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What is life on an aircraft carrier like?
- Thread starter Shawn_h76
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So the quality of the food depends on where you go?
I've been on an LHD, DDG, and CVN. As far as food goes, the DDG lost...hands down. As in hands down your throat to get rid of the vile stuff. The good food was a toss up b/w the LHD and carrier. I'd give the slight edge to the carrier since it has more options for both variety and times to eat.
A carrier can be both a place of plentiful social opportunities or the loneliest place on the planet. Nothing like being surrounded by 5000 strangers. It's all what you make of it. The guys who keep to themselves and drudge through a cruise are the ones who hate it the most. Those who band together to curse the mighty boat are the ones who enjoy it the most...in my experience.
In order to make it tolerable, you and your roomies have to have some aggreements. One is that you define a GQ sink. Never make the mistake of using the GQ sink for anything but its intended purpose. Another is that closed curtains on a rack shall remain closed unless opened by the occupier of said rack or the JO in question is being summoned by someone at LEAST two paygrades higher, prefereably three. For those moments when you simply must have "alone time" remember this phrase, "It's mine and I'll wash it as fast as I want to!"
If you have any say in which room you get, try not to live below a cat or the arresting cables, or near the gear rooms associated with either pieces of equipment. Actually, this will be nearly impossible as a JO. It's a nice thought, though.
A good cruise is all about pre-cruise prep and packing. Movies, music, your own bed linen, and plenty of workout clothes are what make it tolerable.
And thus ends my 4 a.m. panel discussion on carrier life. Sadly, I am not even drunk...just can't sleep. How damn sad is that for a Saturday night/Sunday morning?
A carrier can be both a place of plentiful social opportunities or the loneliest place on the planet. Nothing like being surrounded by 5000 strangers. It's all what you make of it. The guys who keep to themselves and drudge through a cruise are the ones who hate it the most. Those who band together to curse the mighty boat are the ones who enjoy it the most...in my experience.
In order to make it tolerable, you and your roomies have to have some aggreements. One is that you define a GQ sink. Never make the mistake of using the GQ sink for anything but its intended purpose. Another is that closed curtains on a rack shall remain closed unless opened by the occupier of said rack or the JO in question is being summoned by someone at LEAST two paygrades higher, prefereably three. For those moments when you simply must have "alone time" remember this phrase, "It's mine and I'll wash it as fast as I want to!"
If you have any say in which room you get, try not to live below a cat or the arresting cables, or near the gear rooms associated with either pieces of equipment. Actually, this will be nearly impossible as a JO. It's a nice thought, though.
A good cruise is all about pre-cruise prep and packing. Movies, music, your own bed linen, and plenty of workout clothes are what make it tolerable.
And thus ends my 4 a.m. panel discussion on carrier life. Sadly, I am not even drunk...just can't sleep. How damn sad is that for a Saturday night/Sunday morning?
I'd imagine it's got something to do with Hal's favoirte toy and crusty... sailors.
He does like to play
, he just likes the real thing...
GQ sink - the room's urinal...for those times you really have to go...
General Quarters. When the do GQ drills you're not supposed to leave whatever room you're in unless you have a station for the drills (and to my understanding, aviators would always be assumed to be flying, defending the ship, so they aren't involved in the ship drills), be it the RR or state room till the drill is over.
Basically, it's a bunch of red lighting, stupid 1MC calls, a lockdown, and a bunch of sailors doing whatever it is they do.
/spent one week on a CVN at sea and endured ~20+ GQ drills.
Ahhh....GQ, pissed off so many boat pukes because all we did was go straight to the rack. It was kinda nice if they did it right around shift change, as long as you were coming on, cause you got some extra rack time. I wish that we had a GQ sink....that would have been nice. However, in a 100 man berthing I think it would get nasty quick.
Oh those good old GQ drills... straight to DC Central it was for me... I don't think you could get further down in the flippin boat than that place... without being a nuke that is...
And then I just sat there watching the chief do whatever it was that the chief did...
And then I just sat there watching the chief do whatever it was that the chief did...
nfo2b
Well, not anymore... :(
Absolutely! The McDonalds onboard is just as good as that one on Pier Row in Norfolk. And we all know how good that one is!AllAmerican75 said:
I hear the CVN-X is going with Burger King, though, and I really don't like Burger King that much. Kinda greasy.
Now if only they'd go with In 'n Out on the new carriers. That would friggin' rock!
