raffles. Caught a cab and toured the whole island. The cab driver and I became freinds. We drove through som rubber plantations. There was a small store. We got a couple of bottles of beer, ice cold. The best beer I have ever had. Probably because of the heat. I think it was Fosters. There was literaly ice on the bottle.
In 2005, the navy wanted to test the design of one of our decommissioned aircraft carriers CV-66 U.S.S. America, she was chosen because she is very closely designed to the Nimitz class of carrier, so the Navy put a crew onboard and closed EVERY door and hatch as if the carrier was at general quarters, when the crew left the ship, even though no one was left onboard, she was in the condition that she would be in for combat operations, then towed her out to deep water, and the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, USMC and USAF spent 14 days shooting torpedoes, missiles, and dropping bombs as well as testing new weapons under development to sink her, after DOZENS of torpedoes, DOZENS of missiles and bombs of different sizes weights, and lethal powers, she was still floating, the data gained was used to design the Ford class of aircraft carrier to make it even more resistant to enemy attacks, so taking one of our aircraft carriers down with one, two or even 10 torpedoes, is very unlikely, i have doubts that with even 10 direct torpedo hits, one of our modern carriers would probably not even be taken out of the fight, but look at how well the U.S.S. America did for 14 days with not one single defensive weapon used to defend the ship, no crew onboard to perform damage control, and it's aircraft not defending then attacking an enemy that perpetrated an attack, ECT, ECT, ECT, attacking one of our carriers while underway, defenses would immediately be employed, damage control would immediately be on the problem, ECT, I think attacking one of our carriers would be a fools errand, and the country that attempts it would be sealing it's own fate.
ruclips.net/video/irlKFTweaL4/видео.html here is a link if anyone wants to see
I was stationed on a fuel ship, USNS Navasota, T-AO 106. We were the gas station. The US Navy has many traditions, and one of those traditions concerns UNREP, under way replenishment. At the end of the evolution, the ship that receives fuel, food, etc, "breaks away" and plays a song for the supply ship. I heard a LOT of breakaway songs, and when possible, the song would have some connection to the ship's name. USS Enterprise played the Star Trek theme, USS Ranger played the William Tell Overture, aka the Lone Ranger theme. It just so happened that the Ranger was going to be the last UNREP for our CO, and HE wanted to play the breakaway song for a change! He got a copy of the Looney Tunes theme song and played it as the Ranger was breaking away. The 1MC, ship-wide public address system, on our ship was installed in 1946. I think they used the same speakers that went into the dashboard radios of that year model Chevy pickup truck. Anyway, I heard the first notes of Looney Tunes in the speaker that was directly above my head, then the Ranger's 1MC spoke. It was like the voice of God. That system was intended to be heard from the middle of a military runway. The audio was so intense that even the pauses in the music were louder than the speaker above my head. I felt sorry for the Lt. He really wanted to play his breakaway song. Maybe they could hear it playing inside the hull. But then again, maybe not.
The US is currently working on our newest carrier, named the USS Skynyrd. The crew will be yelling "Play some Skynyrd, duuuude!"
Hahahaha best ship ever!
I had a son and daughter in the Navy. NEVER call it a boat, it's called a ship! Boy was I always being corrected on this.
Unless its a sub. It gets confusing sometimes lol.
Lots of Sailors call their own ship "the boat" but only sailors can say that....just like white people shouldn't say the N-word
Not sure where people get this from. I was in the Navy eight years AND I was on 3 aircraft carries, the USS Coral sea, Abraham Lincoln and the Forestall. WE ALL called it the boat. And yes, we KNEW it was not a "boat" that was the point. I'm always hearing bubble heads and civilians (who were not there) telling us what we said and didn't say. It's very insulting to carrier vets. We served on them you didn't. You guys really need to stop it.
You can put a boat on a ship, but you can't put a ship on a boat.
I joined the Navy at 17, in 1979, one week after graduating high school. i served aboard the USS John Adams SSBN 620 Blue, a fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine
"I've seen a few carriers and to me it's just a big ass boat." ... that is when I facepalmed.
It IS fun, Ricky! I did five carriers in my 25 years of service and I can tell you that it was one hell of a great time sailing the world’s seas.
Recky, not Ricky. Sorry, autocorrect.
Thank you for your service ❤️
Thank you all that served!! Now I walked around the U.S.S Midway and I thought that was massive until I seen a new 1 coming into port and then I was like WOW.. I was lost for words.. alot of us Americans don't live by a ocean so seeing 1 up close is very rare. I'm in Arizona so no oceans near me..lol.. but when I go on vacation to actually see 1 is like hitting the lottery. Also, to our allies these aircraft carriers are there for you guys too. I dont mind my tax money going to our military!!
