Yep, already been confirmed that the Capt, Craig C Sicola has been getting bottles delivered to his stateroom. Unfortunately I'm not surprised considering I had the displeasure of serving under good ole clowny Craig in 2020. Got some great stories about that nut job.
One of the reports was the enlisted medical were trying to document it and the medical officers were being instructed to not let it go into the record. As to the accuracy, only those on the ship would know.
It's also illegal! If you or your battle buddy experience this report it to the IG. I'd the IG doesn't want to do anything, report it to the IGs boss. Basically if the one for the base won't do it, go to the one for your command. If they won't, go to the one at the Pentagon. They will listen and the IGs who failed to report will get fired. It's happened before. It will happen again.
My dad is a Marine from the 80s and is part of the Class Action Lawsuit for the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. I was exposed to the Burn Pits and open sewage in Iraq as a young Airman. My grandfather and his brother were exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Both suffered prostate cancer from it and lived. Edit: My heart goes out to these Sailors and Marines afloat on that ship. I am also deeply angered by the officers attitude towards the issues as well as the medical staff. That is beyond fucked up.
My grandfather was in Vietnam exposed to Agent Orange, died from colon cancer related to exposure. The VA didn't run any tests when he sought medical attention for pain in that region, and when they finally did, it was too late to save him. The VA is incompetent at best, malicious at worst.
not disagreeing with anything you said. prostate cancer is supposed to happen in all males(if they live long enough), though not all are very, I can't think of the word, violent, many will just stay in the prostate forever, this a pretty new discovery but now don't cut it out as much.
And unfortunately common. Born in the USA. EVEN SO, this country used to be worth fighting for. Getting harder to say that by the day now, while FJB is getting easier.
nothing about top brass military medical support surprises me anymore. I was medically discharged after an incompetent assessment and diagnosis process. When I sought out the proper avenues to make an official MOD complaint I was told the name of the naval officer who dealt with such issues. Countless calls later and emailing etc with no reply I was then told by an NCO that this guy was currently serving on deployment on a Nuclear Sub - priceless!
My buddy who's currently serving(just left for Iraq today actually), when he originally enlisted had shaved his head(obviously) and had a little razor burn. He is black so his hair is thicker and obviously it was from the shaving. He was told to get it cleared from a doc and did as such and when he came back, instead of getting him all ready for basic told him he's out and kicked him to the curb. He then went to the Army and he had to wait a full year before being able to start basic. Basically lost a full year of work because of razor burn. Not really as wild as yours nor was it meds fault but some people are just so damn incompetent it boggle my mind.
Yeah aside from me getting fucked over by the base hospital and my cousin dying from Agent Orange caused cancer because the way the VA fucked around I tend to agree.
@@SammyWhiteley Unfortunately it’s not common sense. They take the basic training “brainwashing” too far and apply it to the real military to people who’ve been there and done that. No one wants to be called a piece of shit for caring about their safety
Signing for OCS was something Ive always wanted to do. Couple years ago I was approaching the do or die moment. Up or Out ya know? Stories like these remind me I made the right call.
Our cars have different types of fuel inlets just to stop idiots from pumping the wrong fuel.. But a military ship doesn't have a more advanced system for drinking water.. And doesn't have backup tanks etc..
This happens all the time unfortunately. While I was attached to the 31st MEU stationed on the USS Essex in 2003, the water got JP in it. We got 2 days of bottled water and told it was fixed after 24hrs. I thought it was weird that the whole ass ship smelled like diesel for the rest of the deployment and most everyone was puking after they took a shower. It was never even considered to put it in our medical records.
@@jeffprice6421 I've got a funny story about army officers trying to sound high and mighty. My unit was at NTC in 2018 and part of the training exercise the brigade commander had to call for fire. The Jtac or fister assigned to him, I'm not really bothered to remembered which it was, told him that we need to call this airstrike but there is a 10% chance that there might be civilian casualties. The brigade commander was doing this hoighty toighty "oh would you do it?" Trying to deflect calling for the airstrike. The call for fire dude kept telling him to do it but the brigade commander kept pulling this shit. Fuck all of them
@@davidward3848 i was in NTC in 2018 july-august and all the mountain peaks reeked of human shit. We heard rumours at least 2 guys died falling from cliffs or hyperthermia and multiple guys having kidney failures from dehydratation and were told not to spread gossip. At least the donkeys were cool.
I was stationed on the USS Constellation CV-64 from 1993-1997. The water in the drinking fountains always burned your mouth, it was so contaminated with JP5 (jet fuel) we were advised to just drink soda. The entire 4 years I was on board, the water was always contaminated.
DoD: why aren’t we hitting our recruiting numbers? Commanders: Drink the jet fuel. That’s an order. DoD: that’s brilliant! Here’s an award and promotion!
@@paulheitkemper1559 I've seen it first hand. "You lost a piece of radio equipment with top secret components?!?!?! Congrats on your promotion! We'll write up the crypto guys..."
Honestly... I'm kinda a lil glad my back started getting scoliosis during Basic; learned sum things about the leadership these days from the lower officers and prior service trainee's about this kind of shit happening all the time. Also i didn't get it covered due to not wanting to change my chapter 11 and staying 6 MONTHS after staying already 2 and a half months to see the medical board (A drill sergeant from a different platoon wanted me to fucking low crawl TWICE around the barracks with the rest of the platoon and i refused because i HAD A HIP FRACTURE AND ON CRUTCHES; AFTER one of my drill sergeant let me go past and making eye contact with him; i think he saw how much i actually wanted to be doing this with them in my eyes and hated that i was doing nothing while they suffered and i think i saw a bit of pity... until Jock'ass wannabe high school attitude; all because he was a crack shot and was full of himself; and was eyeing me the entire time i had been there; gave me an order that was against my medical diagnoses and caused me to be pulled. originally i was going to fight it but a week after i found out about my back and THEN suddenly i get the chapter the day after my x-ray... Yeah... I was sick of being treated less than human and more like animals in pins at that point and just took the chapter so could go home in a month over staying under those damn trainee rules that really shouldn't have even be on someone being sent back home at RHU... There really needs to be a change there so people stop killing themselves because they can't go anywhere and are stuck to small rooms for months at a time with people that are either trouble makers or just rude people in general all because of the rules... while the other prior service members that were leaving service got to walk everywhere and wear their own clothes and were treated like people. It made us all very angry because we were forced rules that weren't meant for us anymore)
Honestly I was about to join but after looking over all the recent military fuck ups towards their own soldiers I backed out. I would not wanna be the good men who were forced to chug jet fuel
Sadly, this is a common issue. In 1992, before my Army days I was in the Navy onboard the USS Saratoga in the Med. We had the same thing happen and we never stopped out readiness in the Med. I took a lighter, lit it and put the flame under the arc of water from a water fountain and the water sparked. I’m 50 now and have been fighting the VA for over a decade.
My uncle died a few years back and couldn't get shit from the VA despite suffering from agent orange in Vietnam. Every time he tried to make a claim they would deny him on the grounds that his record was sealed. They didn't care that a lot of the shit he did during the war was classified. So he had to suffer until it finally killed him. He fought them until literally his dying day and not even Wyden, the supposed senator who is all about the troops has done shit to help people like my uncle.
@@charleshill1906 My dad was an in 'n' out soldier from the 90s. He never saw combat, however, he's got some weird alignment and the symptoms sound like what guys who did go to Iraq, got. He was a fuel truck driver (av fuel).
The only reason anyone reported that the tiny base near me was leaking a shit load of different fuels into protected wetlands and our water table was because one of my neighbors took a hot shower that smelled like desiel. If it hadn't effected civilans with lawyer money everyone on that base would still be drinking and showering in lovely petrochemicals with a hit of aviation firefighting foam.
Wow, reminds me of a couple months ago when we noticed a funny smell to the water in our shop at 29 Palms. Got it tested and found out we had been drinking non-potable water for god knows how long. We also never actually found out what the contaminants were. Gotta love the Marine Corps.
If non-potable then probably biological in nature. 29 palms doesn't really have an airfield out there iirc and not a whole lot of other chemicals to get into the water like extinguisher chemicals, jet fuel or misc aircraft chemicals. All I can say in that case is invest in one of those filter straws because it will pay itself back tenfold.
