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it's a long road to paradise
and, oh, I feel the pain ohh...

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

Daddy's on that boat.

He's not in the boat.

He is on the boat.

He's not on the boat.

He is.

You all right?
Yeah.

All right. Don't forget to email me, OK?

You take care of my boy.
Oh, we will!

Thanks...Very much.

Really not as many people
as I thought there'd be.

No, sir.

That said, for families, it's
hard. And we go away, the crew

goes away for fairly long
periods of time, and they leave

loved ones, families, kids
at home, and that takes some

adjusting, but that part of
it doesn't get any easier.

Liberty has expired for all hands!
You need to be on board at this time!

I love you!

We're ready to go!

All right.

Ready to do our country's business.

That's right!

When there's nowhere else to run
is there room for one more son?

"Nimitz"
a-ten-hut!

One more son

if you can hold on,
if you can hold on,

hold on

Course to sail, course 2883.
Check a course: 265 degrees, sir.

To the class of '96 of the
Romanian Naval Academy

I want to stand up I want
to let go you know, you know

no, you don't, you don't I want
to shine on in the hearts of men

I want a meaning from
the back of my broken hand

another head aches another
heart breaks I'm so much older

than I can take and my
affection well, it comes and goes

I need direction to perfection
no, no, no, no help me out...

It's just paradise out here.

This is the most expensive waterfront
property in the entire world.

It just becomes like a small
town. It just happens to be

floating on the water. It
happens to be, you know,

1,092 feet long and headed
towards the Persian Gulf.

The whole ship blows my mind.

It's so big. Every day, I'm
finding... because I'm lost... I'm

finding a new department or a new
little shop that I didn't know we had.

The first month is just trying
to figure out, where's my

rack, where I'm supposed to go,
what's supposed to happen on a

daily basis.

This is an extraordinary
environment. We live beneath

the runway of a major airport.

We live on top of an ammo dump
that has enough ammunition to do

a significant amount of damage.

I never did that in my civilian
ministry. My biggest risk in my

civilian ministry was falling
out of my swivel chair at my desk.

Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!

Gonna bring yourself down...

I have to do deal with 5,200
different personalities each day.

Why should you be in the
[Beep] air conditioning?

Man, get your [Beep] out there.

Probably the closest thing
that a person who is not in

prison will ever get to being in prison.

Exciting, fast-paced,
fast-moving, and stressful.

I got soul but I'm not a soldier...

The whole ship exists so that
I can go off the end and go fly.

I got soul but I'm not a soldier...
All of the departments are

vital to make a jet fly off
the carrier and put a piece of

precision ordnance onto a
target, as per national tasking.

Without one department... without
religious ministries, without

the legal department, without
reactor department, without

supply department, without hot
water/cold water, and steam for

the catapults, none of it works.

Yeah, you know you got to help
me out yeah, don't you put me

on the backburner... if you ain't
ordnance... you ain't [Beep]!

Go get 'em!

Yeah, you're gonna
bring yourself down...

You have some of the best of
the best and the worst of the

worst. You meet 'em all! And
some of 'em become your best

friends and some of 'em
become your worst enemies.

It'll be long, it'll be hot,
and it'll be hard. There will

most assuredly be stories to tell.

All right, that's it.

"Nimitz" on 3. 1, 2, 3.

"Nimitz!"

"Nimitz" stands for "never
"imagined myself in this zoo."

Last call for sin while
everyone's lost the battle is won

with all these things that I done

"Nimitz" CPOs, attention on deck!

Carry on, please. Seats.

First of all, I want to say
welcome aboard, back to the

airwing. It's great to have the
mess back together; It's great

to be going West.

There are lots of strong
emotions out there throughout

the world about the
United States and about

Americans and about the things
we're doing and what we believe

in and... and how we do them. We
want our friends to think we're

their best friends. We want our
enemies to believe that we're

their worst nightmare. But
to do that, we have to set the

right tone, and we have to set
it every time. And I need your

buy-in and your talent on this
issue to make this work. Ok?

It's like anything else we do in
the Navy. It's the chiefs' mess

that's gonna get it done. So,
thanks again for everything so

far. We're off on a great
deployment. And we'll sure see

you about the ship.

Chiefs... they're the backbone
of the Navy. We're middle

management. We get things done.

The officers' jobs are
essentially to think great

thoughts and then to say, "this
is what I want done," and then

to tell the chiefs, and they're the
ones that actually go and get it done.

You know, they've been in
the military for so long that

they're very stern about things.

They're very, "let's get it
done," Yankee Doodle dandy,

stuff like that. I can make
them laugh and stuff

like that, but it's hard. It's a
challenge to make a chief laugh.

We are dead serious. If I
tell you a puppy dog gonna pull

a freight train, don't ask how,
just hook him up! Ok? It's going

down. And the example that you
set in the CPO mess, we don't

have to do a whole lot of
talking on the deck plate

because they will see your
action. It's all I'm saying. I'm

gonna end on that note right
there. All right? Thank you for

attending. Happy deployment!

