um when you've done as much work with veterans and and seen active duty people as I have when you've been on an aircraft carrier and see a bunch of 19y olds running a flight deck which is incredibly hazardous you realize they'rethe best people you could have hired and in the episode you're talking about a Blue Bloods was dealing with the fact
uh you know the some hundreds of millions of dollars to refurbish the an aircraft carrier the Intrepid why what for it it's it's very interesting aboutbuilding building this enormous Mel why is it to defend ourselves are they really defending us
carrier deployments in the US Navy that have carried on for such extended periods of time but I I wanted to sort of go beyond just that one aircraft carrier for example I mean, if you're in the rest of the Navy, I don't know if if you're on a destroyer or if you're on a missile boat and you're serving in the Navy and then you hear about your comrades serving on
So they're like, actually, we do love it, or they realize the effect I will play the "Top Gun" theme tune when they're going into battle and they're going off that aircraft carrier . And remember, this is somebody-- when you're looking at our hero here, who's had a pretty tough time leading up to his, how do I go and fight and do my thing-- so we're feeling for the underdog here.
It was about the team. The aircraft carrier , there's 5,000 people onboard. There's one person, the Admiral.
video show usin helicopter comes in scoops it up and puts it on the deck of the aircraft carrier one of the funnest things about this is we got to buy a scissor lift and decorate it with them
carrier since the Vietnam War. Now bear in mind that the recommended deployment of US aircraft carrier groups is 7 months or around 210 days. But it isn't just about aircraft carriers. This ship, the guided missile destroyer, the USS
that region, the defense of Japan, South Korea and and so on. Um by taking the last remaining aircraft carrier from that region and redeploying it to the Middle East does does leave a gap and that's a that's a political and a military decision. It's a choice. Um
a crisis anywhere in the world, the president asks, where are my aircraft carriers? Because a Navy aircraft carrier with her jets on board can be anywhere in any conflict within 24 hours due to the ability of the nuclear aircraft carrier to travel fast, and then the air wing.
Men, women, and children running for their lives. And so on the aircraft carrier , we had the shark tank.
But we're just beginning to see Chinese domestic environmental NGOs trying to hold Chinese firms to count when they go abroad. China has one aircraft carrier at this point.
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You can't do anything. So I was like, it would be great if we can get him to, you know, do a back flip off the wings one of the planes on the aircraft carrier and that was immediately axed that was just like no. That's going to injure the plane. So we doing just ail kinds of, just have him sit on the deck, nothing that exciting down on the deck, and we look up and he see these two
Because a Navy aircraft carrier with her jets on board can be anywhere in any conflict within 24 hours due to the ability of the nuclear aircraft carrier to travel fast, and then the air wing. And what's really important about that is that when there's a crisis, Navy aircraft don't have to get the country's authorization to take off,
And they were amazing. And so my job on the aircraft carrier of 5,000 was to make sure that these people were taken care of. So just their basic needs.
And we turned and pushed west at full power. And you can tell when the aircraft carrier is at full power in that it kind of shakes. And you see the wake gets huge.
Change course now. Voice 2. I am the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier of the US Navy with 100 planes aboard, with three destroyers, and four cruisers, and about 2,500 military personnel. You change course now.
Can you give us-- you've given us a few examples, but another example of that, and how you decide when and how to do that? I think being on the aircraft carrier , I slightly modified my behavior in that I really tried to think about what it must be like for all these men in the Navy, on the ship, that are used to being in the Navy on a ship
And on the waters, a new US aircraft carrier has arrived in the region. What do we know about that? Well, the new US aircraft carrier , the George Washington, has arrived in the central command area of responsibility. Uh, we don't know where exactly, but that's the waters around the Middle East. Essentially, it's there to relieve another vessel, the USS George uh
discuss today. And this is why. We've all heard of the troubles aboard this ship, the aircraft carrier , the USS Abraham Lincoln, that's been deployed continuously at sea for more than 240 days. That's more than 8 months. It's currently supporting operations against Iran, and there have been reports of
the USS George Washington has set sail from Asia to relieve uh the Lincoln and the AP saying that that was the last remaining US aircraft carrier in the Pacific. And I wonder if that is indeed the case, if that significantly weakens
And this thing came from the 1960s. That job is critically important to the success of the aircraft carrier and the success of our mission, because if that water doesn't get vacuumed out, then it rusts. And there's a hole in the flight deck, and we can't take off or land.