@@jesusofbullets Actually there is an airfield at camp Wilson, at least 30 years ago there was. Along with bombing ranges around the area. Don't under estimate the fuels and other chemicals running the tanks and other armmerment I know the tanks are gone now but They were there so long the tanks trails will be visible for decades.
I worked a burn pit in Iraq and developed ME/CFS. People don't think about these things while it's going on. I'm lucky the VA didn't fight me much when I submitted my claim, there are people who are as sick as I am struggling to make ends meet. I'm housebound most days and spend alot of time in bed, but I consider myself lucky because I'm comfortable. My body's dead but I have food a roof over my head a fixed income that allows me to take care of my family and still have a little expendable income. I try not to complain because it could be alot worse. All that said I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I miss hiking, BJJ and hell just going to the store when I want. Can't see straight to drive. Can't think straight to work. I hope these sailors don't have any lasting conditions but they definitely need it added to their service record
They are now. Two decades of conflicts provided enough vets for the stories to go around. One of the major factors keeping people from enlisting is that they think the military will leave them mentally and physically broken.
God bless you in your recovery, Rob. Thank you for your service and your sacrifices. Though you may never receive much in the way of compensation from the government, trust in the Lord for salvation and receive the gift of eternal life. I appreciate you, sir.
@@that1electrician it exactly what it sounds like. A pit you burn SHIT in both literally and figuratively. You think our waste just gets tid of itself magically? The Military is not glamorous in the field. What did you think it was? Thier is no trash service on the Front.
20 years from now were gonna be hearing "If you or a loved one spent at least 30 consecutive days between 2021 and 2022 on the USS Nimitz and have subsequently suffered any form of harm, you may be entitled to significant compensation. We can help you file those claims, or with your lawsuit."
My granddad was in the navy during the Vietnam war and had this happen. Sadly at that time they were unable to catch it in time and so most the crew got sick. My Grandma said that his scalp started flaking horribly to where it was coming in chunks and she could see the holes in it from where it had hardened around his hair. It's been a long time since i last heard the story, but i want to say he was on either a battleship or a destroyer at the time.
The Navy is a horrible offender when it comes to service related issues like this. Medical is basically just there for Motrin and to scrub your record for anything the VA might be looking for. When you spend life at sea, this is just the norm. I’d love to see more of you going after the Navy AC, they get away with far too much without being called out for it. Into the skies!!
It's not just the Navy. In the Army, soldiers quickly learn that if they go to the Troop Medical Clinic, they will be seen by an E-4 who has a 12 inch thick book of symptoms. They ask your symptoms and look them up in the book. All maladies lead to motrin....oh, and a "cold pack" of lozenges and throat spray.
then beat the sht out of medical so they are to scared to fk up your records... if enough people do it they'll simply do their jobs right. that's if there's no place to report them effectively. I mean it's not like you'll be poisoned in military prison...
Ok this what happened to liquidators in Chernobyl when they were documenting how much radiation they received. When reporting high levels high levels of radiation exposure the amount was lowered by the staff recording and when the men said something they were told they were lucky that they'd received so much because they would have written even less on the charts for them. Sad that command and people around the world can act like this. Glad you are being you and covering this and those poor people!!!
That's different, I'd argue, because all liquidators received free healthcare regardless of their dosages, as well as a medal that indicated their status as a liquidator. A lot of people that weren't technically directly exposed to life shortening doses of radiation also received medals. I feel like that is either an assumption, bad source, or classic Soviet mismanagement, rather than something directly malicious.
Thanks AC you doing this is looking out for my people. It's things like this that made me want to get out. The promotion system only encourages toxic followers and not fearless leaders, and once one of those good leaders actually break through they get fired for not following orders. I'm truly disgusted with the Nimitz leadership and I pray these sailors get compensated for this.
Reminds me of when I was on the USS Cleveland on float in 07-08 and the water tasted funny. All of us in Motor T noticed that it tasted like fuel. We started warning everyone and we got told to keep our mouths shut or face repercussions and that the water was fine.
I did two deployments, 13-14 and 2016 and both deployments we had JP-5 in the water supply multiple times. All the bottled water would be bought up, and the vending machines would be empty after a couple days, and you would eventually have to drink it. Tasted like how you'd think. You showered in it, drank it, flushed it, ate it, and literally everything you can think tasted and smelled like fuel. Happened both deployments, and multiple times each deployment.
@Jack Wrath Damn that was a good video. Watching AC drop kicked that puppy into freeway traffic was so hilarious. I really hope he drowns that baby in the sequel video.
Just saw this. Was on CV-63 in 83 thru 87. Ship regularly swapped JP tanks and water tanks. Most notable was when you took a shower and the water beaded off you and smelled like, well, jet fuel. We rarely drank the water and brought our own soda/water when possible or got whatever we could when hitting ports, otherwise we drank non-refrigerated milk because it came in pre-made containers. I think this is, and has been, a bigger problem than just the Nimitz.
If this isn't going to be listed in medical files it is important for the sailors/marines to get copies of their personnel records. Especially the section where it lists duty assignments like being assigned to the USS Nimitz during this time. When they go to file a VA claim they need to submit copies of their personnel files with this information and copies of news articles about the contaminated water. This should be able to substitute nothing being put into medical records.
@@uninterestedcat8429 VA is finally paying claims on Camp Legeune water contamination. from over 30 years ago. That's how the VA works. Same with agent orange. They wait until most of victims of these poisonings are dead so they don't have to spend money on curing or treating. And as veterans we are legally incapable of sueing the military or government for any injuries.
@@tyrelcarson6464 I agree with you in so much as it gets documented. I sustained injuries early in my service. I finished my contract honorably. When I got out I had no trouble getting veterans disability for the documented injuries that led to my disability.
Literally everyone serving on this ship should have this listed on their medical charts. Leadership should be forced to drink a gallon straight from the tap.
Born in Camp LeJeune. They just decided to dust off the ol’ How To Avoid Fixing the Water Field Manual after 37 years, just to see if it still worked. I find it super funny that the service that is water-borne is also the one with the worst record for treating it.
All I could think was a group of saliors and marines busting into the Captains quarters with a glass full of that jp5 laced water and forcing him to drink it so maybe he'd fix the problem. Then I remembered what year we're in and the type of people they want to recruit and it suddenly makes sense
Exactly. The Yes man culture was growing in strength when I got out about 3 years ago. And this is why they LOVE the yes man culture. They can basically do whatever they (meaning "leadership") want. I did a semester of ROTC and it was RAMPANT there.
For those who don’t know jet fuel and water are kept in the same tank, water is heavier than the fuel so they draw from bottom for water and top for fuel
heres an easy fix that we mandated by law through the blood of people dying=regulations in the chemical and productions industries. MAKE THE CONNECTION FOR BOTH SOURCES A DIFFERENT SIZE OR SHAPE. It makes the mistake of pumping the wrong shit in the wrong hole impossible.
And they are going to pin all the blame on the dumbass that hooked the hose into the wrong port. I mean,how could you make a mistake like that? Isn't the Navy supposed to have a high ASVAB just to get in?
That Commander should recommend himself for the Navy Cross for his extremely poor handling and consistent lying about not fixing a problem he is ultimately responsible for. It is very difficult to keep your lies straight, create a problem, then completely fail to fix it. That along with complete disregard for your crew, sounds like a candidate for Admiralty! Great work Commander
I served onboard USS nimitz on its last deployment from April 2020-march 2021. This happened a few times during deployment on a smaller scale to where the heads and water fountains smelled like JP5 or had black gunk oozing out of them. They didn’t acknowledge it and unfortunately it didn’t get any attention then. Wild.
Same thing happened to the USS Essex this past summer. My brother got back from a RIMPAC rotation out by Hawaii and said the day he got back he was feeling like absolute shit. Turns out jet fuel had leaked into their potable water system and they took all day to tell the crew. Now they're saying "you should be fine, it wasn't even that much," while the crew is having stomach problems and tasting fuel on their tongues still. Reasons like this are why I took off the uniform.
I served aboard two CVs as part of the air wing, CV-64 and CV-62, they both had fuel in the water. You could taste it and it would separate out if you left it in a cup. We all stunk like JP-5 for weeks after we rotated back to the beach because of sweating it out. It was in and on everything, clothes, food, showers, any fresh water that was used had fuel in it. It did improve the taste of the coffee though.
