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Uh-huh it's a long road to paradise
and, oh, I feel the pain oh oh oh

they tell me things are different
now but I still hurt the same

mm-hmm haze gray and underway
a world away from you

and miles and miles of blue

When I was a young boy I wanted
to sail around the world

that's the life for me...

Hands out of your pocket
there, Ghost Rider.

Livin' on the sea spirit of a sailor...

What's wrong with your
uniform there, shipmate?

Circumnavigates the globe..

You got a lot of people
hanging out over here.

Cleaning stations!
Let's get busy!

In a leaky boat lucky just to
keep afloat...

Life on deployment?
Oh, my!

The movies...Top Gun does
not explain how the Navy is.

Not even close.

It's not that great.

Monotonous.

It's tedious, it's exhausting, it
creates a lot of hypertension.

Very, very stressful.
I can't stress that enough.

It's the same routine
day in and day out.

You're working 12 hours on, 12
hours off, every single day,

seven says a week.

I love deployments.
They give you the opportunity to see

places and see things that you
probably will never see in your

entire life.

Life on deployment is
what you make of it.

It's hard for some people.
It's easy for some people.

For some people, this is the life
for them, for some people it's not.

Some people wait their time to get
out, do their 4 years and go.

Some people go crazy and try to
get kicked out, just so they

don't got to stay in no more.

What's going on?

I got nobody who wants to talk to me today!

I see you're on cleaning
stations.

What you doing, shipmate?

I was working on getting a mop, but...
Yeah, working on getting

a mop and sitting there
shooting the breeze.

Are they giving you...
I wasn't shooting the breeze, master chief.

Ok, I'm blind then.

I'm blind.

Are you cleaning?

No, not at the moment.

And what are your names so I
could check to see if they got

you on the white card,
blue card, or whatever.

Williams.

What'd they give you a white
card, blue card or what?

A white card, master chief.

Maybe if you started doing
what you need to do and take a

little bit more initiative,
you can upgrade it, OK?

Yes, master chief.

The sailors that's coming
in the Navy these days don't

have a lot of discipline and
then when they get here to the

military, it's part of the
first line of discipline that

they've ever had in their life
and that makes it hard on me

because now you're startin'

from ground zero trying to
build not only a sailor but

just trying to build a citizen.

We have what we have and we
have to make sure that we groom

the sailors that we have
to complete the mission.

Because the mission itself may
depend on whether that person

is disciplined enough to
put that bomb on that jet.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit
of all who threaten it.

You got it in? You gotta wait till
it gets all the way in, yeah.

They go to boot camp, they go
to school, they come to us.

So drop it in now, go
ahead and tighten it.

There you go.

Within the first 6 months
it's just like my phrase is

like a dry sponge. Ok?

Real small and they need to absorb
all the knowledge that they can.

I'm a mentor.
I look out for their daily needs.

I keep them from getting into
trouble.

I make sure that they get
trained well, and they meet all

their qualifications.

I look at 'em as if
they're my own kids.

They're my responsibility and I want to
make sure that they get home safe.

First mentor was AC1 Jaqueline
Williams and, um, and

she, I don't know where I would
be if I didn't have her.

Jackie Jackson is actually
my mentor.

You'll be all right.

She cares. She's very good at listening.
She cares about what

you have going on and she's
very willing to help you.

McCollum, you ready to do a
practice?

I watched Jackie grow.

When I first got here, she was
the type of person that was

looking for guidance.

All right, go ahead, try it.

Initiate training.

And, uh, seeking out
the right way to go.

Can I just keep pushing it?

And now the Navy's put her
in positions where she's the

supervisor. She's now providing
guidance for everyone else.

Hey, press one.

There we go.

There're so many things
that you can do.

A lot of people focus on the
negative.

"I can't stand it,"
this, this and this.

"I don't work for the Navy,"

I tell people all the time.

"The Navy works for me."

I'm gonna take what I can from it
and give it exactly what it wants.

It wants my time, it wants
me to do this job that I

specialize in. I'm gonna take my
schooling, I'm gonna take my degree.

That how you have to...
Circle it up.

I need a smoke so bad.

I'm gonna, oooh, I'm
gonna die out there.

Remember my first time
launching?

It sucked.

My name is Joan Lamoreaux.

I'm an airman.

I launch and recover planes.

I hope to become plane Captain,
where basically they're saying

that you know everything, you
don't need anyone up there to

watch you, you're done
with training basically.

That's my goal for this cruise.

What I need you to do is to
make sure that everything's

moving and that the stabs
aren't, that they're moving at

the same rate.

I love my job, I do.

I've been a lot better.

Like I know actually my
sequence now.

I'm not nervous.

Progressing a lot, really
fast, I think, anyways.

