Carrier (2008–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Super Secrets - full transcript
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and oh, I feel the pain, oh
they tell me things are different
now but I still hurt the same,
haze gray and underway
a world away from you
and miles and miles of blue ♪
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Hi, Michelle! Wait for me.
Are you going to smoke? Yeah.
Wait for me.
♪ Heard you today that isn't
my name you were fast asleep ♪
It's out to sea.
What happens out to sea
stays out to sea, right?
Right, right.
♪ Can I be the kid for
your soul to keep ♪
Come on. Let's go.
I heard about that, though.
You thought it was...
No, I didn't.
♪ Some of us smoke, some
of us lie, but it's all
just the way that we
cope with our lives ♪
Yes, sir.
2! 3! 4!
Of course everything's kind
of clouded in a cloak of
secrecy on the ship. We don't really
know exactly what we're doing.
There's things you can say, and there's
things that we just can't say.
And that's really all
I can say about that.
I keep that one under wraps.
That's right, super secrets.
We're on a need to know basis.
Most of the time we
don't need to know.
How many of you in
here are alcoholics?
How many of you in here tonight
might be addicted to pornography?
How many of you in here tonight
might have an addiction to
drugs that nobody knows about?
Those are the things that the
devil is going to continuously
come back against you, are the
things that are held in secret
that nobody knows about.
From what I heard, there was a
small amount of fuel released
in the water supply and people
said they could taste it.
I didn't taste it.
All right, this right here is
my stand-up locker. Everyone
gets issued one stand-up locker.
And, um, they issue, they issue
us one locker, but like, I have
another locker... It's
over on the other side.
If I, if I tell you something,
you gonna, you gonna
put it on the camera.
I can't tell you nothing.
If I tell you, "yo, this
is a secret, Matt."
I had sex with 500 women.
All right? It's a secret.
"Don't tell nobody."
You'll put it up on the camera!
"Yo, Johnson, so what about"
those 500 women you said
you "had sex with?"
Huh? No!
♪ Some of us smoke, some of us
lie, but it's all just a way
that we cope with our lives. ♪
Stand by for a word from
the commanding officer.
Good evening, "Nimitz"
and air wing 11.
Ok, most importantly today, we're
back in the flying business.
We'll be flying every day from now
until we pull into Hong Kong.
Ok, what a do, a shout out
for V-4, we took on 2.4
million gallons of jp5 this
morning from the bridge.
I talked to the admiral... he
said that's more gas than he
took the whole time he had his d-d-g.
So, we did it in one day.
That's pretty good.
Tomorrow it can be just like
Sunday in Mississippi. You
know, you can get up, you can
go to church, you can eat some
chicken, and then later on
we're gonna shoot some guns.
Enjoy it.
The aircraft carrier is an incredible
piece of power projection.
As we joke, it's 41/2
acres of sovereign U.S.
territory that can park
itself anywhere in the world.
It is a huge tool
for the president.
It will always cause someone
doubt if they're gonna do
something, because we're dead
serious about what we do.
I'm proud to launch off the
carrier and fly overhead and
support the soldiers
on the ground.
It's a special point of pride
for a, for any aviator, any
tactical aviator, when you
hear the sound of relief in
that 19-year-old guy on the
ground's voice telling you
that you're helping him out.
That's probably the best
feeling you could possibly get
flying around in a jet.
I'm sure that there's people on
this ship that don't support
the war itself, but they're
here doing their job supporting
their country.
I think a lot of times that
people on board feel like
there's this kind of
competitiveness about what rate
you are and what job you have
and oh, my job's more important
than yours.
But everyone makes this
boat as good as it is.
Right 15 degrees rudder.
15 degree rudder ay.
My job on the ship is to
safely navigate the ship.
I'm in navigation.
I'm a troubleshooter.
Basically, I look over the jet one
last time before it goes flying.
I work in the a-t-o office,
and I get to see who's
checking in, who's checking out.
I'm an a-b.
I work in the arresting gear.
Um, my job, my job's
very male-dominant.
I'm an a-c-1-e-6.
That's an air
traffic controller.
First class petty
officer in the Navy.
I'm a lieutenant in
the supply corps.
We control reordering procedures, the
financials, things of that nature.
My rate is culinary specialist
and I am the forward
galley supervisor during the day.
Crew's not going to work
if they don't eat.
I'm a maintenance
officer at VFA-41.
My job is requisitioning all
the parts for the airplanes.
I'm a p-h, which means I'm
a photographer's mate.
Intel photography.
I work in the public
affairs office.
Documenting shipboard life.
Ceremonies.
Crime scenes.
I'm a master of arms chief.
A master of arms is
military police.
Maintaining good order
and discipline.
I'm a first class
machinist mate.
I work in nuclear power.
Basically, we make the boat go.
I'm a cryptologist, which is an
electronic warfare technician.
I'm bosun's mate third class
in the United States Navy
aboard the "Nimitz."
I'm responsible for
anchoring ship.
Hook a little trick right
past the sleeve because
truth just can't be told
looking for the passport that
you need, stop the truth
from breaking your soul
My name is Philip
Mager, with one l.
A lot of laundry today. A lot.
I'm an aviation bosun's mate.
Equipment handler.
I work on the catapult
and the arresting gear.
Although, it's sad to say that
I haven't really worked in my
rate at all.
Ever since they found out I
have ADHD, I've been in the
berthing crew, just cleaning
up everybody's crap.
Whoo.
I was 17.
One of my friends, he was
joining the Navy, so we went to
the recruiting office, and then
like a week and half later, I
was in boot camp and... I
regret kind of dropping out of
High School to join the
military but I got my GED,
like, pretty much as
soon as I got in.
I don't know my
real father at all.
He left when I was about a year old.
And then uh, when I turned
16, my mom moved in with her
boyfriend, but he got killed.
Him and my mom got in a fight
and then he tried to go back to
his old girlfriend, and the guy
that she was with then, like,
slit his throat, so it was just
a hard time for all of us.
Phil's been down in the dumps lately
because, I think, of his job.
It's a really kind of, like,
degrading job, it's not
anything that's, you know,
glamorous in any way.
I go to work every day
regardless if I'm sick or not.
I do my job whether
I like it or not.
I try my best whether
I want to or not.
My mom sent me, like, a little card.
It said, be like a postage
stamp and whatever you
do, stick with it.
So, that's pretty much
what I'm gonna be doing.
Me and a couple of other guys
in the berthing crew, we have
our own little underground
laundry service thing going on.
Take number 16.
16?
Yeah.
All right.
Where, uh, people ask us to do
laundry, we do it for them, and
they might accidentally drop
some money on the floor, and I
might accidentally bend
over and pick it up, and
accidentally put
it in my pocket.
Phil washes my civilian clothes.
My boxer shorts,
my white undershirts and socks.
That's about it.
And I have a few colored
boxers, Spiderman, Superman,
stuff like that is on the
front, and I asked him, I said,
"listen, I'll give you 20 bucks"
if you do my laundry.
It's not that big of a bag, if you
separate my whites from my "darks."
"Oh, OK, that's fine."
"I'll go ahead and
I'll do that."
And I get my stuff back and my
shirts are colored, like, blue.
He overcharges and
he doesn't separate!
So recently there's been
someone else in my life, I
found someone else to do my
laundry for me, and he charges
10 bucks, separates the whites
from the darks, and it's not a
problem. But, you
know, even though I'm
having a tough time with Phil, uh,
right now, we get along pretty well.
Have you ever wondered
what it's like to
follow a piece of trash around
the ship and see where it
eventually ends up?
I guess you could say film for me is
like somewhat of a creative outlet.
I come out with a new video
about every 4 months.
I used to work the camera a lot
myself, but people always tell
me you look better in
front of the camera.
So I was kind of on the lookout
for someone to be my cameraman
and since I knew Phil, um, I
figured, you know, what the
hell, I'll give him, you know,
let him shoot me, you know, and
he did it, and he, um, I think
he filmed, he's filmed 2 videos
for me so far with me
in front of the camera.
You're good.
All right. Here we are in
the trash room of the ship.
I don't know what goes, what
goes on in here. Can you tell me
what goes on in here?
All of the trash that goes through
the boat gets processed back here.
It's pretty much a
real dirty job.
And you guys separate plastics from
paper to dump over the side, right?
Plastic, paper,
metal, and dunnage.
And what is dunnage exactly?
It's like, egg shells, chicken
bones, all of the stuff
that can't be processed
like the other things.
Ok, great!
Uh, and do you like what you're
doing now, or you want to get
out, huh, probably?
Uh, I'd like to get out.
I know I do.
Ha ha ha!
We have a chute that goes out
to the water right here.
We take these dunnage bags
full of metal and... Metal,
just throw it right
out there like that.
Let's take this wood, just
throw it out piece by piece.
Make sure we're not dropping
any plastic out there.
The Navy always has been a very
good steward of our environment.
You will find that when
compared to the civilian cruise
liner industry, we are far more
environmentally friendly than
those types of ships.
We don't dump anything that,
like, will contaminate
the water or anything.
Everything we dump is, like,
regular, like cans, or food
that we don't eat.
I think the worst
environmental impact from the
ship probably is the release
of sewage from the ship.
But we don't do that unless
we're far away from shore.
Same thing with the reactor.
There's virtually no danger.
Occasionally, we'll see someone
from Greenpeace, or some random
protester out there protesting what we do.
Uh, it's absurd to me.
There's absolutely no merit
to what they have to say.
To me it's almost like the KKK
where they're real fired up
about something that makes
no damn sense at all.
I don't know what's in reactor.
Guys in the reactor.
They work with the reactors
and that's about it.
I would believe they're the
guys running the ship.
They're hidden.
They're somewhere here.
Secret Service.
To central control. This is a drill.
This is a drill.
We don't see them a lot.
They're always down in their workspaces.
I don't know... Who are they?
I don't know.
The trench coat people,
the, the weird ones.
They're smart people.
Very, very smart people
work in that department.
The amount of knowledge those guys
have to have is just incredible.
We're pumping all j-p-5
electrical division, man all
general power load centers.
This is a drill.
You have two big reactors on
this ship, that's all we know.
Right? Two?
Sure.
The difference between a
non-nuclear aircraft carrier,
and a nuclear aircraft carrier
is mostly below the water line.