There's nothing new under
the sundown but not to worry

'cause we'll make it somehow
'cause it's never enough

it's never enough
rushing in running out...

Roll out in the morning, first
thing I do is, boom! Right

there: The sailor's creed. Gets
you charged up.

I got it. I'm gone.

My name is command master
chief, aviation warfare,

surface warfare, Christopher
Lawrence Penton.

2,900 enlisted sailors on board,
and I'm the senior enlisted.

From Bogalusa, Louisiana.

I never ever thought brushing
my teeth would be newsworthy.

We only have 12 aircraft
carriers in the United States

Navy. We only have 10 nuclear
aircraft carriers, not in the

United States Navy, but in
the entire world. And to be the

command master chief of one of the...
of one of 10 is the ultimate.

To quote Mr. Rogers... but I'm not

putting my slippers on, I put my
shoes on... it's a beautiful day

in the neighborhood.

It takes a positive person
to become a master chief.

Maybe I'll put a sweater on.

Now, we talking about a command
master chief, then you have to

have... then that's a whole
different layer. So you got to

have the passion, you got to
have the heart, and you got to

have the mindset. But above
all, you got to have the energy.

Hey, what you guys doing?

Getting ready to, uh...
No, no, no, no! Cleaning

stations. You're not in your
rack at 8:00. Now let's get

busy. Let's get busy!

The command master chief... I
think his name is Christopher L.

Penton... he's the
senior most master chief.

He's gonna love seeing
my hair like this.

The CMC is intimidating and
scary, and I don't like talking

to him unless I have to.

Ha ha ha!

What are you doing, shipmate?
Are you cleaning or what?

Or walking around with a cup of
coffee? Which one are you doing?

Investigating the berthing,
master chief, making sure

everything is going well.

Well, you can't investigate
with an open container, there,

shipmate.
Yes, master chief.

Master chief's something pretty
unique. I mean, this is someone

who has given 20 years to the
Navy, but more than that, has

given 20 hard-charging years.

Hey, shipmate, where all this...
Where all this stuff come from?

You don't make 8 promotion
cycles, which is what it takes

to go from e-1 to e-9, without
pretty much waking up every day

and saying, "I'm going to go
out "and kick a little ass."

Admiral Nimitz standing up
there with the gun in his hand,

can you see him?

They came here, but they just
popped positive for drugs.

Admiral Nimitz just pulled
the trigger on them. Boom!

Or, you young people: Boom!

You know, sometimes, as
officers, we want to give a

little room for error. It isn't
that way with him. This is what

he thinks. He's direct, he's blunt.

All right, there, shipmate,
let's talk about some of the

personal things that may derail
your career. If you go out here

and you don't practice safe
sex, it's 3 things that's gonna

happen. What are they?

There's diseases... there's diseases.

Pregnancies... pregnancy,
and then you can

get the big one, you can get the
death sentence, which is what?

Rape?

HIV. Come on, now, follow the
lead, I mean, follow the script.

Yeah.

The majority of the young
people that join the Navy today,

they join for structure, they
join for discipline, and they

join for... to have
responsibilities. And I'm gonna

make sure that you get a heavy
dosage of all of that every day.

Before the Navy, my life was
a storm. I was going nowhere

fast, pretty much.

I joined the Navy to get
out of my hometown in Texas.

If I hadn't, I probably would
be dead or in jail or something.

I joined the Navy so I could
just become a man and grow up

because where I grew up
at, I was going nowhere.

My dad had always said, you
know, "you need to do something,

you've been out of High School a year."

I went home, went on the Navy
website, filled out a couple of

surveys on it, and then, basically,
took my ass to the recruiter.

Is it hot up there today?

My parents, they didn't
even know I did it.

I was being sarcastic, actually.

I came in one night, and I
said, "well, I went and talked"

to the recruiter today.

"I'm leaving in two months."

I'm airman Christopher Altice.

I'm e-3, and I'm from Manassas,
Virginia. I'm 21 years old.

See you up there.

What do I have to do today?

Stand here and fry and
arm up jets when they take

off, and then de-arm them
when they're recovering.

That's... that's what I do all day.

I wanted to go to college.
All my friends off and went to

college, and mainly, it
was the money, you know.

Middle class, we'd... I had
a little brother and sister.

My parents pretty much told
me, "look. You're gonna have to"

either get a scholarship or,
you know... " And that's when the

military came into question...
Look, they'll pay for your

school, you know.

The marines and army, I threw
out right away. I'm not that

kind of person, you know, with
a gun and going out on the field

and, you know, whatever.

I heard all the stories, you
know, about pulling into port.

Mainly, it was the travel, the
Navy for the travel, because I

knew boats hit ports.

I'd much rather be at a college
right now in some fraternity,

just...Partying it up.

And it's the other way around,
you know. I'm already 3 years

into it, and I've been all
around the world. It seems that

I've grown up a lot, but,
I mean, I still feel...

I still feel like a
kid inside, you know.

