As a southern boy but raised as a military son, I actually never heard the n word until I was around 7 years old, having just returned from 3 years in West Germany. I ended up going to a public school in rural South Carolina where I was the minority. That's where I heard it from other African Americans calling each other this. It's the only time I said it but when my mother heard about it I immediately was made to take a bite out of soap. I also had to write on paper to never say that word again 100 times. This Jesse Brown is to be admired here. He seems to be a man of character and tremendous leadership. I've had several African Americans who have helped me during my life and were over me during my own military career. When someone carries themselves to try to better themselves and trying to help others along the way, the color of there skin should not matter. Character, integrity and reputation are the 3 most important things that all people should strive to be.
“Finally the british came up with a steam catapult” and of course they forgot to mention that the british also came up with the angled flight deck and the mirror landing system.
I was going to mention that also. To be fair though it may be the way it was edited. Could have been several different takes pieced together. I know that he knows all three were British inventions. Doesn't make sense for him to leave that out.
Baronarx V not the UK mate. Europe would eventually have been consumed by the soviets and the UK would be safe from them for the same reasons they were safe from nazi invasion. The United States would not have had trade with Europe and would not have developed the financial and industrial strength they were able to with a free Western Europe. The uk standing alone for two years was the catalyst that allowed the liberation of Europe. Yes it could not have been done without the United States who entered the war after pearl harbour and the declaration of war on her by nazi Germany. Better late than never.
The part about the dawn of the jet age was interesting. A guy was put in command of a jet fighter squadron with one hour of jet flying experience, commanding others who had not seen one up close before. "Here's the book, read it and once you are done go to the aircraft and fly".
I was watching a docu on the Falklands War. One of the Argentinian pilots was talking about launching Exocet missiles against the British ships. The aircraft he was flying was designed only to be a launching platform for the missiles and couldn't dogfight very well. He was a very nice guy but he said his country had spent millions training him as a pilot and it was his duty to fly on missions for his country when the need arose.
Yes they flew the French built aircraft but would only go on one mission and then go into hiding for they were frightened the SAS would hunt them down and kill them
The most honest documentary of the military. A very few assumptions (looking from the U.S. prospective.) This type of honest documentary is what this country needs. These men and women are willing to put their lives in jeopardy for this country
Landing on a carrier at night . . . trust, faith, precision. Prior training comes to the fore . . . and, all that prior preparation is NOW, put to the test ! 😎🇺🇸
I'm sorry but I don't see the military relying on "faith" for any landing. Precision is a binary concept. It's either your accurate and land, or you missed and, well you know what happens then. The precision mathematics involved do not allow room for faith. In the field there are no A's, B's or C's. You have to be 100% correct. Every time. Period. When you rely on faith for anything, you were not 100% confident about the precision of your mission.
There will come a times when UAV’s are jammed by electronic warfare . If UAV’s come first, be sure the technology to counter them is not far behind . Manned aircraft can fall victim to interceptor aircraft , missiles and anti aircraft fire . Unmanned aircraft can fall victim to the same things , but they can also fall victim to having the electronic umbilical cord that connects them to their controllers , severed - or even hi jacked . I don’t think that the last fighter pilot had already been born.
This concern already had happened when a USAF RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone fell on victim to Russian-made Iranian Cyber warfare system & heavy GPS spoofing made the UAV to land on enemy air base rather than in home base.
You're right about that. That's one reason why we don't see much footage coming out of Ukraine anymore of TB-2 drone strikes like we did in the first months of the war. The Russian EW/Jamming teams seem to have gotten their act together and are not only causing havoc with UAVs but also with the JDAM bomb kits and GMLRS rockets we've sent over to help the Ukrainians. Finding a way to counter that jamming equipment should be a top priority, not only for Ukraine but also because China tends to reverse engineer and steal everything the Russians make so it's likely they have the same sort of equipment. We wouldn't want to find ourselves in a fight with them over Taiwan only to find out that they're capable of jamming the guidance systems and communications links of our drones and most of our guided weapons.
Working cv 41 and 61 is in my mind still magical . carriers are or use to be the task Force. we faught and work harder than anybody could ever imagine.