Our catapults are the same, our
arresting gear is the same,
most of our radars are the same.
Our weapons systems
are the same.
What's different is to provide
the steam that drives the main
engines that drive the shafts
that push the ship through the
water, the steam that drives
the turbine generators that
make electrical power, and even
eventually provide steam to the
hot water heater you
use for your shower.
Woo, Jesus!
What creates that steam is the
depletion of uranium fuel.
The overhaul's in progress.
Get the gas free gun, then
we can relax the C.B.A.S.
I'm commander Mark Montgomery.
I'm the reactor officer
on the USS "Nimitz."
They've got the smoke, they've got
the gas range here, going, huh?
Yes, sir.
I'm the third or fourth
senior guy on the ship.
Waiting on the
status for overhaul.
I went to the University
of Pennsylvania.
I have a bachelor's in history
and a master's in political
science there, and then I went
to Oxford and got a, a master's
in history.
And then the Navy said, "we're gonna
train you to be an "engineer."
Rapid response report
to repair locker 5!
Class Alpha fire, number two main
machinery room has been overhauled.
3 inches of fire
fighting water on deck.
That's good. Good response.
I joined the Navy for kind
of the old school reasons.
My dad was a career Navy
officer, my grandfather was a
career Navy officer, and since I
was a little kid, I wanted to
be a career Navy officer.
I just knew it.
De-smoking is complete in
number two main machinery room.
I know that we operate
this ship safely.
I live 700 yards from this
ship, my two kids, my wife, so
obviously I don't have
any, uh, concerns.
I know that we've convinced
both the nuclear regulatory
commission and its predecessors
that we know how to operate
this ship safely.
You know, we have agreements
with lots of countries around
the world where our ships can
visit, but you know, there are
countries like New Zealand that
probably more for political
reasons than anything else put a
stake in the ground about it.
So the nuclear power kind of
boils water and keeps the ship
moving, right?
I'm not at liberty to
discuss specifics.
That's... It's pretty common
knowledge, though, right?
It may or may not be.
Please tell me the truth... 8
Alpha one is an open stone.
Ok.
That's all they have.
Please tell me the truth it's right here.
Don't worry.
I got it like always.
Q-a airman Garzone speaking, how
can I help you, sir or ma'am?
You want me to bring how
many bags of popcorn?
What else?
My name's Christian Garzone.
I'm 23 years old, born
Anno Domine 1982.
All right, listen, I'll run,
I'll run some stuff down.
You want a cup of
fresh coffee, too?
January 17.
January's the, named after the
Roman God of the beginning, Janus.
Extra cream and sugar,
OK, no problem, sir.
My job on this ship is to keep
the coffee warm in the office.
I keep the jokes going.
Who was it?
Who asked for it?
Lieutenant commander Beame.
You're lying.
I swear to God, lieutenant
commander Beame.
My humor in the Navy so far has,
yeah, has gotten me through things.
Because there's a lot of things
that happen, that, you know,
don't happen in
the normal world.
You know, it's the military.
Medical emergency.
It's just very odd, you know,
people telling you what socks to
wear, how to get your hair
cut, you know, underground
prostitution rings, you
know, stuff like that.
Should I not have said that?
Let's talk about
relationships in the office.
No, let's not.
Show... what are you doing...
What are you doing with Crowley?
Gotta row, row, row my boat gently
down your street I gotta row
row my boat, row my boat
gently down your street
the dating scene, the dating scene is...
Interesting.
Interesting. It's just...
Inevitable.
Inevitable.
Ok, there are 7 hot
dogs for every 1 bun.
7 hot dogs for every 1 bun.
Oh, you're not supposed
to date on the boat.
Nope, nope, nope.
Not a good thing.
You see those couples... Late at night.
Like, I work from 7
to sometimes 2 in the morning,
and I go through the red
lights, and I see that "red
light special" going on.
Some people are gazing into
each other's eyes, or arguing.
Like, please, don't make
it so, pssht, out there.
What's up, man?
What's up, baby?
You all right?
You all having problems?
All right, just relax, relax.
Every day they argue, every day.
You all discussing?
Good to see you.
They always arguing.
Yo. Hey.
You know what I'm saying.
You on a boat.
After you.
No.
No, dating on the ship.
For what?
Can't do nothing!
I mean, there are some people
that be like, you could get
away with doing stuff of the boat.
Not me.
You could get caught, you could get
caught doing the dirt on the boat.
Straight to Captain's mast.
They take your money, your rank.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm
keeping my dough in my pockets,
not in theirs.
Ok?
Thank you.
Smitty know what
I'm talking about!
We discourage interpersonal
relationships between crew members.
And the reason, the rationale
for that is that we are in a
very confined, small city at
sea, and we're all out here
together for 6 months.
Very often, those interpersonal
relationships go South and, and
people have spats, break up, but
you can't get away from it.
It goes wrong, you know, most likely
you're gonna see them every day.
It's, it's really hard.
You can't stop it.
And we put out the policy and
education, maybe, to try to prevent it.
I'm a-o-1 Patrick, I'm
the g-1 flight deck LPO.
I'm in charge of 30 personnel.
We're responsible for issue and
receipt of flight deck ordnance.
I'm not sure how I see the war
on terror, just that people are
harming us.
Move that towbar back over there
where the rest of them are.
And that's our job, to protect
where we live, so we drop bombs
on terrorists.
I'm from Wynden, Georgia.
It's a small town
outside of Athens.
I left home when I was 16.
My father was an alcoholic and,
ah, he took out everything on
me, so, I was trying to get
away from that environment.
The Navy got me away from a lot
of trouble I probably would
have gotten into because
it is a second family.
You develop a closeness with
everyone you work with.
You develop friendships and
people you can rely on, but
when you mix genders on board a
carrier, and you go away for so
long, people will talk and get
interested, and you can't stop it.
All right, I've gotta go eat.
See you.
See you.
There's 5,000 people, probably
800-1,200 females, so
everybody talks or flirts, and
the reason it's discouraged and
prohibited is it would turn into,
like, the love boat or something.
If any of you thought that
this would be the perfect
place to come find your first
wife, or your husband, don't do
it. You know, walking around,
holding hands in the hanger Bay.
This isn't a cruise ship, OK?
We frown on that.
UCMJ will take you to mast for it.
Don't do it.
I don't know.
They're just trying to get in
your personal business and run
your life, and there are just some
things that the military can't run.
CSL Worsley called in the
office, me, Ward, Arnt, and
Pierpoint, because we all have
relationships on the boat.
And, uh, he went in there
telling us that we were all
getting counseling chits
because it's becoming to be a
problem in the workplace, that
we're starting to get, what,
dereliction of duty?
Yeah.
And, ah, we had to do 300...
words essays by tomorrow, or
we'd have trash detail.
But we already have trash
detail anyways, most of us.
We had to do a 300-word essay.
I ended up making it an
800-word essay because I
had a lot on my mind.
With that in mind, you are
charged with, oh, if you are
charged with sexual harassment.
It could affect
your naval career.
Natalie's got a boyfriend on board.
So does Katrina.
300-word essay.
All cs girls are all
dating Justins.
The definition of sexual
harassment is unwanted comments.
Or, who wrote this?
Smith.
I know we're not supposed to
have relationships with anybody
on this boat.
But, 5,000-some-odd people.
There's gonna be
relationships going on.
Give me a break.
I got in trouble.
What for?
Doing laundry.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
Is it done?
Yeah, it's done.
I got, like, 10 hours
of, you know, E.M.I.
Are you serious?
Why?
Because, uh, apparently,
washing your uniforms in the
self-laundry is a minor offense.
You washed your uniform?
My cammis.
Me and Justin are engaged.
In the military.
Everyone around me was
like, dude, throw it out.
Because, like, everyone does it.
I met Justin my sophomore
year of High School.
I was really unsure of myself.
I didn't think he liked me
very much as a person, because
I'd go talk to him between
classes and he'd kind of hide
and walk away real fast.
I was wondering, like, do
I have a chance with her?
And just one day he kissed
me and that was it.
When I go see him in the fly
hole, like, we'll hold hands or
something, but, we're not
out there sucking face.
We act appropriate.
We're not touchy-feely.
You could tell that
we're a couple.
It's just we, we try
to keep it on the dl.
Oh, he's got his girlfriend
on the damn boat with him.
How, how'd you guys,
how's that happen?
Uh, he got the ship.
I just put it on, put
it on my dream sheet.
You put, you put... He... he got
the ship... I put USS "Nimitz."
Yeah, because I was in a
school when he got here.
And I just put USS "Nimitz."
It's not fair.
She's always in there.
They're always hanging out.
They really don't say much.
They're always just kind
of to their own self.
I guess living up the
want-to-be married life or
whatever on the ship, so.
If I was on cruise without
him, it'd be ugly.
I was gonna give you a kiss but...
There are many couples that
have been on the boat for a
long time standing, and our
chain of command has don't ask
don't tell policy, but I see a
lot of people in the same shops
or in the same departments
dating just because they are
around each other so much and
they... They become
really good friends and
they really get to know each
other, and you can't stop
feelings like that
from happening.
I got these trash... check this
out, I made these trash chits.
Yeah.
Ab2 Murphy.
Just a name I made up.
It's not even my name.
That way, in case there's
something wrong with the bag,
they call Murphy.
"Oh, I don't know
what's going on."
Anyway, you got dunnage, right?
Yeah.
I got this.
All right, let's go... let's ride
before they stop taking this
stuff. Do you work here?
Let's ask Dick Cheney over here.
We've got the vice president
on, ah, garbage watch.
How's it going, sir?
Are you still, are you
still taking trash?
Yes.
We've got plastic in this one.
Where?
This Cd.
I thought the Cd was dunnage.
It should be dunnage,
but it's plastic.
They are just like
a married couple.
Look, look how easy
it is to take it out.
Yes, lots of love, and then a lot of
fighting, and then some more love.
But whatever.
Phil and I certainly aren't,
ah, we aren't, ah, you know,
funny or anything, we're not
light in our loafers if
that... no. Nothing like that.
Why? Have you heard something?
He's a good neighbor.
He's real quiet.
I think he, ah, works hard
during the day, and when he
gets home, he sleeps.
