Emergency Response Incident Case Study 1967 US Navy

[fictionaa]

this is sad, but insanely good that they have video, if only for the sake of teaching us what happened, and acknowledging the bravery of the people who kept charging into the fire to fight it, even when the risk was so great

[Dannavy85]

God this video brings back memories of Boot Camp back in 1985.

[73XBFalcon]

I remember watching this in bootcamp back in 1988. But, I was already familiar with the fire. My father was serving on Forrestal when this fire occured. He made it ok, but lost alot of friends and shipmates. He passed away in 1998. I still have all his cruise books, including the one from this ill-fated cruise.

[hulltech2]

It reminds me of Bootcamp in Great Lakes , Il. but to very serious fire on a ship is no joke there is no where to run , you have to fight the beast , because its a long swim back home !!!!

[BLARGHALT]

In case of fire: everyone dies

[hooterb311]

my dad was on the ship when this happened.. i have pictures of it.

[P38DLightning]

This was a really good training fill. This video and the video on the USS Bonefish SS-582 fire definitely make me aware of the dangers of not being able to control a fire effectively. Specially on subs when you are working in an enclosed environment.

[Kimberly715]

I remember seeing this at RTC Great Lakes. I remember at the end they asked who were going to be aviation, and a big group of us raised our hands, and the instructor goes "Bet you guys are loving your recruiters now huh?" But I went on to A school, became an ABF and went to work on the flight deck and wouldn't trade any of it.

[jrod1295]

this is why he is not the president!

[HarveyFarkle]

No, that is not why. John McCain may not be the man he was 10 years ago, I'll give you that. But he was not responsible for the fire on the Forrestal. Then to be a POW, he did his time and to have his record sullied is disgusting. As a Navy Veteran I can tell you that what was learned on that fatefull day, resulted in every kid who joins to learn at least basic firefighting skills. Even I did and I was only a corpsman. Walk a mile in somebody's shoes DICKHEAD!

[radargod1977]

@HarveyFarkle You got that right Brother! Even though this happened decades ago, we still use it as a valuable training aid. I'm an I-Level Avionics Tech myself but, I make it a point to qual on my ships and get me a DCTT billet so I can train our new Sailors in the basics of shipboard firefighting. They say every Marine is a rifleman, I say every Sailor is a firefighter. GO NAVY!!!

[RichardDdog]

SON OF A BITCH!

[BryanMiller]

This brings me back to RTC Great Lakes back in '97. I also watch the Video during my free time, when I was in ET "A" School at NTC Great Lakes.

McCain was in one of the planes hit by the Rocket. I'm not voting for him, but it's honorable that even after this, he wanted to get back to his missions.

[YankeeClipper77]

I was there in '96...there was another video they used to play a lot about the Marine who "fell" off the USS America... Ironiclly I am a Reserve Recruiter now..

[claycorn]

wow memories of the past rtc 1987 that vid scared me back then

[YatesyMU]

Haha... I remember watching this video while in the ROTC program at the University of Missouri. It was definitely an informational and poignant video, but I remember thinking the entire time, "Seriously, they haven't made better training videos since 1970??"

Thanks for posting. Do you have "Synthetic Line Snapback" from the same era?

[markdcatlin]

Thanks for your comment. The fact that the incident was captured on film makes this amazing to me. I don't have a copy of "Synthetic Line Snapback" - do you recall who made it? I'll look for it and post it if I find it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Mark

[YatesyMU]

Sorry, I don't remember who produced the Synthetic Line Snapback video... I know it was produced by one of the Naval safety centers... From about the same era.

[gobears1987]

I definitely remember "Synthetic Line Snapback." That was definitely a product of the 1970s, but seeing video of what those lines will do to a human body really drove the message in.

[scorpion420]

we saw this at r.t.c (recrute traing comand) grate lakes IL and it shows why we get the training nessesary to our survival at sea incase of a serious fire on borad a navil vessial.