The Crazy Stores you Can Find on US Aircraft Carriers
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
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“Quit the job at Starbucks, joins the Navy, works in Starbucks on Naval Warships.”
Praise God that wasn't on my ship.
I’m pretty sure it’s optional
Lies again? AMWF CAR COLD STORAGE
With.....NO TIPS!!! But.....port calls.
Get way better benefits though lol.
"Yeah I was in the Navy. 2nd Fleet, Starbucks unit."
Way after my time. Bug juice, canned soda, soft serve ice cream. 😄
If your ever in chas sc, hmu ill buy ya some bucks if desired, we got dd and krispy kreme too, although i know from hearing its goid shit ive not confirmed coffee sales, be foolish if not but yeah get here lmk and ill treat ya. Ty for being you...
“Special Forces; Pumpkin Spice Brigade! Hoorah!”
Retail specialist be like
"Got a unit citation for the great lunch rush of 2017."
Imagine traveling abroad surrounded by billions of dollars and the most highly trained people in the world doing exceedingly dangerous tasks
only to still work retail.
The machine never stops, I swear.
That is what they sign up for.
@@dano727 I'm not shitting on the crew members. Bless them for the stress at seas to protect us.
I just think it's funny how no matter what, there's those pesky brands demanding they be sold to customers. There goes that there fucking *Starbucks* on a damn aircraft carrier.
I just draw a bit of cynical humor from these inevitabilities is all.
@@dano727 bro they should at least get something better I mean cmon they shouldn't expect no Starbucks coffee on a billion dollar ship but at a dealership or some goofy looking coffee shop I understand but a ship filled with multiple crew members that's cheap service
it never will either .. good point!
@@daserfomalhaut9809 They didn't have this when I served 30 years ago, but The Navy does try to make life at sea more comfortable. Life at sea can be tough.
I love this. These men and women, not just Navy but all military, deserve this type of treatment. They are willing to give their lives for our way of life.
I was a Plane Capt and Mech on F-14s working mostly on the flight deck in the mid 80s. Average day was 12 to 16 hours. I would have love to find time to stand in line for coffee. We barely had time to go to the chow hall. I did love this video. Brings back great memories.
اكيد ذكريات جميلة ربي يعطيك العمر كله والصحه الجيده
Exactly, I wonder if the zips wait in the lines with the enlisted folks or do they go straight to the front?
Thanks for your service sir.
16 hour days? I can easily see people making mistakes working that many hours.
Not much has changed for line personnel. Different aircraft, same job.
I was on the Forrestal during the fire as a plane captain and on the Intrepid on WestPac when she turned 25 years old. We had none of these bennies. I would not trade my time for anything. The job was tough and long, but I learned a lot. Made me a better man. Go NAVY
The USS FOREST FIRE!
The crazy thing is, Starbucks ain't everything it's cracked up to be. Now if you had a Dutch Brothers on board, now you're talking !!!
I honestly thought this was going to be about numerous crazy stores on board.
"Woah a Best Buy on a carrier?!?!"
Yeah, this are not realy "Crazy Stores" just general Stores and its about 3 Minutes of Stores and 10 Minutes Commercial for a Aircraft Carrier.
No it's just what they sell in the ship store. Now if you want to know about CRAZY you have to go outside what the ship knows your selling on the boat. 😉The stories I have! When they say it's a floating city. That's what they mean.
Served on Ike '86-'90 only coffee was black with cream and sugar to taste. Beans came already ground in 20lb olive drab, vacuum packed tins. Once got one dated March 1966, meaning it was 2 months older than I was.
Omg....
Stevemre1989 approves
Ah yes, the Universal Grind coffee, so many jokes...
Served 86 and 88 West-pac. We referred to the coffee as MUD.
I wish they had shown more of the store itself, the items being sold, the people that work there, the customers that shop there. Instead seems like majority of footage is of outside the aircraft carrier with scenes of the jets and ocean.
Agree. The video is called 'crazy stores you find on an aircraft carrier'; they showed two.
It just looks like a normal US grocery store but smaller. In the past there were paper catalogs of stuff you could order for delivery to your house, dunno about now, it's been 30 years since I've been on one.
@@ckm-mkc Everything is either online, or moving that way. The problem is getting companies to ship to FPO/APO addresses. That little customs slip screws up their automated system. SMH
Served 6 years in the Navy. Was assigned to a carrier for most of that time. The stores aren't crazy. You could make a 15 minute video of someone walking around a 7/11 and get the gist of it. I think they officers might have had some better stuff but I doubt if it would blow your mind.
I was on an Aircraft Carrier and what they showed was pretty much it. There isn't too much to the ship store. They only let 3-4 people in the store at a time because it's so small. I bet all those people waiting in line while the camera crew were in there were probably so annoyed because the crew took the spot of at least service members. All you want is your Candy, soda, and Ramen and you want to hit your rack.
