This video has it all: time lapses, dramatic photography and tons of aircraft porn. It’s a typical day on the USS Carl Vinson, the third of the United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear supercarriers. Yeah, it’s the carrier from that NCAA basketball game.
The USS Carl Vinson, a behemoth that displaces 101,300 long tons of water and is 333m long, was also the place where they took Osama Bin Laden‘s dead body before dumping him at sea. The USS Carl Vinson carries around 90 fixed wing and helicopters at any given time, including F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft and Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk submarine hunting helicopters, among others.
Jaezass
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:43 AMThis is obviously a recruiting tool, they make it look so exciting. I’ve seen a few doco’s on PayTV and it’s no picnic, they work shitty hours, they’re scrutinised every second and they most definitely aren’t happy about the time spent on board. This sort of thing is how they snag suckers for the cause, they’ve been doing it for years.
Steve
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 7:15 PMAlso the fact that a carrier is essentially a floating city with crewed by several thousand high school kids with a worse teacher: student ratio than most American high schools.
Your Wrong Again
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 1:05 PMIt was actually shot by ESPN, and shown before the start of NCAA basketball game on Veterans day….. But I suppose if you’ve seen a few doco’s on PayTV, you clearly right :P
Jaezass
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:08 PMAmerica uses this sort of crap all the time to recruit more cannon fodder! The fact that it was shot by a sports network only shows how entrenched the military has become in their psyche. If you have seen any evidence that serving onboard an aircraft carrier or any other arm of their armed forces, is all beer and skittles please feel free to point me in that general direction, till then, get your facts right before opening your mouth. :P
And You're STILL wrong.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:37 PMOh yeah, TV doco’s are a great source for correct info. Never any exaggerating of truths in them at all.
And just how do you think any recruitment drive should operate?
Show prospective enlistees all the blood, gore, killing and other general mayhem that accompanies war? Show them all the reasons NOT to join?
How many freedoms do you think you’d still get to enjoy if your armed forces could never get new personnel.
Oh, and you seem to think all military personnel must be suckers too eh?
None of them have the brains to know what they’re signing up for then?
Twit!
Your Wrong Again
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:50 PMHaving recently left armed forces, I can tell you it is not beer and skittles, however this is another ‘inspirational’ montage put together by ESPN, they do it before Superbowls, before NBA finals, hell before regular season college games…. Its a shame you are reading way to much into a video that was designed by ESPN to be inspirational whilst also being a tribute to our troops… You need to quit with the conspiracy theories and watch more sport… And buddy, whilst your at it, theres no subliminal message in it either, just to save you time…….
Antipodean
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 4:25 PMWhat exactly is it inspiring? How does it do anything but glorify the US as a war faring nation? There is nothing actually positive about it except we have big guns!
Dr Doom
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 6:00 PMI have plenty of home video’s of the U.S Navy playing silly buggers at sea. including having a mock ice hockey game on the roof of the bridge of their ship. Doing sub sonic squawks past our ship. I know of one instance where they boarded our ship covertly at night and stole our mascot. There was the one time we went skeet shooting of the side of a U.S destroyer with a grenade launcher and a 50cal machine gun. It may not always be beers and skittles but they do have em.
Just This Guy ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:44 PMAmazing footage.
Couldn’t see any of the beer and skittles that Jaezass was blabbering about though.
The voice over pretty much tells you they operate around the clock.
I can’t imagine anyone thinking it’s a picnic aboard a carrier.
Keep up the good work crew!
chrisp
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 6:57 PMPurple Wiggle @ 0:35
red t-rex
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 8:12 PMHighway to the Danger Zone!
Pinkus
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 6:53 PM“…behemoth that displaces 101,300 long tons of water and is 333m long…”
What exactly is a long ton of water? Is that like a normal ton but….longer?