US Navy - Daytime Flight Operations Aboard the USS Nimitz

Daily flight deck operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Scenes include aircraft taking off and landing and troops rappelling to the flight deck from a helicopter.

The USS Nimitz is operating in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea in support of coalition troops operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[imacgoo]

GO USA!!!!I LOVE MY COUNTRY

[bmwnasher]

The US carrier fleet is awseome GOD BLESS all those who sail on them...from the UK

[fiemosport1]

The Comment below me is stupid DEPLEATED means its not radio active anymore.

[sproutingman]

@Future747Pilot....And what do they do with the spent fuel? Oh, thats right, nobody has any clue what to do with the spent fuel that will be radioactive for 10,000 years. But why be surprised, the personnel are being exposed to depleted uranium munitions as well as the unfortunate civilian populations of all the invaded countries. (Too many to mention at this stage). Its all for the bankers. No ordinary people benefit from this. Neither US nor anyone else.

[Bullrush1313]

@Future747Pilot The dumb ultracons don't know that their supporting cruisers, destroyers, supply ships, planes and helicopters do run on petrol based fuel...Don't be a ultracon, be a crunchy con

[Tarten46]

day check is for sissys...

[mindyschocolate]

@AccordGTR They're still using the Cods. We need our mail and goodies from Best Buy ;-)

[diva75211]

@imacgoo i love your country too!

[Olunmuradin]

@Future747Pilot actually there are carriers that can stay at sea for 25 years without re-fuel like the Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)

[CatsLairArchives]

@AccordGTR Tomcats were retired and replaced with Hornets. Unsure if they are still using the greyhounds(I think that was the name for them, anyway)

[AccordGTR]

@CatsLairArchives what happened to the Tomcats and Cods?

[AccordGTR]

@imacgoo but a carrier needs a fleet of oilers and other support ships to refuel its air wing and those ships and planes run on oil.

[cjbarry92]

@capnapalm

These men risk their lives serving in the defense force, and deserve respect, instead of a high school student writing misinformed comments against them.

For the comments I made I strongly apologise and take back what I said, however, reading the comments made others and you quoting, "Your a self contradiction of pure stupidity," was, like my first comments, completely unnecessary.

[cjbarry92]

Dude it has been ranging between 1 and 2 years since my original comments and your commenting on them now??

Anyways, at the time of writing those comments I was being fed false information from biased teachers that were only giving us one side of the arguement, which I would like you to understand first, meaing that I was poorly informed on the topic.

I now realise how unjust my comments were regarding this specific issue and now am ashamed about what I wrote back then.

[capnapalm]

@cjbarry92 So now you have no insurance, no pills to keep you BP down, no medical care for when you spike a 106 fever, no car to get you that 25 miles to work and own nothing made with or by plastics. Fairly soon you would realize how convenient oil products have made your sorry, miserable, life and wouldn't care so much if we take up 400 square feet of alaskan wilderness to perpetuate your comfortable style of life that you so much hate. Your a self contradiction of pure stupidity.

[capnapalm]

@cjbarry92 I think you should grow a brain and go figure out how little of the oil the US produces/imports is actually used for making fuels. Most of it is used up by the medical and plastics industry as well as the automotive industry. If you really want to "stick it to the man" for his "war for oil", cancel your health care insurance, stop taking your meds, refuse medical care of any form, sell your car, and toss out anything made with plastics(oh wait, thats just about everything these days).

[fallbrookchris]

nice video, at the end is the helicopter pilot flying sideways so that he can see the deck of the ship and hover in one spot relative to the ships deck?

[renegadebiker24]

Future747Pilot, actually a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier does not have to "Re-fuel" for 15 years. Actually, the only "refueling" that a carrier like this does is changing out the reactor every 15 years. Nuclear carriers like the Nimitz refuels underway the most important stuff like weapons, jet fuel, supplies, etc. Conventional carriers are different in the propulsion.

[CatsLairArchives]

So there's only 3 types of aircraft in use on carriers now, Hornets Sea hawks and hawkeyes.

[vf74tomcat]

God, I miss working on the roof!!

[AltAirPilot517]

yeah

[iamwesel]

oi fuckin tree hugger if it wernt for these guys you wouldnt have a reason to live so shut the fuck up earth loving tree fuckin pillock

[XzenXzaneXzix]

One of these carriers gets cut in half in the new Transformers trailer. But the JHMCS at 1:11 is pretty cool.