I met a woman whose entire job in the aircraft carrier was filling the candy machines. She did this type of full time work for 4 years. The favorite candy was Hershey’s products. The least favorite was non chocolate candy.
That is pathetic! Guess she has no ambition in life (hope you didn't hook-up with that loser).
Not all heroes wear capes
Her mos would have been Storekeeper. Yes that is real
That’s what I am. The rate is called a Retail Service Specialist or RS
I couldn't imagine doing the same repetitious work for a week, let alone four years. Does the USN not promote personal or professional development?
I was on the Constellation (CVA64) in the early 70’s.
Lucky to find drinkable Luke warm water ,then powered eggs & milk. Things change.
Got it made now ! 🇺🇸
5:25 Amazon Prime boxes even in the middle of the ocean. 🤣
As an Amazon worker this makes me proud
Sheesh! Starbucks? When I was in the Navy in the 60s, serving aboard the Enterprise, all we had was good ol' Navy coffee. The kind that if you stuck a spoon in it the spoon would stand on it's own. You had to bite off a chunk to get a mouthful of coffee.
Oh yes, it also tasted like JP-5!
(Well, at least it kept you regular! Not much constipation on a carrier in those days!)
p.s. How long ago did I serve? Ship's Stores still sold tobacco. Once we were outside the 3 mile limit, cigs cost $1.10 for regular, $1.20 for kings. (No 100s back then).
Oh, those prices? they were for a CARTON, not a PACK!
(Ten packs to a carton = eleven cents a pack for regular, 12 cents a pack for kings.)
The World needs a strong USA Navy 👍
Army, Air Force and Marines too!
I wasn't aware there are stores.
This is why America is the greatest country in the world. Cheers from Canada
I served aboard the USS MIDWAY out of Yokosuka, Japan from '78 through '80...
The ship had a barber shop, a US Post Office and a general store...
There were also video game consoles near the Forward Mess Deck...
That was all...Now look how far the Navy had come...
How did your daily routine work out ? You had your duty or work maybe an 8 hour shift then sleep for several hours then the rest of your 24 hours were your personal time off ?
@@frankmontez6853 Different divisions and rates have different schedules...As an Interior Communications Electrician (E Division,) I had a regular 8 hour daytime/normal business hours shift...but we also had rotating watches of four hours each in a 24-hour period...At times, the watch would fall during the work day...The watches were:
Midnight to 4 am
4 am to 8 am
8 am to 12 pm
12 pm to 4 pm
4 pm to 8 pm
8 pm to Midnight
I was on the USS SAMUEL GOMPERS same time frame, West Pac 78 I remember seeing the Midway in Yokosuka,great small carrier!
@@gary-qn7wu Yes, she only held 4,800 crew members...
Currently in Yoko cvn 76 and it’s actually gone backwards the navy as you know it is gone
Person 1: So, where do you work?
Person 2: At Starbucks.
Person 1: Oh, which one?
Person 2: On an aircraft carrier.
Person 1:😮
They deserve the star bucks and more. I love the Navy.
@Eric Owren. What horrible things have they done to deserve that sugar-laden garbage? Can they not be forgiven and served decent coffee?
@@Adrian_Nel So far , it's 15 to zero. You're not doing too good, bud. Maybe it'll get better. Cheers.
@@Adrian_Nel Maybe its what they want. Not everybody wants to drink black rocket fuel.
I did the 92-93 Med / Adriatic Sea cruise on the Kennedy, CV 67. We were lucky to have any kind of resemblance to milk or cream for coffee and sure didn’t have anything like Starbucks. We called or candy store the Geedunk. Worked on the flight deck 12 hours a day and loved every minute of it. Also took a cat and a trap in a Cod, awesome experience. Go Navy
Haven't heard the word geedunk in many years since my parents passing. My Dad was career Navy. He was on carriers. ❤ He was on a cruise when I was born. Met him in Hawaii for first time when I was several months old.
We relieved you. I was on the TR
I was there with you (VA-75). If you remember, canned sodas were forbidden on the JFK...they said because of a FOD risk. Which didn't make much sense. And maybe you remember the JFK pizza nights. The pizza wasn't that good, but they had all the khakis serve it. Nice break in the routine and was pretty cool when the XO was asking what kind of pizza toppings you wanted.
Morale, welfare, and recreation to the crew. All profits made in the Ship’s Store/vending machines/coffee bars go straight back to the crew in various ways. Sailors that work in those spaces also do firefighting, knows first aid, and stand inport quarterdeck/security watches.
everyone in the navy knows how to fight fire, basic first aid and standing watch.