The pics provided by those Sailors says IT ALL! Very REAL BS at the hands of the Navy AND the Officer(s) commanding/leading this ship! Thanks AC for getting the word (AND graphics!) out here to us.
I am shocked! Absolutely shocked, that any navy doctor would tell a sailor that they're not going to put something in their medical record. Pretty sure standard operating procedure is to just lie about it.
Can't wait to see this being on a commercial about suing the Navy every hour in the next 30 years, like Camp Lejeune water contamination going on right now. Who would have guessed I'd miss hearing about the ear plugs?
Have you or a love one been diagnosed with mesothelioma after drinking the spicy water on USS Nimitz? If so, there is a chance you can be entitled to significant compensation. Call the number on screen now, to see if you qualify.
I avoided the hearing plugs one. I dunno, I just wish they'd ADMIT what they did wrong. Instead they lie and obfuscate. Oh sure, army, I'm certain this skin condition I picked up in Iraq is TOTALLY a pre-existing condition, totally....
Still remember going to medical after repeated calls to to try to make an appointment for my knees. Medical staff would be known to just let the phone ring and not answer cause they couldnt be bothered so i went in person. I explained my situation to the hm working at the APPOINTMENT desk and i got laughed at and told to make the appointment over the phone. Gotta love norfolk.
@@generalralph6291 Hell no good way to get shit on. Besides that never mess with the people who are suppose to give you care cause even if its shitty then you dont want the hell they can make it if they dont like you. Good way to get someone with anchors involved too so they can stir up a shit storm by calling your chief on your boat.
@Angry Cops I appreciate you bringing this kinda stuff to the surface for our armed forces, I feel your one of the few people that is honorable and dignified enough to make a problem like this light hearted enough that it doesn't make people mad but is enough smart arse comments to get the actually point across! I gotta admit between you and Donut OP your two videos really got me looking at life with realistic outlooks and I am a lot less of an opinionated and uneducated person when it comes to politics to civil rights issues to even the crimes that make us go WHY? yall are solid dudes and keep up the good work!
The Marine bit had me laughing 😂. The Corps did the same shit to us with our barrack in Okinawa back in 2012. They were moldy as f**k and kept telling us to just disinfect everything and clean every day. Two years straight we complained about it and nothing was ever done about it. Our AC units that couldn't be taken apart because they were in the ceiling were caked in mold. When we would go on detachments or were on the M.E.U. we'd have to throw out furniture, clothing and other items that we left in the room because they'd be covered in mold when we'd come back. My respiratory and sinuses are all f**ked up, and ever since I've had a hard time breathing.
This commander on his OER support form; "I performed an exercise simulating an austere environment wherein our water supply was contaminated by our adversaries, helping improve the combat readiness of our sailors and medical personnel."
Wow! Thanks for bringing this story to the surface. I'm in the environmental remediation business, I've worked on jet fuel contaminated groundwater sites, and I cannot believe someone would say that jar of water is safe to consume. Keep us updated on this. I'll help write letters too.
As if the water isn't bad enough, try this one on for size: USS Kitty Hawk, oil burner - non nuke, circa 2007. I was night shift so sleeping during daylight hours was natural and COMPLETELY difficult to do. I remember waking up early one afternoon to a choking fog in the berthing space. Couldn't breathe, eyes burning, and COMPLETELY PISSED because my valuable rack time was disturbed. Come to find out, we were doing an UREP and taking on DFM (diesel fuel, marine). My berthing was directly over a fuel tank. Unbeknownst to me, when certain tanks are filled, 'sounding' caps are removed to relieve pressure from the fuel going in from below decks filler pipes. That pressure was equalized DIRECTLY INTO MY BERTHING SPACE. Fuel was atomized and fogged up the whole space. One spark, one errant lighter flick and that space could have easily flashed. Here's the thing though, we took on fuel regularly, something like twice a week and each and every time that space would fog like that. I had to reschedule my sleeping routine because of it which, thankfully was easy to do since we were doing UNREPS on a rather static schedule. Oh well, such is life at sea aboard those damn bird farms! Side note: This SAME ship was taking in sea suction in the Gulf of Thailand during a port visit there in 2000. For some reason, where we were anchored must have been close to a some kind of ashore sewage discharge pipe or river runoff BECAUSEEEEE... our potable water tanks SOMEHOW came into contact with that water and contaminated the entire boat with E-COLI ! Yeah, that was fun. We had to start bringing aboard bottled water by the barge load. I've never seen so many pallets of that stuff. It continued for about a week... until the tanks were purged enough to be used again. Dysentery and Gastroenteritis were RAMPANT! It is fuuuun, FUN, when you get to shyt every 15 minutes or so for 3 or 4 days straight. Keeping (clean) water in your stomach for any length of time became an Olympic level event too.
@@davidbeckham3821 Yeah, and it made for some DANDY coffee too. lol If your work space was relaxed enough to allow coffee pots and you had a deep sink close enough you could retrieve water without it being a Lord of the Rings level trek, that was a GREAT morale booster. However, tis a Great way to piss off people who are hooked on caffeine to get started before their shift; screw with the coffee and watch the counseling chits pile up.
This happened on many of vessels that I was stationed on in 98 through 2007. The navy never put it into any of our records of the exposures. And when I pointed this out to the VA years later I and several other sailors were called liars from the VA!
So many gem comments. I loved how he said let's wait and see what award this officer gives himself. It wasn't until I was in the Navy almost 20 years that I heard the reason why people get end of tour awards is because they submit them for themselves and mainly the people doing that are officers and Chiefs.
One nice thing about being in the Coast Guard is that it would take exactly 5 minutes for news of something like this to spread through the rumor mill on the cutter.
The only thing you're missing is the long pauses between the reporter and anchor. Good job on keeping these DNN episodes informative and funny as hell!
We had that happen on the Enterprise on the 89-90 world cruise. I happened right after leaving our home port. While they found the source of contamination quickly, It took a couple of weeks before it all got flushed out of the system. They can flush the potable water tanks, but without going in and steam cleaning them it is almost impossible to get everything out. It takes a while for it to flush out of all the tanks and pipes. The ship just doesn't make enough fresh water to flush all the lines enough to get it where you can't smell it anymore. I know it sounds bad, but there is a minimum safe level of exposure. You can still smell the jet fuel even if it is below the minimum allowable level. I stopped drinking water as much as possible and only drank soft drinks from the soda machines. After several weeks of high temps, high humidity and dehydration brought on by only drinking Mt. Dew I got a kidney/urinary tract infection that put me in sickbay for a week. Contaminated water happens on ships every so often, but you also see it on shore installations/bases. The water on MCB Camp Pendleton was brown and smelly when I was there in the mid 90s. We stayed in WWII-era Quonset huts and other old buildings on drill weekends. I'd be willing to bet that all the pipes were just as old as the buildings. I wouldn't drink anything but bottled water and Gatorade when I was there.
Thank you for the correct pronunciation of “potable”. It is amazing how many naval officers and shipbuilding personnel don’t know how. It takes an incredibly small amount of hydrocarbons ( fuel, oil, etc.) to contaminate potable water. One gallon would contaminate one million gallons of water. (300 parts per billion is the max allowance for hydrocarbons in drinking water)
My nephew is a victim of Naval incompetence. He was in basic and threw his back out during a swim qual so bad that it herniated one of his disks. Navy refuses to pay out for his injury sustained during training, an injury that made it impossible for him to continue with his basic training to the point where they had to discharge him. Now he's in his 30's with debilitating back pain that he suffers from daily.
Weird this became an issue. And how stupid I am. I made 3 Westpacs in the 80's. At one point or another there was pipe repair and replacement going on. At that point, they would float jet fuel on the water in the same pipe and somehow try to separate it at each end point. It would last 1-4 days of only drinking water if you were dying of thirst, no bottled water back then. Plus they used the same water to cook vegetables and pasta. Almost forgot about those great cuisine memories until this video. God bless you Angry.
As a Camp Lejeune tap water survivor, I can safely say that tainted water builds character. It also gives you permanent gastrointestinal issues, but mostly character.
I'm glad you find so much humor in Camp Lejeune veterans illnesses due to the military's ignorance me as the son of a Vietnam veteran who only lived to 48 and died of painful long slow death from kidney failure and stomach cancer I can't seem to find the humor. Clearly character is something you lack
@@minorclips7541 when you serve in the military, you develop a sense of gallows humor as a way to cope with realization that your life is meaningless. You get F'd one way or another. Nobody is making light of it.
