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tspencer227So after I got off watch earlier this evening, I turned on the TV, and what happened to be showing, but the Discovery Channel's special they filmed this past summer when they rode with us around South America. "Cool!" I figured, "I'll get a chance to see what they got from our cruise!"
What a piece of shit "documentary" it was, if it can even be called that. Seriously, it was like watching an hour- long Naval Avaition recruiting video. It seemed like 90% of what they talked about was the air wing- the lazy, stupid, shiftless passengers that ride with us and really contribute very little except for taking up valuable space, air, water, and supplies, and making the lines strectch endlessly long. Seriously. Airedales will stand in line for anything. We tried that out this past summer just for the hell of it a few times, and it never failed. We'd start a line in front of a locked door, and within half an hour, there'd be at least 50 airedales behind us, in their multi- colored shirts.
Ironically enough, after the first two weeks, we really didn't do any flying- we trained with our battle group, and drilled, drilled, drilled. But then again, who wants to see fire drills, man overboards, and dead in the water drills when they can show back to back to back shots of Super Hornets being tossed off the deck. And there were hardly any shots of our port calls in South America, seeing as we we were the first carrier to hit anywhere in South America in over 20 years, and the first nuclear-powered carrier to ever transit the Straits of Magellan. But, of course we weren't flying during that time. Of course, we nukes got a slight nod when they mentioned what powered the catapults, but again the airedales took most of the credit. Funny, seeing as we have ultimate control over pretty much everything that happens on this ship.
*breathe*
OK, I'm better now. Just wanted to gripe for a moment. Gerin, you know where I'm coming from, don't you?
What a piece of shit "documentary" it was, if it can even be called that. Seriously, it was like watching an hour- long Naval Avaition recruiting video. It seemed like 90% of what they talked about was the air wing- the lazy, stupid, shiftless passengers that ride with us and really contribute very little except for taking up valuable space, air, water, and supplies, and making the lines strectch endlessly long. Seriously. Airedales will stand in line for anything. We tried that out this past summer just for the hell of it a few times, and it never failed. We'd start a line in front of a locked door, and within half an hour, there'd be at least 50 airedales behind us, in their multi- colored shirts.
Ironically enough, after the first two weeks, we really didn't do any flying- we trained with our battle group, and drilled, drilled, drilled. But then again, who wants to see fire drills, man overboards, and dead in the water drills when they can show back to back to back shots of Super Hornets being tossed off the deck. And there were hardly any shots of our port calls in South America, seeing as we we were the first carrier to hit anywhere in South America in over 20 years, and the first nuclear-powered carrier to ever transit the Straits of Magellan. But, of course we weren't flying during that time. Of course, we nukes got a slight nod when they mentioned what powered the catapults, but again the airedales took most of the credit. Funny, seeing as we have ultimate control over pretty much everything that happens on this ship.
*breathe*
OK, I'm better now. Just wanted to gripe for a moment. Gerin, you know where I'm coming from, don't you?