On my Destroyer, the ship's store was smaller than my current bathroom. We had a gedunk machine back by the ship's office, with a selection of 4 types of soda. When we left Australia, all the selections were Aussie brands with unique flavors, one being which included Passionfruit.
@Spaghetti exactly! I am not sure what point that commenter was trying to make. 😆
@@Geeksmithing I’m not making a point or anything. It’s just a comment and info that some people that might not know because some people obviously didn’t know that there are convenient stores inside naval ships.
@@ShohTann half of your comments info was covered in the video and the other half is inaccurate, so mission accomplished? 👍
Imagine working at Starbucks before enlisting in the navy to find some adventure and end up working at Starbucks in an aircraft carrier lol
As an Infantryman in Viet Nam I was over joyed when we got a (semi) hot meal. :-)
Bruce! Yes Steve! Let's get our Starbucks together! Toodaloo! Can we hold hands! Of course! We're out in the open around here!
Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
At Lakehurst we had an old welder who had quit school to work at the Philly Navy Yard in WWII.
He was sent to a carrier for a week and wore his tan work clothes, you sailors see where this is going. He wore a Navair ball cap and the crew started saluting :)
Once going between decks a sailor asked him if he needed directions. No son, I built this ship, I welded the keel and now I build the JBD's
:)
Lakehurst? ABE ,H,F?
@@chairmanmeow2413 have you seen a dictionary?
Didn't think so.
Also, my stepfather was a welder.
And they say welders are sort of LOOPY because of all the fumes and grit - NO WAY! This guy knew what he was doing!!!
Just imagine that 900 million dollar helicopter and all that fuel used to replace the Doritos in the commissary.
Well I monthly import a box full of Chips from anothet country that are flown here by plane. I think around 20 people are involved in getting them here to my house
Amazing! I am proud of the USA as a Non US citizen. No other country in the world is capable to maintain such a huge Navy Fleet. Long live the USA
Since female’s came on board there is lots nicer things for the crew. In my days no female’s, there were no cans of coke or bottles of coke and no snacks, cookies and candy sold in the ships store. We had a couple coke machines and it cost 15 cents for a cup of coke and most of the time the machine either didn’t work or you got a empty cup or no cup and watched the coke shoot down the drain. We either drank water out of the scuttle butt, bug juice from the galley, coffee or sometimes milk. There was a little hole no bigger than a closet that was a candy store and maybe once a month it opened but was emptied in a matter of minutes. And yes this was on a carrier. When at sea we drank coffee mostly and in port we drank and drank and drank!!!!
Sounds about the same as we had in 2004-06 on FFG55. We had hills bros coffee (looks like muddy water, tastes like turpentine probably originated from it)on the enlisted mess. You could only find starbucks in o country and that was just bagged starbucks coffe put in there coffee maker, there were no actual coffee shops. We had an ice cream maker that had room for one flaver(chocolate or vanilla) and it was used once per underway period and almost always vanilla. We had a tiny ships store that was rarely open and a soda and candy machine on the mess deck.
Sounds like prison!! No thanks
So a civilian 4/10 females becomes a 9 inside.
These women just there to have fun. If you get what I mean. Its destructive to defensive capabilities and unit cohesion
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti you probably said something a lot of old timers would like to say but this day and time your not politically correct. Lots are way different like mail, calling family. We got a letter from home when the cod brought the mail and was excited when some one was waiting on the pier when we returned from a cruise. News you got from home in the mail was at least two to three weeks old. Made a person appreciate things a lot more than what’s going in today.
Imagine getting a full-ride through college and making 40k a year with excellent benefits and retirement for making the same starbucks coffee as an 18 year old making $10/hr.
Sounds like a half baked opinion on a subject you’re unfamiliar with
@@201hastings I'm probably more familiar with the concept than you are, having served in a support unit as well. I just know how to laugh at things in life instead of taking everything so seriously.
@@TheRealFoop $40K/yr ($3333/mo) would have to be an E6 over 4yr or E5 over 6yr /w sea pay at minimum. That kind of seniority would not be cashiering. E4 pay caps out at $2829/mo (2021 pay chart).
@@whirledpeaz5758 I considered the incredible health benefits, GI benefits, retirement options, and no mortgage or food expenses as at least something. So yes, I rounded up to 40k instead of rounding down to 30k.
Hilarious username 🤣🤣🤣
I will never ever step foot in a Starbucks ever again. Back in 2007 I was asked to leave one in Seattle because I was part of the US military,and just returned from Iraq. I guess we were upsetting some dude in a dress that was in there. We weren’t even in uniform and being very respectful and courteous to everyone. The manager asked us to leave so we wouldn’t upset her clientele. So they will never ever ever get any money from me ever again for any product they sell.