AC. You always have our back. I wish someone would have your back and make the army promote you the way you deserve. You exemplify what makes a great SNCO.
Dude goes above chain of command and released a letter stating he thought that the crew of his carrier weren't being cared for during covid. Almost immediate removal from command. This guy is poisoning his crew and refuses to accept wrong doing or take care of them as a good leader should. Maintains command with no comment from higher leadership. Seems legit.
As an Airman smelling of JP-8 in standing in line at a civilian grocery store I was ask what cologne I was wearing. I said “Jet Fuel”, and the gall that asked the question said she would head to Macy’s later that day to get some for her boyfriend for a Christmas gift. 🤨
I took a bath in JP-4 after slipping and falling on my ass with a fuel sample jar in my hand. Sucks hitting the safety shower when it's below freezing out!
The jp5 issue has been going on at least since 96. I was on the Kitty Hawk then and the skipper was always addressing this issue and said the water wasn't tainted enough to hurt sailors but you could still taste it in the water. Crazy!
This man is doing a NCO's job taking care of service members no matter what branch. Thank you Drill Daddy ..... that last part was supposed to stay in a thought bubble
JP-5, much like the non-naval based JP-8, are kerosene-based fuels. They're highly caustic and tend to penetrate and find their way into everything. You don't just flush it out of a system. You're pretty much going to have to replace the entire freshwater system of the ship as it'll take months of constant flushing to get it out of the pipe sidewalls and you'll have to replace very seal, gasket, pump and other intermediate component at the least to ensure the water supply is safe for consumption again. This was not a 3-day fix, this should have warranted an emergency being called by the Captain to HQ, emergency supplies of bottled water and massive water containers constantly delivered for washing and the Nimitz should have immediately returned for emergency repairs of the water system. How did they even connect the fuel hose to the water lines? They're supposed to use a very special connector that wont allow them to attach and lock to any other type of system to prevent cross-contamination accidents like this from even happening. You should also hunt down the officer in charge of the refueling operations as it was their job to ensure that the proper connections were made prior to transferring fuel.
ACs effort for a good video never lets me down. Couldnt imagine being a LEO putting in work with the military and fundraisers and events AND still runs a YT while renovating this old crack house. Man of many talents and has to have more energy than a meth addict. ... Or maybe a twin.
Who wants to take the bet that the Captain and Admiral are drinking bottled water while the sailors are drinking that crap?
Yep, already been confirmed that the Capt, Craig C Sicola has been getting bottles delivered to his stateroom. Unfortunately I'm not surprised considering I had the displeasure of serving under good ole clowny Craig in 2020. Got some great stories about that nut job.
Yep! And I bet they are using the showers either. They're probably using their own personal showers with a different water source
It seems that the top brass do not give one second of thought about the welfare of their subordinates.
Hearing the facts leave a bad taste in my mouth.....
Lol
Reports say that the marines are more energetic then ever before
Energized Jarheads in a confined space for months out at sea is a recipe for a violent disaster.
@@rinconusmc or seaman that walk funny
@@nathanlowery1141 what can I say. We love it when the navy gives us rides lol
May God have mercy on their enemy.
@Jack Wrath hahahaha
I can’t imagine why recruitments numbers are so low with this high level of caring and compassionate leadership everywhere you go
Yep them wondering why numbers are so low is like thinking the bot comment above mine is really AC
Welp top gun prolly will get bunch more fools to join navy sadly.
it's a mystery indeed...
Ten years later..."VA fighting to not pay for cancer treatments related to sailors drinking contaminated water"
Yup!
Good ol' VA...
Ten years? 10 days later
Matt Gaetz: “We should eliminate the VA”
Quite the response from congress
10 years? Medically retired for cancer - still can't get VA to treat it without a fight.
Exactly. Same thing happened with the chemical cocktail the military had to take before deploying for GW I & II.
Medical officers refusing to put things on paper is actually pretty common. Absolutely everything is a pre-existing condition
One of the reports was the enlisted medical were trying to document it and the medical officers were being instructed to not let it go into the record. As to the accuracy, only those on the ship would know.
Ridin with Biden Regime
It's also illegal! If you or your battle buddy experience this report it to the IG. I'd the IG doesn't want to do anything, report it to the IGs boss. Basically if the one for the base won't do it, go to the one for your command. If they won't, go to the one at the Pentagon. They will listen and the IGs who failed to report will get fired.
It's happened before. It will happen again.
Oh you got shot in the middle of combat? That bullet hole was always there.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM yeah. Then you get shitcanned by the next line of leadership, because "you went 9ver their head." Ask me how I know?
My dad is a Marine from the 80s and is part of the Class Action Lawsuit for the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. I was exposed to the Burn Pits and open sewage in Iraq as a young Airman. My grandfather and his brother were exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Both suffered prostate cancer from it and lived. Edit: My heart goes out to these Sailors and Marines afloat on that ship. I am also deeply angered by the officers attitude towards the issues as well as the medical staff. That is beyond fucked up.
My grandfather was in Vietnam exposed to Agent Orange, died from colon cancer related to exposure. The VA didn't run any tests when he sought medical attention for pain in that region, and when they finally did, it was too late to save him. The VA is incompetent at best, malicious at worst.
not disagreeing with anything you said.
prostate cancer is supposed to happen in all males(if they live long enough), though not all are very, I can't think of the word, violent, many will just stay in the prostate forever, this a pretty new discovery but now don't cut it out as much.
My grandfather also got prostate cancer from agent orange
And unfortunately common. Born in the USA.
EVEN SO, this country used to be worth fighting for. Getting harder to say that by the day now, while FJB is getting easier.
@@markblocker4565 coward
nothing about top brass military medical support surprises me anymore. I was medically discharged after an incompetent assessment and diagnosis process. When I sought out the proper avenues to make an official MOD complaint I was told the name of the naval officer who dealt with such issues. Countless calls later and emailing etc with no reply I was then told by an NCO that this guy was currently serving on deployment on a Nuclear Sub - priceless!
That's genius, put the guy who serves as the accountability on a nuclear sub thats most likely in a top secret location
Yup. Par for the course. Get a lawyer..
Boy, did you get the run around.
My buddy who's currently serving(just left for Iraq today actually), when he originally enlisted had shaved his head(obviously) and had a little razor burn. He is black so his hair is thicker and obviously it was from the shaving. He was told to get it cleared from a doc and did as such and when he came back, instead of getting him all ready for basic told him he's out and kicked him to the curb. He then went to the Army and he had to wait a full year before being able to start basic. Basically lost a full year of work because of razor burn. Not really as wild as yours nor was it meds fault but some people are just so damn incompetent it boggle my mind.
@@randomlyrandomrando Yeah it really sucks having higher ups screw you over for them not caring. Hope you're doing well brotherman!
The way this govt. Treats our soldiers and vets is despicable.
Yeah aside from me getting fucked over by the base hospital and my cousin dying from Agent Orange caused cancer because the way the VA fucked around I tend to agree.
It’s the entire US government. They don’t care about soldiers. They just say that to win votes. They could care less if this is happening.
It should be common sense not to train a large number of young men in killing and killing related activities and then treat them poorly
@@SammyWhiteley Unfortunately it’s not common sense. They take the basic training “brainwashing” too far and apply it to the real military to people who’ve been there and done that.
No one wants to be called a piece of shit for caring about their safety
America's support for the troops ends at a yellow ribbon bumper sticker slapped on the back of their car.
Imagine volunteering for a service that would rather lie than fix something that could kill you.
Not the service...that commander. Big difference. Still sucks, though.
Signing for OCS was something Ive always wanted to do. Couple years ago I was approaching the do or die moment. Up or Out ya know? Stories like these remind me I made the right call.
"THERES JET FUEL IN THE WATER! STOP DRINKING!"
marine: "they put water in my jet fuel?"
This is why potable water should have a different hookup than anything else. It's precious enough to deserve its own hose.
But it does. Well, it does on cruise ships. I guess the US Navy isn't as bothered about mixing up our and water.
That's a statement that shouldnt even need to be made.
It's funny cause everyone else does it that way but the military it seems
Our cars have different types of fuel inlets just to stop idiots from pumping the wrong fuel..
But a military ship doesn't have a more advanced system for drinking water.. And doesn't have backup tanks etc..
