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Posts: 12954 (05/04/08 3:51 PM) super badass |
Yeah, the pitching deck landing sequence was a major sphincter clencher. The best part was the brass balled commander landing rock fucking steady on his first
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The arm acne is in hour 10 when he's dancing with his terrified wife. |
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Posts: 509 (05/04/08 7:04 PM) |
This update is nothing without Maury annoucing whether he is or is not the father. |
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usuallylurk |
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Posts: 333 (05/04/08 9:42 PM) Registered user |
So the biblethumper had sex with a hooker... why did they edit it to cover up what she was?
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 10337 (05/04/08 10:50 PM)
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Well, I don't know that for certain. But... That chick had professional mannerisms all over the place. The way she was still enticing him to go into the
building with the bouncers out front, even as they were crossing the street? Looked to me like a brothel. Perth is after all a port city. I think I'm
right.
I'm watching hour 9 right now. Glad to see the redhead's story get some airtime, the SOB ex of hers notwithstanding. |
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 10340 (05/05/08 6:15 PM)
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I just finished.
Wow. That was a really good series -- much better than I'd expected. When the tear rolled down Altice's face, how wrenching. Poor fuck. Oh well, he's better off with her out of his life now rather than later. I'm sure she has her side of the story, but it's hard to imagine what it is. You all were right about the arm acne -- ick. And he just had to wear a sleeveless shirt. Still, that was awfully frank talk between them -- she didn't seem terrified so much as just overwhelmed. I don't know that I would've wanted to have that conversation on camera. Same with the pilot's wife who miscarried. Hardcore stuff. Nice to see the sailor buddy who went MIA on shore leave at the casino pop up there at the end. Anybody know what became of the pilot who ran out of fuel over Bagdad? Anyhow, terrific series. It's too bad PBS had to go and air it like this rather than over 10 weeks, where it might've had a chance to become something more than a sweeps week one-off. |
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usuallylurk |
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Posts: 334 (05/05/08 7:54 PM) Registered user |
Altice's girlfriend lost interest in him. I think he would have been better off if she had broken up with him before he deployed.
The arm acne might have been caused by the jet fuel. One of the sailors said something about contact dermatitis caused by jet fuel and the heat. The salsa-dancing marine seemed to be, (understandably, since his parents abandoned him), filled with rage. He got along fine on the ship, but seemed to have a hard time connecting with his wife. What would he do if she told him she no longer wanted to salsa-dance? About the wife who had the miscarriage... Her husband is a hardworking, loyal and devoted husband and father. While she was complaining, he just sat there and smiled. I think she should have said, "Thank you for providing me with a house, food, car and medical insurance. I know that since you were deployed for six months, you weren't able to be here to help me." She has so much to be grateful for. There are so many people who have very little or nothing. If pilot's or sailor's spouses don't have any relatives nearby to help, maybe they should contact other pilot's or sailor's spouses for help. About the pilot who ran out of fuel over Baghdad... I did a search on him and I couldn't find any information. And yes, this series would have been easier to watch if it had been on one hour a week. |
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Posts: 1 (05/05/08 9:57 PM) |
Hi, new here, but registered specifically to respond in this thread. My husband is a Navy Chief on the USS Nimitz right now with VFA-14, so this series was
very helpful in letting us see what he is experiencing to some degree.
Chris Altice has a myspace page and he has video blogs on the page where he has updated everyone about his daughter and exgirlfriend who still lives here in Lemoore and actually married the guy that she went back to, but the baby is Chris's. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=42468287&blogID=390491181 The Gunnery Sgt/salsa dancer is still on the USS Nimitz with the same Marine Squadron and is actually a buddy of my husband's. They have only gotten to view one episode of the series out there, so I have had to tape it to show him when he gets back. The series was a good idea of what these guys and gals are going through. I sure wish it was a regular series. |
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 10346 (05/05/08 10:38 PM)
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Oh how cool! (And welcome!)