There's people in my shop that
took about a year to get plane

Captain.

I'm almost done. I've been here
for about two and a half months.

I'm doing really well.
I'm on schedule.

I'm from Reading, Pennsylvania,
not too many jobs, drugs and

teenage pregnancy.

My biological father
had committed suicide.

I was about 7,
and my mother lost it.

So we ended up being
put in foster care.

I'm 22 now.

I think I've spent 8 years
total living with my mother.

The rest was in foster care.

There was a lot of drugs going on
in the family: Heroin, cocaine.

My brother just got out
of jail not too long ago.

To be honest with you, I have no
idea why I chose a different path.

I really don't, but I'm glad I did it.

Stand by for a word from
commanding officer.

Good evening, Nimitz and
airwing 11.

This is the Captain.

We've gotten some clarification
on our schedule now.

I think it's good news.

We're gonna start heading East.

We're going to Guam.

So we'll stay about 4 days in
Guam and then on into the Gulf.

So Pusan is off the table,
we're not going up there now.

My impression leaving Hong Kong
was that we were headed to

Korea and that we would in
fact go into port there.

As it turns out, I suspect
strongly, after further

discussions, the determination
was made that was perhaps

more of a signal than was
desired or intended for the

carrier to actually go into port
in South Korea at this time.

The flexibility afforded by
this asset and this strike

group was there.

You know, we were out, we're
in the neighborhood, we're

available if required...

Not knowing where we're going can
be discouraging at times

You know like, "oh, yeah, Korea on the 15th.
" Then we find

out, you know, we're actually
going to go to Guam.

It can be frustrating.

I'm like the bottom of the
totem pole.

We're told to do certain things.
We're just told to do it.

We're not explained the reason
because, you know, you just do it.

It would be nice to know.
Then maybe you'd feel like you're

doing a little bit of something.

We don't have the luxury of
having the sailor have the

inclination or the mindset that
says, "well, I don't understand

"that. Why do I need to do that?"

That's not a luxury we can
afford.

We have to have the environment
that when issued a direct order

to do something now, we can have
the confidence that it's gonna

get done.

This is the Captain.
It's another great day out here.

Beautiful weather.

We've got a lot to do today.

Do it like you always do,
professionally and well.

Stay focused.

We have a whole cruise ahead
of us and we want to continue

doing great work.

Just standing around waiting
for something to happen.

That's all we do.

You get watch a lot of cool...
Though.

My grade is in ABH...
Mostly with the handler, blue

shirts, what we do is chalk the
bird, put the little orange

thing in the wheel, put
chains down, tie it down.

And then when we need to move
it, hook up a tow bar to it,

hook it up to a tractor, and move
it along, wherever it has to go.

That's basically what we do.

Flight ops is from like, 10:45
to like 2:00 in the morning, or

whatever.

And we've got enough blue
shirts to where we can be up

for 2 hours and take
a break for 2 hours.

Basically, with the 2 on 2
off, you got it way easy.

We have our little blue hole.

If we're not on the flight deck,
uh, that's the place we're at.

Fly 2 is like a little
compartment or like area where

we chill there, watch TV,
go on the computer, movies.

"Rocky," we watch "Rocky"
every damn day.

Do whatever bull...
What's up your ass?

This girl's calling him
Jakey Bear in this email.

I'm gonna start calling
him Jakey Bear.

Hey, you guys drink plenty of water today.
It's supposed to

get to 116. Just with the weather alone, so...
12, 14 guys in fly 2.

And, uh, we all get along
pretty well, for the most part.

Why should you be in the
air conditioning, man?

Get your ass up there!

Every now and then we start
getting on each others throats,

but it's usually for dumb stuff.

You're the one that came
up with that [Beep].

Somebody go up for me for 20
minutes.

I'm not gonna do 2 hours
and 30 minutes up there!

You got Ace. He's a Filipino.
He's pretty cool.

He's always straight up and everything.
He's a pretty hard worker.

You signed up for that....

You got a couple of Mexicans in there...
Ledezma. They're all cool.

Then you got airman Fields;

He's the one we call "Blackie."

He's cool with it.
That's his nickname.

Most of us are just white guys
that are just kind of there, I

guess, I don't know.

All right, what are you
about to do?

I'm about to [Beep] do
something really stupid.

Robert Allen, let me tell you about him.
That guy is the coolest!

I love that guy.

Robert, he's a class act.

He's one of a kind, I think.

Allen is a funny guy. He kept the fly going.
He made the fly laugh.

Do it again.

The first time I ever did it and
he didn't get it on camera,

I landed on the laptop and...
About busted my head open.

Without the cranial.

Yeah, and then I put the
cranial on after that.