@@zakofrx Yeah that's a good observation. Who would have thought one traitorous soldier could take out a whole ship.
This happens all the time unfortunately. While I was attached to the 31st MEU stationed on the USS Essex in 2003, the water got JP in it. We got 2 days of bottled water and told it was fixed after 24hrs. I thought it was weird that the whole ass ship smelled like diesel for the rest of the deployment and most everyone was puking after they took a shower. It was never even considered to put it in our medical records.
Wow these scam bots are getting lazy
@Yepieng Joseph Angry Cops true identity EXPOSED
Jet fuel + Water = Energy Drink 🤷
😂🤪😶🌫️
EXACTLY !!!
The forbidden energy drink
World Peace.
But ohhhhh that burn when it comes out…. Kicking in the afterburner!! 😅🤣😞
I love how not having a moral compass is as essential as promotion points for becoming a higher ranking nco or officer.
Especially Naval Officers...
@@jeffprice6421 I've got a funny story about army officers trying to sound high and mighty. My unit was at NTC in 2018 and part of the training exercise the brigade commander had to call for fire. The Jtac or fister assigned to him, I'm not really bothered to remembered which it was, told him that we need to call this airstrike but there is a 10% chance that there might be civilian casualties. The brigade commander was doing this hoighty toighty "oh would you do it?" Trying to deflect calling for the airstrike. The call for fire dude kept telling him to do it but the brigade commander kept pulling this shit.
Fuck all of them
@@davidward3848 i was in NTC in 2018 july-august and all the mountain peaks reeked of human shit. We heard rumours at least 2 guys died falling from cliffs or hyperthermia and multiple guys having kidney failures from dehydratation and were told not to spread gossip. At least the donkeys were cool.
@@lornwell3669 oh shit, what unit where you in? My battalion was there at roughly that time in 2018
I was stationed on the USS Constellation CV-64 from 1993-1997. The water in the drinking fountains always burned your mouth, it was so contaminated with JP5 (jet fuel) we were advised to just drink soda.
The entire 4 years I was on board, the water was always contaminated.
We had the same thing happen on the USS Sacramento during wespac 97-98
I was with you on '95 and '97 cruises. VFA-151. Go Vigilantes!
I was there 1987 and it was SOP
DoD: why aren’t we hitting our recruiting numbers?
Commanders: Drink the jet fuel. That’s an order.
DoD: that’s brilliant! Here’s an award and promotion!
This. Unfortunately, this right here.
@@paulheitkemper1559 I've seen it first hand. "You lost a piece of radio equipment with top secret components?!?!?! Congrats on your promotion! We'll write up the crypto guys..."
Honestly... I'm kinda a lil glad my back started getting scoliosis during Basic; learned sum things about the leadership these days from the lower officers and prior service trainee's about this kind of shit happening all the time. Also i didn't get it covered due to not wanting to change my chapter 11 and staying 6 MONTHS after staying already 2 and a half months to see the medical board (A drill sergeant from a different platoon wanted me to fucking low crawl TWICE around the barracks with the rest of the platoon and i refused because i HAD A HIP FRACTURE AND ON CRUTCHES; AFTER one of my drill sergeant let me go past and making eye contact with him; i think he saw how much i actually wanted to be doing this with them in my eyes and hated that i was doing nothing while they suffered and i think i saw a bit of pity... until Jock'ass wannabe high school attitude; all because he was a crack shot and was full of himself; and was eyeing me the entire time i had been there; gave me an order that was against my medical diagnoses and caused me to be pulled. originally i was going to fight it but a week after i found out about my back and THEN suddenly i get the chapter the day after my x-ray... Yeah... I was sick of being treated less than human and more like animals in pins at that point and just took the chapter so could go home in a month over staying under those damn trainee rules that really shouldn't have even be on someone being sent back home at RHU... There really needs to be a change there so people stop killing themselves because they can't go anywhere and are stuck to small rooms for months at a time with people that are either trouble makers or just rude people in general all because of the rules... while the other prior service members that were leaving service got to walk everywhere and wear their own clothes and were treated like people. It made us all very angry because we were forced rules that weren't meant for us anymore)
@@Desolationist Benning?
Honestly I was about to join but after looking over all the recent military fuck ups towards their own soldiers I backed out. I would not wanna be the good men who were forced to chug jet fuel
Sadly, this is a common issue. In 1992, before my Army days I was in the Navy onboard the USS Saratoga in the Med. We had the same thing happen and we never stopped out readiness in the Med. I took a lighter, lit it and put the flame under the arc of water from a water fountain and the water sparked.
I’m 50 now and have been fighting the VA for over a decade.
My uncle died a few years back and couldn't get shit from the VA despite suffering from agent orange in Vietnam. Every time he tried to make a claim they would deny him on the grounds that his record was sealed. They didn't care that a lot of the shit he did during the war was classified. So he had to suffer until it finally killed him. He fought them until literally his dying day and not even Wyden, the supposed senator who is all about the troops has done shit to help people like my uncle.
Drank some jp5 on the stennis back in the mid-2000s. It's been a thing for a long time
My dad was a cook on the Saratoga, "CV60" in the late 80s.
@@charleshill1906 My dad was an in 'n' out soldier from the 90s. He never saw combat, however, he's got some weird alignment and the symptoms sound like what guys who did go to Iraq, got. He was a fuel truck driver (av fuel).
Eww, smoken !
Thanks for doing this video, 23 year Navy Vet here. This is just a small sample of what our service members are going through. It's sad!
The only reason anyone reported that the tiny base near me was leaking a shit load of different fuels into protected wetlands and our water table was because one of my neighbors took a hot shower that smelled like desiel. If it hadn't effected civilans with lawyer money everyone on that base would still be drinking and showering in lovely petrochemicals with a hit of aviation firefighting foam.
Wow, reminds me of a couple months ago when we noticed a funny smell to the water in our shop at 29 Palms. Got it tested and found out we had been drinking non-potable water for god knows how long. We also never actually found out what the contaminants were. Gotta love the Marine Corps.
good lord
If non-potable then probably biological in nature. 29 palms doesn't really have an airfield out there iirc and not a whole lot of other chemicals to get into the water like extinguisher chemicals, jet fuel or misc aircraft chemicals. All I can say in that case is invest in one of those filter straws because it will pay itself back tenfold.
@@jesusofbullets Actually there is an airfield at camp Wilson, at least 30 years ago there was. Along with bombing ranges around the area. Don't under estimate the fuels and other chemicals running the tanks and other armmerment
I know the tanks are gone now but They were there so long the tanks trails will be visible for decades.
@@dk2614 tanks at 29 palms? Thought the marines got rid of their tanks.
@@jesusofbullets Just got rid of the Tanks a year or two ago.
I worked a burn pit in Iraq and developed ME/CFS. People don't think about these things while it's going on. I'm lucky the VA didn't fight me much when I submitted my claim, there are people who are as sick as I am struggling to make ends meet. I'm housebound most days and spend alot of time in bed, but I consider myself lucky because I'm comfortable. My body's dead but I have food a roof over my head a fixed income that allows me to take care of my family and still have a little expendable income. I try not to complain because it could be alot worse.
All that said I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I miss hiking, BJJ and hell just going to the store when I want. Can't see straight to drive. Can't think straight to work. I hope these sailors don't have any lasting conditions but they definitely need it added to their service record
They are now. Two decades of conflicts provided enough vets for the stories to go around. One of the major factors keeping people from enlisting is that they think the military will leave them mentally and physically broken.
😧 fukk the military dude
Uuuuu.....god ...!!!!! O man
God bless you in your recovery, Rob. Thank you for your service and your sacrifices. Though you may never receive much in the way of compensation from the government, trust in the Lord for salvation and receive the gift of eternal life. I appreciate you, sir.
Can you explain to us that don't know what a burn pit is?
@@that1electrician it exactly what it sounds like. A pit you burn SHIT in both literally and figuratively. You think our waste just gets tid of itself magically? The Military is not glamorous in the field. What did you think it was? Thier is no trash service on the Front.
20 years from now were gonna be hearing
"If you or a loved one spent at least 30 consecutive days between 2021 and 2022 on the USS Nimitz and have subsequently suffered any form of harm, you may be entitled to significant compensation. We can help you file those claims, or with your lawsuit."
The USS Enterprise had this type of flavored water back in the early 2000's.