I have full respect for anyone deployed , be safe
Anyone who served in the last two decades or so can date this video based on the uniforms. There was a shot of an SK stocking shirts in Utilities which were phased out in 2010 and the Type I NWO that is shown most prevalently (the blue digicam) was phased out in favor of the Type III NWU (green digicam) in 2019. So the footage is anywhere from over a decade old to a few years.
Still, I recognized exactly where some of these spaces were as I served on two different Nimitz-class carriers in my 20 year career.
As a former crew member aboard the USS Constellation, I find nothing inaccurate in your comment, HOWEVER...
One needn't have served a single day in the Navy to know with absolute certainty which footage was shot in the last couple of years simply by noting the presence of masks adorning the sailors' faces.
j/s
No Dungarees from my time pre 1990.
Enterprise class was the best! ;)
I can't imagine seeing people in masks spraying down boxes before 2020
In my ≈ 4 yrs on a carrier I fielded multiple questions about where the bowling alley and the swimming pool were. _These were serious questions._
USS MIDWAY 83-86. We did have a "bowling alley"!
Don't you need to get a certain series of medical shots when you join the Navy? I mean like in basic training when you go through all the medical stuff?
@@blaineedwards8078:
I went through boot in 1968, in San Diego. That Naval Training Center has been closed years, decades ago. Things were different then. AIDS didn't exist yet. Every known infection could be cured. Yes, tons of shots. Some went in your shot record. Some did not. Government, you know. I'd bet they've got even more shots now.
Was active 77-84 Samuel gompers AD-37,Beeville NAS,and USS Flint AE-32,then retired in 02 after 18 years reserves EN-1 lots of good times!
Join the Navy and work in a C store. My dad did 20 years and 15 civil working on ships electronics. When I hit 18 he said are you ready to join, I politely said, with no disrespect I've had 18 years of the Navy that's enough.
What a stolen childhood
USS Guam, 1991- bought box of raisins from ship store, opened them, full of maggots.
Wasn't about to stand in line again, oh well.
Nice one! Dear God Blesses the USA.
I remember being kind-of stunned by the number of Human souls on a US fleet carrier.
Things have certainly changed, with regards to the stores available. On the USS Forrestal, in 82, we had a ship's store of a surprising size, for a ship. But it wasn't groceries. Clothing, uniform items, audio cassettes, personal items, etc. Sodas were available, but only via a soda mess, which meant your shop had to organize, pay for it, and store it. The bulk sodas were stored in voids, which are the oddball shaped spaces between "rooms" on a ship. Which means, no climate control at all. I was an ET in the radar shop, and we were fortunate enough to have a refrigerator to use. But, by the time we got them, a lot of the sodas were affected by the heat, cans swelling, etc.
And we certainly didn't have a Starbucks. Or a McDonald's. Or any other "brand name" shop. We had a forward mess deck, which served hamburgers ("sliders") on the starboard side, hot dogs on the port side, open 23 hours a day. And, an aft mess deck which operated like a mess hall ashore. Open for a few hours each standard meal time and served similar meals. Coffee, like the sodas, was available via a coffee mess in your shop, or on the mess decks or lounges in some cases. We had a five gallon urn in the radar shop for that. Thing is, you had to go down 3 decks with a big jug to get the water. Plus, we worked two shifts 7-7, 7 days a week, but the only time we were all in the shop at once, was at shift turnover. So, you never knew for sure how long that urn had been cooking that coffee....
I was also on a frigate. One ship's store, served through a window. One mess deck which served the usual meals, like the aft deck on the carrier. And certainly no "brand name" stores of any sort.
I remember about halfway through that 82 cruise, our SPN-35 tech walked into the shop with a 2 liter bottle of soda. Something you couldn't have bought since we'd left the states months ago. Something you couldn't keep in your spaces, legally, that would be considered contraband during a zone inspection. We were all stunned to see it, and he never explained where he'd kept it. But, he sort of "lived" in the SPN-35 radome, to the point it was nicknamed "Freddy's penthouse". Our best guess is he stashed it in there...somewhere.
When we took that ship to the yards in 83, the SPN-35 was being removed. As a joke, "Fast Freddy" put in a request chit to have the radome transferred to his mother's home in Jax, FL. All the way up the chain, everyone played along, approving it with notes about the "potential psychological impact", etc. Obviously, he didn't get it. But, he got one hell of a souvenir in the form of that rather hilarious request chit.
Thank you for sharing this….😲😲😲😀😀😀👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
Quality of life updates. I don’t see why anyone would complain about it.
We must have walked by each other at least once during the 82 med Cruise work V1 and was to security. 😊
@@DaveL188 Could be. While I did spend most of my time in or near the island, I was all over the shop at times. We had equipment in places like Secondary Control up in the forecastle, and all the way back aft. Had to go down to the main spaces to get distilled water for my radar. Etc.