An interesting fact that not many people are aware of or think about is that these ships are *floating parts warehouses* and with the exception of the airframe itself, just about any part that could ever need to be replaced on any aircraft on board is stored somewhere on the ship. I was in the Marines and did a Deployment (VMFA 451 on the Forrestal) and I was in charge of an Avionics shop. I was curious where the parts were kept so one day I want to the "Parts Room" which was just a small cabin. There were drawers and drawers of file cards and there was a card for every part carried in the ship. On the card was the location of the part on the ship by by frame number and space (The frames are like the ribs of the ship and they are numbered from bow to stern, so the first frame behind the bow is Frame number one, the next is number 2 and so on. The part would have the frame number and some detail about where the object would be found). Parts were literally kept everywhere. For example, in the officers Quarters, there were little tiny attics above the cabins and parts would be in each of those attics. There were some spaces for the arresting gear, and sure enough, there were parts tucked into corners. There were thousands and thousands of parts spread the lenght of the ship, and just about anything you could need was there, and could be retrieved for you in a matter of minutes. People have no idea of how much stuff is stored on these giant ships but an Aircraft Carrier has to support all of its aircraft and to do that, just about any part that might be required is kept aboard. It is just one of the many things that people don't realize about these ships. I was in the Marines for 8 years and I gained a huge amount of respect for the Navy as a result of my squadron's time aboard. I was lucky. Not a lot of Marines get to see close up what the Navy does, and having seen it, I came away quite impressed. Shout out to the Navy. Carrier Ops are one of the most impressive things in all of the military.
If you're really interested, there was an 11 eleven episode series called "Carrier" that aired on PBS in 2008. It follows the crew for an entire deployment and gives a lot of information and insight into how the ships operate and what life is like on board.
I served aboard the USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN 69. I was a Nuke Electricians Mate. Served fron 1996 to 2002. Leisure was anything you could do, read, sleep, work out, video games, board games, internet at the library. Mostly it was work work sleep for us. We stood watches that rotated times around the clock.
Refuling.... My last year on the Ike was in the Newport News Naval shipyards for refuel and complex overhaul. The old nuclear fuel is pulled up and out of the ship by crane from the bottom up through the flight deck through hatches that were installed in every deck above the reactor compartment. Most people didn't see them aside from a large metal ring on the mess decks. Once the old fuel is pulled out, new fuel was dropped in giving the Ike approx 30 more years of service life.
Typically, after 25 years, the reactors receive new uranium fuel rods. The USS Enterprise, the very first nuclear powered carrier, was in commission from 1961 until 2012. Carriers like these are an enormous investment, and, they want to get as much use from them as possible.
The Enterprise's single refuel/refit occurred in late 1993 to mid-1994. Because that ship was unique in that it was fueled by eight small fission reactors instead of the 3 large reactors that all nuclear carriers after it used, it took roughly 5 months to complete the refueling. The extensive resources and time required for the refueling, plus the difficulty in modernizing its pre-Vietnam War era equipment were the major factors in the Navy deciding to decommission her early instead of waiting for her to run out of gas again.
It's amazing that the US had 99 aircraft carriers during WW II. The vast majority were escort carriers, Jeep carriers and the rest Fleet carriers. The smaller carriers were usually built on some kind of merchant ship hull so they could be turned out fast.
Another incredible fact is the US had a 350 ship navy in 1941 but by the end of the war there was almost 1200 ships.
Believe at peak production levels in the 1944-45 era, the navy was able to deliver a submarine a week and dozens of battleships a year. Massive war effort helped by the famous Rosie the Riveter model for full labor.
@@WilliamViets WRONG!!!!!, The Kaiser shipyards on the west coast could turn out transport ship at a rate of a ship a week at peak production, but even that rate took a couple of years to reach. That was with constant improvement of building technology and techniques, and a standardized design.
Submarines took several months due to their complexity and testing.
Battleships took years to build, that's why we only introduced about only a half dozen new ones during World War II.
Cruisers, both light and heavy took a bit less time. And Destoyers and Destroy Escorts could be produced in months with standardized designs.
Remember that during this time period America was producing all this plus aircraft, trucks and tanks along with the spare parts for everything.
Plus the emphasis was on aircraft carriers, Essex class fleet carriers, light carriers, and of course escort aircraft carriers also known as "jeep carriers".
After WW2 we had too many ships, they took 1,000 ships to Bikini Atoll and set off a nuclear blast on them, the biggest ever, contaminated the whole place, man, what a mess.My uncle was on two carriers in WW2, Yorktown and St. Lo, both got sunk by the Japanese, but he was O.K.
Ronald Reagan promised and delivered a 600 ship navy. Bill Clinton managed to decommission more than 200 of them in his first term.