My name's Robert Allen,
and I'm an abh airman.

I'm from, uh, Oklahoma, a
little town out in the sticks.

They all call me redneck, and
they always give me hell.

I'll go back down real quick
and get me a damn pop.

Canadians say pop.

It's not soda, it's pop.

You guys call it a refrigerator.

I call it an icebox.

A refrigerator.

It's an icebox.

Like I'm gonna pop it
out of the icebox.

It's an icebox.

I'm gonna pop you.

I want a Coke damn it, now.

Universal word for it,
call it what it is.

I got married in high
school, and everything was

going good and everything and
about nine months down the road

she starts going to college and
I was on a job on the road,

like gone all week.

And then, I don't know, stuff
happened and we got a divorce.

I got depressed and I started, I
was an alcoholic. I became an

alcoholic for like four months,
quit my job, quit everything.

My town's like tiny. There's one stoplight.
My mom is like "You need to do

something with your life.
You need to get out of here, change

or something, get a hold of
yourself," 'cause I was going

down the wrong hill,
so I joined the Navy.

Damn it, I want to talk.

It ain't what I thought it
would be.

When I thought of the military,
like my brother was in it, my

sisters in it, they're all
marines and I thought of guns

and killing people, not flying
birds off a flight deck all day.

Like in the marines, you got to
depend on that other guy for

survival.

He could get you killed
if he makes a mistake.

And the Navy's not really
like that.

It's like no respect.

Nobody cares, nobody gives a...

If I could switch, I would
do it in a heartbeat.

'Cause this is just bull...
The Navy.

The way I see it, that's true.
This ain't the military.

I don't think so.

This is what I'd like to
know, bro?

How do you like the Navy?

How do I like the Navy?

How do you like the Navy, bro?
It sucks.

It's all right.

I guess it's alright.

It's all right?

So you're staying in another
six years aren't you?

Another six years of all this
crap.

As a member of the Navy, you
complain.

That's your job.
It's one of the things you do.

It's time for me to check
the CMC suggestion box.

All comments and
suggestions are welcome.

Let me see what the sailors
are complaining about today.

This carrier displaces 90 thousand tons.
You are allowed

about 15 square feet.

And if someone lives next to
you that stinks, it makes life

rather hard.

The things that hold this ship
together are the junior personnel.

If there weren't people to take
out the trash and keep the ship

clean, we'd be living in filth.

You know, it's like a train
hitting the wall every fifteen

seconds over here.

You got 20, 30 females on one
side and you have, like, the

same amount on the other.

And you have 3 showers.

Oh, food on the ship.

They tell you when to
eat, when to sleep.

Lines are nice, I love lines.

Dealing with the people.

People get on your nerves.

People come from all
different, uh, walks of life

when they come in the military,
and they expect us to work in

perfect cohesion no matter...
They throw us all together, and

it doesn't work out like that.

Even if you go to the mess
deck, you see certain groups

sitting together, like different races.
Sometimes

people just choose to
be with their own.

Filipinos look out for
Filipinos, blacks look out for

blacks, whites look out
for whites, and so on.

I don't think there's
a lot of segregation.

I think the ethnic groups here
get treated fairly by the

command as a whole.

Every ethnic group on this
ship always has their own

celebration: You know, African
American month, Asian-Pacific

heritage month, which would
include the Filipinos. You have

Native American month, you have
Hispanic month. Everything but

Caucasian month, but I guess
Caucasian month is every month.

Racism is everywhere.
It doesn't matter if it's in the

military or out on the street
corner, in a restaurant.

It's everywhere.

Robert Allen.

People have certain views,
people have certain prejudices.

Especially in the military
because they accept everyone,

you're gonna have people
that think differently.

I have a case of racial
slurs charged against me.

I just got in trouble
in March for racism.

And this is 3 months later I'm
doing the same thing again.

They all kind of knew my
background, and probably my

reputation of what I
was gonna be like.

Then I started popping
these racist things.

That's been happening a lot,
and I don't know, it's just

been getting worse.

Basically it happened when,
ah, me, Allen, Ledezma,

everybody was just chillin' in
the fly hole, minding our own

business, listening
to music or whatever.

And it was country or rock,
I'm not sure exactly

what it was at the time.

And he had it up kind of
loud and one of the yellow

shirts, second class
petty officer came in.

He's a black guy.
He never really liked country or rock or

anything like that.
He always pretty much liked rap.

I don't really care what
kind of music it is, but if

it's turned up too loud, we get
complaints from the other work

centers and people higher than
me, officers, and I really

don't feel like hearing their mouth.
I come in here, it's

blasting, "turn it down.

"Turn it down."

You're not listening,
boom, I turn it off.

It's not the first time that something
like that had ever happened.