I rode her into the yards in 83, working Fire Watch and MAA there. One of the people I met as a MAA, was a signalman. He brought me a picture of myself, up on top of the SPS-43 radar antenna. He didn't know me when he took the picture, just thought it interesting seeing us up there.
Don't know if you'd have even heard about it, but we lost the transmission line system for that radar right after we left Naples. That picture was when I found the problem.
Small world sometimes. Went to work in MD when I got out, and found myself working with someone that has been my student years before, at ET "A" school.
@@brolinofvandar if you ever went into flight deck control I was playing with the ouji board. Have guy I graduated with that was a MS,3 on my the FID at the same time s very small world.
In my day these shops were called 'GeeDunks' - with a hard 'G' as in 'Gum'. Origin of this word is probably 'oriental slang' - like the Navy term 'kum-shaw' but I'm not sure of this. I don't know about the types of magazines available nowadays in the era of female/male crew, but when I was aboard my carriers we had the full range including the 'adult' variety. Stars & Stripes was the only 'newspaper' though. There was all kinds of stuff with the ship's logo on it as well: pens, scrapbook covers, pins, badges, wallets, key rings, civvie swim trunks, civvie shirts and civvie caps, etc. The only logo items unavailable through the ship's store were ship's cruise patches (or overhaul duty patches) which were strictly controlled by the Departments and only distributed to individuals assigned onboard during those activities. There was no sale of 'uniform insignia' either - in other words, a Seaman (E-2) couldn't become an instant First Class Petty Officer (E-6) by just switching pins on their ball caps! Candy of all kinds, salty snacks, teas, coffee, soft drinks etc. were available. By far the most popular 'soda fountain' items were soft serve ice cream and slushes and what we called 'frosties' (very similar to the Wendy's variety - only two flavors though, chocolate and vanilla). After 1977 on the Main deck forward, the Carl's Jr. Corporation put in a 'Navy version' of one of their fast food restaurants. Extremely popular! All proceeds from these GeeDunks went to the Ship's Special Services fund which supplied athletic equipment for the crew and paid for tours when we were visiting liberty ports. My workcenters (usually on the 03 deck) were about 50 feet from a GeeDunk and I often skipped the walk to a galley (and the huge lines/delays) by going over to my 'local' and snacking up! HAPPY MEMORIES SHIPMATES!!!
😮😮😮😮it really is a city at sea! What Starbucks on warship!!! Sweet!!!!!!!!!!
I'm a retired sailor. I served on fast attack subs. This is so hard for me to process on several layers. Lol
Bet you had better food.
@@whirledpeaz5758 I don't know.. we didn't have a store or a Starbucks. We had coffee. It came in a large #10 can. It was brewed in a coffee pot. It was coffee, black, 1 each.
Any "store" that you got snacks from was whatever you bought and fit in your rack.
The food was pretty good though. Cooks only had to cook for about 60-80 people at a time underway. The other half of the crew was sleeping.
@@fasfanand no pussy!!! No pussy at all!!! Today navy ships are like a brothel....BUT FOR FREEE!!!! its like you sign up to roleplay War and get a buffet of food and pussy for free. Its like a disney movie come true
"What did you do during the war dad?" " It was horrible Timmy! I remember one morning at exactly 0630, I had to fill an order for 14 Cappachino Grandes, 3 Iced Lates, and a French Vanilla Expresso! I lost a lot of my best cashiers that morning. I can still see their faces in my sleep. Thats why they say, " coffee retail is hell!" Thats why I have PTSD ( Pretty Terrible Sales Disorder)"
That ptsd joke was FUNNY !!! I'm gonna use that.
Good narration. Explained things as if they were talking to an adult
Imagine joining the Navy, with dreams of something better for yourself, and you still end up working at Starbucks.
Yep! A new Navy! Uniforms and Sailors working with short sleeve shirts! I will stick with my Folgers! Thank You Star Bucks,what ever that is!
We had SS Chambray shirts in the 70's!
@@sagsfv3122 As of the late 80's, the Navy still hadn't figured out how to keep the Fire Room and Engine Room under 100F. Didn't see many in Engineering with long-sleeved shirts. I had LS shirts which I kept stashed at my GQ station and in my shop in case I needed to wear one.
@@kevincrosby1760 Some days we had to wear coveralls. I was the Heat Stress team leader. Like consultants, all we could do was take readings and advise. FNs still got heat exhaustion and many went to sick bay. These days, firerooms are history and BTs no longer exist due to all ships now using alternate propulsion. Even my rating of IC, is no more. I understand it was merged back into EM, lasting about 40 years!