When deployed you work 12 hour days seven days a week until you make a port call. In port, you are typically on duty every 3rd day which means you have to stay on the ship your duty day. When at sea, during the 12 hours that we aren't working, we would typically occupy our time by working out, reading, watching tv, sleeping, watching flight operations, etc.
Wendover generally does a good job.
One minor fault in this video: a torpedo (or even several) won't sink a carrier. If hit, it will sustain some damage. Enough to compromise its operations? Maybe. To sink it? No.
What does it take to sink one? Multiple torpedos?
Modern carriers are double hulled. There are multiple watertight compartments between the inner and outer hulls. It would take more than a single torpedo hit in the same place in order to breach both hulls.
@@Reckyj - My late Father was the Navigator on his tour on the old USS America (CVA-66) which was a non-nuclear KITTY HAWK class carrier, which after decommissioning was used for a SINKEX in 2005. The Cold War estimates were that the USS America (CVA-66) could take twenty-one torpedoes before damage control could not prevent the sinking of the hull due to water ingress. The SINKEX showed that the un-manned hull resisted all above water attempts to sink the ship, with in hull placed demolitions finally used to sink the ship.
@@dvwjr79 I live to read this comments. Thank you for sharing!
Hello friend I spent 2 years on the USS MIDWAY in the 70's awesome beast. The new ones are even more awesome!!! you Swedes are also awesome anyone agree? great channel!
Hi Tony! Glad you enjoy my channel!
Me too in 72
The brown shirt is not the boss on the ground. He is the boss of his own plane. Just that one. He makes no decisions, though, on where it is parked, how it is loaded, when it is flown, or what maintenance is necessary.
Between your regular job and standing watches, you end up working 16 to 18 hr days. Mid-watch is the worst. Wake up at 5:30 am (if you want breakfast), do your job all day, then you are roused at 11:00 pm to stand watch from midnight to 4:00 am. Up again at 5:30 to do it all again.
Holy hell. And I bitch about 40 h / week..
@@Reckyj The theory is that if you have a ship full of bored young men, problems arise. So they keep you on the edge of not ever getting enough sleep. You have to realize, on a ship of 6000 you may have 10% of them over the age of 25. I joined at 17. 6 or 8 months at sea with only a few days in some port to even get to see the sun. A bunch of teenage boys and no women? It can get intense.
@@greggwilliamson I get that. Keep busy or go insane
@@Reckyj Except when I was stationed on a carrier 11 years ago it was both sexes onboard and plenty of unauthorized activities went on if you could find an empty safe place. At sea we had 12 hour shifts at work. What free time you had was usually doing emergency drills for 4+ hours. Additional 4 hour watches. Add in time to sleep if your lucky and what ever time you have left is for recreation. 16-20 hour days at sea is not uncommon and can be very hazardous especially for those working the flight deck. The rewards can be outstanding when you pull into a foreign port. As the saying goes “Join the Navy and see the world.”
I had 20 years and 31 countries.
I visited the bush while I was in the navy, I got lost so many times and I was on there for only a few hours. and the mooring lines are *heavy.*
7:32 that's one of the most dangerous operations for sailors, not counting combat related. between getting snagged or wrapped by a line and getting skin de-gloved or having body parts pulled and ground through things their those body parts can't fit through, fuel leaks, or getting knocked overboard or crushed if the ships slam into each other, you gotta keep your wits about you
Reckyj, I enjoyed watching your reaction to this video. I was stationed on 5 different carriers during my career. They are massive. It is very easy to get lost on a carrier until you learn to navigate the vessel. I ended my career on a small wooden minesweeper. 180 feet long with only 70 other sailors. What a joy it was to be on something that small. Thank you for your interest on this subject.
More coming! I’m enjoying it
The word you were thinking of is "Deterrence." The art of including another variable to the decision process. "Um...do we want to go to war today? Add an aircraft carrier's presence... "Hmm... NOPE! 😄(This is an oversimplification, of course.) Oh, and BTW, carriers are ships. Ships carry boats, but boats do not carry ships. Just a minor correction. (Although boats can be used for any seagoing vessel as a slang reference, as in: "Don't F**k with our boats!") Love your reactions, keep up the good work!
Each US carrier is, as I've once heard described as, "4.5 acres of US sovereign territory, that can be taken anywhere in the world." (Obviously, where there is water deep enough).
My father was on several different Aircraft carriers when in the Navy, his leisure time was spent in the Bowling Alley.
"Force projection" is another way of saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Teddy Roosevelt.😁
😁 Big stick as in big gun
@@Reckyj That quote is in reference to the "Great White Fleet" of 1907 - '09.
When it's pretty much bigger than yacht size, it's no longer a boat; it's a ship.
I know. I’m just saying shit.
@@Reckyj LOL!!!
Size doesn't matter, it's about the way they turn. Boats lean in, ships heal out. This is why submarines are still boats.