@Jack WrathLet me guess, as a toddler you must have teethed on window sills that were coated with lead paint?
I don't know of an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship that doesn't have this problem.
😧 Jesus
Sure did. In 01 and in 03. The 01 incident was worse as I recall.
So did the USS Essex.
Sailors get sick from contaminated food and water pretty often on carriers. My husband got sick twice on his last deployment.
Imagine the number of unwashed hands, some things can linger on surfaces for weeks.
5000 people in that close of proximity, first few weeks of any deployment/underway, you're almost guaranteed to get the "Double Dragon".
@@alexanderberkes1666 oh yes. I've heard all about the double dragon
My granddad was in the navy during the Vietnam war and had this happen. Sadly at that time they were unable to catch it in time and so most the crew got sick. My Grandma said that his scalp started flaking horribly to where it was coming in chunks and she could see the holes in it from where it had hardened around his hair.
It's been a long time since i last heard the story, but i want to say he was on either a battleship or a destroyer at the time.
The Navy is a horrible offender when it comes to service related issues like this. Medical is basically just there for Motrin and to scrub your record for anything the VA might be looking for. When you spend life at sea, this is just the norm. I’d love to see more of you going after the Navy AC, they get away with far too much without being called out for it. Into the skies!!
It's not just the Navy. In the Army, soldiers quickly learn that if they go to the Troop Medical Clinic, they will be seen by an E-4 who has a 12 inch thick book of symptoms. They ask your symptoms and look them up in the book. All maladies lead to motrin....oh, and a "cold pack" of lozenges and throat spray.
Back around 2000, the local base medical, where I was stationed, reset hundreds of sailor's hearing baselines.
I stopped going when doc took my symptoms and put them in google.
then beat the sht out of medical so they are to scared to fk up your records... if enough people do it they'll simply do their jobs right. that's if there's no place to report them effectively. I mean it's not like you'll be poisoned in military prison...
Yuppppp I was on the Truman I can confirm this
Ok this what happened to liquidators in Chernobyl when they were documenting how much radiation they received. When reporting high levels high levels of radiation exposure the amount was lowered by the staff recording and when the men said something they were told they were lucky that they'd received so much because they would have written even less on the charts for them. Sad that command and people around the world can act like this. Glad you are being you and covering this and those poor people!!!
@Jack Wrath Bruh go away. Literally no one gives a shit about "WhO iS wRaTh??!!??" And stop baiting people to look at your half assed channel.
@Jack Wrath What are you doing dirtbag? 😊
@Jack Wrath Based AC
How does this fever dream run-on sentence get over 300 likes?
That's different, I'd argue, because all liquidators received free healthcare regardless of their dosages, as well as a medal that indicated their status as a liquidator.
A lot of people that weren't technically directly exposed to life shortening doses of radiation also received medals. I feel like that is either an assumption, bad source, or classic Soviet mismanagement, rather than something directly malicious.
Thanks AC you doing this is looking out for my people. It's things like this that made me want to get out. The promotion system only encourages toxic followers and not fearless leaders, and once one of those good leaders actually break through they get fired for not following orders. I'm truly disgusted with the Nimitz leadership and I pray these sailors get compensated for this.
Reminds me of when I was on the USS Cleveland on float in 07-08 and the water tasted funny. All of us in Motor T noticed that it tasted like fuel. We started warning everyone and we got told to keep our mouths shut or face repercussions and that the water was fine.
Proper maintenance probably costs more than the feul they were drinking.
Sounds like business as usual.
Did you ask for your orders in writing?
@@rogerborg wouldn't they get fucked over for asking for that?
I feel ya pain but how about stop designing fuel tanks next to fresh water tanks
As a Marine the ending is the most accurate interview I’ve seen a Marine give
Er
Grrrrrrrrrrr....
@@marinesnip yurt
Nah thats a fake kuz he wasn't nawing on a red crayon XD
I did two deployments, 13-14 and 2016 and both deployments we had JP-5 in the water supply multiple times. All the bottled water would be bought up, and the vending machines would be empty after a couple days, and you would eventually have to drink it. Tasted like how you'd think. You showered in it, drank it, flushed it, ate it, and literally everything you can think tasted and smelled like fuel. Happened both deployments, and multiple times each deployment.
*Military*
"Why are our recruiting numbers so low?"
*Also Military*
*This story*
Well war crimes and rampant sexual abuse also
@@lutymcshooty2556 war crimes? GTFO
@@kekistanimememan170 you're telling me being hospitals and schools isn't a warcrime?
@@lutymcshooty2556 dont forget the burn pits
Ukraine needs the billions of dollars to fight Russia okay? Gawd...
Your Marine impersonation is getting better with every video
@Jack Wrath i thoroughly enjoyed that video, seeing the puppy get torn to shreds was amazing
@Jack Wrath Damn that was a good video. Watching AC drop kicked that puppy into freeway traffic was so hilarious. I really hope he drowns that baby in the sequel video.
Is that marine from India?
Just saw this. Was on CV-63 in 83 thru 87. Ship regularly swapped JP tanks and water tanks. Most notable was when you took a shower and the water beaded off you and smelled like, well, jet fuel. We rarely drank the water and brought our own soda/water when possible or got whatever we could when hitting ports, otherwise we drank non-refrigerated milk because it came in pre-made containers. I think this is, and has been, a bigger problem than just the Nimitz.
If this isn't going to be listed in medical files it is important for the sailors/marines to get copies of their personnel records. Especially the section where it lists duty assignments like being assigned to the USS Nimitz during this time. When they go to file a VA claim they need to submit copies of their personnel files with this information and copies of news articles about the contaminated water. This should be able to substitute nothing being put into medical records.
Not how the VA sees it
@@uninterestedcat8429 I can guarantee you that is how the VA would see it.
@@uninterestedcat8429 VA is finally paying claims on Camp Legeune water contamination. from over 30 years ago. That's how the VA works. Same with agent orange. They wait until most of victims of these poisonings are dead so they don't have to spend money on curing or treating. And as veterans we are legally incapable of sueing the military or government for any injuries.
@@tyrelcarson6464 I agree with you in so much as it gets documented. I sustained injuries early in my service. I finished my contract honorably. When I got out I had no trouble getting veterans disability for the documented injuries that led to my disability.
Literally everyone serving on this ship should have this listed on their medical charts.
Leadership should be forced to drink a gallon straight from the tap.
the leadership should be forced to drink only the contaminated water for at least 5 years. no other form of drink should be available to them.
Born in Camp LeJeune. They just decided to dust off the ol’ How To Avoid Fixing the Water Field Manual after 37 years, just to see if it still worked. I find it super funny that the service that is water-borne is also the one with the worst record for treating it.
3:33 "You would think these people would learn from previous mistakes!"
The last guy got an award, why would anyone fix this problem ever again?
All I could think was a group of saliors and marines busting into the Captains quarters with a glass full of that jp5 laced water and forcing him to drink it so maybe he'd fix the problem. Then I remembered what year we're in and the type of people they want to recruit and it suddenly makes sense
Exactly. The Yes man culture was growing in strength when I got out about 3 years ago. And this is why they LOVE the yes man culture. They can basically do whatever they (meaning "leadership") want. I did a semester of ROTC and it was RAMPANT there.
For those who don’t know jet fuel and water are kept in the same tank, water is heavier than the fuel so they draw from bottom for water and top for fuel
Thats a quality screw up right there, pumping the jet fuel straight into the drinking fuel
Being military property I know these things were clearly marked. How does a mistake like that even happen?
@@heavilyarmedhippie75 that's exactly what I was thinking!
heres an easy fix that we mandated by law through the blood of people dying=regulations in the chemical and productions industries. MAKE THE CONNECTION FOR BOTH SOURCES A DIFFERENT SIZE OR SHAPE. It makes the mistake of pumping the wrong shit in the wrong hole impossible.
And they are going to pin all the blame on the dumbass that hooked the hose into the wrong port.
I mean,how could you make a mistake like that? Isn't the Navy supposed to have a high ASVAB just to get in?
@@TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA That would make sense. Too bad they will deem it too expensive or difficult.
That Commander should recommend himself for the Navy Cross for his extremely poor handling and consistent lying about not fixing a problem he is ultimately responsible for. It is very difficult to keep your lies straight, create a problem, then completely fail to fix it. That along with complete disregard for your crew, sounds like a candidate for Admiralty! Great work Commander
Given the geopolitical climate, he and some other high-ranking DoD officers should be investigated for possible ties to China and/or Russia.