@@sagsfv3122 Actually, I just ran into an IC the other day, one of the local recruiters. Apparently they changed course and brought it back...possibly because the EMs were getting confused when confronted with more than 2 wires.
IC2, USS Kansas City (AOR-3), '88-'90
@@kevincrosby1760 HAHAHAHAHA !!!
I was in A Gang on the Kitty Hawk, and Ranger in the late 70's to the late 80's and it was nothing like this !! Thank you all that have, and currently serving I saw all the soda pop hauled in, shortly after they filled them, all we had was fanta, fresca, tab, and maybe dietrite...lol
I was an A ganger on my first 2 ships great div. To be in
i wouldnt give tab to my worst enemy
Absolutely amazing love seeing how it actually gets done. The utmost respect to all👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
That would be cool to do that. I imagine the best gig is to be a White-Shirt and just stand around and watch people work and make sure they don't screw up.
Unless I missed it in the video you missed a very common replenishment technique. Ship to ship underway replenishment. It's pretty cool. They get the two ships side by side with matching speeds about 50 yards apart. Then they shoot a line from one ship to another. That line is used to pull a heavier line which is used to pull and even heavier line. Eventually they have a cable between the two and pallets of goods are transferred across the cable from the supply ship to the carrier.
Nah, vert reps were more fun.
There's another video from Flutus that has the ship to ship ferrying.
It's great until there's a steering casualty.
Oh, but I was on the carrier. Being on the bigger ship meant that everything was fine (for me).
@@johnclaybaugh9536 What carrier? USS America '84-85 and USS Enterprise '88-89 for me.
@@markbrown9765 USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Persian gulf in 95. If I remember correctly we bumped the California when they had a steering casualty. It's the one event that happened in my life that is talked about on Wikipedia, lol.
Man this was really cool to see…a lot of operations on some of these cargo items
You should join to see how cool it really is
So what did you do in the Navy? "Worked at Starbucks". YES!!! Best Government Job ever!
I think that it is wonderful for the Navy to be able to create shops such as Starbucks onboard. While, my father was serving in the Navy, he only had the cafeteria and a shop onboard for the necessities that were needed for hygiene, etc. All other regulation supplies were issued by the Navy's supply corpse department.
Corpse department, how ghoulish. Lol
@karensamuels390 HI, Karen: Supply corpse is the department in the Navy that supplies the sailors with all their uniforms and supplies. Just as the quarter master would in the army. I think you're thinking of a morgue, it is still called a morgue where the deceased are stored on board. The term corpse, which the military uses to represents the supply department is spelled correctly, this is how the military spells it, and it can be shortened to corps.
Wow, times have really improved. I was on CV41 USS Midway; we had nothing but a small Gedunk shop with nothing in it. I still enjoyed the experience.
When was that? Any chance you went across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea in July of 1970, accompanied by the LKA - USS El Paso? I was a Marine being transported to Greece for some war games. The USS Guam went with us. A group of us Marines, who knew Morse Code, worked on the signal bridge, just to keep us occupied while at sea. I used the Very Light (spelling?), the big signal light, and talked to the Guam’s signal bridge a couple of times.
It would be awesome if our paths had crossed 52 years ago.
Thanks for standing your watch for your country.
My Uncle Jim was a 17 year old plank owner of the USS Astoria CL 90 in 1944. Coming from a very poor upbringing they had very little to eat and ice cream was rare.
When he was in his 70s he told me of his War experiences in the Navy in the Pacific. He never touched stories of non stop Kamakazi attacks, shelling Iwo Jima or Okinawa for days non stop.
He spoke at length with a smile on his face about the ships Gedunk and unlimited ice cream for free.
Gedunk -- I haven't heard that word in years.
Cool. And great that CV 41 Midway is a museum. I toured USS Lexington in Corpus last Veterans day.
A guy once said to me "We don't rely on luck in the Navy !"
'They have coffee shops, nice!'
'Oh.... it's starbucks.... :/ '
Love your cookie. ❤ making sure you’re fed.
Always had a special respect for the Navy. I'm a WW2 buff.
I heard a story from WW2 where some ensigns tried to pull rank in the gedunk line, and got chewed out by a 5-star to wait their turn like everyone else.
A Five Star Admiral actually on a Navy shop in WW2? Hmmm, not so sure about that.
@@kennixox262 well, they say a fairy tale starts "once upon a time," and a sailor story starts "No sh!t!"
that was admiral halsey. a two star at the time i think
Forget the debit cards. All the stuff should be comped to these patriots.
Shoutout to the flight deck “Grapes” fuelies V4 division. Always Clean Clear Bright JP-5 boys! Stay safe. 🇺🇸
Basically its a mobile city at sea, with horrible coffee.