Sleeps. Boom.
I do hear there are some
wild parties over there
sometimes but I never
ask, you know.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Ok.
Don't ask, don't tell policy
is, ah, just like it's stated:
Don't ask, don't tell.
People are not allowed to ask me
and 'm not allowed to tell them.
It's all about being
in a free country.
That sounds gay.
Sounds gay.
Sounds so gay.
Is gay.
There's so many times that you hear,
you know, "dude, "that's so gay!"
Coming from somebody and they
don't realize that a lot of
people that you work with are.
And a lot of people that you
work with are good at their job.
Let's establish what are you
wearing on your finger?
It is, see, the guys that are
gay, their triangle is pink.
But yours is a rainbow
because you're a lesbian.
There's, there's ton of gays
and lesbians on this boat but,
I don't know, that's their
business and however they want
to deal with it.
They're all really nice. I don't know.
They're all my
friends. They're nice people.
I don't think it really matters
whether you're gay or heterosexual.
I think what makes you a good
warrior is your character and
your courage when it
comes to that time.
My name's Brian Downey.
I grew up on a reservation, the
Navajo Nation reservation, and
on the ship I'm a quartermaster.
Being a person like myself... not
just being a native American,
not just being as young as I am...
just the fact that, you
know, being who I am in the
military, it's a little bit
more difficult than most
people would imagine.
I joined the military to serve
my country and in turn I knew
I'd be sacrificing some
freedoms, especially me being
open about who I am.
Kind of a difficult thing to do
but I had to sacrifice that,
you know, kind of like
putting up a wall.
Like, I can only do so much,
I can only say so much.
It's like, yeah, I'm not
really all that free.
There are some guys that are
homophobic, and if they ever
found out that they were stuck
on the boat with a guy that
was gay, there would
be some big problems.
But it doesn't bother me. It's
just like, do your own thing,
whatever. It doesn't
really bother me at all.
I got a baby on the way.
Oh, congratulations, man.
Thanks.
Do you know if it's
a boy or girl yet?
It's a girl.
Ha ha.
I know, right?
I'm sorry, dude.
Boys are much easier.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
I'm airman Christopher Altice.
E-3 in the Navy.
I'm 21 years old.
I was hoping it would be a boy.
I think I'd be better off
having a little boy.
God, a little girl, though, I mean...
You could still have fun with her.
I've been running buck
wild for the last 5 years.
Well, you could still have fun
with your daughter, though.
You just raise her
like a little boy.
Naw.
A tomboy?
Hell yeah.
I feel like I should be, like,
27 or 28 right now, you
know. Two years, I've already
been around the world and I've
got a kid on the way.
It's like where the hell,
what the hell happened?
I was forced to grow
up so fast, you know.
You know, I did it to myself.
Because I feel like most of my teenage
years were just ripped from me.
3 boys now, OK, guaranteed,
you will go through a lot of
diapers within the
first 6 months.
Baby shower, bring as many
diapers as they want.
What about the WICC program,
though, that I'm eligible for?
They don't pay for diapers.
They give you milk, cheese,
uh, cereal, and, uh...
They don't give you diapers?
Hell no!
I was pretty good at using
protection, most of the time,
but, you know, everyone always
goes through those times where
it's just not available
and, you know, happens and
you try and say, "oh, we'll
be all right, we'll get away
"with it this time."
And you don't, and it's that one time.
That's all it takes.
And I learned it the hard way.
You know what that tells me,
I'm not drinking Bud Light
anymore. I'm drinking natty ice.
I'm not the first and I
probably wont be the last to
make that mistake, so,
you live, you learn.
He don't stay out anymore
no more comin' in past 4
most nights, he turns in 'round
10 he's way too tired to pretend
sure, you might find him up at 3,
but if he is, it's just to pee
my name is lieutenant
commander Kevin McLaughlin.
I fly the F-18 Charlie on
board the USS "Nimitz."
This is the first deployment
that I've had as a parent
and it is a whole
different ball game.
Man's a machine what can he do?
It was a brutal farewell.
Keep going though he's missing you
keep right on going missing you
My first cruise I did, I was
raging single, traveled the
world, had an absolute blast.
My second cruise, I'd just
started dating my wife, but it
was still pretty fun, it was not
the wild, crazy, light your
hair on fire sort of thing.
Umm, there was a little
bit more to think about.
I have to select from the
artistic skill of Declan.
Probably take this one.
This time I have a 2-year-old
son who is exactly 2.
He just turned 2 the
week before we left.
It is really, really hard.
I have a whole newfound respect
for folks who do this with
multiple children.
I mean, this is brutal with one.
I can't imagine 3, 4 kids.
The wives do a calendar and
each wife is responsible for
producing a square.
Skipper actually has them all
and one of the most exciting
moments of the whole month is
skipper will actually bring out
the calendar and the whole
entire squadron is gathered
around the calendar looking for
pictures of his family or her family.
Umm, and then, you know, kind
of sits there and stares at it,
gets sad and walks,
and walks away.
I think my wife is able to
sustain this cruise because of
the fact that she is a very
independent person and knew
that this life requires an
enormous level of independence.
Unfortunately, so.
And dependent wives and dependent
spouses have a difficult time.
Jen was very successful
in the business world.
She's an incredible mother.
The friction that exists, I
think, a lot of times Jen looks
at me as the Navy.
Those lines get very blurred,
because I got to go.
I don't want to go, but what
choice, what choice do I have?
I mean, I'm very glad to do
it, but from a personal and
familial standpoint
it's, it's difficult.
Good evening, Nimitz
and airwing 11.
Cag and I are here to take one
more shot at getting all the
rest of the information out
before we pull into Hong Kong.
We're about 180 miles from Hong
Kong now and we're scheduled to
be there, ah, dropping the hook
at about 9:00 tomorrow morning.
I think it's going to be a
great 4-day port visit.
I think there are a lot of
folks counting on us at many
levels of our government to go
in there and be great personal
ambassadors.
So we want to make sure that
our behavior and our demeanor
in, in Hong Kong and in
subsequent ports reflects
positively on the
Navy and the nation.
If we do that, we'll be able to
have a lot of fun wherever we go.
Hong Kong it is.
They're gonna go see the
Buddhist temple, like, the
first day, and then something
about the second day doing what
they do or whatever, and then
the third day, we're gonna go
out and get a drink.
I was like, screw you all, man.
The first day we pull in, I'm
gonna go get a drink, because
it's been a while.
What are you gonna
do, ship mate?
Sightsee.
Sightsee.
All the sights.
All the sights.
Same thing.
Same thing, same
thing, same thing.
Sights, sights, sights, sights.
Remember that there is nothing
exotic about Jack Daniel's.
You could buy Jack Daniel's, Jim
Beam back in the United States.
So to say, "oh, I went to Hong
"Kong and I had an exotic drink,"
what's exotic about Jack
Daniel's there, ship mate?
You get that at the
corner liquor store.
Trust me when I tell you
something, you can believe it.
If I tell you a puppy dog can
pull a freight train, don't ask
how, just hook him up!
Let me ask you this question:
Before you came to
the Navy, you were in high
school or college or whatever,
and you broke up with a girl
and it was a bad breakup.
She keyed your car, threw
bottles at your window, right?
I mean, they get pissed
off, and we do, too, right?
You get those psycho girls.
So, you think that's
gonna happen on board?
Yeah. What does that take away?
Interferes, uh, with the good
order and discipline of the Navy.
Yeah.
Big time.
Yeah, absolutely.
One of my collateral duties is
I'm a coordinator for women and
men at sea and we just, uh,
make sure they're aware of
what's out there as far as
birth control and STDs,
relationships with mixed gender
on board, and professionalism.
So go on out to the clubs and
partying with females you don't
know, all the guys, the peer
pressure, I know how it is.
And everybody's drunk and you
just have sex with somebody you
don't know.
The next day she
says you raped her.
It's a scenario.
I mean, it happens.
I got involved with the women
and men at sea program in the
beginning because I'm a
psychology major and I was
interested in talking with
young sailors and whatever.
I like coaching.
I don't have any kids so maybe
a fatherly feature, just,
you know, helpin' out.
So, be careful, make good
decisions, don't get in trouble.
Anybody got any
questions, comments?
Concerns?
That's all I have, all right?
Let's get the chairs fixed.
Aviation ordnance first class
petty officer Bob Patrick.
He's got the potential of being a
great officer and a great leader.
Always willing to
lend a helping hand.
To train, to mentor.
His goal is to be a commander.
His goal is to be a gun boss.
He can attain it.
He just got to stay focused.
He was selected for senior
sailor of the quarter, for
weapons department.
He was then put up for senior sailor
of the quarter for USS "Nimitz."
He won.
Then he was put up for senior
sailor of the quarter of
carrier strike group 11.
He took that one as well.
First aviation ordnance man to
do that on board here in the
entire time frame
I've been on board.
Petty officer Patrick's
professionalism, initiative,
and loyal devotion to duty
reflect a credit upon himself
and in keeping with the highest
traditions of the United States
naval service.
Signed Peter H. Daly.
Rear Admiral,
United States Navy.
Commander, carrier
strike group 11.
Hey, Patrick, congratulations!
Thank you.
Let's see, I've got to
pack for Hong Kong.
These are my undies.
Boxers. No briefs.
Um, Jen decided to come over,
you know, for the obvious
reason that we want
to see each other.
And it helps to break
down the cruise.
As predicted, way
too much stuff.
1-2-3.
One night. Too much
You know, I'm extremely
excited Jen's coming.
I wish Declan could come, too.
I certainly do.
To kind of get us all together.
But some time, it's
better than no time.
You know, the thing about Hong Kong,
it's one of those exotic places.
You know, it's almost mystical,
and it's, it really is the
"join the Navy, see the world"
kind of place, and you get into
the Navy to go to places like
this and meet these folks.
They're excited about us being
here, so let's go in and have a
great time.
Ok, good afternoon.
I'm admiral Pete Daly.
Uh, commander, carrier
strike group 11.
It's a pleasure to be here and, um,
I'm ready to take your questions.
Do you carry nuclear
arms at any, any times?
It's not the policy of the
United States to carry nuclear
weapons aboard attack
submarines, our surface
combatants, and our
tactical aircraft.