I served onboard USS nimitz on its last deployment from April 2020-march 2021. This happened a few times during deployment on a smaller scale to where the heads and water fountains smelled like JP5 or had black gunk oozing out of them. They didn’t acknowledge it and unfortunately it didn’t get any attention then. Wild.
Same thing happened to the USS Essex this past summer. My brother got back from a RIMPAC rotation out by Hawaii and said the day he got back he was feeling like absolute shit. Turns out jet fuel had leaked into their potable water system and they took all day to tell the crew.
Now they're saying "you should be fine, it wasn't even that much," while the crew is having stomach problems and tasting fuel on their tongues still.
Reasons like this are why I took off the uniform.
I was on a carrier for 3 years, it is actually a common issue. Happened a lot, and we were just told it was the flu.
@@RandalWansing 100% not a fan of that.
That sounds like shit that happens one should expect from serving aboard a Russian vessel, not one of our own!
I served aboard two CVs as part of the air wing, CV-64 and CV-62, they both had fuel in the water. You could taste it and it would separate out if you left it in a cup. We all stunk like JP-5 for weeks after we rotated back to the beach because of sweating it out. It was in and on everything, clothes, food, showers, any fresh water that was used had fuel in it. It did improve the taste of the coffee though.
I was just thinking about my time on CV-64 and our water having JP-5 all the time.
CV-62 USS Independence!
Connie & Indy, CVW-14
Yup was on CV-64 in V-4 84-88 and yes they had JP in the water several times.
Served on CV-61 ...same thing.
The pics provided by those Sailors says IT ALL! Very REAL BS at the hands of the Navy AND the Officer(s) commanding/leading this ship! Thanks AC for getting the word (AND graphics!) out here to us.
Sailor: yeah I have stomach ulcers and colon cancer from drinking jet fuel.
VA: denied, not service connected.
I am shocked! Absolutely shocked, that any navy doctor would tell a sailor that they're not going to put something in their medical record.
Pretty sure standard operating procedure is to just lie about it.
This happens more than anyone would care to admit. Happened at least once on each of the three carriers I was on.
I was in for 8 years on two different ships and this happened 4 times. Two times on each ship. My last ship was the Nimitz. No surprise here.
Can't wait to see this being on a commercial about suing the Navy every hour in the next 30 years, like Camp Lejeune water contamination going on right now. Who would have guessed I'd miss hearing about the ear plugs?
Have you or a love one been diagnosed with mesothelioma after drinking the spicy water on USS Nimitz? If so, there is a chance you can be entitled to significant compensation. Call the number on screen now, to see if you qualify.
I avoided the hearing plugs one. I dunno, I just wish they'd ADMIT what they did wrong. Instead they lie and obfuscate. Oh sure, army, I'm certain this skin condition I picked up in Iraq is TOTALLY a pre-existing condition, totally....
It's right up there with the amount of rare types of cancer that sailors who served on the Nimitz during Vietnam have experienced.
That shit unfortunately pretty common in the navy. And they also make you feel like if you ask for it to be added you will be somehow kicked out.
Still remember going to medical after repeated calls to to try to make an appointment for my knees. Medical staff would be known to just let the phone ring and not answer cause they couldnt be bothered so i went in person. I explained my situation to the hm working at the APPOINTMENT desk and i got laughed at and told to make the appointment over the phone. Gotta love norfolk.
Oh brother I understand that feeling...
@@patmckinney1473 Yep fuck sewells point. If anyone stationed there reads this just make the extra long trip to portsmouth.
Never been in the Military so I’m guessing you couldn’t say “Okay,” and then take out your phone and call the number while looking him in the eye.
Call them on the phone, while you are still right in front of them.
@@generalralph6291 Hell no good way to get shit on. Besides that never mess with the people who are suppose to give you care cause even if its shitty then you dont want the hell they can make it if they dont like you. Good way to get someone with anchors involved too so they can stir up a shit storm by calling your chief on your boat.
@Angry Cops I appreciate you bringing this kinda stuff to the surface for our armed forces, I feel your one of the few people that is honorable and dignified enough to make a problem like this light hearted enough that it doesn't make people mad but is enough smart arse comments to get the actually point across! I gotta admit between you and Donut OP your two videos really got me looking at life with realistic outlooks and I am a lot less of an opinionated and uneducated person when it comes to politics to civil rights issues to even the crimes that make us go WHY? yall are solid dudes and keep up the good work!
The Marine bit had me laughing 😂. The Corps did the same shit to us with our barrack in Okinawa back in 2012. They were moldy as f**k and kept telling us to just disinfect everything and clean every day. Two years straight we complained about it and nothing was ever done about it. Our AC units that couldn't be taken apart because they were in the ceiling were caked in mold. When we would go on detachments or were on the M.E.U. we'd have to throw out furniture, clothing and other items that we left in the room because they'd be covered in mold when we'd come back. My respiratory and sinuses are all f**ked up, and ever since I've had a hard time breathing.
This commander on his OER support form; "I performed an exercise simulating an austere environment wherein our water supply was contaminated by our adversaries, helping improve the combat readiness of our sailors and medical personnel."
I was on the USS Kitty Hawk from 1977-1981 and took readings on our fresh water tanks and had fuel oil mixed in with the water all the time.
DNN is my favorite! I'm disappointed that Donut isn't collaborating on this. You're awesome regardless!
Especially on this one as Donut was a Seaman.
JP-8 never hurt anyone. I sprinkled that shit on my corn flakes every day. My remaining 1 foot of intestine is working great.
You’re doing good work reporting this stuff, AC ❤️
Wow! Thanks for bringing this story to the surface. I'm in the environmental remediation business, I've worked on jet fuel contaminated groundwater sites, and I cannot believe someone would say that jar of water is safe to consume. Keep us updated on this. I'll help write letters too.
As if the water isn't bad enough, try this one on for size:
USS Kitty Hawk, oil burner - non nuke, circa 2007. I was night shift so sleeping during daylight hours was natural and COMPLETELY difficult to do. I remember waking up early one afternoon to a choking fog in the berthing space. Couldn't breathe, eyes burning, and COMPLETELY PISSED because my valuable rack time was disturbed. Come to find out, we were doing an UREP and taking on DFM (diesel fuel, marine). My berthing was directly over a fuel tank. Unbeknownst to me, when certain tanks are filled, 'sounding' caps are removed to relieve pressure from the fuel going in from below decks filler pipes. That pressure was equalized DIRECTLY INTO MY BERTHING SPACE. Fuel was atomized and fogged up the whole space. One spark, one errant lighter flick and that space could have easily flashed. Here's the thing though, we took on fuel regularly, something like twice a week and each and every time that space would fog like that. I had to reschedule my sleeping routine because of it which, thankfully was easy to do since we were doing UNREPS on a rather static schedule. Oh well, such is life at sea aboard those damn bird farms!
Side note: This SAME ship was taking in sea suction in the Gulf of Thailand during a port visit there in 2000. For some reason, where we were anchored must have been close to a some kind of ashore sewage discharge pipe or river runoff BECAUSEEEEE... our potable water tanks SOMEHOW came into contact with that water and contaminated the entire boat with E-COLI ! Yeah, that was fun. We had to start bringing aboard bottled water by the barge load. I've never seen so many pallets of that stuff. It continued for about a week... until the tanks were purged enough to be used again. Dysentery and Gastroenteritis were RAMPANT! It is fuuuun, FUN, when you get to shyt every 15 minutes or so for 3 or 4 days straight. Keeping (clean) water in your stomach for any length of time became an Olympic level event too.
I was on the kitty Hawk 06-09, we also had JP-5 and seawater in the potable water
@@davidbeckham3821 Yeah, and it made for some DANDY coffee too. lol If your work space was relaxed enough to allow coffee pots and you had a deep sink close enough you could retrieve water without it being a Lord of the Rings level trek, that was a GREAT morale booster. However, tis a Great way to piss off people who are hooked on caffeine to get started before their shift; screw with the coffee and watch the counseling chits pile up.
This happened on many of vessels that I was stationed on in 98 through 2007. The navy never put it into any of our records of the exposures. And when I pointed this out to the VA years later I and several other sailors were called liars from the VA!