A few things;
1. American carriers do one refueling after 20-25 years. This requires a stay in a dry dock for 2-3 years. The deck is cut open, the old reactors are removed, and new reactors are installed and the deck is welded shut again. While this is happening, most every other system on the carrier is upgraded. Everything from electronics, to mechanical systems are replaced, and/or upgraded. At the end of the second refueling, the carrier is decommissioned and scrapped.
Despite what Wendover said, the French carriers cannot go 25 years between refueling, they can only go about 12 years between refueling. Since the French have only one carrier, and it takes so long to refuel, the air group still must maintain their ability to land on carriers. They do this by coordinating with the US to practice landing on their carriers. American naval aircraft have also practiced landing on the French carrier.
2. Submarines are the most dangerous threat to any surface ship. This includes carriers. The very advanced electric subs that Sweden and other European countries have produced in the last decade and a half are a huge concern for America. In fact, after the HSwMS Gotland (Gtd) proved itself capable of successfully attacking an America surface group, the Americans leased the sub from Sweden, complete with Swedish crew, for two years in order to find ways to counter it. It is unclear how successful that program was for America.
3. The supply ships not only supply the carrier, but also the rest of the battle group. It takes about 12 hours to completely supply a single carrier with just food and dry goods. This does not include fuel and ammunition. One resupply from these ships will last the carrier about 6 weeks....not including fuel and ammo.
4. Carriers are the fastest ships in the entire U.S. Navy. I have heard from sources that I trust that a carrier can do 85+KPH. It is well known that a carrier can outrun its escort ships, and it is verified that this has happened a number of times in the past when a carrier was need in the Persian Gulf as soon as possible.
Dang, that’s what I call a comment! Thank you
Teddy Roosevelt: "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick."
What is rarely articulated but widely understood among the world's military leaders is that a single US carrier strike group with its normal complement of conventional and nuclear weapons can deliver more explosive power on a target than all the nations in all the battles in WWII employed.
Carriers haven't carried nuclear weapons since the 90s. How can I be so sure? Because when we had them onboard, they were guarded by Marines and we regularly practiced loading them.
@@michaelmappin4425 he said carrier strike group there are multiple ships in a strike group including submarines and Ohio class submarines carry trident 2 ICBMs so a strike group can have nuclear weapons
@@freedomefighterbrony9053 Subs with the carrier are the fast attack subs.
They spend an hour at the start of their shift cleaning, so to answer your question "who cleans the bathroom" well you do.
Theodore Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
'Speak softly and carry a big stick' is a proverbial saying advising the tactic of caution and non-aggression, backed up by the ability to carry out violent action if required.
Haha very true!
Love your vids dude. Don't worry about your English, it's really good! The part where you were saying "stopping war before it happens" is correct. It's basically the way to say "don't do anything stupid, you see us right here?"
An American saying for that would be "Fuck around and find out." LOL. Keep up the good work.
Hi Drunk! Thank you for the kind words! And yes, that was what I wanted to say.
Exactly. North Korea and China are trying to find out.
Several years ago a Swedish diesel sub got a clean simulated hit on a U.S. carrier during wargame exercises in the Baltic sea. The U.S. Navy was impressed w/ the 'Swedish 'quiet' diesel technology .
It’s like how the hell?
@@Reckyj they got in front of the group and then went silent.
The US military is currently looking at modifying the 10 Amphibious Landing Carriers (smaller aircraft carriers) it has into "Lightning Carriers" each carrying 2 squadrons of F-35B (vertical lift off variants) Lightning stealth fighters. This would effectively DOUBLE the US Carrier strike force projection capability. The US did something similar during WWII, with smaller escort Carriers that were cheaply produced. Fun fact: The US built 143 Aircraft Carriers of various types and classifications during WWII.
Another interesting point: US Nuclear Carriers are the fastest warships on Earth. They are capable of out running their own Strike Group escorts.
Quick note regarding the layout of the flight deck...the landings ALL happen on the angled part of the flight deck, at least that is the way it works for fixed wing, piloted aircraft. The front of the flight deck that you thought was for landings is pretty much exclusively used for launching planes using the ship's main catapults. Helicopters may land in the front part of the flight deck, but usually they don't, and planes are often parked on the front part of the flight deck...but I am not aware of any planes or drones that use the catapult area at the front to land. There were tests on US carriers where they successfully tried to land large cargo planes, like the C-130 Hercules, and in those tests they used the entire length of the flight deck to land due to the C-130 not having a tail hook.
So a C-130 can actually take off from that carrier???
@@Reckyj Yes...it can...there are a decent amount of videos of it. Here is a good one showing landings and take offs, with appropriate music...LOL ruclips.net/video/uM5AI3YSV3M/видео.html
@@Reckyj It was proven it can land and take off back in the 60’s on a carrier which was smaller than the Ronald Reagan. It was determined to risky to perform the landing safely for the C130 so traditionally it’s not done nowadays I believe; but can be done if needed.