Um, that said, we don't discuss
in a particular case the
presence or absence of those
weapons on any particular
ship, aircraft, or submarine.
Hey, ah, pn3, go down below and
put a, and put a shirt on.
Go get a shirt on.
What is this?
Hey, ship mate, go
change clothes.
Go change clothes.
Shirt and shorts?
Yes.
Pulling into port after being
out to sea for a month is
like a kid in a candy
store, actually.
What's going on?
We're, we got two
damn lines here?
Riding your first
roller coaster.
New line.
I'm already signed out.
This line is gonna
be kept clear.
You get at the end of the line.
I will let you go when
it's time for you to go.
You understand?
It's exciting.
Ok, so what's wrong
with this shirt?
The one, the one I'm
wearing right now?
Yeah, can I see skin?
My arms.
I'll go change.
For one, most of us have never
been on a cruise before.
For most of us, this
is our first cruise.
And then when we finally get off
the ship, most of us... I'm
not gonna say all of us, but most of us...
go straight to the bar.
It's the place to be.
We bag them and tag them.
Bag them and tag them.
We're in another country,
and we're in somebody's, in
somebody's back yard.
We're in somebody's house.
It's kind of like if, if I'm
coming over to your house and
I'm going to visit, you don't
want me just coming through the
front door, you know, getting
drunk, laying out in the living
room, you know, and then I get
up when I want to, throw up,
move around the house.
I mean, we need to conduct
ourselves like all of the
taxpayers are paying us to do.
I don't want the slow boat to China,
I want the fast boat to China.
The mission here in the next
couple of days is to make
sure we put ordnance on target,
and the ordnance that we put on
target is good sailors, and good
marines, and the target is Hong Kong.
And we're off.
Boys.
That's the best view of the carrier
right there... leaving it.
I'm on the boat because
I'm in trouble, so all my
friends are out having fun.
And we're gonna be here for, I
think, like, 4 or 5 days, and
then we'll be back out to sea,
and I'll still be on the boat.
I don't know, I don't really
like Chinese food, so I don't
think I'd really like the food, but
I heard they have good shopping.
The happy nice.
You guys hear that?
This is the place I was
telling you about.
Oh, it's happy nice.
The party never stops. Ha ha ha.
She is, uh... Gray tank
top, arm on her hip right
there. Just turned to the right.
I brought you a prezzie.
What?
No!
I'm gonna be a dad!
Again!
A second time.
Isn't that crazy?
I'm pregnant.
No way.
Awesome.
He's better-looking than you.
Did he know?
No, he had no idea.
That's why I came over
here, to tell him.
Did you really?
Yeah, I just decided last
week to come over, because it
was a total shocker for me.
Yeah, where are we now?
Here's Kowloon.
What line are we on right now?
Well, what's this?
Almost every squadron has
some sort of outfit when they
go out as a group in civilian
attire that they'll put on.
Bowling shirts, t-shirts,
Hawaiian shirts.
It doesn't exist.
Where's 7?
So we decided to go out and try
and find some red leisure suits.
We got 21 guys that are gonna
get the same kind of deal.
We're looking for, like, the big,
big collars, jacket, and pants.
21 of them.
21 suits?
Yes.
No, I'm not kidding.
21 suits?
We're not kidding.
We're not kidding.
All of them exactly the same.
21 suits.
Whoa, where'd you get the beer?
They had it on the counter
so I grabbed one.
Do they have polyester
here anymore?
I'll give you 120.
120?
Let's push it. 17.50.
That's... I think
that's reasonable.
You know the price
very, very low.
We're all aviation ordnance men.
We sleep together.
We're all in the same room.
They're from all over the place.
I mean, I have no idea.
I mean, they're just, they're
people you get to really know
over 6 months, through the most
stressful time of anybody's
life, man. This is, this is it.
I mean, what the, what the ♪ are we
without ordnance men? What are we?
What are the jets taking off
the flight deck every day for?
What are they doing?
- They're not going to...
- They're blowing Up.
Fly.
They're going to blow up.
They're through strength!
You know?
For the record, the military is
the only thing I have in this
life, and I will do what
I'm told when I'm told.
No, you won't.
No, I will.
He's down there drinking.
I got a kid on the way.
I'm staying in. I'm staying in.
No matter how much... No matter...
Hey! Hey!
All right guys, I'll, ah,
see you back on the boat.
Patrick.
Here!
I'm on restriction now.
That's what the badge is for.
I was at the pier in Hong Kong getting
ready to come back to the boat.
To make it short and blunt,
I had sex with an airman.
He's an e-6 and I'm an e-3, and
we disappeared, and when we
showed back up, everybody was
wondering where we went, what
we were doing.
I looked back behind me and
Medina was, like, covered in,
like, grass and dirt and,
you know, everything.
I'm like, "wow."
I turn around and I'm like,
"yo, Medina, what happened?"
You know, her eyes are watery,
she's tearing up, she's like,
"turn around."
Relax, man, relax.
I wasn't really friends
with the girl.
I mean, we didn't have a
relationship prior to this
happening. It was one of those
things where we were both
in the wrong place at the
wrong time and happened.
We're riding on the ferry back
to the boat and, uh, I see
Flores and Medina, you know,
just sitting there, and
Medina's crying, just crying hysterically.
She can't stop.
And, uh, Flores was just
trying to comfort her.
All I'll say is something happened
that really shouldn't have happened.
When she started crying and
she talked to her friend and
her friend said,
"what happened?"
And she told her friend, "what
do you think happened?"
They didn't do a medical
check on me because I was so
dead certain that he did not rape me.
I was very, very...
Just insistent that
he did not rape me.
They asked me and
I was like, "no!"
"He did not rape me."
I told them no because...
I wasn't sure.
And I'm still not
sure to this day.
But I couldn't let a man go down
for rape, if he didn't do it.
I wasn't drunk but I was
definitely influenced by alcohol.
If I had not have been
drinking, I could have made a
better decision and not put
myself in that situation.
Ah, alcohol is ugly and I never
realized it, until, ah, until
it gets the best of you.
And you do make bad decisions and
do things you wouldn't normally do.
How're we doing this evening?
Good. Good?
Roger that.
I used to think he
was an awesome guy.
I really did.
I looked up to him.
I wanted to be in
his place someday.
You know, LPO of a division.
But... Not now.
He was on SAVI duty that night.
You're gonna do this
stuff on SAVI duty?
I was a SAVI duty... For a Sexual
Assault Victim's Intervention.
SAVI is when you have to go
talk to somebody that was,
you know, sexual, you know,
assaulted, you know, you, you
are that person's advocate.
You talkin' to them about, you
know, ah, you, you comforting
that person.
We went to Captain's mast.
I stood up and said, "no,
he did not rape me" and...
The girl I was with
said it was consensual.
She told the whole story.
In this case, the accusation
was one of consensual sex and
the finding was guilty
for both parties.
Had the accusation been sexual
assault or rape, the process
and the outcome would
have been much different.
It would have probably been
handled in Court Martial
instead of Captain's mast
or non-judicial punishment.
The senior member now won't be
eligible for promotion for 5
years and most likely, ah,
his, his long-term viability,
you know, for
promotion, is done.
Ready, two!
About face!
At first I did feel like I had
done something wrong, that
it was, you know, my fault.
And it was, in part, because I
shouldn't have been drunk, and...
But, I also know that if I hadn't
stepped up and said... Well, excuse me.
If I hadn't stepped up and set
things straight, I could have
ruined a man's career, but it
made me feel better knowing
that I didn't do that.
I haven't talked to her since
and I've seen her around
a few times, but... I'm not
prohibited from talking to her.
I just didn't have the concern.
Medina.
Here!
News on this boat
spreads real quick.
So everybody knew what had
happened, and what we were on
restriction for, and I just
wanted to hang my head in shame
and cry every time I mustered and saw
this man on restriction with me.
Patrick!
Here!
I told him afterwards that
I was very, very, very
disappointed in him as a leader,
I was very, very disappointed
in him as a person, and I told
him I was very disappointed in
him, you know, all around.
He need to understand that he don't
have a future in, in the Navy.
I did make a choice.
I admit that.
But there also comes... There's
also this point where you can
drink and drink and drink.
That's where I messed up.
But everybody knows that when
you're drinking, there's, there
comes a point that everything,
everything, your conscience,
everything that you freaking
usually worry about goes away.
It just doesn't exist, and you
start to forget stuff, and, you
know... You just... When
you're away from home, you're
looking for somebody and it's just
kind of like, it's human nature.
You want to be comforted,
you know, and happens.
For me, it's just a big
embarrassment, because one day
I'm the senior sailor quarter
for the battle group and
everyone knows my name, and I'm
friends with everybody, but then
when you mess up and get in
trouble, you're just somebody else.
First, let me say that what
I'm telling the crew needs to
stay for a couple of days
within the crew. Ok?
We don't want this... We don't
want this getting out on
the e-mail, or going home on
the phone or doing any of that
kind of stuff, ah, until
it breaks in the news.
I don't want the story
breaking from here.
But we are gonna get underway
today, and we're going to turn
left and go north instead of
turning right and going South.
We are going to go up to the
Korean area of operations.
We got to Hong Kong.
All kinds of rumors
about stuff going on.
We are the ultimate diplomatic
tool for the president because
we can go anywhere
at really any time.
And so, pulling out of Hong
Kong, we came out and we turned
left towards North Korea.
Us changing our course, it kind
of scares me a little bit,
because I really don't
know what's going on.
Like, he told us so much, but
if it's nothing serious, why
are we going here? It
wasn't in the plan.
They shut off our e-mail and
we can't use the phone, so I'm
thinking, "what's the deal?"
You know? Is there something
you're not really telling us?
It's hard being so
far away from home.
We're in the middle
of the ocean.
I don't know where we are.
And it changes, like, right off
the bat, they're like, "OK,
"we're going to Korea."
And you're like, "oh,
we're going to Korea.
Ok, they launch missiles?
"Ok, we're gonna die!"
North Korea. Suffice to say it's very
easy to get in trouble up there.
A very good chance of being
actually launched to intercept
actual aircraft coming
from actual countries.
Those people want to come out
and take a sniff around here,
and we've got to be ready to, uh...
