Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Floating Cities: Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/nimitz-class-aircraft-carriers/.
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Indeed on the overlap. In the mid 80’s me and a couple of shipmates took a tour of the USS Midway in Yokosuka, Japan. She was still an active carrier at the time, even though she was commissioned in the 1940s.While the author states the Nimitz Class supplemented the Kitty Hawk & Enterprise Classes it also supplement the Forrestal Class and Midway Classes in the overall CV Fleet structure.
The Nimitz Class also introduced a different hull form than the USS Enterprise.
Also, the full load displacement of the Nimitz Class is 100,020 long tons not the stated 89,566 tons.
The article needs some editing.
My .02
each boat is different but 4500- 6500 is the rangeinteresting read, thanks.
i had always wondered how many people are on those ships.
also interesting that chow time is 24/7...jesus........
dont tell anyone.....but being at sea is the best and the easiest part.I spent nine months on the John C. Stennis, CVN-74, and being a Marine on a Navy ship only made it better.
At the time I was deployed, the ship wasn't even ten years old.
And all the things I did while on active duty, the time on ship was the most satisfying. And it was the best paid vacation I ever had.
were those hot dogs...truck stop roller dogs??each boat is different but 4500- 6500 is the range
there are lots of places to put in bunks
food 24 /7 was great i usually worked the 7 pm to 7 am shift so getting a hot meal was paramount at times
on the smaller boats chow as 7-9 am, 11-1pm ans 4pm to 7pm and a quick crap food at 11pm most ships but each ship had its own times
but in CPO mess we pretty much made chow when ever we got hungry or needed to feed our trooper that were up busting asss for a quick pick me up... hot dogs and sliders![]()
Well, Chief, I hit my first ship as an E-1 and underway ended up assigned to every BS detail and collateral duty there was. Those weren‘t Carnival cruises to me. After E4 it would be a different ball game, but early on…dont tell anyone.....but being at sea is the best and the easiest part.
its all the crap leading up to a long deployment that sucked pickled assss
yup the bottom 3 , especially e1 and e2 suck for a bit...but the cream always rises and you get promoted...Well, Chief, I hit my first ship as an E-1 and underway ended up assigned to every BS detail and collateral duty there was. Those weren‘t Carnival cruises to me. After E4 it would be a different ball game, but early on…
yup the bottom 3 , especially e1 and e2 suck for a bit...but the cream always rises and you get promoted...
oh and one night on uss george washington.
i did not like being gone from my family, but being on the ship was a great way to be gone. we didn't have live email then either until my last deployment . had to wait on snail mail
this is my favorite pic... got me in detention with skipper back home... but hey it was a holiday, yes thats a michelob
yes i smell jet exhaust and i am taken back to a time.. or weird noises that only could come from a ship 400hz electric motor. cant sleep if house is quiet.
doing dumb stuff and fun stuff with work tossed in to get you grounded...
had my rear chewed a few times.
but as time goes on, you become the chewer vice the chewie...
the community i spent 16 years in, was small and we had 16 to 20 people on our detachment, so we were like a family of thieves, all for one and one for all mentality. we policed our own, and were very rarely out of sight of each other.
we went on port liberty as a group and dragged a few other of ships crews with us. we knew all the good places to eat and took mind bending trips if we had time and spent an awful amount of money on 'things'
i miss it terribly and it feels like yesterday, in fact oct 31 it will be exactly 20 years since i left. best day to retire and leave the circus![]()
iiirc we were off Istanbull, anchored, getting ready to go to Odessa UKRAINE, to eat, drink, and hug dignitaries and their girlfriendsMy cruise got back to North Island not too long before that picture @powerboatr
iiirc we were off Istanbull, anchored, getting ready to go to Odessa UKRAINE, to eat, drink, and hug dignitaries and their girlfriends![]()
what you dont see is the NATO battle group which was led by a turkish admiral,
we had greece, turkey, spain, germany italy, france and US ships
the germans built a hot tub on deck of their cruiser and had deliveries of beer at each port from homeland. each inport one ship was responsible for the party one night in port
i have never eaten and drank so much in my life. food from all over the world, beer, visitors, wine, more food
it was a gas, we were always as one
That is a good day to get out. I had the good fortune of reporting to boot camp on April 1st (April fools). You can probably image how that went.i miss it terribly and it feels like yesterday, in fact oct 31 it will be exactly 20 years since i left. best day to retire and leave the circus![]()
that would have been fun..That is a good day to get out. I had the good fortune of reporting to boot camp on April 1st (April fools). You can probably image how that went.