When you think about how many
people... over 5,000 people...

Making a ship work... all
I am is one pilot flying a

single-seat jet. I go up there, my
jet's ready, I get it, and I fly away.

Think about the guys that are...
That are making it fly. It's

unbelievable, the amount of
knowledge that an 18-year-old

seaman can perform at this level
of heat, of stress, first time

away from home.

It's... the respect I have
for them is unbelievable.

I don't know what McDonald's
pays per hour, but let's say

it's 7 bucks an hour, 6
bucks an hour. We're paying a

lot less than that when we're at
sea because if you figure these

kids are working 16-, 18-hour
days, not least of which they're

committed to staying on board
the other 8 unless they're a

great swimmer, we're paying,
you know, not $7.00 an hour.

I don't think too many of these
kids came out of Phillips Exeter

Academy and said, "hey, I think
I'm going to go join the Navy

for an enlistment for 4 to
6 years. " So they're not

rich kids. I mean, they're
middle class and lower middle

class and, uh... and poor.

If you want to win something
set your sights higher

and you might get a little more
at least something better than

the little stuff you
had before no need to cry

and walk away in disgrace
'cause you got to be tough

if you're to get first
place since only the best

can ever take that
space so suck up the pain

and put on your game face...
The High School aspect out

here is strong. You got to
figure most of the people out

here are 18, 19, 20 years old.

So suck up the pain and put on
your game face put on the floor

that you don't want to go home
it just takes a little bit...

Drama. This boat is drama.

Always something.

Basically what it is, is a
big-ass floating High School.

You know, there's the gossip
in the hallways... you know, so

and so hooked up with so and so.

And they're going to be doing
this and that, and you know,

you've still got the testing going on.

And one last question:

Who's the secretary of defense?

Secretary of defense...
Is...

Connalingus Rice?

And we get treated like children.

Shower, shower, shower.

Brush your teeth. Do what
you got to do. Don't be nasty.

All right?

It's not that hard. Your mom's
not here to clean up after

you, and no one else is gonna
clean... clean up after you, so

clean up after yourself, have
your stuff nicely stowed away.

One stuffed animal. Only one.

I'm going to allow
one out, and that's it.

It is a big High School.
It's High School drama. People

complain about the littlest things.

It's a simple noise factor.

This morning, I heard it a lot
from the... who was getting up

this morning by our... where
the... the thing where the lock is.

It was like, clank, clank, clank. Jesus!

I mean, just hold it and put
it down, you know what I mean,

because they slam so much.

Ok, well, um, that might have
been me, but it's, like, a

prob... it's a problem with
my rack, and I'm gonna close my

rack, but it shouldn't be like,
you know, you're such a light

sleeper or whatever. I have a
problem with my rack, and if it's

a problem, just come out
and say something, you know.

No, I'm just saying.

No, I'm just saying. I mean,
it's not going to be totally

quiet in here, you know? I'll
try, but... ladies, is that it?

I guess that's it. So,
everybody, I guess, go back to

work, go back to skating off, go back
to back to doing what you got to do.

All right, good night.

This first berthing meeting,
I don't know what to say. I got

to get used to the new berthing
or whatever. There's new rules.

It's kind of tough, but
I got to get over it.

You... you got to do what you
got to do because they're not

concerned... I am airman Shaneka McReed.

I've been in the Navy 3 years
now, and this is my second

deployment on the USS "Nimitz. "

206.
110.

I work in primary flight
control. It's kind of like an

air traffic controller. You're
keeping track of the aircraft

that leave off deck and come on deck.

Stand by.

304 on deck.

You got chalk still in there.

You still got chalk.
He said he's good to go.

Nada. No chance.

No chance, paddles, no chance.

Two hornets upwind.

Primary flight control... it's
a privilege. And working up with

the air boss and the mini boss,
it's a big thing around here.

What's the matter?
Two hornets upwind.

People ran after the two...
This is gonna-I'm gonna go

break somebody's... 102. Hornet upwind.

Growing up in Athens, Georgia,
I didn't really think there was a

lot of opportunities. My
parents were into drugs. My dad

was, like, a pimp or something;

and my mother, she was...
She had become a prostitute.

And my family, everybody was
young when they started to have

kids. And I was 16, and I got
past that point, I didn't have

any kids. So I got to 18, and
things started getting hard

for me, and I was just like,
"I don't want to fall. I've come

"this far. I don't want to fall."

Shine them up, the golden ring.

Thanks.

Well, I'm about to go on a ledge.

My grandma played a very big
role in my life. I pray to her

every night. I say, "god, just
"tell my grandmother I said hi."

And she made the comment, "I
"think you should join the Navy."

And I was thinking the same
thing because I wanted to get

money for school.

This deployment, from my
understanding, is we're

relieving the USS "Carl Vinson,"

and we're in operation Iraqi
freedom. That's all I know.

I just know I'm going
to the Persian Gulf.

The "Nimitz"-class aircraft
carrier is the most powerful

weapon ever designed.