To show the force.
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♪ It's a long road to paradise
and oh, I feel the pain, oh
they tell me things are different
now but I still hurt the same,
haze gray and underway
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Hi, Michelle! Wait for me.
Are you going to smoke? Yeah.
Wait for me.
♪ Heard you today that isn't
my name you were fast asleep ♪
It's out to sea.
What happens out to sea
stays out to sea, right?
Right, right.
♪ Can I be the kid for
your soul to keep ♪
Come on. Let's go.
I heard about that, though.
You thought it was...
No, I didn't.
♪ Some of us smoke, some
of us lie, but it's all
just the way that we
cope with our lives ♪
Yes, sir.
2! 3! 4!
Of course everything's kind
of clouded in a cloak of
secrecy on the ship. We don't really
know exactly what we're doing.
There's things you can say, and there's
things that we just can't say.
And that's really all
I can say about that.
I keep that one under wraps.
That's right, super secrets.
We're on a need to know basis.
Most of the time we
don't need to know.
How many of you in
here are alcoholics?
How many of you in here tonight
might be addicted to pornography?
How many of you in here tonight
might have an addiction to
drugs that nobody knows about?
Those are the things that the
devil is going to continuously
come back against you, are the
things that are held in secret
that nobody knows about.
From what I heard, there was a
small amount of fuel released
in the water supply and people
said they could taste it.
I didn't taste it.
All right, this right here is
my stand-up locker. Everyone
gets issued one stand-up locker.
And, um, they issue, they issue
us one locker, but like, I have
another locker... It's
over on the other side.
If I, if I tell you something,
you gonna, you gonna
put it on the camera.
I can't tell you nothing.
If I tell you, "yo, this
is a secret, Matt."
I had sex with 500 women.
All right? It's a secret.
"Don't tell nobody."
You'll put it up on the camera!
"Yo, Johnson, so what about"
those 500 women you said
you "had sex with?"
Huh? No!
♪ Some of us smoke, some of us
lie, but it's all just a way
that we cope with our lives. ♪
Stand by for a word from
the commanding officer.
Good evening, "Nimitz"
and air wing 11.
Ok, most importantly today, we're
back in the flying business.
We'll be flying every day from now
until we pull into Hong Kong.
Ok, what a do, a shout out
for V-4, we took on 2.4
million gallons of jp5 this
morning from the bridge.
I talked to the admiral... he
said that's more gas than he
took the whole time he had his d-d-g.
So, we did it in one day.
That's pretty good.
Tomorrow it can be just like
Sunday in Mississippi. You
know, you can get up, you can
go to church, you can eat some
chicken, and then later on
we're gonna shoot some guns.
Enjoy it.
The aircraft carrier is an incredible
piece of power projection.
As we joke, it's 41/2
acres of sovereign U.S.
territory that can park
itself anywhere in the world.
It is a huge tool
for the president.
It will always cause someone
doubt if they're gonna do
something, because we're dead
serious about what we do.
I'm proud to launch off the
carrier and fly overhead and
support the soldiers
on the ground.
It's a special point of pride
for a, for any aviator, any
tactical aviator, when you
hear the sound of relief in
that 19-year-old guy on the
ground's voice telling you
that you're helping him out.
That's probably the best
feeling you could possibly get
flying around in a jet.
I'm sure that there's people on
this ship that don't support
the war itself, but they're
here doing their job supporting
their country.
I think a lot of times that
people on board feel like
there's this kind of
competitiveness about what rate
you are and what job you have
and oh, my job's more important
than yours.
But everyone makes this
boat as good as it is.
Right 15 degrees rudder.
15 degree rudder ay.
My job on the ship is to
safely navigate the ship.
I'm in navigation.
I'm a troubleshooter.
Basically, I look over the jet one
last time before it goes flying.
I work in the a-t-o office,
and I get to see who's
checking in, who's checking out.
I'm an a-b.
I work in the arresting gear.
Um, my job, my job's
very male-dominant.
I'm an a-c-1-e-6.
That's an air
traffic controller.
First class petty
officer in the Navy.
I'm a lieutenant in
the supply corps.
We control reordering procedures, the
financials, things of that nature.
My rate is culinary specialist
and I am the forward
galley supervisor during the day.
Crew's not going to work
if they don't eat.
I'm a maintenance
officer at VFA-41.
My job is requisitioning all
the parts for the airplanes.
I'm a p-h, which means I'm
a photographer's mate.
Intel photography.
I work in the public
affairs office.
Documenting shipboard life.
Ceremonies.
Crime scenes.
I'm a master of arms chief.
A master of arms is
military police.
Maintaining good order
and discipline.
I'm a first class
machinist mate.
I work in nuclear power.
Basically, we make the boat go.
I'm a cryptologist, which is an
electronic warfare technician.
I'm bosun's mate third class
in the United States Navy
aboard the "Nimitz."
I'm responsible for
anchoring ship.
Hook a little trick right
past the sleeve because
truth just can't be told
looking for the passport that
you need, stop the truth
from breaking your soul
My name is Philip
Mager, with one l.
A lot of laundry today. A lot.
I'm an aviation bosun's mate.
Equipment handler.
I work on the catapult
and the arresting gear.
Although, it's sad to say that
I haven't really worked in my
rate at all.
Ever since they found out I
have ADHD, I've been in the
berthing crew, just cleaning
up everybody's crap.
Whoo.
I was 17.
One of my friends, he was
joining the Navy, so we went to
the recruiting office, and then
like a week and half later, I
was in boot camp and... I
regret kind of dropping out of
High School to join the
military but I got my GED,
like, pretty much as
soon as I got in.
I don't know my
real father at all.
He left when I was about a year old.
And then uh, when I turned
16, my mom moved in with her
boyfriend, but he got killed.
Him and my mom got in a fight
and then he tried to go back to
his old girlfriend, and the guy
that she was with then, like,
slit his throat, so it was just
a hard time for all of us.
Phil's been down in the dumps lately
because, I think, of his job.
It's a really kind of, like,
degrading job, it's not
anything that's, you know,
glamorous in any way.
I go to work every day
regardless if I'm sick or not.
I do my job whether
I like it or not.
I try my best whether
I want to or not.
My mom sent me, like, a little card.
It said, be like a postage
stamp and whatever you
do, stick with it.
So, that's pretty much
what I'm gonna be doing.
Me and a couple of other guys
in the berthing crew, we have
our own little underground
laundry service thing going on.
Take number 16.
16?
Yeah.
All right.
Where, uh, people ask us to do
laundry, we do it for them, and
they might accidentally drop
some money on the floor, and I
might accidentally bend
over and pick it up, and
accidentally put
it in my pocket.
Phil washes my civilian clothes.
My boxer shorts,
my white undershirts and socks.
That's about it.
And I have a few colored
boxers, Spiderman, Superman,
stuff like that is on the
front, and I asked him, I said,
"listen, I'll give you 20 bucks"
if you do my laundry.
It's not that big of a bag, if you
separate my whites from my "darks."
"Oh, OK, that's fine."
"I'll go ahead and
I'll do that."
And I get my stuff back and my
shirts are colored, like, blue.
He overcharges and
he doesn't separate!
So recently there's been
someone else in my life, I
found someone else to do my
laundry for me, and he charges
10 bucks, separates the whites
from the darks, and it's not a
problem. But, you
know, even though I'm
having a tough time with Phil, uh,
right now, we get along pretty well.
Have you ever wondered
what it's like to
follow a piece of trash around
the ship and see where it
eventually ends up?
I guess you could say film for me is
like somewhat of a creative outlet.
I come out with a new video
about every 4 months.
I used to work the camera a lot
myself, but people always tell
me you look better in
front of the camera.
So I was kind of on the lookout
for someone to be my cameraman
and since I knew Phil, um, I
figured, you know, what the
hell, I'll give him, you know,
let him shoot me, you know, and
he did it, and he, um, I think
he filmed, he's filmed 2 videos
for me so far with me
in front of the camera.
You're good.
All right. Here we are in
the trash room of the ship.
I don't know what goes, what
goes on in here. Can you tell me
what goes on in here?
All of the trash that goes through
the boat gets processed back here.
It's pretty much a
real dirty job.
And you guys separate plastics from
paper to dump over the side, right?
Plastic, paper,
metal, and dunnage.
And what is dunnage exactly?
It's like, egg shells, chicken
bones, all of the stuff
that can't be processed
like the other things.
Ok, great!
Uh, and do you like what you're
doing now, or you want to get
out, huh, probably?
Uh, I'd like to get out.
I know I do.
Ha ha ha!
We have a chute that goes out
to the water right here.
We take these dunnage bags
full of metal and... Metal,
just throw it right
out there like that.
Let's take this wood, just
throw it out piece by piece.
Make sure we're not dropping
any plastic out there.
The Navy always has been a very
good steward of our environment.
You will find that when
compared to the civilian cruise
liner industry, we are far more
environmentally friendly than
those types of ships.
We don't dump anything that,
like, will contaminate
the water or anything.
Everything we dump is, like,
regular, like cans, or food
that we don't eat.
I think the worst
environmental impact from the
ship probably is the release
of sewage from the ship.
But we don't do that unless
we're far away from shore.
Same thing with the reactor.
There's virtually no danger.
Occasionally, we'll see someone
from Greenpeace, or some random
protester out there protesting what we do.
Uh, it's absurd to me.
There's absolutely no merit
to what they have to say.
To me it's almost like the KKK
where they're real fired up
about something that makes
no damn sense at all.
I don't know what's in reactor.
Guys in the reactor.
They work with the reactors
and that's about it.
I would believe they're the
guys running the ship.
They're hidden.
They're somewhere here.
Secret Service.
To central control. This is a drill.
This is a drill.
We don't see them a lot.
They're always down in their workspaces.
I don't know... Who are they?
I don't know.
The trench coat people,
the, the weird ones.
They're smart people.
Very, very smart people
work in that department.
The amount of knowledge those guys
have to have is just incredible.
We're pumping all j-p-5
electrical division, man all
general power load centers.
This is a drill.
You have two big reactors on
this ship, that's all we know.
Right? Two?
Sure.
The difference between a
non-nuclear aircraft carrier,
and a nuclear aircraft carrier
is mostly below the water line.
