hi from the ocean.

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thanks. it sucked living on the ship. but thats life.

 

[Injected54 10+ year member]

this is me in a cockpit (no jokes you jackasses.)

You look like that dude from that old tv show "Jag" lol.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

usually a few hundred miles off the coast of flordia\georgia\carolinas

so what do you guys actually do just float around and kick it waiting for shit to pop off? excuse me if thats a stupid question but other than marines and army reserves dont really know what the other branches of military do.

 

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first of all, the fact that i look like bud is creepy. i never realized that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

and as far as the navy goes, everyone in the navy is here to support the carriers. from the people that are in administration taking care of the people who work on the destroyers so they can protect the carrier operations. the best weapon you can have on an ocean is an aircraft. so basically the navy is a portable military base. from recollection we have about 9 carriers on the east and 9 on the west coast - or there abouts - all on rotation.all the other ships in a carrier group are there to defend the carrier. the carrier basically has about 50~100 aircraft on deck or in the hangar bay and we drop bombs on people.

in the past two aircraft that the navy has used as attack fighter\bombers - the f-14 tomcat (think top gun) and the fa-18 hornet\superhornet - mind you, the tomcat entered service in 1972 - so for the last 36 years, the navy has only had THREE confirmed air to air dogfight kills. two mig-21's were shot down with the AIM-9 sidewinder *i think* and the other kill was with the tomcat.

but basically all we do is make sure the pilots are ready for anything. on a daily basis we fly our jets all the time weather on the beach or on the ship to make sure the pilots have enough flight hours to keep their ready status qualifications up to date.

and it sucks because we fly a ton - in my opinion so the pilots can have fun. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

you should be a pilot then. i bet u can get all kinds of tail if u tell chicks your a pilot of a jet fighter. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[SVTLightning01 10+ year member]

Theres realistically only 10 carriers today. Myself am an FC1, my job does weapon system maintenance and firing of the Tomahawk Cruise missile system. Pictures earlier was the Phalanx Weapon system, akso known as CIWS (close in weapon system) which is generally used

I was on a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser, which is designed for air defense around the carrier. But thats not all we do. Generally a battlegroup consits of 2-4 surface ships and a sub or 2. We also do undersea warfare (sub detection), strike warfare (surface strike with cruise missiles), surface warfare (destroying hostile ships) and MIO operations (search and seizure of oil smugglers). My last 2 deployments, only 1 ship stayed with the carrier, the rest did theyre own thing. Think of us as a babysitter of the carrier......they dont have the defense equipment as smaller ships do. THey generally only have self defense equipment. (ie CIWS, NATO Seasparrow, and RAM)

Day to day ship life is performing maintenance on equipment, qualifications on equipment and watchstations, cleaning, preservation, etc.

Dont know so much about aviation side, but as FC's we generally stand watch as radar operators and weapon system operators. I could go into more detail with acronyms and names of shit, but will probably confuse more than clarify.

Just remember, Tomahawks lead the way! Pilots go in second.

 

[client#9]

I can dig those pics.

 

[dynamcpunk 10+ year member]

I'm on a frigate which is an old fairly small ship. When we go on deployment we do counter drug ops. Which pretty much means we just chase small speed boats that they call go fasts. I hate being on my ship it falls apart all the time, on our last deployment one of our Gas Turbine Engines went out on us so we had to stop in Panama for 2 weeks which was fun as hell. But being in supply on ship that breaks down all the time sucks. But for the most part my day underway consists of working about 6-8 hours and the playing video games or watching movies most of the time. I've heard that life on a carrier is alot better then life on a frigate.

 

[SVTLightning01 10+ year member]

Small boy life is better, trust me. I did a week on a carrier. No thanks.

 

[dynamcpunk 10+ year member]

Have you been on Frigate though, not to mention I'm a FTS frigate.

 

[SVTLightning01 10+ year member]

Have not. But i have been on a CG, DDG, and a CVN. Imagine living with 6000 people. Its a smaller community on smaller ships. Its easier to get things from other divisions since you know everyone. Its not like that on a carrier. Im sure each has its pro's and con's.

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

Have not. But i have been on a CG, DDG, and a CVN. Imagine living with 6000 people. Its a smaller community on smaller ships. Its easier to get things from other divisions since you know everyone. Its not like that on a carrier. Im sure each has its pro's and con's.

what does that stand for. i've heard of cvn before. but it's been awhile. how do those ships handle rough sea's. i don't think i could sleep going though a nasty storm in one of those.

 

[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

i am looking forward to just starting RTC... and then go into the pipeline. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[dynamcpunk 10+ year member]

Yeah, I like the smaller community. Are you still in the Navy? If so what are you doing in Oxnard?

 

[dynamcpunk 10+ year member]

When are you going to RTC?