As a Former Naval Aviation Ordnance man A Carrier is only as good as the people who Maintain ,Load ,and Move these weapon Systems.We are the Teeth of the Fleet .IYAOYAS!!!
If you've ever played a multi-player video game you know people throw their lives away. They live for only a few minutes, get blown up, wait to respawn. They don't use small unit tactics nor are they interested in trying to stay alive. There will always be a place for pilots on station.
Whomever it was that told African American servicemen they can't walk together is a disgrace to the uniform, must be court-martialed and busted out of the military PERIOD. Especially on patrol during a combat tour. The Captain should have made an inquiry immediately, and that Marine would no longer be a Marine. African American, Asian, Latino, Italian Indian, Native American, Female or Gay, they have earned there rank. You will respect that authority that's comes with the rank. Nobody is above Military Code. It's quite evident that this Marine doesn't believe in democracy. Bust his ass out of the military.
The job of a fighter pilot will never be replaced because there will always be somebody sitting in front of a computer driving it and dropping the bombs and killing people but rather than them fighting it out in the sky someone walks by and drops of metal on their desk
@@pedrofernandes9273 Oh no, Forrest got cut off mid sentence ! Probably got slapped aside the head again by cousin Ruthie, they go around like two bullweasels on a Friday night ! Run Forrest RUN !!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@rikrayarcade Land a 50,000 pound airframe aboard a carrier at night in rough seas and weather then you go say "prove it". Did you not watch the video above?
@@koori3085 Me. It was originally made for PBS and was one of many films I narrated for them over the years. This one was made by Tom Lennon, an excellent filmmaker. He also did the great "Long Journey Home: the Irish in America". It's here on RU-vid if the subject interests you. If you like this Navy stuff, check out "Carrier", a 10 part series produced by Mel Gibson... also for PBS. It gets into life aboard a carrier on a long deployment...and contains a lot of very dangerous landings, etc Happy viewing!.
@@mgmurphy1 Well, very interesting, thank you and good work. Have a good bit of knowledge about carriers but should pay more attention to the Irishman's story. Take care!
I'm from Jacksonville FL born n raised, I've heard all the wild military history stories, u-boats off the coast in ww2 etc. Never heard about the prefab buildings with spy jets inside...damn that's wild. Idk why they wouldn't have posted at some secret building on base at Mayport but man I've gotta look into this.
I still have to admit I have problems when someone says “1 million tons”. It’s not 1 million pounds, not one million kilos, actually one full ton of TNT scaled up one million times - and that still is not close to the biggest actually deployed nukes (Tsar bomba was even bigger but was proof of concept), that were somewhere between 9 and 25 megatons in use by both the US and the USSR. I still need to stop and think and it still blows my mind.
A top secret A-12 was used to take the first photos of the Cuban missile crisis. But they did not want the capabilities of that plane to be known, so they had the conventional low altitude reconnaissance planes take photos they could use at the UN.
The A-12 was BARELY flying in 1962! The first flight, already months behind schedule, was in April 1962 and that was with standby engines until they could the J58 ready for the test program. They didn't fly operational missions with the A-12 Oxcart until 1967 because the plane had so many bugs to work out. Of course, they used tactical recon planes like the RF-8 (as well as the U-2) to overfly Cuba in 1962 because that was available!
Regardless of my feelings on the US military, it has been suffering budgetary cuts since the 1960's. It's a fact. With that, comes the reality of running huge vehicles like the aircraft carrier and its planes (which take millions of dollars and many years of training in order to have good pilots in them), where a plane shot down could potentially mean the death of a pilot who has to be replaced costing millions and years more. That is why UAVs are extremely interesting to the top brass, not merely as a cost-cutting measure.
question for the marine corps folks--at 53.01 when they get their wings, how does a marine officer end up with the anchor towards his spine? the lt to his right has the anchor down. Is there a joke or some tradition that the last guy in the class has to be clowned?