Our catapults are the same, our
arresting gear is the same,
most of our radars are the same.
Our weapons systems
are the same.
What's different is to provide
the steam that drives the main
engines that drive the shafts
that push the ship through the
water, the steam that drives
the turbine generators that
make electrical power, and even
eventually provide steam to the
hot water heater you
use for your shower.
Woo, Jesus!
What creates that steam is the
depletion of uranium fuel.
The overhaul's in progress.
Get the gas free gun, then
we can relax the C.B.A.S.
I'm commander Mark Montgomery.
I'm the reactor officer
on the USS "Nimitz."
They've got the smoke, they've got
the gas range here, going, huh?
Yes, sir.
I'm the third or fourth
senior guy on the ship.
Waiting on the
status for overhaul.
I went to the University
of Pennsylvania.
I have a bachelor's in history
and a master's in political
science there, and then I went
to Oxford and got a, a master's
in history.
And then the Navy said, "we're gonna
train you to be an "engineer."
Rapid response report
to repair locker 5!
Class Alpha fire, number two main
machinery room has been overhauled.
3 inches of fire
fighting water on deck.
That's good. Good response.
I joined the Navy for kind
of the old school reasons.
My dad was a career Navy
officer, my grandfather was a
career Navy officer, and since I
was a little kid, I wanted to
be a career Navy officer.
I just knew it.
De-smoking is complete in
number two main machinery room.
I know that we operate
this ship safely.
I live 700 yards from this
ship, my two kids, my wife, so
obviously I don't have
any, uh, concerns.
I know that we've convinced
both the nuclear regulatory
commission and its predecessors
that we know how to operate
this ship safely.
You know, we have agreements
with lots of countries around
the world where our ships can
visit, but you know, there are
countries like New Zealand that
probably more for political
reasons than anything else put a
stake in the ground about it.
So the nuclear power kind of
boils water and keeps the ship
moving, right?
I'm not at liberty to
discuss specifics.
That's... It's pretty common
knowledge, though, right?
It may or may not be.
Please tell me the truth... 8
Alpha one is an open stone.
Ok.
That's all they have.
Please tell me the truth it's right here.
Don't worry.
I got it like always.
Q-a airman Garzone speaking, how
can I help you, sir or ma'am?
You want me to bring how
many bags of popcorn?
What else?
My name's Christian Garzone.
I'm 23 years old, born
Anno Domine 1982.
All right, listen, I'll run,
I'll run some stuff down.
You want a cup of
fresh coffee, too?
January 17.
January's the, named after the
Roman God of the beginning, Janus.
Extra cream and sugar,
OK, no problem, sir.
My job on this ship is to keep
the coffee warm in the office.
I keep the jokes going.
Who was it?
Who asked for it?
Lieutenant commander Beame.
You're lying.
I swear to God, lieutenant
commander Beame.
My humor in the Navy so far has,
yeah, has gotten me through things.
Because there's a lot of things
that happen, that, you know,
don't happen in
the normal world.
You know, it's the military.
Medical emergency.
It's just very odd, you know,
people telling you what socks to
wear, how to get your hair
cut, you know, underground
prostitution rings, you
know, stuff like that.
Should I not have said that?
Let's talk about
relationships in the office.
No, let's not.
Show... what are you doing...
What are you doing with Crowley?
Gotta row, row, row my boat gently
down your street I gotta row
row my boat, row my boat
gently down your street
the dating scene, the dating scene is...
Interesting.
Interesting. It's just...
Inevitable.
Inevitable.
Ok, there are 7 hot
dogs for every 1 bun.
7 hot dogs for every 1 bun.
Oh, you're not supposed
to date on the boat.
Nope, nope, nope.
Not a good thing.
You see those couples... Late at night.
Like, I work from 7
to sometimes 2 in the morning,
and I go through the red
lights, and I see that "red
light special" going on.
Some people are gazing into
each other's eyes, or arguing.
Like, please, don't make
it so, pssht, out there.
What's up, man?
What's up, baby?
You all right?
You all having problems?
All right, just relax, relax.
Every day they argue, every day.
You all discussing?
Good to see you.
They always arguing.
Yo. Hey.
You know what I'm saying.
You on a boat.
After you.
No.
No, dating on the ship.
For what?
Can't do nothing!
I mean, there are some people
that be like, you could get
away with doing stuff of the boat.
Not me.
You could get caught, you could get
caught doing the dirt on the boat.
Straight to Captain's mast.
They take your money, your rank.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm
keeping my dough in my pockets,
not in theirs.
Ok?
Thank you.
Smitty know what
I'm talking about!
We discourage interpersonal
relationships between crew members.
And the reason, the rationale
for that is that we are in a
very confined, small city at
sea, and we're all out here
together for 6 months.
Very often, those interpersonal
relationships go South and, and
people have spats, break up, but
you can't get away from it.
It goes wrong, you know, most likely
you're gonna see them every day.
It's, it's really hard.
You can't stop it.
And we put out the policy and
education, maybe, to try to prevent it.
I'm a-o-1 Patrick, I'm
the g-1 flight deck LPO.
I'm in charge of 30 personnel.
We're responsible for issue and
receipt of flight deck ordnance.
I'm not sure how I see the war
on terror, just that people are
harming us.
Move that towbar back over there
where the rest of them are.
And that's our job, to protect
where we live, so we drop bombs
on terrorists.
I'm from Wynden, Georgia.
It's a small town
outside of Athens.
I left home when I was 16.
My father was an alcoholic and,
ah, he took out everything on
me, so, I was trying to get
away from that environment.
The Navy got me away from a lot
of trouble I probably would
have gotten into because
it is a second family.
You develop a closeness with
everyone you work with.
You develop friendships and
people you can rely on, but
when you mix genders on board a
carrier, and you go away for so
long, people will talk and get
interested, and you can't stop it.
All right, I've gotta go eat.
See you.
See you.
There's 5,000 people, probably
800-1,200 females, so
everybody talks or flirts, and
the reason it's discouraged and
prohibited is it would turn into,
like, the love boat or something.
If any of you thought that
this would be the perfect
place to come find your first
wife, or your husband, don't do
it. You know, walking around,
holding hands in the hanger Bay.
This isn't a cruise ship, OK?
We frown on that.
UCMJ will take you to mast for it.
Don't do it.
I don't know.
They're just trying to get in
your personal business and run
your life, and there are just some
things that the military can't run.
CSL Worsley called in the
office, me, Ward, Arnt, and
Pierpoint, because we all have
relationships on the boat.
And, uh, he went in there
telling us that we were all
getting counseling chits
because it's becoming to be a
problem in the workplace, that
we're starting to get, what,
dereliction of duty?
Yeah.
And, ah, we had to do 300...
words essays by tomorrow, or
we'd have trash detail.
But we already have trash
detail anyways, most of us.
We had to do a 300-word essay.
I ended up making it an
800-word essay because I
had a lot on my mind.
With that in mind, you are
charged with, oh, if you are
charged with sexual harassment.
It could affect
your naval career.
Natalie's got a boyfriend on board.
So does Katrina.
300-word essay.
All cs girls are all
dating Justins.
The definition of sexual
harassment is unwanted comments.
Or, who wrote this?
Smith.
I know we're not supposed to
have relationships with anybody
on this boat.
But, 5,000-some-odd people.
There's gonna be
relationships going on.
Give me a break.
I got in trouble.
What for?
Doing laundry.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
Is it done?
Yeah, it's done.
I got, like, 10 hours
of, you know, E.M.I.
Are you serious?
Why?
Because, uh, apparently,
washing your uniforms in the
self-laundry is a minor offense.
You washed your uniform?
My cammis.
Me and Justin are engaged.
In the military.
Everyone around me was
like, dude, throw it out.
Because, like, everyone does it.
I met Justin my sophomore
year of High School.
I was really unsure of myself.
I didn't think he liked me
very much as a person, because
I'd go talk to him between
classes and he'd kind of hide
and walk away real fast.
I was wondering, like, do
I have a chance with her?
And just one day he kissed
me and that was it.
When I go see him in the fly
hole, like, we'll hold hands or
something, but, we're not
out there sucking face.
We act appropriate.
We're not touchy-feely.
You could tell that
we're a couple.
It's just we, we try
to keep it on the dl.
Oh, he's got his girlfriend
on the damn boat with him.
How, how'd you guys,
how's that happen?
Uh, he got the ship.
I just put it on, put
it on my dream sheet.
You put, you put... He... he got
the ship... I put USS "Nimitz."
Yeah, because I was in a
school when he got here.
And I just put USS "Nimitz."
It's not fair.
She's always in there.
They're always hanging out.
They really don't say much.
They're always just kind
of to their own self.
I guess living up the
want-to-be married life or
whatever on the ship, so.
If I was on cruise without
him, it'd be ugly.
I was gonna give you a kiss but...
There are many couples that
have been on the boat for a
long time standing, and our
chain of command has don't ask
don't tell policy, but I see a
lot of people in the same shops
or in the same departments
dating just because they are
around each other so much and
they... They become
really good friends and
they really get to know each
other, and you can't stop
feelings like that
from happening.
I got these trash... check this
out, I made these trash chits.
Yeah.
Ab2 Murphy.
Just a name I made up.
It's not even my name.
That way, in case there's
something wrong with the bag,
they call Murphy.
"Oh, I don't know
what's going on."
Anyway, you got dunnage, right?
Yeah.
I got this.
All right, let's go... let's ride
before they stop taking this
stuff. Do you work here?
Let's ask Dick Cheney over here.
We've got the vice president
on, ah, garbage watch.
How's it going, sir?
Are you still, are you
still taking trash?
Yes.
We've got plastic in this one.
Where?
This Cd.
I thought the Cd was dunnage.
It should be dunnage,
but it's plastic.
They are just like
a married couple.
Look, look how easy
it is to take it out.
Yes, lots of love, and then a lot of
fighting, and then some more love.
But whatever.
Phil and I certainly aren't,
ah, we aren't, ah, you know,
funny or anything, we're not
light in our loafers if
that... no. Nothing like that.
Why? Have you heard something?
He's a good neighbor.
He's real quiet.
I think he, ah, works hard
during the day, and when he
gets home, he sleeps.