@@Reckyj they are considered a short runway takeoff/landing plane and can use non airfield locations to land and takeoff like fields and roads if needed during times of war or emergencies.
@Chandler White Didn't they also have a test using bolt-on rocket motors for take-off (the same ones used for very short runway take-offs on land)?
The Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier is 1092 feet long, flight deck is close to 250 feet wide, and weighs in at approximately 97,000 tons. It has a little over 4,500 people.
"What are the dudes that clean the bathrooms?" The ship is divided into departments like Engineering Department, Supply Department, etc. Each department has divisions. Each division provides men and women to clean their own heads (bathrooms) and living areas--usually the lowest rated members.
We call them sanitation technicians
@@Reckyj we call them sailors
Working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is listed as one of most dangerous jobs in the world.
I lived on board ( ship's company ) the USS Kitty Hawk for three years back in the early 80's and yes, they are floating cities. Leisure time back then was probably a little different than now. No internet, no cell phones, no computers. Most of the time was spent catching up on sleep, playing cards or watching TV. These edited videos sometimes make it look like your living and working in fantasy land when in fact it becomes monotonous af! That's why when sailors hit port with a pocket full of money we tend to let loose! That being said, would I trade it for something else? Not on your life! Proud to have served my country, met some great people, some of whom I still keep in contact with, and they were the best days of my life hands down.
Thank you for your service!
@@Reckyj 👍🇺🇲
@@Vod-Kaknockers the pride you feel. Is not even close to Sweden’s. We don’t have that pride.. And I feel more like an American, since I have that pride for my nation.. I could just get the hell outta here and live we’re my pride is shared.
@Reckyj Well then, I'll consider you an American brother in spirit. 😉
BTW...just subbed to your channel.
@@Vod-Kaknockers sounds good to me! Thank you for the sub! Hope you enjoy my content.
Power projection is very important to avoid war. It keeps everyone at bay who would otherwise have other ideas.
Deterence? (might be spelling it wrong)
Current technology has a nuclear powered Aircraft Carrier refueling at about the 25 year point - this is a major undertaking and is normally combined with a major overhaul.
Typically a Carrier will be in the shipyard 2-3 years during a refueling.
Conventionally powered carriers are capable of being refueled underway - but then it is a matter of logistics getting an oiler out to the carrier
(in addition to providing fuel for the escorts and aircraft.) A nuclear Carrier has the added advantage that it can carry fuel for both its aircraft and the escort vessels, which
helps with the logistics.
The food is AMAZING on carriers!!!
Its ok
Deterrence is the word you want. And, BTW, Nuclear warships are refueled when they run low on fuel, just like your car. Only more involved.
to the question "then what??" they refit the ship, make it last another 25 years. (in peace time)
"Stopping war before it happens." The word you're looking for is "deterrence."
Yes!!
Swedes leading the way in Europe as usual. Thank you for your support. We love you guys over here!
Off duty activities, During a high tempo flight op period (force projection, keeping some people honest, etc) the work day is 12 to 16 hours. So off duty time is limited.
What does one do? Eat chow, hit the weight room, read, watch the piped in tv programs, play cards, acey ducey tournaments, BS sessions, and sleep.
Oh yeah throw in mandatory training.
Downtime on board is much like downtime at home....read, watch TV, computer time, workout, play cards and use the gaming systems, etc
I sailed around the world on CVN-70. I can't remember what I did in my free time. Read paperback books watched shipboard TV stations. They would fly movies out for us to watch. You work 12 hours on then 12 off.
12 hours off.. you sleep like 7-8 of them.
We had a film locker on the Midway. I com shawed the Admirals film, The great race. They kept calling us to see if we were done. They told the Admiral they were looking for it and couldn't find it.
We (USA) also operate another 10 smaller conventionally powered Amphibious assault ships that can act as smaller aircraft carriers as well.
Recommend The USS Midway , a decommissioned aircraft carrier now a museum in San Diego Harbour. Absolutely mind blowing
A very cool suggestion
@@Reckyj I went there last year. It's an exhausting day trip but so worth it.
It’s a wonderful. Especially Sunday when their are more docents there. I met pilots who literally flew the planes. I met a WWII Vet who was shot down it was so interesting.
@@cherylann9781 I was there this last 9/11
I was on the Midway in 72. I am curious; since the Midway was home ported in Alameda. Why is it San Diegos ship. It used to be the Ticonderoga. However I think the Tico was sold out of mothballs to the Chinese. If so that is a crime. The Ticonderoga was the most decorated CVA in the fleet. I think San Diego has the wrong ship.