With our 60 to 70 strike
aircraft, those aircraft would

go out, apply their 500-,
1,000-, or 2,000-pound bombs,

recover, reload, refuel,
relaunch, and go do it again and

again and again, and
there's nothing like it.

The aircraft carrier's plan
is to head West. It's either

gonna go to the Persian Gulf,
it's gonna go to the Korean

area, or it's going to go to
the Taiwan/Chinese area for

national command execution of
whatever. Right now, I think the

plan is to continue to head West
to go towards the Persian Gulf.

Everybody thinks about Iraq;

everybody thinks that's where
we're headed. But I wouldn't be

surprised if that's not where we end up.

You never know what
could happen in the world.

We are kind of just forward
deployed, so we're at the whim

of the CNO and the president.

USS "Nimitz" and aircraft
carriers in general are very

definitely instruments of
national diplomacy. Where we go

is determined, in many cases,
at very high levels of our

government. It's almost like
a bumper sticker, that anytime

there's a national crisis, the
president comes into the war

room and says, "where are
the "aircraft carriers?"

Hey, nav. All good water
to starboard, right?

My name is Ted Branch. I'm
the Captain of the "Nimitz."

I grew up on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast, close to the ocean.

I'd go down and watch the ocean
a lot, and you'd see ships come

and go, and you'd think about
what they were going to do and

where they were gonna go.

Nah, this guy's not one
for 5. I'm looking at that.

My dad was in the Navy reserve,
and when I was in the seventh

grade, the whole family went
to Annapolis during his training

duty. And that summer before my
seventh-grade year, I thought it

was the neatest thing
since sliced bread.

What speed do you have for the
outbound merchant in front of us?

There's something mystical about
the sea and about travel and the

Navy. To me, it's always been
that spirit of adventure and

what's over the horizon.

Occasionally, we'll take off for
the other side of the world, and

we won't know exactly what we're
going to encounter. So some of

that adventure is still out there.

Matt, let's go ahead and go to 15 knots.

All ahead standard indicate 075 rpm.

All ahead standard indicate 075 rpmi.

My job is to make sure the
ship is ready materially and the

crew is ready physically and mentally.

It's the best job in the Navy.

And I am responsible
for... uh...Everything.

On 3. 1, 2, 3.

We didn't sell these
in the ship's store.

Really, when we're together
as this city at sea, this 5,000

folks at sea, I'd guess you'd
call me the mayor. A ship's a

ship, and this is a fine ship,
a great one; But the heart and

the soul is not the
steel, it's the crew.

Good morning on "Nimitz."

This is the XO. It's time for
cleaning stations. Let's all

hands get out and about, and
clean up the ship. Get the, uh,

music on, the tvs on. All
the messing facilities and gym

equipment will be closed.

Cleaning stations, everybody's
favorite time of the day.

That is all.

All right, guys, let's go.

Cleaning stations.

Just another day... cleaning stations is

basically just when you clean
the ship. You sweep, and you

polish the same spot
over and over again.

And, you know, the XO gets on,
and he's like, "let's get the

radios on, the tvs going.

"It's cleaning stations."

And he gets all excited
about it. I don't know why.

Even if something's totally
clear and polished, you can see

yourself in it and the future,
they make you polish it over

again. You just have to keep
sitting there and rubbing and

rubbing and rubbing.

Believe it or not, cleaning
stations are what makes us a

good warrior. It's good
for morale, and that morale

leads to us being ready to go
and fight a war. So, with that,

let's get ready to go to
battle in Iraq and kill some

terrorists, all right?

My name's Christian Garzone.

I'm from upstate New York.

The real New York: Upstate.

That's the "U" sign.

I'm an undesignated airman,
meaning that I was just kind of

brought here and thrown
wherever they wanted me.

I was probably the least likely
person to join the military out

of all my friends. When I first
told them that, they're like,

"oooph. " They couldn't believe it.

I come from a middle-class
family. We had two cars, a

garage. I went to school in
London. I try to read, like, a

book a month, sometimes two if I can.

Uh, how's the coffee doing?

I don't know. Check it.

The election of George W. Bush

was something, uh, of
course, I took part in. I am a

republican, so I voted for George Bush.

You want me to get more food?

You just spent... where'd the chief go?

He went topside.

Murphy, you just spent $16 at the store.

You know, at the time, the
war on terrorism was going on,

and everyone felt an increased
sense of patriotism, I guess.

You need anything, sir?

Coffee or anything?

You need any coffee or anything, sir?

No, I'm good.

All right. That's good.

Check it out.

And, you know, you get that
feeling, and you're just like,

"I should do something. " And,
you know, it's going to benefit

me in the future, it's going to
look good on a job resume, and I

just... I went ahead and I enlisted.

Just accelerating my life.

Yeah, what's up?

Honestly, I don't really think
of it as being the military,

because, I just look at it as
a normal job, really. I go to

work, you know, I have a nice
place up forward on the ship,

like a shelf in the wall.

