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Wow. Have you guys been watching this series? Freaking awesome! A 10 part documentary on PBS about life onboard the Carrier USS Nimitz during the Battle Group's 2005 missions .
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I've seen parts of it. It is pretty interesting. A whole different world.
It's particularly intriguing for me because I'm about to go to a (relatively tiny) ship for the first time.
It's amazing how people on an aircraft carrier can live and work on the same ship for 6 months straight, yet be total strangers.
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I've seen a couple of episodes and have concluded that no-one knows what they're getting into when they join the Navy. That life seems completely awful and my heart goes out to those guys.
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Is this just distributed online, or has it been playing on TV? I saw the previews but they never gave showtimes.
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I was visiting Pearl Harbor the day that the Nimitz came in to port. I don't think we were there for the exact event shown in the documentary. It must have been a different time that the Nimitz was at Pearl Harbor. It was really interesting to watch the ship come in and see just how massive those things really are. From the distance we were watching from, it looked like there were little white pegs all along the edge of the ship. I'm not sure it dawned on me that those were the sailors until they passed the Arizona Memorial and everyone saluted. It's interesting to see the same thing from the carrier's perspective.
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quote:Originally posted by airmanfour: I've seen a couple of episodes and have concluded that no-one knows what they're getting into when they join the Navy. That life seems completely awful and my heart goes out to those guys.
My thought was the show was either edited to show the whiniest people, or they happened to find people with the worst attitudes. There must have been hundreds of hours of film. Of all of that it seemed that just a few minutes could be spared to show people who liked being sailors, and those people all looked like jingoistic schills. How many weren't, but still liked their job?
Of course being away from your family and home for six months is awful, and my heart goes out to them as well. The sacrifices that they make are one of many reasons our military is all-volunteer.
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