When the ships are deployed for a conflict or just for drills most of the crew are working 12 to 16 hour days. There really isn't a lot of downtime except when the crew gets leave in a port of call. They are simply amazing
Love this video! Love that you are always looking to learn more no matter what.
As always!
7:32 Underway Replenishments(UNREP) is one of the things that sailors in my old rate Boatswain Mate(BM) had to do for every resupply and refueling of our ship. From the eyes of other sailors that's not doing the job, it looks cool. But from the ones that have to be in the working party, it is far from cool. It is absolutely one of the hardest, if not the hardest jobs on the ship to do. Now the coolest part of a UNREP is the Emergency Breakaway. Everybody on the ship like to see this maneuver be done. But dont get it twisted, an Emergency Breakaways can be good and bad. It can be good for a job well done (Bravo Zulu) and just do it for practice and it could be bad because something went wrong and both ships are in jeopardy and the mission was a failure.
We had a guy get hurt. He eventually died. I had to go up to supervise the care and placing him on a litter to be taken to medical.
In the US, the Public Broadcast System (PBS) has a program called CARRIER. It is a documentary about life on a USS Carrier.
Our Island had 11 decks, I believe we had 6 decks below the hangar deck(main deck) there was also a deck above the hangar deck this deck is included in the 11 above the hangar, below the flight deck. Medical and Dental were on the deck below the hangar deck. Our feet were just above sea level.
Sweden would be a wonderful NATO partner as would the Finns (although Turkey or maybe Hungary could block membership).
Good news, in light of the "military operation" in Ukraine, the governments of Finland and Sweden have petitioned NATO for membership. Of course this did not make Russia please but it is the natural response to Russias special military operation.
@@joeclaridy Think the application intention has to clear the nations’ respective parliaments and those approvals haven’t yet been debated and given.
I think NATO expansion won't be finished until we sign up Africa, Taliban, China, N. Korea, we're not even half way there yet.
They are trying!
"A few weeks at a time"... isn't entirely accurate - from 31 July 1964 to 3 October 1964 - just to demonstrate the capability, the first nuclear carrier, USS Enterprise, accompanied by 2 nuclear escorts, the USS Long Beach, and the USS Bainbridge, circumnavigated the globe without being resupplied.
More importantly - there is absolutely no need to visit port in order to resupply - this is normally done underway, at sea.
In 2020 and 2021 in order to avoid (Port Visits) navy ships of all sizes were setting records for continuous days at sea.
I absolutely love wendover productions. Great channel
"What about the dude who cleans the bathroom?" Assuming you don't mean everyone but you mean a individual tasked for it, Sanitation Supervisor (Manager).
An aircraft carrier is a ship. The way to remember is, ships can carry boats, but boats cannot carry ships. They are the fastest ship on the open ocean!
@16:02 "Stopping a war before it happens" - Yep! That pretty much sums it up. You're English is fine man.
It's not just a big ass boat, it's a floating city with a population of about 6,000.
We had 3,000 ships company and 13 squadrons on the Ticonderoga.
I had the fun. an unrep is something you need to experience as a "pawn" and 3- 4 times as a "knight" ( or better ) to get the full experience .
Fuel rods are spent after 25 years, so they have to go to refit port for a few years to replace spent rods. As they are radioactive, it takes a lot of care and time to "refuel".
When I was deployed on the Carrier, at sea we worked, ate and slept.
There are several levels of command on an American carrier. There is the Captain's bridge, who has overall control of the ship. There is also a Flag Admiral bridge where the commander of the Carrier Strike Group (the carrier and all its support and combat ships), who is an Admiral, oversees and directs the tactics and employment of all the vessels, in coordination with other assets such as an amphibious landing group someplace nearby or Air Force support and allied forces.
There's also a Flight Deck Control that runs the flight operations on the Flight Deck (the local air traffic control, basically), and the Hangar Deck Control that coordinates movement of aircraft up and down from the Flight Deck as well as aircraft maintenance below decks.
No, they don't get decommissioned, they simply refuel the reactor when the fision fuel is expended. Carriers also have a regular maintenance schedule in port for upgrades, structural maintenance, equipment reconfiguration to keep up with technology, and other things. If you wanted to, you could operate an aircraft carrier indefinitely.
Decommissioning has more to do with obsolescence due to improved carrier designs and overall budget allocations across the fleet. The carriers used in World War Two and other previous eras were thus superceded by newer, bigger, and better ships, for example. Things changed as military aircraft and tactics changed. The carriers from the 30's and 40's had straight wooden flight decks that launched aircraft at lower speeds equipped with radial internal combustion engines directly into the wind. Today's carriers use catapults at the bow and port waist to launch jet propelled aircraft at much higher speeds and are capable of launching and recovering aircraft at the same time.