This is...Where I sleep at. And,
you know, these racks are very

convenient, uh, for the military.

After a while, you get used to
this. Most people aren't this

good first time around, but...
Anyway, you can pretty much stay

in one position all night
and be pretty comfortable.

The military men are very about being
here and loving every second of it.

I do like it, but I don't love
it. I don't wake up every day

and say, you know, bark like a
dog, go woof woof, and jump out

of bed, you know, put my dog
tags on and, you know, go run

two miles. Some people
like that. I don't.

We rolling?

Yes.

All right, Christian Garzone
here. We're actually live in a

bathroom, or as the Navy likes
to call it, it's called a "head."

I take my camera around once
in a while, and I do interviews

with people to see, you know,
what the real Navy life is like.

Excuse me. Sir?

Hello. How are you? You got
quick time for an interview?

What's going on?

Hey, open up real quick.

It'll just take a second of your time.

What's going on?

Um...

Painters paint, writers
write. I just...I film.

This ship is a floating piece
of America. We have all the fine

delicacies in terms of
candy from back home.

Richie, what are your
goals for the future?

What are my goals?!

Yeah.

So what do you guys think of the ship?

The ship?

The ship life is kind
of harsh, man, because...

Well, the food's...
The food's awesome here.

No.

People are so lame, dude.

Ugh.

This meat might still have a pulse.

Give me that home cooking
keep me warm at night...

All right, killer, you're up.

Give me two more!

Ahh, Ahh how are you doing?

All righty.

What's on the agenda for
tomorrow? You got any plans?

Tomorrow? No. Just wake up and
do the same thing as I did today.

Every time the alarm goes off,
I say, "[Beep], I woke up."

Get those, uh... I can't even lift that.

Could you pick it up?

Thanks.

My name is Cindi Costa. I'm from
Sacramento, California. I'm a

seaman recruit, e-1. I'm
a cs, culinary specialist.

Excuse me?

More rice?

It sucks being a cs. You
have to feed 5,000 people.

Hold on. Ah!

People don't appreciate you,
and they just take more than

they can eat, and you end up
working harder. The recruiter

asked me what I wanted to do
with my life, and I told him I

wanted to be a chef. And he
told me he used to be a chef, and

that the Navy has a good
culinary program. Today I made

25 boxes of chicken Wellington,
10 or so boxes of pork chops.

It's a trial. It's a lot of hard work.

Long, long hours.

No, scrub it clean. Get it out.
You're not leaving until you're done.

And your supervisors treat
you like crap sometimes.

Go ahead and drain it,
fill it up, everything.

Seaman apprentice Costa has
potential to be a really good

worker. She needs a lot of work,
a lot of self-discipline. Seems

like she wants to... scam around
things, her responsibility.

And I'm not trying to sound
sexist or anything, but, yeah,

girls are lesser than everything
else, and, yeah, pretty much

they can... "I can't, I can't lift it.
" No. Tough [Beep], shipmate.

Yeah.

I'm trying to train you
actually to be a good worker.

Ok.

A good worker, not a
skater, not a smoker.

All I have to do is put
the cheese in, and I'm out.

You just said potato!

No! I said the rest. Hey!

I have a steady job, and
I'm 19 years old. And most

19-year-olds are working
at McDonald's. But some

things, I'm not... like, I do
get sad sometimes, depressed, you

know. I don't want to be a quitter,
but I really would rather be home.

Hot.

Aw, still a little bloody
inside. That's all I want to see.

The minute you get on this
boat, your life stops and you're

out here to do one thing and one
thing only, and that's work and

eat and sleep. You go back 6
months later, everyone else is 6

months ahead of you.

Going away for 6 months and
being in a relationship, you

know, it's... it's hard.

I've never really had a steady
girlfriend. And I've always

liked girls that ended with,
like, "e," like Jamie or Katie

or Britney. For some reason, I
don't know. Tanya's not one of

them. Heh heh!

She's an "a." Tanya.

I'm a drive-through junkie. So
every night after work, I used

to just go through the
drive-through. You know, I had

McDonald's, Taco Bell,
or Jack n' the Box.

So, I'm going through the
drive-through one night, and

there's this girl working there,
and one of my buddies worked

there, too. So I was like, "yo
," I'm like, "what's up with

her? You know, how old is she?

"What's her name?"

He tells me, "Tanya."

This is Tanya.

That's her sister.

So every night after work,
I used to just go through the

drive-through. One night, she
asked me if I needed anything

else as she was handing me my
bag. She's like, "ketchup?" And

I was like, "yeah," and then
I was like, "how about your

number? " Just something
cheesy like that.

She wouldn't give it to me.
She just smiled, and she didn't give it to me.

Probably about a month of
coercing her, she finally gave

in, I guess to his wit, or maybe
his charm or looks, I don't know.

That's cute.

That was it. We started seeing
each other. I was so surprised.

I was like, wow, this girl
actually likes me. Cool.

Hello?

Hey, what are you doing?