So boom, Allen snapped and was
like, "turn, turn my [Beep]

down? Hell, no!"

"I don't say nothing while you guys
are playing that black "[beep]."

I'm like, "what do you mean you
"guys playing that black [Beep]?"

So I told him, "watch your way
with your words. You already

"got in trouble."

You know, I'm always trying
help these guys, these junior

personnel and he said, "I don't
give a [Beep]. I'm racist.

Everybody already knows it.
I "don't care if I get kicked out."

So I said, "OK, I'll help
you find your way out."

And here I'm in the wrong
place is what I told, I told

officers when I had to talk to them.
I was like, "I joined the

wrong thing."

There's too many different
kinds of people here and I

don't get along, like
I don't feel right.

So I have no choice.
I've gotta make it.

Keep my mouth shut, I guess.

He's cool with me, so
what am I gonna do?

I've gotta work with this kid.

In V-1 some of the airman
in there are black, and he

definitely did not hate that
person or those people.

You know, he got along with them.
We even hung out, uh, in

ports together.

In fact there was a guy named Fields.
Everybody joked on

him. They call him "Blackie"

and he calls everybody else "whitey"
and all this kind of stuff.

They got along great.

I already knew the way he was
when I came to the fly, so I

was like, "it's cool.
" I don't mess with him, he don't really

mess with me.

I don't care what the hell he
thinks, just as long as he

don't bring it to me.

We get along all right now.
It was just when he first got here.

It got it taken care
of, just between us.

We was at a hotel party one
night and I called him a spic.

I got my ass whooped, but...
You live and learn, that's the

way I see it.

Sometimes he jokes
around with it, but...

Uh, you can only take so much.

It's the way I was raised.

Everything in my mind, been put
in my mind my whole life, by my

brothers...
My mom told me a bunch of stuff.

My sister dated a black guy
in High School and the whole

family like, threw a fit.

I mean, God, it was bad.

I couldn't even watch black
television growing up.

My mom's like, "turn
that black crap off!"

And I was just, "OK, sure!"

I didn't think nothing of it.

I mean, if I got kicked out for
this, it wouldn't bother me.

I wouldn't care.

It's just...
I don't know.

It's all weird, like I have all
of these thoughts going through

my head all the time about all
this getting kicked out or

staying in, the racism or whatever,
how I'm gonna change and just

all sorts of stuff all the time.
I don't know, I just,

whatever happens, happens,
the way I see it.

If I go to CMC's office, he's
gonna have a heyday with me.

He's not gonna realize.

He's the CMC! He's black!

There's zero tolerance for
racism.

War has zero tolerance for
racism.

The taxpayers back at home,
they don't care whose out here

manning these ships.

Did somebody say, "whoa!

"I hope they're all white!"

Or "I hope they're all black!"

Or "I hope they're all... "

No. They say, "I hope they're all what?
Qualified to complete

the mission."

And so you have to take that
part of you and just leave it

back there in the civilian
because you're here to do

a bigger job. You're here to defend
your country and everyone in it.

We're all human beings and
that's just the bottom line.

And that's the biggest
difference in the military.

Because we're thrown together
in unique situations where we

have to depend on each other,
we learn to get rid of our own

individual biases and
prejudices.

The camaraderie's and the
bonds that you build with

people is unmatched.

It's almost impossible to get
to know somebody the way you

know somebody when you're
living on a ship for six,

seven, eight months.

Teamwork.

Teamwork.

Teamwork.

If there wasn't a team
atmosphere here, you know, it

would be anarchy all over the
boat.

We're gonna try to train you
all as one team because you're

gonna be one team in the
Gulf standing them watches.

People would be doing what
they wanted all day long.

I don't think real
work would get done.

Everybody understand that?

Yes, sir.

Now what do you guys have?

Anybody have any feedback for
me?

Everybody's more or less equal.

Except for the rank.

Let me jump in here real quick.

Oh, I'm sorry.
No problem.

What's going on?

I have this pain in my tooth
that I've had for like two

weeks and I keep trying to come
down here but I haven't been

able to till today.

So I think I might have a
cavity.

Or my filling's jacked
up or something.

Can I help you, sir?

I'm here to have my
annual flight physical.

What's your last four?
9331.

Captain Jakubowski.

How are you?

Great. How about yourself?

Good.

Officers get to go in front
of us.

I signed up and he came in
after me.

And we both sat down at the same
time and he got seen before me.

Twice already he's been seen
and I've been waiting here

longer than he has.

I've been sitting here
for almost an hour now.

I mean, I understand that
you're an officer and you have

your privileges and
everything like that.

But why he came here was
just for some routine stuff.

Why I came here is because my
tooth has been hurting for two

weeks and this is the only opportunity
I've gotten to come to dental.