"Non-binary people"? The US military is one of the last bastions of common sense resisting the non-sensical PC world being created by morons. It is nonetheless encroaching on our culture, but we still mostly recognize the biological fact that there are only two genders, male and female. We can't afford to try to accommodate sociological weirdness. Ask any combat Marine what he thinks about gender integration on the battlefield, and they will have a clear notion of what is required for this highly demanding task.
We have no problem with including females in any area requiring combat situations. But we know from experience the limitations that females can achieve compared to males. That's just the way it is, and no amount of woke idealism can change that.
As for the work schedule aboard ship, there is no liberty at sea until you dock at a foreign port where you can take some time off. If you're lucky you'll get eight hours on with twelve hours off continuously, every day of the week, more if operational requirements demand it. You work, get a lunch break, then manage sleep and welfare separately. And more often than not you'll be working twelve hours on and twelve hours off every day. For months. Normal deployment is at least six months, and you may only see two or three port calls during the entire deployment. Oorrah!
We call time-off "liberty", but it is more like time being off-base or off the ship at a foreign port. While you're aboard ship, it's just time between work shifts. There will usually be two twelve-hour shifts, since the ship is manned around the clock. Meals are breakfast, lunch, dinner, and mid-rats, with the galleys open for the three main meals and at least one of them open for mid-rats, and there are galleys for the main enlisted crew, the Chief's Mess, and the Officer's Mess or Wardroom.
During your time off you handle personal hygiene, sleep, watch movies or play games or listen to music, do regular exercise, get haircuts, use the ship's store and library, etc. Laundry is done by unit and division with your clothing in a mesh laundry bag that is washed as a bundle, unless you're a high-ranking officer who can get their uniforms washed, pressed, and even shoes shined by stewards.
There is also daily cleanup of berthing spaces, heads, passageways, etc, and frequent drills for man overboard, fire and damage control, medical emergencies, and such.
There are maintenance schedules, meetings, and ceremonies. The chaplain will hold frequent services, sometimes in the foc'sle or the anchor windlass section on the bow, and they may set up a movie screen or a basketball area in the hangar deck.
If you're a smoker, you now have to go to designated sponsons or weather areas on the ship, which are often secured for cleaning or when ship's command secures the smoking lamp.
And when the galleys are open, the chow lines can extend into the hangar deck and progress one or two people at a time as personnel are served, sit, eat their meal, and evacuate the galley after eating.
Many other things are going on and available aboard ship, this is only a hint of life on an aircraft carrier.
Maybe the words you're looking for are DETERENCE of aggression from a foreign power through the projection of prepositioned military might on a world-wide scale. "You see me, I'm here, I can kick your ass, so just behave and everything will be just fine".
It is well understood that any enemy assets could inflict a major blow against a carrier strike group just by sinking or disabling the carrier. That's why multiple different platforms are employed to protect the carrier, from missile ships in the contingent, submarines assigned to the carrier strike group, anti-submarine capable aircraft and helicopters, continuous overwatch of the surrounding tactical environment, logistical and intelligence assets from the surface ships, satellites, and intelligence agencies, and even the on-board defensive weapons such as the CWIS and missile defense systems. So getting to a carrier and sinking it is a very difficult thing to do in the first place. We learn from history and always develop long-term solutions to as many foreseeable threats as possible.
Understanding how an aircraft carrier can be a phenomenal force multiplier on the world stage can be difficult for a civilian to grasp since there is a high level of complexity and forethought involved. But someone like me who got to experience life on carriers for 16 years out of a 24-year career as a Marine, it all makes sense and it clicks within your mind, in an elegant, well-coordinated symphony about tactics and strategy. When you hear those birds overhead screaming in the pattern returning from strikes over Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, or any other theater, that's the sound of freedom.
It is even more significant to me since I started as an Infantryman on the ground, having seen combat in Desert Storm, Grenada, Somalia, and Iraq, and every time you get close air support from American air assets you know that your country is providing what's needed to enable you to accomplish your mission.
God bless the USA, and our Naval Aviators.
Semper Fi. 🇺🇲
R/S
SSgt Cruz, David C.
USMC (Ret)
1986-2010
My father was in the Air Force and the motto was peace through strength
The person who cleans the bathroom might be classified as a "Sanitary Engineer".
I love getting other countries peoples' perspectives on this stuff. very cool video
More coming! Since I enjoy them to
The term you are looking for is power projection. It means to show your military might to prevent conflicts from starting.
Yes! And deterrence
I'm an Army guy however, I grew up in San Diego, and it was made perfectly clear to me that there is a difference between a "boat" and a "ship." An aircraft carrier is a SHIP not a boat. On the other hand a submarine is a BOAT. Perhaps my Navy Veterans can help me out. It's like the differences between a gun and a rifle.
