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But back OT, I was an officer of the deck on carriers and I never hit anything other than a light pole on the pier in Souda Bay, Crete and I told the Captain that I was going to hit it and there was nothing we could do but tell people to stand clear. 101,000 tons doesn't stop on a dime, especially if tugboats are pushing you. |
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Running a squadron was hard enough....
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Here's a no-****ter, on the TR, we had Matt Lauer on board when we crossed the Atlantic on the way home from OEF. He was doing broadcasts along with Ann Curry and was a prima donna while Ann was a wonderful human being. On live TV, he was going to fly in the backseat of a Tomcat and then broadcast from the cockpit after they landed. The pilot was the Squadron XO and he catapulted off on afterburners (D model, not needed) and went supersonic at about ten miles out and then went vertical. He did an inverted pass over the ship supersonic and then did some aerobatics, the Tomcat was really good at one thing, airshows. Anyway, the inside of the canopy was splattered with puke and Matt had to be lifted out. He was wrecked for about 45 minutes before he could broadcast. The last thing I did before I retired off the NIMITZ was to work with the next CO of the Reagan, the pilot that broke Matt Lauer. |
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My memory may be faulty, I was never stationed on a carrier but I had always thought that the XO was a SWO. Not sure how a I got that (my time was early 90’s).
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"The pilot that broke Matt Lauer"... Post of the night!
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In 2001 I was bouncing between small boy decks in the Arabian Gulf delivering mail and expired vaccine. I called our next customer and told them we were in bound to land and asked for their wind numbers for the flight deck. The numbers were out of the envelope for flight ops because the ship was sailing cross wind. As we approached the ship said they were going to maneuver for winds and we watched the ship make a 360° turn to its original heading and report different deck winds (which were wrong).
So I did the Moboard in my head and told the ship which direction it is going to have to turn to get winds in the envelope. Which they still couldn't figure out. So we flew to the next ship on our roster and they didn't get their mail. If a pilot can figure out wind and ship vectors better than the people running the bridge that day, is it any surprise that a similar crew would not figure out in time that there is another ship and what direction they needed to turn to avoid it? |
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BUT the CAG-XO-NukePower...gig, sounds like it could get pretty 'political'..I'm sure competition for those commands is, that hasn't changed. Seems like the good guys, the good operators retire at O-6..
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Yeah figuring out and maneuvering for a desired wind envelope isn’t that hard, unless you’re dodging oil tankers or platforms. I did work alongside some pretty thick JO’s however. |
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Can I just say thanks to Bill, Spud, Kontact, and others who I may have forgotten 1. For their service, and 2. For the info and perspective on structure and progression in the USN. Super informative and interesting to learn about!
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Later I flew Pumas off USNS ships for VERTREP. |
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I gotta agree with the author. That's a pretty significant line to cross. So what about friendly fire incidents? Is that also negligent homicide?
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