I'm probably gonna have to have
a filling or something else

like that. All he needs is
to get his teeth cleaned.

Being on the ship and being an
officer, that probably got to

be the [Beep] because
they don't do nothing.

They get a bad rap a lot of
times from the mess decks.

And most of the people are
talking about the officers, oh

they've got it so easy,
whatever, but I think that

they've got it probably just as hard as us.
It's just we don't

recognize it.

How is it different from officers
enlisted under the surface?

It's responsibility,
it's accountability.

They take pretty good care of
us, make sure we don't get

in trouble. They put their necks out
for us, keep us out of trouble.

The officers on this boat, I think,
get a lot more stuff than we do.

There's about 30, 35 of us
females, Navy and marines.

I get my own sink.

I get a desk.

Everything you have fits inside
these four compartments.

Oops, sorry, five.

Yeah, you've just got to
kind of slide in there.

You've just got to kind
of slide in like this

'cause that's all you're
getting.

You just push this little
button and it folds right out.

They're waiting in a bunch
of lines that are very long.

They get to eat in the ward
rooms which, the food there is

of better quality as opposed to
where I work in the aft galley,

where you've got to cook
for 3,500 people, so

get the meal out in two hours.

If you're getting any gab from
the troops about the food

you're eating, then that's wrong.
We are eating the same

food as the folks in the mess
decks.

We cook the same foods, but
because we prepare less

of it, the food tastes better.

I pay $250 for it every month.
I'm gonna freaking eat it.

Definitely a double standard.

Officers and enlisted people
are definitely separated, and

the officers say one thing but
then they do another thing and

then we get in trouble
for doing what they say.

Everyone's there to tell you
what to do, and so you've just

kind of got to back down and
let 'em tell you what to do,

until you raise in rank and
then you can tell other people

what to do.

Somebody's got to be the boss.

Orders come from the hierarchy.

You know, that's what the
world's built on, 'cause if we

all was the same,
nothing would get done.

"Why don't you do it?"

"You're the same as I am."

Then that's when, when you take
the hierarchy come in and say,

"I tell you what, both of you"

knuckleheads go do it 'cause
"I'm senior to the both of you."

And then somebody come tell you,
"well, I'll tell you what, all"

three of you go do it
'cause I'm "senior."

And it just continue on.

That's how we do cleaning
stations.

When you come into the Navy,
most people come in as e-3 and

bellow, which is airman,
seaman, fireman.

I'm just an e-3.

I'm an airman, you know.

I'm not poppin' no collars!

Nothing is on my collar.

Nothing, I have no collar
device!

And when you get that rank of
petty officer, you have more

responsibility.

E-4 will have one chevron.

E-4, I'm a third-class petty
officer.

Two chevrons, e-5.

Second-class petty officer.

E-6 will have 3.

First-class petty officer.

He's a second-class petty officer.
He's a third-class petty officer.

Sometimes.

Yeah, sometimes you get discriminated
because you're higher up.

You're higher up, your rank,
you know.

You could be one day really
cool with somebody as an

airman, but the next day you're
a third class, and then all of

a sudden you're trying to...
You don't kick it with the

Airmens no more.

Yeah, you can't.

You're trying to just boss them
around now 'cause you're a

third class.

For me, making rank and going so
fast, surpassing some of the people

that I used to work with, and
you know, it was OK at first,

but now it's, you know, it's not OK.
It's, "you think you're

better" or you know.

I'm the same person I was I just,
I'm making a little bit more money.

Which I should be, I'm
doing a bigger job.

I get paid more money.

Definitely, doing less.

We both, he's too, I don't
know.

That's just the way it goes,
the higher you go in rank, the

less you do, and the more
you get to yell at people.

Hey, Costa?

On this here, we have to redo
the surface and get the edges.

Yeah, that's what I
was just working on.

He's a second class.

He's not horrible.
I just like, he does frustrate me a lot.

I can't explain it.

He's just irritating, you know.

Oh, no, no.

Do it straight up and down.

Here, put this back on there.

'Cause the thing's off.

That's the way I had it.

My way is a good way.

He'll get you in trouble for
things that are OK for him

just because he's a second class
or 'cause he's a supervisor.

And even if you ask him, you're
like, "hey, well, you did the

same thing. How is it OK
for "you and not for me?"

He'll be like, "'cause I'm
Decker.

I'm the watch Captain.

I'm second class.

"I can do that."

You know?

You know, the cleaning doesn't take long.
It's just a

matter of getting it done.

Nobody likes to do it, so
unfortunately we've got to kind

of be harsh when we
tell people to do it.

First of all, they tell you,
this is how you do your work,

then they tell the person above
you to watch how you do your

work and make sure you do it
right.

