Things that frustrate us all

[Kraig]

Were you on the Nimitz when it time traveled back to World War 2?

kidding, I watched The Final Countdown (1980) a few days ago.

I was stationed on the ship from August 1978 to September 1982, and was aboard when they filmed (1979), but they didn't do any filming in the Reactor Auxiliary or Main Machinery Rooms. Got to meet the actors (Katharine Ross, Soon-tek Oh and Charles Durning) on the second deck aft weapons assembly area in between takes of their scenes in Medical, and I was not on watch.

 

[SithHappens]

On January 2, 1980, my navy ship (aircraft carrier USS Nimitz) left Naples, Italy and instead of returning home from a six-month Mediterranean Sea deployment we were sent around Africa (Suez Canal was still closed). The circumnavigation of the continent took 13 days, so no jet lag, but the amount of daylight increased the further south we went. I liked looking at the different sky at night. We were in a hurry to get to the Gulf of Oman Naval Zone of Operation (GONZO station) so no flight operations. Going up and walking the flight deck in the middle of the night, the ship travelling at 29 knots and looking up at the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross. In mid-May we started the return trip to around Africa to return to Virginia, that took another 17 days. But still no flight operations during the transit, so I got to see the nighttime Southern Hemisphere sky, but in their late Autumn, instead of their early Summer.

is it true the lighthouse story is just a story and nothing else?

 

[Kraig]

is it true the lighthouse story is just a story and nothing else?

If you are talking about telling a lighthouse to move. Snopes is correct.
The story on Snopes says it is about the USS Lincoln. It was commissioned in 1989, by that time most lighthouses in the US were automated. When I was in the service, there were only two Nimitz class Carriers (Nimitz & Ike) serving, and six months before I got out the Vinson was commissioned. Also, east coast carrier operations near CONUS were either in the Caribbean Sea or off the coast of North Carolina.
The story sounds more like a Coast Guard joke than anything else.

 

[Fantasy Lover]

God, I fucking hate taking the public transport sometimes. I feel I either get people playing their music out loud or people who call with their speaker on or unruly children who can't sit stil and don't listen to their parents

 

[SithHappens]

God, I fucking hate taking the public transport sometimes. I feel I either get people playing their music out loud or people who call with their speaker on or unruly children who can't sit stil and don't listen to their parents

Let's not forget those who think that their feet and/or bags are more deserving of a seat than other passengers.

 

[Kraig]

Let's not forget those who think that their feet and/or bags are more deserving of a seat than other passengers.

Their bags aren't, and I let them know it. I inquire if it is their bag, and ask them to move it. If they won't, I will. The bag didn't pay for a seat, I did.