Posted on 04/20/2008 7:58:38 PM PDT by nuconvert
CARRIER - Life aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz
This is a heads up.
Next Sunday, April 27, PBS will begin airing a 10 part series which will run 2 hrs a night thru May 1. (check local listings for time)
I think it will be very interesting, but not without PBS bias. Hopefully, they'll limit the bias to a minimum so that it doesn't ruin the series.
I'm looking forward to it.
You can watch clips at the source link above.
I heard it was pretty good.
That Frontline Devil Dog Platoon show was pretty good at depicting what life is like for some in Iraq....was more even handed than I expected....and available online to watch. It is downright eerie watching an IED go off unexpectedly on the in Humvee footage.
I watched the 30min promo. They made sure to choose a couple of sailors (out of 5,500 aboard) who either didn’t agree with or who weren’t sure about the war in Iraq.
I’m hoping that’s the worst of it.
I’ll try to watch the show. Seeing that much metal float is still a wonder to me and that it is really a floating city more amazing still.
Then there’s the gay people they found. Wonderful. Prepare to be preached at.
Will there be lots of gratuitous sex and violence ?
“Prepare to be preached at”
yeah. I’m hoping that doesn’t ruin it.
There’s quite a lot of recreational sex (I don’t know about gratuitous) aboard U. S. Navy ships in these benighted, progressive, feminized times. I have been aware of these shenanigans for some time, but in reading “Co-ed Combat,” by Kingsley Browne I learned much about the specifics of sexual liaisons in today’s co-habitational military establishment. When I served aboard a U. S. Navy ship sexual relationships between members of the crew were grounds for immediate transfer ashore and some degree of undesirable separation from the service. Today’s skippers must deal with the consequences of shipboard pregnancies, transfers ashore by helicopter and transfers of replacements aboard in like manner. Its wonderful.
I hope soo.
I’ve been seeing the clips on pbs the past several weeks and I’m not impressed by what I’ve seen so far. It gives me the impression that the carrier is run by hormonally imbalanced teenagers and the evil warmongers in Washington are sending these little children off to be killed in a war. Hope I’m wrong, but that is what it looks like so far.
As they say, when you put men and women together in close quarters, especially young ones, stuff happens. Of course, if the CO ordered the MO to administer liberal amounts of Lexapro to the crew, that business would clear up in under a week (then, of course, liberal amounts of Metamucil will also have to be prescribed in a prompt fashion).
Well it is PBS.
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I did 4 years on the USS Independence and I’ll be curious to see this PBS series.
CVN-68 was my home for a couple of years in the mid-80’s, I can’t wait to see this!
Hopefully the audience will be served a “security-alert” drill and a couple of the PBS crew get to taste some buttstock served by a lance corporal.
Break Away! On the Road Again, I just can’t wait to get on the Road Again!
I served on the Nimitz from 1981-1985.
There are no longer any MARDETs on any Navy warships. The last one left the Enterprise in 1998.
No! Say it ain’t so! I loved those security alerts, it was just like playing rabbits and hounds. Except of course, much more deadly.
I suppose you 2 have met - if not in person, then here on FR.
For you, the show should be interesting for the changes that have occurred over the past 20 or more years. Your input on the program will be a plus for all of us.
As a Navy veteran and as a freeper I would be honored, honored sir, to comment pithily on such matters.
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