Then that third class has
somebody on his back, telling

him how to do his job.

Then that first class has another
person on top of him, telling him.

And it just goes down hill.

All right, so let's get
all of this cleaned up.

This hatch here needs
to be scrubbed down.

And we're gonna quit talking to
you guys about cleaning this.

Both sides still ain't done.
I shouldn't have to explain that

to you because you're a second
class.

What the hell's going on here?

We need to fix this.

This is not, this is unsat...
We can't be living like this.

Look at this.
Would you sit on that?

I wouldn't want to piss over
there.

So I guess I'm gonna have to do
my supervising again and make

sure you guys clean the way
you're supposed to be cleaning.

Because if I leave it to you
guys, it's gonna end up looking

like a [Beep] hole.

That's what it's gonna look
like.

You got to get your game plan
today and you better start

working on it.

I'm gonna re-inspect later on
sometime this week before we pull in.

If it's not up to speed when we
get to Guam, don't expect no

liberty until we get it up to
speed.

'Cause we're not gonna
live like this at all.

We are a floating dictatorship
defending a democracy.

All right, guys, let's
go, cleaning stations.

An order to do something is not
up for debate, even if you

think personally that the
reasons behind it are

ludicrous. That's part of the
discipline that goes along with

being in the military and
working in the military and

doing what you're ordered to do.

In a world that's set in
stone I'm set in something

just let it go, just let it go...
I got yanked off the

flight deck to go T.A.D.

T.A.D. stands for Temporary Assigned
Duty, which is something that

everyone e-3 or below has to do,
one time in their life at least.

They'll like take you out of
your division or shop that

you're in and you basically
work for supply department.

I clean female chief berthings
and female chiefs bathrooms,

and then female officer
bathrooms.

So it's just like having cleaning
stations for 12 hours a day.

I got yanked right when I was
so close to making a very big

qual that I need to get.

So basically I went from launching
a jet to swabbing a deck.

Ever since I've gone T.A.D.

I've become more laid back, like
I don't want to... after I'm

done work, I don't want to go
up to the line shack to study

again or nothing like that
'cause I'm too tired from

working all day and, I don't
know, I just feel like going

T.A.D. set me back a lot.

I guarantee you if everyone
was to let out their emotions

here, everyone would go to mast.

Someone would say something to
somebody superior to them that

that superior doesn't like, someone
may do something, you know?

Everyone here is suppressing
emotions.

You have to have, you know, an
avenue to vent your frustrations.

I can lay down a beat.

The fun stuff on this ship, eating.

I have masqueraded aboard
this ship as a pirate.

I write poetry.

I've hijacked the bridge.

Checking the emails, see
if somebody wrote me.

Run on the admiral's
treadmill for a workout.

What else do we do for fun?

Sleeping.

And other miscellaneous
scalawag type things.

Christian Garzone here
for naval confessions.

I'm down here in the print shop.

We actually busted a kind of a,
as soon as the camera came in

they scattered away.

Have you ever seen me lose
to him?

Will you not break dance
or whatever and you go

get in the proper uniform.

We like to drink Nyquil.

It makes us, uh, go to bed
faster.

There's always something
going on in berthing.

We always do thing to keep
us alive, basically sane.

We always do stupid bets.

We bet on what time they're
gonna call reveille, and you

know what time.
That's the same time every day.

That's how we entertain
ourselves.

Hitting each other in the nuts.

Mail call.

Getting things from home,
care packages and letters.

Ohhhhh!

It's from my girlfriend
Sadie, back home.

Second one I've got from her.

It's the only mail I've got.

It keeps you going.

I've read it like 3 times already
in like the past 2 hours.

Workout.

Workout.

Workout.

When I'm on the treadmill,
I'm not on the ship.

You got to do it.

You get to relieve all
your anger in the gym.

Being in the military you're
only limited to say so many

things so, this relieves a lot
of it.

Been tryin' and tryin'

and tryin' and tryin'

and tryin' to get by...
there's only so much you can

do or get away with here on
the boat.

The gym only takes you so far
before your stress level goes,

goes out the window.

The only thing keeping you sane is
that you have those port calls.

The port calls is when you
let loose.

Just like everybody else...
Guam, I think you'll like it.

Lots of water sports,
lots to do there.

We'll start down the pass of
what we need to do to get

everybody ready to go in and
have some good liberty in Guam.

I'm gonna shotgun this beer.

Are you ready then I'm
gonna go get my hat.

You guys are drunk.

Whenever I get drunk, you guys
tell me, and I'll be all right.

You're drunk, Allen.

We're part of the Guam
separatist movement.

You better run for your life
boy!

Fire at me as I come charging towards you!
Boom, boom!