Men, women, and children running for their lives. And it was kind of the big joke on the aircraft carrier .
Men, women, and children running for their lives. So there were three of us on the aircraft carrier .
Men, women, and children running for their lives. it started to put a hole in the aircraft carrier .
The contractor, however, did it in-- because normally you do it in newtons or newton meters if you're doing torque. And I managed to verify there was a US aircraft carrier , a massive warship, which was cut adrift without any power because one of its systems
take hold over time. And on the waters, a new US aircraft carrier has arrived in the region. What do we know about that? Well, the new US aircraft carrier , the George Washington, has arrived in the central command area of responsibility.
And it's not going to work. As you guys know, you can hack an aircraft carrier .
Some of the women who in my air wing-- I'll explain. An air wing is the larger group of all the various squadrons on an aircraft carrier , typically about 10 squadrons. So you have the F-18 squadrons, you have the Tomcat squadrons, you have the E-2, the one with the Frisbee on top
the domestic nuclear power program. And he basically took the same design and was going on an aircraft carrier , put it in a shipping port in Pennsylvania. And that was the seed for all of the power plants, nuclear power plants that were built there after.
In this example, we went on an aircraft carrier in San Diego.
And so Red Bull set up that we could get on this aircraft carrier by ourselves.
mental health and supply issues on board. It's set to be relieved by the USS George Washington soon. Then there was the deployment of uh this ship, the aircraft carrier , the USS Gerald R. Ford deployed at sea for 326 days in support of operations against
thanks for making the time. Now we we're talking of extended in fact recordbreaking deployments of aircraft carriers, a naval blockade of Iranian ports, the last aircraft carrier in Asia being redeployed. I mean, taken together, is it fair to say that the US
Well, you wonder what's going on and you wonder if it's going to happen to you next. And and it probably is happening to you at that time. I think we should remember that that an aircraft carrier , especially with the US Navy, doesn't just deploy on its own. It deploys with escorts. It deploys with um support ships and destroyers to protect it. And
and and judicious manner. um turning that into onto ships and and and aircraft carriers in particular. Um the US Navy should be running something like a three-year rotation for for um any single aircraft carrier . So in three in in a a three-year period, it'll go through a period of of maintenance.
In August of 2021, captain Amy Bauernschmidt became the first woman to command a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier , the USS Abraham
And I'm not sure if you remember the story of the USS Roosevelt, this aircraft carrier where there was a COVID outbreak.
From there, we finally get to takeoff, which is fun. So you go from 0 to 160 miles an hour in 2.6 seconds coming off the aircraft carrier , and then you get to takeoff. It typically takes about an hour and a half to two hours to transit in the country, whether you're in Afghanistan or Iraq.
And then you step it up from there. You get to Tailhook, which is flying on and off the aircraft carrier . And flying fighter jets, that's the equivalent of getting to the Super Bowl and winning.
Maybe I could go and fly airplanes in the Navy, land on an aircraft carrier .
Fortunately, the plane I flew was designed to land on an aircraft carrier .
So that, if you see China developing its first aircraft carrier , with plans for a number of more carriers,
And you know, as soon as we got on the aircraft carrier , it's like a museum.
So, the events on "Battlestar Galactica" could have taken place on an ordinary aircraft carrier on water, but it's much more exciting that it's an aircraft carrier out in space, in
is not that bad. We don't want him to get hurt, so we'll just move on to the next thing. Here's another shot from that day, and I was telling this story earlier over lunch, but this is him on an aircraft carrier , the USS Midway, in San Diego Harbor. And the story behind this is that we'd got on the ship, we only had an hour. And you know, as soon as we got on the ship
This is a couple of summers ago teaching one of our 1,000 person workouts on the Intrepid, which is a big aircraft carrier in the Hudson River.
And I backed out and started to search. And it was 80 miles west of where it should have been, which is a long way for an aircraft carrier to go. And I'm like, huh?
And I'm like, huh? That's interesting. So we race back, land on the aircraft carrier , and before the last jet had even gotten tied down or parked, the entire flight deck heaved.
Men, women, and children running for their lives. Oh, yes. We actually had the largest room on the aircraft carrier , which was nice.