Laying down.

Laying down?

It all led up to this one
night where she came in the

bedroom and I was sitting there.

She had some snacks in a ziploc
bag. And I made some kind of

joke. I was like, "you look like
a pregnant girl, eating snacks

like that as late at night out
"of a bag, carrying it around,"

or something like that.

And she just started blushing,
and then immediately, I knew.

So is the baby still
doing jumping Jacks?

It hurts. Like, ow, she's doing, like,
sticking her arm out or something.

It was mostly like, "OK,
well, you're pregnant." Things

happen for a reason.

We're not going to take the easy
way out and just getting rid of

it. Uh, that doesn't
fly well with me at all.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

We're gonna head up there.

Wait and see, I'm young I grow
each day, I've got busy bones

oh, I feel this poor angel
inside me I cannot hold you

with myself in there I am not
afraid if she's a Jedi, too

oh, I don't believe in anything

What's been going on
up there in Washington?

A lot of work.

Huh?

A lot of work.

We have 3 no-fly days coming.

Hey! What you got going on
there that you got to keep your

hat on all the way up there till
you sat down in the chair there?

Hey, Billy Dee, it'll be like...
It seem like it ain't quite get

the chemicals. They,
uh, they deactivated.

No, it's all natural.

Oh, God, you should have had
a hair cut a long time ago.

Yeah, I don't know how you
thought that was going to fly on

a 6-month deployment. That's
all right. We'll hook you up.

We'll... we'll put you
back in the game again.

I got to come up here every week
and get a... and get a haircut.

Oh, man overboard.

On board "Nimitz," this is
the XO. We have a report of a

chemlight in the water. We
need all hands to, uh, to go to

muster. All hands to muster,
please. Get the lights on in the

berthing areas. Get your
shipmates out of their racks.

All hands swiftly and safely to muster.

That's good. Thank you.

Hello, "Nimitz." This is the
Captain. We got a chemlight in

the wake. So everybody get
to their man overboard muster

stations on the double.

Do we know for sure there are
people in the water, or is it

just the lights?

Oh, I don't know for sure if
there's people in the water or

not. Could be... could be lights,
no one knows. We just all have

to wait. We just got to
get here and man up station.

Wills, Fargus, Weston.

Macintosh, Tyrone.

This time of night, it's
not a drill. It's the real...

It's some kind of indication
that something's not right.

All the personnel on the
flight deck and the sponsors

wear chemlights at night, so
when you see a chemlight in the

water, there's a possibility
that somebody fell overboard.

The following departments
report to deck house 3 at tack

1, tack 180, tack Quebec.

Admin, air, engineering...
Nighttime is when we have the

most man-overboards.

We're talking about falling
90 feet. It may knock the wind

out of you. It may even knock you out.

Anyone seen Stewart,
Monson, or Bastabul?

All officers good.

Here's the bridge... Smith
is... I think Smith is on watch.

This is the main hub. The
executive officer runs his

evolution down here, and we plot
every department. We've got so

many departments on
board, we've got so many

squadrons, and once we figure
out if we have everybody on

board, then we secure from
the drill. If not, we start

launching helicopters and lifeboats.

Plus 7.

Call the bridge now.

Call the names.

We got 3 names.

The following personnel
report to deck house 3 tack 1

tack 108 tack 1 tack Quebec with
their I. D. Cards: From group 11,

lieutenant David Archer and
lieutenant Michael Gillio.

Proceed, airman Jason Wright.

The following personnel
to deck house 3 tack 1

tack 108 tack 1 tack Quebec with
their I. D. Cards: From group 11,

lieutenant Michael Gillio.

Ah, yeah, we got him.

They just identified the last
guy. So... so, what the XO gonna

do is, he gonna bring the guy
down here and find out what the

reason, where were you? Why
didn't you hear the word? Why

didn't you muster? And it's not
going to be pretty. So I don't

know if we can even go live.

Are we secure yet?

It's been plenty long enough
for him to get down here.

It's been plenty... I can get
anywhere on this ship in about

2 and a 1/2 minutes.

Chuck, do we know where he is?

Yes, sir.

Well, he needs to be here!

Yes, sir.

Ok, I am wasting my time.

I've had it!

Stand by for a word from
the commanding officer.

"Nimitz," airwing 11.

All right, this is the deal.

There are two possible
situations that just could have

happened. One is, a
chemlight accidentally got

in the water. One is,
some son of a bitch threw a

chemlight in the water. Now, if
somebody accidentally throws a

chemlight in the water, call
the bridge. No harm, no foul. We

won't call "man overboard."

Innocent mistakes don't get
punished. When we find somebody

that's throwing these things in

the water maliciously... and
we're gonna find them, because

somebody in this great crew is
going to see it happen and is

going to sit on them... I'm going

to hang your ass out to dry, and
you're gonna regret the day you

were born. So just keep it up,
pal, and we'll see what happens

from there. That is all.

It's a war-fighting culture.

We have to be able to depend
on each other, at all times, to

follow the rules.