Sleeps. Boom.
I do hear there are some
wild parties over there
sometimes but I never
ask, you know.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Ok.
Don't ask, don't tell policy
is, ah, just like it's stated:
Don't ask, don't tell.
People are not allowed to ask me
and 'm not allowed to tell them.
It's all about being
in a free country.
That sounds gay.
Sounds gay.
Sounds so gay.
Is gay.
There's so many times that you hear,
you know, "dude, "that's so gay!"
Coming from somebody and they
don't realize that a lot of
people that you work with are.
And a lot of people that you
work with are good at their job.
Let's establish what are you
wearing on your finger?
It is, see, the guys that are
gay, their triangle is pink.
But yours is a rainbow
because you're a lesbian.
There's, there's ton of gays
and lesbians on this boat but,
I don't know, that's their
business and however they want
to deal with it.
They're all really nice. I don't know.
They're all my
friends. They're nice people.
I don't think it really matters
whether you're gay or heterosexual.
I think what makes you a good
warrior is your character and
your courage when it
comes to that time.
My name's Brian Downey.
I grew up on a reservation, the
Navajo Nation reservation, and
on the ship I'm a quartermaster.
Being a person like myself... not
just being a native American,
not just being as young as I am...
just the fact that, you
know, being who I am in the
military, it's a little bit
more difficult than most
people would imagine.
I joined the military to serve
my country and in turn I knew
I'd be sacrificing some
freedoms, especially me being
open about who I am.
Kind of a difficult thing to do
but I had to sacrifice that,
you know, kind of like
putting up a wall.
Like, I can only do so much,
I can only say so much.
It's like, yeah, I'm not
really all that free.
There are some guys that are
homophobic, and if they ever
found out that they were stuck
on the boat with a guy that
was gay, there would
be some big problems.
But it doesn't bother me. It's
just like, do your own thing,
whatever. It doesn't
really bother me at all.
I got a baby on the way.
Oh, congratulations, man.
Thanks.
Do you know if it's
a boy or girl yet?
It's a girl.
Ha ha.
I know, right?
I'm sorry, dude.
Boys are much easier.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
I'm airman Christopher Altice.
E-3 in the Navy.
I'm 21 years old.
I was hoping it would be a boy.
I think I'd be better off
having a little boy.
God, a little girl, though, I mean...
You could still have fun with her.
I've been running buck
wild for the last 5 years.
Well, you could still have fun
with your daughter, though.
You just raise her
like a little boy.
Naw.
A tomboy?
Hell yeah.
I feel like I should be, like,
27 or 28 right now, you
know. Two years, I've already
been around the world and I've
got a kid on the way.
It's like where the hell,
what the hell happened?
I was forced to grow
up so fast, you know.
You know, I did it to myself.
Because I feel like most of my teenage
years were just ripped from me.
3 boys now, OK, guaranteed,
you will go through a lot of
diapers within the
first 6 months.
Baby shower, bring as many
diapers as they want.
What about the WICC program,
though, that I'm eligible for?
They don't pay for diapers.
They give you milk, cheese,
uh, cereal, and, uh...
They don't give you diapers?
Hell no!
I was pretty good at using
protection, most of the time,
but, you know, everyone always
goes through those times where
it's just not available
and, you know, happens and
you try and say, "oh, we'll
be all right, we'll get away
"with it this time."
And you don't, and it's that one time.
That's all it takes.
And I learned it the hard way.
You know what that tells me,
I'm not drinking Bud Light
anymore. I'm drinking natty ice.
I'm not the first and I
probably wont be the last to
make that mistake, so,
you live, you learn.
He don't stay out anymore
no more comin' in past 4
most nights, he turns in 'round
10 he's way too tired to pretend
sure, you might find him up at 3,
but if he is, it's just to pee
my name is lieutenant
commander Kevin McLaughlin.
I fly the F-18 Charlie on
board the USS "Nimitz."
This is the first deployment
that I've had as a parent
and it is a whole
different ball game.
Man's a machine what can he do?
It was a brutal farewell.
Keep going though he's missing you
keep right on going missing you
My first cruise I did, I was
raging single, traveled the
world, had an absolute blast.
My second cruise, I'd just
started dating my wife, but it
was still pretty fun, it was not
the wild, crazy, light your
hair on fire sort of thing.
Umm, there was a little
bit more to think about.
I have to select from the
artistic skill of Declan.
Probably take this one.
This time I have a 2-year-old
son who is exactly 2.
He just turned 2 the
week before we left.
It is really, really hard.
I have a whole newfound respect
for folks who do this with
multiple children.
I mean, this is brutal with one.
I can't imagine 3, 4 kids.
The wives do a calendar and
each wife is responsible for
producing a square.
Skipper actually has them all
and one of the most exciting
moments of the whole month is
skipper will actually bring out
the calendar and the whole
entire squadron is gathered
around the calendar looking for
pictures of his family or her family.
Umm, and then, you know, kind
of sits there and stares at it,
gets sad and walks,
and walks away.
I think my wife is able to
sustain this cruise because of
the fact that she is a very
independent person and knew
that this life requires an
enormous level of independence.
Unfortunately, so.
And dependent wives and dependent
spouses have a difficult time.
Jen was very successful
in the business world.
She's an incredible mother.
The friction that exists, I
think, a lot of times Jen looks
at me as the Navy.
Those lines get very blurred,
because I got to go.
I don't want to go, but what
choice, what choice do I have?
I mean, I'm very glad to do
it, but from a personal and
familial standpoint
it's, it's difficult.
Good evening, Nimitz
and airwing 11.
Cag and I are here to take one
more shot at getting all the
rest of the information out
before we pull into Hong Kong.
We're about 180 miles from Hong
Kong now and we're scheduled to
be there, ah, dropping the hook
at about 9:00 tomorrow morning.
I think it's going to be a
great 4-day port visit.
I think there are a lot of
folks counting on us at many
levels of our government to go
in there and be great personal
ambassadors.
So we want to make sure that
our behavior and our demeanor
in, in Hong Kong and in
subsequent ports reflects
positively on the
Navy and the nation.
If we do that, we'll be able to
have a lot of fun wherever we go.
Hong Kong it is.
They're gonna go see the
Buddhist temple, like, the
first day, and then something
about the second day doing what
they do or whatever, and then
the third day, we're gonna go
out and get a drink.
I was like, screw you all, man.
The first day we pull in, I'm
gonna go get a drink, because
it's been a while.
What are you gonna
do, ship mate?
Sightsee.
Sightsee.
All the sights.
All the sights.
Same thing.
Same thing, same
thing, same thing.
Sights, sights, sights, sights.
Remember that there is nothing
exotic about Jack Daniel's.
You could buy Jack Daniel's, Jim
Beam back in the United States.
So to say, "oh, I went to Hong
"Kong and I had an exotic drink,"
what's exotic about Jack
Daniel's there, ship mate?
You get that at the
corner liquor store.
Trust me when I tell you
something, you can believe it.
If I tell you a puppy dog can
pull a freight train, don't ask
how, just hook him up!
Let me ask you this question:
Before you came to
the Navy, you were in high
school or college or whatever,
and you broke up with a girl
and it was a bad breakup.
She keyed your car, threw
bottles at your window, right?
I mean, they get pissed
off, and we do, too, right?
You get those psycho girls.
So, you think that's
gonna happen on board?
Yeah. What does that take away?
Interferes, uh, with the good
order and discipline of the Navy.
Yeah.
Big time.
Yeah, absolutely.
One of my collateral duties is
I'm a coordinator for women and
men at sea and we just, uh,
make sure they're aware of
what's out there as far as
birth control and STDs,
relationships with mixed gender
on board, and professionalism.
So go on out to the clubs and
partying with females you don't
know, all the guys, the peer
pressure, I know how it is.
And everybody's drunk and you
just have sex with somebody you
don't know.
The next day she
says you raped her.
It's a scenario.
I mean, it happens.
I got involved with the women
and men at sea program in the
beginning because I'm a
psychology major and I was
interested in talking with
young sailors and whatever.
I like coaching.
I don't have any kids so maybe
a fatherly feature, just,
you know, helpin' out.
So, be careful, make good
decisions, don't get in trouble.
Anybody got any
questions, comments?
Concerns?
That's all I have, all right?
Let's get the chairs fixed.
Aviation ordnance first class
petty officer Bob Patrick.
He's got the potential of being a
great officer and a great leader.
Always willing to
lend a helping hand.
To train, to mentor.
His goal is to be a commander.
His goal is to be a gun boss.
He can attain it.
He just got to stay focused.
He was selected for senior
sailor of the quarter, for
weapons department.
He was then put up for senior sailor
of the quarter for USS "Nimitz."
He won.
Then he was put up for senior
sailor of the quarter of
carrier strike group 11.
He took that one as well.
First aviation ordnance man to
do that on board here in the
entire time frame
I've been on board.
Petty officer Patrick's
professionalism, initiative,
and loyal devotion to duty
reflect a credit upon himself
and in keeping with the highest
traditions of the United States
naval service.
Signed Peter H. Daly.
Rear Admiral,
United States Navy.
Commander, carrier
strike group 11.
Hey, Patrick, congratulations!
Thank you.
Let's see, I've got to
pack for Hong Kong.
These are my undies.
Boxers. No briefs.
Um, Jen decided to come over,
you know, for the obvious
reason that we want
to see each other.
And it helps to break
down the cruise.
As predicted, way
too much stuff.
1-2-3.
One night. Too much
You know, I'm extremely
excited Jen's coming.
I wish Declan could come, too.
I certainly do.
To kind of get us all together.
But some time, it's
better than no time.
You know, the thing about Hong Kong,
it's one of those exotic places.
You know, it's almost mystical,
and it's, it really is the
"join the Navy, see the world"
kind of place, and you get into
the Navy to go to places like
this and meet these folks.
They're excited about us being
here, so let's go in and have a
great time.
Ok, good afternoon.
I'm admiral Pete Daly.
Uh, commander, carrier
strike group 11.
It's a pleasure to be here and, um,
I'm ready to take your questions.
Do you carry nuclear
arms at any, any times?
It's not the policy of the
United States to carry nuclear
weapons aboard attack
submarines, our surface
combatants, and our
tactical aircraft.