I got the whole sack of shoes.

I got the whole sack of shoes,
a whole sack of beers, and all

you got was a pair of lousy
shoes.

Take this with you cause
that's dirty.

Hey, locals, you want some
beer?

Because I'm gonna wash it with
me.

You can only do so much
to help a shipmate out.

Wade, I want you to take a
picture with this local.

Come on man, get in here man.

No, get in here.

Get in here, all of you.

All right!

Ready.

Mr. Bass is coming to
solve the situation.

Where's the beer at, please?

You're the only one that has
any control around here.

And you're all making asses
out of yourself right now.

Well, then give me another
beer.

Let me talk to you.

All right. I'm good.

Let's talk.

Let me tell you something about
myself before you get to know me.

Go ahead.

I'm getting kicked out
of the Navy for racism.

Are you?

I have two accounts
against black guys.

Ok.

But I mean, I still like you
guys and I respect you and I'm

talking to you right now.

Are you guilty of it?

That's the way I was raised,
man.

Let me ask you, are you
guilty of it?

Yes, I am.

So, let me ask you this.

You're talking to a racist
right now.

I mean we're shaking hands,
we're holding arms.

Oh, of course, of course.

Yeah. It ain't my fault.

All right.

I joined the Navy.
That was the wrong decision.

No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't.

I'm gonna tell you why it
wasn't.

I've been in one year and now
getting discharged, man.

No, no, listen to me.

It wasn't the wrong decision.
Let me tell you like this.

The Navy is a melting pot.

When you join the Navy, you join
like different nationalities,

different cultures,
different everything.

Say for example the fifth
deck gets flooded.

I happen to be there
and you're drowning.

I'm not gonna sit there and let
you die because you're a racist.

You're my shipmate.

And I hope you'd do the same
for me not because I'm black.

I'd do the same, I'd do
the same for anybody.

Exactly.

To save your life.

Exactly.

Let me ask you a question,
would you call me a nigger

after this conversation?

No. I'd be cool with you.

Right.

You know what?
Let me tell, let me tell you like this.

It ain't about nigger, it ain't
about cracker, it ain't about

spic. It's about none of that.

I know I shouldn't judge
people by their color.

But...
It's just the way.

You were raised.

Yes.

But even in that, there's no excuse.
You know what's right

from what's wrong, right?

If you adapt yourself to be
around different cultures, if

you learn about different
people and what they experience

in their life, than that
will change you overall.

Think about it, come on.

If I can get through to one
person, I've made a difference.

If you can teach your children
not to be the same way

you were raised, then we
can make a difference.

I want to congratulate the
crew on your outstanding

performance in Guam.

We trust you guys to be adults
and act responsibly and about

99 and a half percent of
everybody did exactly that.

We did have a small number
of folks who couldn't quite

measure up to that standard.

I'll talk to them this
afternoon in Captain's mast.

And they've got me on 6
charges.

Now they're charging me with
disrespecting a senior chief,

resisting arrest, drunk and
disorderly, assaulting a petty

officer, a threat towards a
petty officer, and then I got

racial slurs from the other
deal.

That's all on one Captain's
mast.

I'm in a lot of trouble.

I've been screwing up.

I screwed up in port, got
in a little bit of trouble.

Went out and got drunk.

That's a lot of charges dude...
6 charges.

I'm probably gonna do brig time.

That's what you want, though,
right?

I don't really necessarily want
brig, but I want out of the Navy.

I don't like this place.
I can't adapt.

I never had this problem
before I came in here.

Being in trouble like
this, saying this [Beep].

I'm getting all butterflies
and in my stomach.

We'll figure it out.

Maybe I'm just hungry.

The officer of the day, he's
like, "if you stay in, you're

gonna keep doing
this, aren't "you?"

I was like, "yeah.
It's probably "gonna get worse."

I was like, "it's getting worse
and worse every time. Next time

I'll be like dropping the
"n-bomb on some dude."

What if they don't discharge me?
You know how pissed off I'm

gonna be?

And we were drinking all night
and we got into a fight

well, I feel so broke up
Lord, I wanna go home

so hoist up the John B's sail
see how the main sail sets

call for the Captain ashore let
me go home Lord, I wanna go home

I got 30 days restriction.

That's it?

Nothing about the racist stuff.

Oh, great.

That's another.

So what'd you go to mast
today for?

For getting arrested the other
night and all that [Beep].

Probably yours, isn't it?

Your shoes, your belt, your
cover.

Thanks.

Man, why didn't they
do the racist stuff?

They dropped everything, man.

Who did?

The C.O.?

Because they can't
hold that against you.

Remember when you got in trouble
for racism the first time?

It didn't go up to mast,
so it didn't count.