You're not going to get away
with a whole lot in the Navy,

not nearly as much you
would in the civilian world.

When you do something very
small, you're in trouble, big.

Do address these people
by "sir," "chief," whoever

addresses you. If you do not
address them by their rank, I

give you one warning. After that
one warning, I will put you in

handcuffs. I can do it one of
two ways. I can slam you to the

deck, or I can do it
nicely. Do you understand?

Forward, march.

One step back.
March.

Uncover.

Two!

You get caught possession of alcohol?

Yes, master chief.

Excuse me?

Yes, master chief.

Ok.

You either drink a hell of a
lot, or you get caught a lot.

Which is it?

I get caught a lot, master chief.

That's what I would say. But,
uh, these laws are not so you

can just stand in front of me.

It's so we can make it
painful enough so you don't do

it twice. We're gonna do that.

I mean, it's gonna be... it's
gonna be rough. You're going to

be looking at water for
a very, very long time.

Ok, airman, here at this
time, uh, the intent here is to

protect yourself, and I want to
protect my shipmates. So, I want

you to be on this ship 45 days.

I want you to have extra duty
for 45 days. That's what we

recommend. I'm gonna have the
XO, we're going to talk to him,

and we'll see what goes from there.

You understand that?

Yes, master chief.

Cover. Two!

One step forward, march.

Ok. You've done something
wrong, there is a cost to you

for disobeying the rules. But
you're not a bad person. You're

not a bad sailor. We still
want you in the company.

It's a big deal, but, I mean,
I did it, so I have to deal with

it. That's the only way to
look at it. Maybe I'll learn

something out of it.

I've lived in the same town my
whole life. Uh, there's only,

like, 3,000 people in it.
I lived with my dad after I

graduated High School. I left
for the Navy a month later.

Hello.

Daddy, are you sleeping?

What's the matter?

I got 45 days restriction,
45 days extra duty.

They're taking half my
pay for two months. But

they didn't knock me down.
They didn't take no stripes.

Well, that's better than
it could have been, Bobbie.

I know. Like. They gave me a
suspended bust, which is like,

if I get in trouble... yeah.

Then they're gonna knock me down.

Well, that's cool... yes.
So I just have to stay

on the boat. I get off
restriction June 30. So I have

to stay on the boat till June 30.

Oh, yeah?

I got to muster... when we're
in port, I have to muster at

5:30. I have to muster at
5:30 in the morning, and

I have to muster at 4:00,
6:00, and 9:30... at night.

Well... and then, when we're out
to sea, I have to muster at 7:00.

And I have to do two hours extra
duty.

And I have to go to A.A. Classes.

Well, you've been restricted.

All right. I love you. It'll
be OK. You'll get through it.

But I love you.

All right, I love you, daddy.

I love you, too, baby girl.

All right.

Bye-bye, honey.

Bye.

I have no idea what I want to
do with my life. I love my job. I

love the people I work with.

Two years ago, people were like,
"you're gonna have a job that"

you push missiles around, and
you build bombs, and you do

all this stuff that is so "dangerous."

You get used to it.

You're like, "yeah, this is
my job, this is what I support,

this is what I chose to do for
my country. " And, like, it's

not... it's not a big deal.

I don't push the button to drop
the missile. I just set it up,

and what my country decides to do with it is...
is what I'm here for.

I'm also at the bottom of the
food chain on the boat, and you

don't know what the mission's
gonna be. But I still do it

because that's what I'm told to do.

When we had our on-load, we
had an on-load of ordnance, and

it lasts, like, 3 days.

We were getting bombs
from Iraqi freedom.

And, you know, some writing was
still on the bombs, like, "take

this, Saddam! " Or "this
is for "my brother."

Wow. I just... I would stare
at these bombs just coming in,

looking at the writing that
they had on them. Like, "oh, my

God, this... you know, people
actually thought this was gonna

drop, and they're probably
hoping it did, and it's here on

"our... on our boat."

And I'm just like, "wow.

This... this could
have killed "somebody."

It's a weird feeling.

It would be hard to not be
patriotic and be in this job,

because you do the president's
bidding and the country's

bidding. And so, if you don't
believe in what you're doing, I

think it probably makes it pretty hard.

I think all of us have
different opinions. I think not

a lot of us discuss it. I'm
trying to think, are we doing

the right thing, or are we
doing the wrong thing? That's a

personal struggle that I think
anybody that does this... anybody

that's over there pulling the
trigger or doing that has to ask

themselves that question at some point.

Even though I'm not
physically pushing the button

and dropping the bombs, I am
part of this circle. I was naive

when I first joined. I
never thought we'd go to war.

Sometimes I wish I would
have joined the peace corps.

Personally, I don't even get
the war. Ok, the twin towers.

I guess, if we're fighting
back for that reason,

yeah, I get it. But I don't get
why we're fighting for somebody

else's freedom when
we barely have our own.

Basically, we just fighting
over control of oil.