The first time I have ever heard a pilot say... paraphrasing.... fighter jets are absolutely awesome works of art but they are designed for basically one purpose. I don't think I need to elaborate. I honestly dont know how they sleep at night. I can fly the wings off of any jet in DCS World. Loads of fun in that virtual world but doing it for real is something totally different. God bless our pilots and have mercy on their souls. I thought that I would have given anything to be jet jock but now that I am older I dont think I could handle the guilt of the possibility of killing innocent people. Catch 22 if there ever was one.
Great documentary of early Naval aviation and its commitment to excellence in military strength and bridging the gap in ethnicity and gender into its elite core.
I wish they could figure out something to keep pilots in the air there have been some articles saying that AI wingmen will be there to protect pilots and keep them flying and have them give orders to AI planes.
In the short term, yes. Long-term they will be replaced. Just like in the movie War Games, they want to take the human element out of it...to build perfect killing machines with no conscience or second guessing - just executing orders without failure.
Bill Anders of Apollo 8 tells a similar story of flipping Russian tail gunners off in the Russian Bear aircraft. Ha. It was actually no laughing matter back then. I always say how much I loved growing up in the 60s, and I did. But I was a very lucky little boy with loving caring parents who protected sheltered me from a lot of the realities going on back then which I'll always love them for. Little kids shouldn't be watching all the bad in the world no matter what era. Just my opinion. They need time to grow and develop their young minds. Today with all the easy access internet social media on everything and everywhere you turn parents don't stand a chance and I don't think that's good.
WTC I hate George Bush with my own eyes I knew what I was witnessing, ex navy I was pissed, I worked in #7 till may that years my company had a new building built in Jersey City when this happened I knew what was up. It changed my life, hasn't changed for me yet. The Navy is the most amazing group of people that when it counts are 1 team no matter what.
I tip my hat to Mr. Brown this is the America I love , black , white , Jews , Catholics and , gentiles ALL AMERICAN if your for god and country that’s all that matters
I miss dad but petchi my Tommie Cat be home Monday she had to go to hospital 🏥 😪 I hope and prey to her she will be safe and have mercy on her huntress painfull cry for nature
I thank rspca for looking after them and my personal vendetta to the wild life 😜 if I had money I would give as much as I could for them and I will be good for them to find them safety a far away from our dangerouse cities and people whom think it's ok to kill them for hobbies unexceptional hunting with weapons is not natural to them
Correction in the narrative stating that carriers have maintained a continuous presence in the indian Ocean/Persian Gulf region since 2003, try November, 1979.
@@hr1meg I might agree, but with USAF UPT (a track in which I previously graduated) is exploring flight skills building in a sim before heading out to the flightline, low recruiting numbers and the push to remove pilots from aircraft; it is only a matter of time before the USAF is actively recruiting gamers for UAV piloting roles.
Besides cost and the risk of capture, the second biggest reason they will get rid of pilots is simply optics. Every death is bad politics despite the fact that every one of these pilots would rather risk death to fly these planes and happily than leave it to drones. I find it sad and stupid every time a certain job people dream of doing is eliminated. It probably won’t even save $ in the long run because the cost of building automated fighters will be more than simply keep pilots in them. The only necessary exceptions are for aircraft that a) maneuver in ways the human body cannot handle and b) missions that make the most sense as one-way missions or missions that would almost certainly result in death.
Was us Bits that came up with angled flight deck and the mirror landing site, not only the steam catapult. We still doing it with the ski jump and double island on the HMS Queen Elizabeth, that other navy's seem to want to copy.
It's pretty depressing All the time, money and blood wasted over the 40 years of the cold war. Did you know, shortly after the October Revolution the Soviets began discussing how to implement communism. Their initial idea was for a 50/50 ownership split between the state and private sector. So, half the output is distributed to everyone, the rest you sell and business must be owned by the all the staff. It wasn't perfect but they thought it was a good enough start (this was Trotsky's idea) Then Stalin seized power through executing and banishing his opponents and just told everyone what they were doing and that they owned nothing. In comes the gulags, genocide and 5 year plans, a dictatorship. It was only with Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika that they made an attempt at Communism but it was, of course, far too late. The Soviet Union wasn't even meant to last, it was supposed to dissolve as they got to grips with Communism. They weren't even given the opportunity to try and we spent 40 years trying to kill each other. And now the KGB and McMafia run Russia. _slow clap_