AC still out here trying to save lives. I have so much respect for this man and I've never even met him.
I'm looking forward to the future commericals asking if you were aboard the USS Nimitz in 2022 and if so you might be entitled to compensation.
So many gem comments. I loved how he said let's wait and see what award this officer gives himself. It wasn't until I was in the Navy almost 20 years that I heard the reason why people get end of tour awards is because they submit them for themselves and mainly the people doing that are officers and Chiefs.
Gotta love seeing the COC taking responsibility for their actions......Oh wait, that rarely happens.
This should get people lining up at the recruitment offices.
One nice thing about being in the Coast Guard is that it would take exactly 5 minutes for news of something like this to spread through the rumor mill on the cutter.
And still nothing would be done about it.
Back in the 2018-19 deployment on the USS John C Stennis we had this energy drink for a limited time
Completely amazing take from Angry Cops. Not afraid to get backlash for making this content, while raising awareness for the average service member.
Thanks for bringing attention to this.
Hello text to the number above to claim your prize congratulations champion 🎉🎁..
The only thing you're missing is the long pauses between the reporter and anchor. Good job on keeping these DNN episodes informative and funny as hell!
nice to see the military taking care of our troops.
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Well they see it as long as more people enlist they don’t need to worry about those that leave.😠
The big green weenie doing what it does best!
:) hi, army man here. Just wait until you hear about the other branches :)
We had that happen on the Enterprise on the 89-90 world cruise. I happened right after leaving our home port. While they found the source of contamination quickly, It took a couple of weeks before it all got flushed out of the system. They can flush the potable water tanks, but without going in and steam cleaning them it is almost impossible to get everything out. It takes a while for it to flush out of all the tanks and pipes. The ship just doesn't make enough fresh water to flush all the lines enough to get it where you can't smell it anymore. I know it sounds bad, but there is a minimum safe level of exposure. You can still smell the jet fuel even if it is below the minimum allowable level. I stopped drinking water as much as possible and only drank soft drinks from the soda machines. After several weeks of high temps, high humidity and dehydration brought on by only drinking Mt. Dew I got a kidney/urinary tract infection that put me in sickbay for a week.
Contaminated water happens on ships every so often, but you also see it on shore installations/bases. The water on MCB Camp Pendleton was brown and smelly when I was there in the mid 90s. We stayed in WWII-era Quonset huts and other old buildings on drill weekends. I'd be willing to bet that all the pipes were just as old as the buildings. I wouldn't drink anything but bottled water and Gatorade when I was there.
Thank you for the correct pronunciation of “potable”. It is amazing how many naval officers and shipbuilding personnel don’t know how. It takes an incredibly small amount of hydrocarbons ( fuel, oil, etc.) to contaminate potable water. One gallon would contaminate one million gallons of water. (300 parts per billion is the max allowance for hydrocarbons in drinking water)
How else would it be pronounced?
@@kimber3865 I hear pot-a-ble, without the long o sound all of the time.
My mind was just blown. I've been in the Navy for over 7 years and everyone I have ever known including myself has pronounced it wrong as "pottable"!
@@evan32cooper just expect a side-eye look and mumbling from leadership if you start pronouncing it correctly.
Pot able water not poh table water is something that you can put in a pot.
Private potato needs his own show. More please
Smartest most coherent Marine I've seen in a minute.
I know the media is trying to poison us but this is on a new level lol
Sadly, not new.
My nephew is a victim of Naval incompetence. He was in basic and threw his back out during a swim qual so bad that it herniated one of his disks. Navy refuses to pay out for his injury sustained during training, an injury that made it impossible for him to continue with his basic training to the point where they had to discharge him. Now he's in his 30's with debilitating back pain that he suffers from daily.
Weird this became an issue. And how stupid I am. I made 3 Westpacs in the 80's. At one point or another there was pipe repair and replacement going on. At that point, they would float jet fuel on the water in the same pipe and somehow try to separate it at each end point. It would last 1-4 days of only drinking water if you were dying of thirst, no bottled water back then. Plus they used the same water to cook vegetables and pasta. Almost forgot about those great cuisine memories until this video. God bless you Angry.
There was so much that was not on my medical record. Thanks Navy medical personnel.
We had JP-5 in our water on the USS wasp in 2016. It's way too common honestly.
Thanks for being a voice of TRUTH AC!
As a Camp Lejeune tap water survivor, I can safely say that tainted water builds character.
It also gives you permanent gastrointestinal issues, but mostly character.
I'm glad you find so much humor in Camp Lejeune veterans illnesses due to the military's ignorance me as the son of a Vietnam veteran who only lived to 48 and died of painful long slow death from kidney failure and stomach cancer I can't seem to find the humor. Clearly character is something you lack
@@minorclips7541 Awwww haw haw, is da wittle baby mad? Get over it, and sue the government.
@@minorclips7541 Cry some more 😢😭😭
@@minorclips7541 when you serve in the military, you develop a sense of gallows humor as a way to cope with realization that your life is meaningless. You get F'd one way or another. Nobody is making light of it.
@@minorclips7541 boy you sure came to the wrong place if you think anyone here cares about your feelings
AC. You always have our back. I wish someone would have your back and make the army promote you the way you deserve. You exemplify what makes a great SNCO.
2007 Enterprise deployment we also were drinking water that had JP5 in it. Didn’t get fixed until after deployment when we went to Shipyard.
Dude goes above chain of command and released a letter stating he thought that the crew of his carrier weren't being cared for during covid. Almost immediate removal from command.
This guy is poisoning his crew and refuses to accept wrong doing or take care of them as a good leader should. Maintains command with no comment from higher leadership.
Seems legit.
As an Airman smelling of JP-8 in standing in line at a civilian grocery store I was ask what cologne I was wearing. I said “Jet Fuel”, and the gall that asked the question said she would head to Macy’s later that day to get some for her boyfriend for a Christmas gift. 🤨
Just take the compliment man
I took a bath in JP-4 after slipping and falling on my ass with a fuel sample jar in my hand. Sucks hitting the safety shower when it's below freezing out!
The jp5 issue has been going on at least since 96. I was on the Kitty Hawk then and the skipper was always addressing this issue and said the water wasn't tainted enough to hurt sailors but you could still taste it in the water. Crazy!
This happened to us aboard the USS Belleauwood (LHA-3) during WestPac in the middle to late 2002.
This explains a lot of strange things about the Navy.
It is November 24, 2022- it’s still an issue. It’s still leaking. People are still getting sick.
This man is doing a NCO's job taking care of service members no matter what branch. Thank you Drill Daddy ..... that last part was supposed to stay in a thought bubble
also, I have a feeling youve done a damn good job of making sure this stuff has been documented for these sailors.
These sailors need to get buddy letters done now for future claims.
Thank you AC for exposing this and all your hard work! You are making a big difference!
JP-5, much like the non-naval based JP-8, are kerosene-based fuels. They're highly caustic and tend to penetrate and find their way into everything. You don't just flush it out of a system. You're pretty much going to have to replace the entire freshwater system of the ship as it'll take months of constant flushing to get it out of the pipe sidewalls and you'll have to replace very seal, gasket, pump and other intermediate component at the least to ensure the water supply is safe for consumption again. This was not a 3-day fix, this should have warranted an emergency being called by the Captain to HQ, emergency supplies of bottled water and massive water containers constantly delivered for washing and the Nimitz should have immediately returned for emergency repairs of the water system. How did they even connect the fuel hose to the water lines? They're supposed to use a very special connector that wont allow them to attach and lock to any other type of system to prevent cross-contamination accidents like this from even happening. You should also hunt down the officer in charge of the refueling operations as it was their job to ensure that the proper connections were made prior to transferring fuel.
My bets on the tank with fuel had rusted or lost a few bolts and it started spewing into the water supply. Happens everywhere
How?
Advanced stupidity is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural, that's how.
Those sailors and their families absolutely need to contact their congressmen/senators.
ACs effort for a good video never lets me down. Couldnt imagine being a LEO putting in work with the military and fundraisers and events AND still runs a YT while renovating this old crack house. Man of many talents and has to have more energy than a meth addict. ... Or maybe a twin.
It's from the crack residue contaminating his air whilst renovating said crack house.
Jet fuel baby!
the secret is drugs
@@AngryCops _copious_ amounts of crack