You can always get a Navy cup of Joe for FREE. Does the job a lot better than that ' dirty sugar water'.
When I left an aircraft carrier in 2008 we didn't have a Starbucks shop. But our coffee was ground Starbucks with commercial coffee makers. The ship's store hours seem stingy here, closed on the weekend is kind of stingy. That might be the in port hours.
Yes, I did enjoy it; thank you!
This man got side tracked as fuck half way through lmao. Dude went from talking about the stores to just aircrafts
Always loved vertical replenishment
Got assigned every time
Didn't have all these 'comforts' on carrier I was on. Had a ships store , post office and barber shop, that was about it. No vending machines.
HEYYY Shipmate! Another old school Sailor to 2nd your comment. Soft serve ice cream was the thing when I was in. 😄 Oh, and the transition from being paid in cash at sea, to the 'onboard ATM'.
In 1972 when I was in the Corps, for places to eat on base we only had the mess halls, a few vending machines in the barracks and the snack bar with grill at the central bus station. In the evenings though they would allow food trucks like you see at construction sites to cruise the alleys by the barracks once each night, honking his horn.
@@justdoingitjim7095 I can relate. In 87, in the barracks at, what was NATTC Memphis, now part of BUPERS or across the road from it, the cigarette and beer machines were removed 😡. Up until before I retired in 2018, the food trucks, we affectionately called a Roach Coach, were still making rounds on the piers at different bases. Some GOOD eats indeed. Loved seeing them pull up and set up shop.
@@Jaeh1 Yep, the 50 cent can of beer from the beer machine.
2:26 OMG! I can imagine "Good morning, can I get a tall coffee please? Of course, what's your name? I'm comander fleet” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎖️
A Starbucks in an aircraft carrier, is the most American thing ever.
I was one of the lucky ones. I was an ABH3 V1 Div flight deck. Crash and Salvage USS Boxer LHD 4. I was outside in the sunshine and jet exhaust 14-16hrs a day. I really felt bad for all the people down below decks.
Did two tours in VRC-40 working on the COD's. Great memories with those C2 aircraft.
Reminds me of this movie quote . "The more they tried to make it just like home, the more they made everybody miss it".
so crew members can buy Starbucks at reduced price... now is this due to some kind of military discount or is it only because you don't get charged taxes in international waters?
The C2A Greyhounds are being replaced by the CMV-22BG Osprey, and the C2A will be retired by 2024.
Time Stamp 2:00 STAR BUCKS< first use was on CVN 77, AS I was LPO during the first deployment in 2011/2012 this footage was taken then, the female serving at the star bucks i believed transferred after deployment. , was very popular place, we had profit of MIL before the cruise was over, the money earned off Set the MWR cost for tours and much morale promotions, giving out free drinks(soda) Movie nights in Hangar. And most popular Bingo. As this was my Last tour prior to retirement, i would rather spend doing my Job that NAVY spent 1k's of dollars training me to do, instead was tasked with LPO of MWR. yea me it was fun group of energetic young sailors who did their Job well. All Starbucks was pre ordered delivered straight from US bases delivered to the SHIP.
👋 زغلا
Less than 1% of the world population ever see a sunset from a aircraft carrier, iam part of that exclusive club. 😊
Grocery store worker in an aircraft carrier has to be one of the most laid back jobs you can have in one.
Where can I apply without joining the military? 😂😂
I'm going to tell the recruiter i don't want to see the MOS list because I already know what I want. I want the Starbucks because that's gotta be better than scrubbing toilets.
Oh, you get to do that anyway. Until you get promoted to E4, E5 if your a Nuc.
@@whirledpeaz5758 lol I was gonna say that, everybody cleans every morning. CVN 69
I missed out on the military, but I do what I can to give back for what I missed out on however I can esp on matters of tech, safety, health of our service members and contributions
The biggest ship I ever was on was a LST to Puerto Rico. I remember one Marine at the end of our boot camp getting Sea Duty and the DI said you're going to be on a boat.
Imagine joining the Navy just to find yourself working in a shop.
It depends on your job classification, I don't know how they classify it in the US Navy but in the US Air Force it was called your AFSC ( Air Force Specialty Code). Like the Air Force, the Navy must have many job classifications as well.
@@just_because_ Negative, ever heard of an SK. Shop Keeper. lol
And just like an entry level job at Starbucks you can apply for another job(rating) with motivation and hard work. Had a couple of SK E3 strike for MM and join M-Div to work in the ship's engine room. I mentored one of them.
@@whirledpeaz5758 steady on there bro, not everyone is familiar with US Navy acronyms. But I get what you're saying.
@@whirledpeaz5758🤡
We had basically a closet for the ship store on my CG ship
Same here on CG-19. And it was hardly ever open.
