Originally broadcast 4/21/08:
Anne-Marie Berger previews the upcoming PBS documentary Carrier and meets Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper, a 12 year Naval veteran from St. Peters that describes life on a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. With 70 airplanes onboard and its own ZIP code, the Nimitz is considering a floating city.
3 Comments
April 26, 2008 at 11:50 pm
The Navy is great. There are so many benefits.
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April 27, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I spent two years aboard USS CONSTELLATION, one of the last conventionally-powered carriers from 1969 to 1971, working in the Captain’s Office. We spent a portion of my time off the coast of North Vietnam with flight operations over ‘Nam, Loas and Cambodia. It never failed to impress me that our crew of 5,200, with an average age around 20, was able to continue operations 24/7 for weeks at a time under the most trying and often dangerous conditions.
I look forward to the series “Carrier” to see how accurate the representation is and note what has changed from my experience nearly 40 years ago.
June 14, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Made 3 med cruises on the uss independence cv-62 from 1972-1975. Times were different then with 5000 men and 210 aircraft. YEt the more things change the more they stay the same. the schedules, work assignments, and living didnt change all that much. with the exception of coed.