I'm astounded PBS didn't send them the DVD's, which go on sale today (the 6th). Maybe they'd want to buy a set, or better yet, I bet a call to the producers would result in one being sent out to them. Otherwise, if they can log on from a US IP address from onboard the ship, all the eps are online at the WETA.org Carrier homepage. I mis-taped a portion of hour 6, watched it online, and the picture quality was on par with the broadcast's HD picture. Do you think they'd be comfortable fielding questions about the series? Best wishes to those people! Dayum it must've been freaky for you to have watched this. |
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squashthebeef |
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Posts: 12986 (05/05/08 11:42 PM) super badass |
Yeah, um...I'm gonna' go out on a limb here and guess that making the daily action of a deployed aircraft carrier a weekly television series may not
make the best strategic sense.
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 10349 (05/05/08 11:54 PM)
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Well, if they were filming Carrier II right now, we wouldn't see it until at least next Spring, long after the deployment ended.
I didn't see anything that al Quaeda could've used this time around, except maybe where the sailors go on shore leave, but they could find that out through other avenues. |
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squashthebeef |
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Posts: 12990 (05/06/08 12:51 AM) super badass |
God you're thick. Thanks for the reminder.
Enjoy your somber and earnest forum. |
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 10350 (05/06/08 1:28 AM)
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Well, that was mean. Look, this thread's got a different feel to it. It's an alien universe for Sucks: there're real-life people running around,
so I'm taking everything at face value. Plus, I didn't notice who'd posted your remark.
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flangl18 |
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Posts: 2 (05/06/08 7:22 AM) |
Piranhahaha wrote: I believe the ship does have the DVD set to show it has just been difficult scheduling showing all it because of operational committments. Getting on the internet is nearly impossible other than through ship internet - very unreliable. I.e. I can't even email pictures or link my husband to photobucket because he can't view any of it. I can pass questions along to my husband if you would like, however the show was actually filmed in 2005 so most of the people on board were not there. But feel free to let me know any questions and I can see what I can find out. It is a bit nerve-wracking when you see some of the action. The pitching decks made me ill just watching. But, I know my husband is doing what he has loved doing for the last 20 yrs and wouldn't have it any other way. |
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squashthebeef |
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Posts: 13007 (05/06/08 5:39 PM) super badass |
Piranhahaha wrote:
What the hell does any of that mean? |
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 10352 (05/06/08 8:37 PM)
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Lay off of the newbies, alright? I don't want them to be chased off as I'd like to find out more about the backstories in the series and the
conclusions of the stories PBS didn't conclude.
This thread = Hello Kitty board. Flangl18: - can you find out what happened to the career of the aviator that almost ran out of fuel over Baghdad? I hope the admiral's inquest or whatever gave him a Mulligan and he's happily flying off the Nimitz right now. - a delicate question: so was the chick Will the biblethumper was canoodling with at the end of hour 8 in fact a professional woman? I'm not asking for official confirmation, but an informed opinion would be welcome. - the sailor that went man overboard off of the Princeton: does this happen regularly? Do they not have the same chemlights on cruisers that we saw when a sailor appeared to have gone overboard off of the Nimitz in the opening hours? And what happened to the poor schmuck that kept the XO waiting? Did he have any sort of an excuse? - specific question to the salsa dancing Marine: so, what was up with the leaky jets, how did they relate to a loose cap on the soda bottle, and do the Marines now have modern jets? - Tiger cruises -- are they as much of a pain in the backside as they appear to be? - by now, some of the crew is bound to have seen portion of the series. Any reactions yet? Best wishes to your hubby. I have a whole new appreciation for them. |
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Posts: 6435 (05/07/08 6:41 AM) Registered user |
flangl18 wrote: I thought they showed that guy Chris getting pictures of his girlfriend e-mailed to him. That gave the impression that internet access was pretty easy. |
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Posts: 3 (05/07/08 7:57 AM) |
rugslug wrote: I don't think he actually downloaded them, but they were on a file - i.e. a disk that she probably mailed to him. I have sized down all my pics to my husband and they still won't go through to the ship. Or he could have downloaded them while in Port also, as they have much better service when tied up to a Pier. |
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flangl18 |
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Posts: 4 (05/07/08 8:00 AM) |
Thanks! I will email questions to my husband and see what he can find out.
