Carrier (2008) s01e03 Episode Script

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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 a world away from you and miles and miles of blue Subs rip, edit, and resnyc by © VJ Me 2010 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 andMetal, 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 theyThey 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, [Bleep.]
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 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 [Muttering.]
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 [Bleep.]
They're blowing [Bleep.]
Up.
Fly.
They're going to blow [Bleep.]
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 [Bleep.]
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.
ButNot 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 saidWell, 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 knowYou 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 [Bleep.]
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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