I believe in our country, and
I believe in our ideals, and I

believe that infringements
on that need to be, you know,

thwarted, and if force is
necessary, then I'm willing to

be a part of that.

Hell, yeah! Get some, baby!

What's going on, sir?

You're gonna show me how to do this.

Pure and simple.

Ok.

When you hear the ammo and
all, I want you to take the

safety off safe. Fire until you pretty
much don't want to fire anymore.

All righty.

All right. Just make sure they're
not over 8 rounds at a time.

Ok.

Safety off safe.

Safety is where?

Right by your thumb, sir.

Got it.

Get some!

Well, you already messed up.

You let me play.

That car... you cannot
possibly put a baby in that car.

That's what I'm saying.

I need to get it fixed.

No, I mean you couldn't put the
baby in even if it was fixed.

Why not?

It's a two-seater.

No, it's got seats in the back.

Yeah, I know.

It only got two doors.

Chief knows Tanya's pregnant.

Gunner knew. The whole shop
knew. This whole time, I'm

trying to figure out how to tell
her dad. And I was afraid that

it would get to him before I told him.

From what I heard, Tanya's
father is an ex-gunner.

Yeah, he was a retired,
you know, gunner. He retired

lieutenant commander, and...
So he knew everyone on the base.

From our gunner, from my
gunner, if he's the same way,

because most all gunners are all the same...
He better not [Beep] up.

And it just came that one day
where I was sick of going to bed

every night, you know, wondering
if I was gonna tell him, you

know, tomorrow, you know what mean?

You told him, or she did?

I told him.

I pulled him aside.

He was walking through the
kitchen, and Tanya was sitting

on the counter in the
kitchen eating, and she just

looked at me. And we just came
from dinner, and I looked at

her, and I was like, "I got to
do this right now." And she was

just like... and I just
followed her dad down

the hallway, and I went up to
him, and I was like, "sir," you

know, "can I have a word with
you for a minute?" And he was

like, "sure, you want to go... "

And I was like, "in the
garage is fine," because it was

right behind him. So we stepped
out in the garage. I shut the

door behind me, and, uh, he was
like, he said, "what's going "on?"

I was like, "well, sir, you
know, I've known about this for

a while, and I was really just
trying to find the best time to

tell you this, and I realize
"there's not gonna be one."

Ha ha ha!

And I was like, "so here it is.
" I said, "Tanya's pregnant."

What'd he say?

Just complete silence, man,
complete silence, man. And my

stomach... I stopped breathing,
man. I was just like...

It was so quiet, I didn't even
want to breathe, man. It was

just like waiting to see
what he was gonna do or say.

He kind of... kind of took a look
up, he looked down, and he took

a deep breath. He didn't look
at me. And he said, "I wish you

guys, you know, would have been
smarter. " He said, "how long

have you known about this? " And
I said, "sir, I've known about

"it for a couple weeks now."

And he said, "so, you know,
what's your plan?" And I said,

"I don't know, sir. I..."

I got to go on cruise. I
got a "deployment coming up."

He doesn't look like the
father type, but... he's like a

party guy. But maybe, hopefully, this
will make him grow up more, I guess.

Like, I think he's in for
quite a wakeup when this baby

comes, because I don't think he
realizes right now what it's...

You know, what it's
gonna do to his life.

All right, dude. Good night.

Where are you guys gonna go?

Stand by for a word from
the commanding officer.

Good afternoon, "Nimitz"
and airwing 11. Ok, tomorrow

morning, we'll be entering port
at Pearl Harbor, and there's

lots of history there. It
promises to be a great evolution

and a really... a really
great event for all hands.

If I were one of you guys...
Especially if this is my first

liberty port... I would plan
to be back to the ship an hour

before I'm supposed to be back.

I want to hear from
every one of you that

you promise that you're
gonna keep clean, not get

drunk... overly drunk...
come back to the ship, and get in trouble.

I want to hear that:

"I promise."

I promise.

If you ain't ordnance...
You ain't [Beep]!

I just worry. It's the longest
I've ever had to be away

from anyone. I mean, I'm
out here for 6 months. Trust,

you know, is a big issue now.

Got a package full of wishes...
I think if we can overcome

this with no secrets, it'll work out.

A globe made out of gold...
We are paying our honors to

over a thousand people that are
entombed in the USS "Arizona."

December, 7, 1941, attack
on Pearl Harbor. You got it?

Printed on the box, I see
"acme's build-a world-to-be"

take a chance grab a
piece help me to believe it

what kind of world do you want?

Think anything let's start at
the start build a masterpiece

be careful what you wish
for history starts now

should there be people or peoples?

Money, funny pedestals for fools
who never pay raise your army

choose your steeple don't
be shy the satellites

can look the other way...

It looks very, very good.
Very impressive. Dynamite job.

Fill the oceans without the salt
let every man own his own hand

can you dig it, baby?

What kind of world do you want?

Think anything

let's start at the start build
a masterpiece, yeah...

Be careful what you wish for

start now.

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