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flangl18 |
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Posts: 5 (05/07/08 8:20 PM) |
Hubby got back to me on the questions and I have pasted his answers below that he could get me:
Okay, I have watched the show last night, and I can answer some of the questions...(I asked him how much they got to see out there and he said last night was the second episode. I don't know if that meant the second hour or the second night as PBS showed) The leaky jets that the Marines have are because their maintenance department SUCKS!! If you have a loose cap on a bottle, and there is pressure in the bottle, it will leak. The Marines have modern F/A-18's, they are the Alpha Plus. They have the latest technology like we have, but as I said about their maintenance...well, they don't fly as much. Tiger Cruise is a pain, for we have to move people out of racks and off the ship early in order to accommodate them. Plus, the food has to be paid for. It is a lot of planning. (A note that my husband did not include: The food is paid for by the Tigers, not the military. When somebody registers for the Tiger Cruise they pay a fee to cover the food expenses. I think this year when the information was sent out it was like $120 a person) Randy Brock, the Marine that did the 2005 cruise, may not be the smartest guy in the bunch. Do not worry about him....LOL!! Man overboards happen, but nothing like that on this cruise...knock on wood. There are chem lights and there are little flashing lights that the person may be carrying that will activate on impact with water. If somebody missed a Manover board, then they probably went to Captain's Mast and got busted. Can't tell you about the aviator that ran out of fuel over Baghdad since it was a different squadron and I wasn't on cruise in 2005, but likely he got a reprimand, a little something in his record and all is hunky dory now if he didn't have any prior incidents. Haven't seen the Perth episode and haven't ported there, but I imagine it was a hooker. It is a port city and they like to target the young sailors. That is why I go with the Chief's Mess and we do tours and site seeing as a group - it keeps you away from trouble. |
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Posts: 192 (05/07/08 9:48 PM) |
I'll jump in here with some info, although not about the Nimitz, but the Constellation. My hubby was an air-traffic controller on there for two cruises
back in the early 80s. We watched the first 2 shows on the DVR this weekend, and he had some observations:
First of all is the standard old-geezer comment - "these kids now-a-days..." - they seemed much younger, immature and unfocused that when he was onboard. However, he commented that even with that said, the military still manages to turn them into well-trained, cohesive units. (with a few obvious exceptions, like racist-guy - what a tool!) He was in before all this new-fangled technology to allow more interaction with home - we only had sporadic letters/packages from home, and an occasional radio-relayed phone call (the middle of the night unplanned ones, where you have to say 'Over' after every sentence: "I love you and I miss you, over" The increased communications with the family at home has to help both with the deployment time, and in integrating back when they return. Six months is a long time to be gone. The new mess hall was a revelation to him also, nothing like when he was in there - no salad bar, etc. He thought the food looked great compared to what they had. He commented about the sailors complaining about the better food that the officers get - he said that the officers had to pay a fee to eat in the officer's mess - if they didn't want to pay the fee, then they could eat for free in the regular mess with the rest of the crew. Someone asked about dealing with the loneliness if you don't have family around, we had a pretty active Enlisted Wives club that got together for activities, both with kids and without, and made sure everyone knew where to go for help, so it is around, but you have to ask for help if you need it. We didn't get to go on the Tiger cruise, our kids were too young. However we did get to ride the ship when it went up from San Diego to Bremerton Washington to go into dry-dock. They loaded up the flight deck with cars, filled with stuff inside them, all lashed down to the deck. Our family was berthed in a pilot's cabin, so we had bunk beds and a sink, no bathroom. Our Enlisted Wives club had activities for all the kids to do each day - and a play room up at the front of the ship, until we ended up going through almost hurricane-force storm on the way, so bad that half the crew was puking their guts out - Good Times!! The carrier landings you see are every bit as sphincter-tightening as you might imagine, and the take-offs are pretty hairy also. |
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