You're correct. However, many affectionately call it, "the boat," all the time. You will sometimes run across different definitions, but the one I believe most is that a ship rolls outward in a turn, and a boat rolls into the turn. Watch a speedboat turning, and you will see it lean into the direction of turn. There are plenty of videos of carriers doing high speed rudder throws. The the ship heals outward opposite the turn. Submarines turn like speed boats.
"speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far". - President Theodore Roosevelt
The guy that cleans the bathroom would be the sanitation engineer.
We call it sanitation technicians
Recky, the words you were looking for is show of force.
YES! and premptive actions
We usually say peace thru strength. Show a little power & give other countries leaders a reason to think twice before starting something.
I always knew air craft carries were big, but until I stepped on to one of them it was then I realized how enormous it really was. My husband flew in the helicopters
Good song title...
"It's a big ass boat"
;-)
Bathrooms on ships are cleaned in that particular space is either janitorial engineers or the man standing over you at a particular time in your life says while pointing to your screwup, “You get to scrub the🚽 for 2 weeks.” 😈
Sanitation technicians. Swedish name
Leisure time usually consisted of watching movies, playing video games, and working out. Not much else to do.
Love your videos, nice to see how others around the world realize we here in the U.S.A. ARE a peace loveing country but makes sure the world is safe from terany . We have never ever been aggressive toward any other country we only use our military to protect any country that is being taken advantage of, We may be bold and loud but we are always there for any country that is being bullied. we love GOD AND WE ARE ALWAYS THERE WHEN YOU NEED US, WITH LOVE FROM THE U.S.A. MARK
More kind words from you Mark. Dont spoil me! =)
@@Reckyj LOL
13:24 there are also Marines on board most military ships just incase of combat situations. A great show to see how a typical ship operates is the show "Last Ship"
There haven't been Marine dets on Carriers in a long time. (90's?). The only Marines permanently assigned to US navy ships would be the combat cargo officer (CCO)on amphibs.
Marine fighter attack squadrons do deploy as part of an airwing. Not sure of the frequency of this.
Of course on amphibs Marine units would be the embarked troops.
@@craigplatel813 never said it was a carrier
Marines on carriers were used during the cold war period to guard nuclear weapons. They left the carrier when the USSR desolved. However, Marine squadrons have been part of many carrier air wings. Any of the ships with an L beginning their designation (as in LHD 7) are used to carry Marines.
I did 6 years in the Navy on an amphibious assault ship with lots of unreps (underway replenishment). One unrep we were tethered with 4 ships side by side. Two tankers on both sides of my ship, plus another amphib to the left of one tanker on our left. A Canadian tanker that deployed with us was flying tons of pallets with food and supplies. All this with two cruisers on lifeguard duty behind us. All during sunset. That was fun, but it sucked at the same time.
Quiet submarines are a carriers worst nightmare. The fleet they travel with works very hard to protect the carrier against all comers.
I saw in another video that a lot of people tend to play video games in the Navy for fun
Some jobs onboard navy ships require more work with longer hours. Some "work" 8 hours a day. Others not only stand watches, but also on duty for maintenance purposes. The work load on Saturdays tends to be lighter. Sundays are typically days off unless you are on duty. My job kept my shop very busy on the amphib I served on. Sometimes you have to choose between eating and sleeping or showers. It was not uncommon for us to lay down on the deck in my shop and get some sleep.
Carriers tend to be conducting flight ops almost 24 hours a day giving the flight deck crews little relaxation time. Even on days there isn't any flight ops, the flight crew conducts maintenance on the flight deck itself like painting.
Hooyah Gator Navy!! The real Navy!! When you are on Well Deck Ops for 48+ hrs, knowing that you only have minutes to eat or shower before the next landing or deployment of the Marines, you wouldn't choose neither one. Sleep is the absolute best thing to have. We never know when or if a sleeping opportunity will ever come. So, I myself took the aft portside moring lines and used that as a place to lay my head in between operations. One of the best 21 minutes of sleep I've ever had.
So if Us Navy personnel aboard the Aircraft carrier has down time and they are relatively new to the ship, they learn as much about their job on the ship to become fully qualified, or watch movies, play either video/ board games, or get exercise to stay in shape. Other times they have cleaning details around the ship. Sometimes personnel will be allowed to play music for their fellow shipmates, have a grill out were ships culinary specialists will grill food on deck as a great job done from the commanding officer.
"More Dangerous" is a matter of perspective - ships connected by steel cables - especially in rough weather, and maneuvering in close proximity,
is by its very nature fraught with danger. Accidents can, and do happen - yet; low altitude, close quarters flying is, to a certain extent, even more hazardous.
Not to mention when you have 2 large ships traveling very close beside each other they tend to create a suction effect between them, so the helmsmen on each ship must counteract this effect or the ships will collide.
@@kdrapertrucker Absolutely.