@@chrispolito4863 The same for my DDG (31, that is). Ours was usually open a few hours a day - only at sea and not on Sunday.
Wow! That’s crazy! They damn sure didn’t have anything like that when I was in. You had a small ship’s store and that was it.
Wow, some 'crazy stores' alright. Could you imagine, being able to buy stuff while at see for weeks on end...
Imagine joining the Navy only to get put to work at a Starbucks.
Imagine what, if it pays their bills, free education, etc. Why not.
@@UrAshWhole LOL. "What did you do in the war, Dad?" "Son, I made frappuccinos." Trust me the kids who are working at Starbucks in the Navy aren't using the education benefits, they can barely read.
@@nothanks3236 talking from experiences ah?
@@UrAshWhole At least I'm not talking out my ass like you are chief. Blocked.
As Russian military personnel's jaws hit the floor.
They had specialty machines dispensing Borscht. . .
Thank you kindly for this interesting glimpse of the life on board!
Would be a dream to deploy on an aircraft carrier! Can you enlist for that or it's just luck to be chosen to deploy to?
SURE! Pick an Aviation job. At least an 75% chance of ending up on a 'flat top', or if you prefer, 'bird farm' at some point. Want to increase your odds to 90 or better? Pick one of the AB fields
ABH, those wearing blue jerseys and vests, and promote to those wearing yellow jerseys and vests. Move planes around, set them up for launch, remove from landing area after landing, flight deck firefighters (wear red, but don't confuse them with AOs, who also wear red).
ABE, those wearing green jerseys and vests. They shoot and catch the birds, and maintain the equipment that does it.
ABF, those wearing purple jerseys and vests. Handle the aviation fuel (JP5) from its purity, to distribution from the bowels of the ship, to the tanks on the birds.
If you are an adrenaline junkie, you WILL get your fix constantly, and consistently. When all entities bring their A Game, it's organized chaos. A beautiful thing to witness. Better yet, be a part of!
It depends on the needs of the USN. If have an aviation rate it greatly increases your chance of being on one.
@@Jaeh1 Hope the aviation fuel is not petroleum based, that is sinful . Joey does not allow that in his world. You need to get electrical airplanes now. You do not want the wrath of Joey to come down upon you. Trust me.
@@tracykingston9668 I retired some years back. Last I heard, aviation was still running on petroleum, so the Navy was still using JP-5. Plant based, nor electric hasn't dominated the market yet.
A dream? It ain't easy being at Sea if you don't believe me, enlist and find out.
The H-60's are actually the first and last aircraft to takeoff and land, thought I appreciate the Hawkeye love nonetheless!
That cargo air craft maybe not the sexiest plane on that ship, but it is the absolute workhorse of the carrier.
the americans will always amaze me, the staff living cabins are reduced to a minimum for the sake of space, but they allocate gigantic space for the stores of their lifestyles.
that said, god bless america.
french people
Do they still have a store they call a Gedunk?
Gedunk is a thing. So the "gedunk" store sold "gedunk" and yes it was in the video.
@@1020donny They never call any of the stores "Gedunks".
@@Maxid1 All I know is we called it a "gedunk store" not "Gedunk". Gedunk is what you bought at the "gedunk store". Kind of like a liquor store. A liquor store sells liquor but but I've never heard the store simply called"Liquor".
I would assume with over 6k on board one of these boats somebody will just say gedunk. That bag of Doritos is a type of gedunk as are candy or a soda.
Starbuck coffee-sissies! You guys are too soft! Back in the day you got regular coffee, that's it! They need to toughen you up!
Great marketing for STARBUCKS- a captive audience!
Outstanding shipmate. Press on. USS Kitty Hawk CV-63. Jan 1980 to July 1983. USN never again.
They got dope dealers too.
It's legal 🤷🏻♂️
A REAL Navy cup of Joe will grow hair on your chest and singe it right off. It's FREE!, and gives a much better, longer lasting 'fix' than that 'dirty sugar water'. 😄
A Starbucks aboard a CVN? Wow, you can tell those sailors are millennials, can't do anything without their fix. I remember having large containers of ground coffee that we brewed ourselves (and we went through a lot of it-especially post standers before going on duty). The only thing we had which came close was the ships store and the gedunk. We would buy 20-30 cases of soda at a time, and then keep our fridge stocked so we didn't have to buy them from the store and wait in line.
Sounds like absolute hell on earth for an introvert.
awesome they get to have starbucks! i'm not a fan, but i know many ppl are, and of COURSE there's a line! there always is with us military!
Why did this start as a video about the store and then become about the Greyhound and then just starts talking about Early warning aircraft? Is this shit written by an AI?
These brands should DONATING their products to the military not gouging them.