Gripe

[tspencer227]

So 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?

Comments

[capt-hornblower.livejournal.com]

hehe... you mean doing all the work and watching someone else get the glory? hells yeah, man, it's called being a sailor. ;-) That's why I'm going to be a Captain and not a bloody Chief Engineer. Perhaps even an Admiral with my (hopefully DoDMERB will pass my spine or maybe hopefully not? I'm still not sure about this one...) reserve commission. Lots of scrambled eggs on my hat, dude.... or perhaps not.

Or, perhaps you meant watching documentaries or other TV things and knowing that you are just off camera to the right or left and some *ahem* lesser individual gets the screen time (Attention on deck for Admiral Hubris!)

[tspencer227.livejournal.com]

Admiral Hubris! Holy shit, I haven't heard that one since high school! Lol, nice to see it still applies. I won't tell you here what my nicknames are, but I'll tell you about that later. But yeah, pretty much they always give the dumbest people the most props. That, and everybody who saw the documentary was severely disappointed. Discovery Channel obviously had their own agenda. Fuck them.

[adrift-lethe.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm a dumb civillian but I was just watching Jag and he got called an airedale by this guy on a submarine and that made me think of your entry. What is an airedale?

[tspencer227.livejournal.com]

An airedale is somebody in the Navy who works on or around the aircraft carried onboard an aircraft carrier. We call them this as a derisive term, since they tend more often than not be to fat, lazy, always get in the way, and extremely dumb. And you know how much tolerance I have for stupidity. ;)