Um, that said, we don't discuss
in a particular case the
presence or absence of those
weapons on any particular
ship, aircraft, or submarine.
Hey, ah, pn3, go down below and
put a, and put a shirt on.
Go get a shirt on.
What is this?
Hey, ship mate, go
change clothes.
Go change clothes.
Shirt and shorts?
Yes.
Pulling into port after being
out to sea for a month is
like a kid in a candy
store, actually.
What's going on?
We're, we got two
damn lines here?
Riding your first
roller coaster.
New line.
I'm already signed out.
This line is gonna
be kept clear.
You get at the end of the line.
I will let you go when
it's time for you to go.
You understand?
It's exciting.
Ok, so what's wrong
with this shirt?
The one, the one I'm
wearing right now?
Yeah, can I see skin?
My arms.
I'll go change.
For one, most of us have never
been on a cruise before.
For most of us, this
is our first cruise.
And then when we finally get off
the ship, most of us... I'm
not gonna say all of us, but most of us...
go straight to the bar.
It's the place to be.
We bag them and tag them.
Bag them and tag them.
We're in another country,
and we're in somebody's, in
somebody's back yard.
We're in somebody's house.
It's kind of like if, if I'm
coming over to your house and
I'm going to visit, you don't
want me just coming through the
front door, you know, getting
drunk, laying out in the living
room, you know, and then I get
up when I want to, throw up,
move around the house.
I mean, we need to conduct
ourselves like all of the
taxpayers are paying us to do.
I don't want the slow boat to China,
I want the fast boat to China.
The mission here in the next
couple of days is to make
sure we put ordnance on target,
and the ordnance that we put on
target is good sailors, and good
marines, and the target is Hong Kong.
And we're off.
Boys.
That's the best view of the carrier
right there... leaving it.
I'm on the boat because
I'm in trouble, so all my
friends are out having fun.
And we're gonna be here for, I
think, like, 4 or 5 days, and
then we'll be back out to sea,
and I'll still be on the boat.
I don't know, I don't really
like Chinese food, so I don't
think I'd really like the food, but
I heard they have good shopping.
The happy nice.
You guys hear that?
This is the place I was
telling you about.
Oh, it's happy nice.
The party never stops. Ha ha ha.
She is, uh... Gray tank
top, arm on her hip right
there. Just turned to the right.
I brought you a prezzie.
What?
No!
I'm gonna be a dad!
Again!
A second time.
Isn't that crazy?
I'm pregnant.
No way.
Awesome.
He's better-looking than you.
Did he know?
No, he had no idea.
That's why I came over
here, to tell him.
Did you really?
Yeah, I just decided last
week to come over, because it
was a total shocker for me.
Yeah, where are we now?
Here's Kowloon.
What line are we on right now?
Well, what's this?
Almost every squadron has
some sort of outfit when they
go out as a group in civilian
attire that they'll put on.
Bowling shirts, t-shirts,
Hawaiian shirts.
It doesn't exist.
Where's 7?
So we decided to go out and try
and find some red leisure suits.
We got 21 guys that are gonna
get the same kind of deal.
We're looking for, like, the big,
big collars, jacket, and pants.
21 of them.
21 suits?
Yes.
No, I'm not kidding.
21 suits?
We're not kidding.
We're not kidding.
All of them exactly the same.
21 suits.
Whoa, where'd you get the beer?
They had it on the counter
so I grabbed one.
Do they have polyester
here anymore?
I'll give you 120.
120?
Let's push it. 17.50.
That's... I think
that's reasonable.
You know the price
very, very low.
We're all aviation ordnance men.
We sleep together.
We're all in the same room.
They're from all over the place.
I mean, I have no idea.
I mean, they're just, they're
people you get to really know
over 6 months, through the most
stressful time of anybody's
life, man. This is, this is it.
I mean, what the, what the ♪ are we
without ordnance men? What are we?
What are the jets taking off
the flight deck every day for?
What are they doing?
- They're not going to...
- They're blowing Up.
Fly.
They're going to blow up.
They're through strength!
You know?
For the record, the military is
the only thing I have in this
life, and I will do what
I'm told when I'm told.
No, you won't.
No, I will.
He's down there drinking.
I got a kid on the way.
I'm staying in. I'm staying in.
No matter how much... No matter...
Hey! Hey!
All right guys, I'll, ah,
see you back on the boat.
Patrick.
Here!
I'm on restriction now.
That's what the badge is for.
I was at the pier in Hong Kong getting
ready to come back to the boat.
To make it short and blunt,
I had sex with an airman.
He's an e-6 and I'm an e-3, and
we disappeared, and when we
showed back up, everybody was
wondering where we went, what
we were doing.
I looked back behind me and
Medina was, like, covered in,
like, grass and dirt and,
you know, everything.
I'm like, "wow."
I turn around and I'm like,
"yo, Medina, what happened?"
You know, her eyes are watery,
she's tearing up, she's like,
"turn around."
Relax, man, relax.
I wasn't really friends
with the girl.
I mean, we didn't have a
relationship prior to this
happening. It was one of those
things where we were both
in the wrong place at the
wrong time and happened.
We're riding on the ferry back
to the boat and, uh, I see
Flores and Medina, you know,
just sitting there, and
Medina's crying, just crying hysterically.
She can't stop.
And, uh, Flores was just
trying to comfort her.
All I'll say is something happened
that really shouldn't have happened.
When she started crying and
she talked to her friend and
her friend said,
"what happened?"
And she told her friend, "what
do you think happened?"
They didn't do a medical
check on me because I was so
dead certain that he did not rape me.
I was very, very...
Just insistent that
he did not rape me.
They asked me and
I was like, "no!"
"He did not rape me."
I told them no because...
I wasn't sure.
And I'm still not
sure to this day.
But I couldn't let a man go down
for rape, if he didn't do it.
I wasn't drunk but I was
definitely influenced by alcohol.
If I had not have been
drinking, I could have made a
better decision and not put
myself in that situation.
Ah, alcohol is ugly and I never
realized it, until, ah, until
it gets the best of you.
And you do make bad decisions and
do things you wouldn't normally do.
How're we doing this evening?
Good. Good?
Roger that.
I used to think he
was an awesome guy.
I really did.
I looked up to him.
I wanted to be in
his place someday.
You know, LPO of a division.
But... Not now.
He was on SAVI duty that night.
You're gonna do this
stuff on SAVI duty?
I was a SAVI duty... For a Sexual
Assault Victim's Intervention.
SAVI is when you have to go
talk to somebody that was,
you know, sexual, you know,
assaulted, you know, you, you
are that person's advocate.
You talkin' to them about, you
know, ah, you, you comforting
that person.
We went to Captain's mast.
I stood up and said, "no,
he did not rape me" and...
The girl I was with
said it was consensual.
She told the whole story.
In this case, the accusation
was one of consensual sex and
the finding was guilty
for both parties.
Had the accusation been sexual
assault or rape, the process
and the outcome would
have been much different.
It would have probably been
handled in Court Martial
instead of Captain's mast
or non-judicial punishment.
The senior member now won't be
eligible for promotion for 5
years and most likely, ah,
his, his long-term viability,
you know, for
promotion, is done.
Ready, two!
About face!
At first I did feel like I had
done something wrong, that
it was, you know, my fault.
And it was, in part, because I
shouldn't have been drunk, and...
But, I also know that if I hadn't
stepped up and said... Well, excuse me.
If I hadn't stepped up and set
things straight, I could have
ruined a man's career, but it
made me feel better knowing
that I didn't do that.
I haven't talked to her since
and I've seen her around
a few times, but... I'm not
prohibited from talking to her.
I just didn't have the concern.
Medina.
Here!
News on this boat
spreads real quick.
So everybody knew what had
happened, and what we were on
restriction for, and I just
wanted to hang my head in shame
and cry every time I mustered and saw
this man on restriction with me.
Patrick!
Here!
I told him afterwards that
I was very, very, very
disappointed in him as a leader,
I was very, very disappointed
in him as a person, and I told
him I was very disappointed in
him, you know, all around.
He need to understand that he don't
have a future in, in the Navy.
I did make a choice.
I admit that.
But there also comes... There's
also this point where you can
drink and drink and drink.
That's where I messed up.
But everybody knows that when
you're drinking, there's, there
comes a point that everything,
everything, your conscience,
everything that you freaking
usually worry about goes away.
It just doesn't exist, and you
start to forget stuff, and, you
know... You just... When
you're away from home, you're
looking for somebody and it's just
kind of like, it's human nature.
You want to be comforted,
you know, and happens.
For me, it's just a big
embarrassment, because one day
I'm the senior sailor quarter
for the battle group and
everyone knows my name, and I'm
friends with everybody, but then
when you mess up and get in
trouble, you're just somebody else.
First, let me say that what
I'm telling the crew needs to
stay for a couple of days
within the crew. Ok?
We don't want this... We don't
want this getting out on
the e-mail, or going home on
the phone or doing any of that
kind of stuff, ah, until
it breaks in the news.
I don't want the story
breaking from here.
But we are gonna get underway
today, and we're going to turn
left and go north instead of
turning right and going South.
We are going to go up to the
Korean area of operations.
We got to Hong Kong.
All kinds of rumors
about stuff going on.
We are the ultimate diplomatic
tool for the president because
we can go anywhere
at really any time.
And so, pulling out of Hong
Kong, we came out and we turned
left towards North Korea.
Us changing our course, it kind
of scares me a little bit,
because I really don't
know what's going on.
Like, he told us so much, but
if it's nothing serious, why
are we going here? It
wasn't in the plan.
They shut off our e-mail and
we can't use the phone, so I'm
thinking, "what's the deal?"
You know? Is there something
you're not really telling us?
It's hard being so
far away from home.
We're in the middle
of the ocean.
I don't know where we are.
And it changes, like, right off
the bat, they're like, "OK,
"we're going to Korea."
And you're like, "oh,
we're going to Korea.
Ok, they launch missiles?
"Ok, we're gonna die!"
North Korea. Suffice to say it's very
easy to get in trouble up there.
A very good chance of being
actually launched to intercept
actual aircraft coming
from actual countries.
Those people want to come out
and take a sniff around here,
and we've got to be ready to, uh...
To show the force.
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