What about this time?

I don't know. Damn.

Man.

I don't know.

The legal said...
'Cause I was talking to legal right after I

got back, and they gave me my
papers and I was like, "what

"about the other deal?"

And he was like, "well, we'll
"take care of it later."

You still have to go?

I better.

It's the whole reason I
wanted to go.

Man, I didn't want 30 days.

It sucks.

Hopefully, next time
I'll get the big dog.

Go on home.

That's what I was wanting.

You only got 30 days, though?
I got 30 days extra duty, too.

Hey, what does that "r"
mean for you, Allen?

It means racist.

Now everybody knows.

Another day that pulled
you under come on come on

is there really any wonder?

Come on come on 'cause you
feel alive I'm in over my head

feeling so low under your
thumb I'm in over my head

is the world caving
in under your skin?

Another day assured...
Just because I don't have a

chevron don't mean I
cannot speak freely.

It's all bull, OK?

We're already at each other's
throats after like... what was

the last port?
Was it like a week a?

Guam.

Guam was like a week ago and
everyone's already at each

other's throats again, you know?

It's been like a week.

Hey, what's going on?

You're not supposed to be
out of your rack, man.

Man. Hell!

You're on restriction.
You've got rules to follow.

Third class, you need to
step down.

You never act like this.
Shut up. Go to sleep.

It doesn't say in the rules I
have to go to bed at 10:00.

It says be in my rack at 10:00.

What are you gonna do in there?

This is my rack. I'm in it.

Turn the lights out and go to sleep.
That's all you got to do.

What if some serious [Beep]

went down and I'm in
here round with you?

Man, I'm gonna tell you this one
more time and I'll call security.

This is real life, guys.

Good morning, Nimitz and air
wing 11.

CAG and I coming back to you for
the Kuala Lumpur Captain's call.

For now and for the next several
months any opportunities

we have for liberty will be in
the Muslim environment and the

rules are very different.

The Western Pacific will be behind us.
We'll go through the

straits of Malacca tonight and
from that time on we'll be over

in the Indian Ocean side and
in the Arabian Gulf in the

Muslim countries and in their
countries, we play by their rules.

We're entering an area that's,
uh, frankly full of terrorists.

We are entering an area where people
are dedicated to killing you.

And they're willing to die to
do that.

Ok, we're about 2 hours from
the Singapore straights.

We'll be going through the straits
of Malacca all night tonight.

It's a navigation choke point.

Anytime we go through a
constricted choke point like

that, especially in today's
environment, we never really

know if a boat's gonna come
alongside you and blow up,

like the "Cole."

We want to protect ourselves
from any type of terrorist

attack by small boats
or low slow aircraft.

What we want to do is not only
protect ourselves, but we also

want to show that we can go
through this strait with no

hesitation, just like we're
gonna do when we go through the

strait of Hormuz going into the
Gulf.

Our main job is to keep
you safe.

And with your personal
protective measures in place,

we'll be able to do that.

Right now, our threat in Kuala
Lumpur, we're looking at

significant. Ok?

So we have layered defenses.

You see the sentries, you
see the vehicle inspection

checkpoints, you see the barricades,
the spike strips, whatever.

It's a layered defense.

We want them to go through as
many obstacles as possible

before they can attack
or penetrate the ship.

They get to the ship, it's over.

Kuala Lumpur is really strict.
It's a really strict country.

The females don't get treated the
same way as the United States.

The females dress up like
Muslims from head to toe.

It's disrespectful to point.

You can't tap a civilian
on the shoulder.

They find that offensive.

You'll go to jail for that,
actually.

Vehicle bombs.

They can blow 10-12 of you guys
up and they're making an impact.

You've got to be thinking that
everybody's out to get you.

Don't think you're safe
because you're not.

When we get complacent and we
stop thinking that something's

gonna happen to us, that's
when it's gonna happen.

Just wrapping up here.

Enjoy Klang and Kuala Lumpur.

Enjoy the liberty and
make good choices.

That is all.

Good morning.

We're about to go on a tour and
leisure expedition in Kuala Lumpur.

I'm quite beside myself.

I can't wait to get on the bus
and I'm just pumped with energy

this morning, so uh,
Phil, are you ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

We're going out to the pedaling
Jaya orphanage for Comrel.

Comrel is, uh, community
relations.

It's really open to almost
any kind of application.

From planting to painting to
cleaning.

It's something that we can
do as Americans in a foreign

community to help someone.

Ok. All right. You look nice.

I said I was scared and
I still am scared.

I'm scared of what could happen,
but at the same time I'm

enjoying myself out here.

You get to know a lot of
things, you know, learn a lot

more about this, their culture.

And it's pretty cool.

Went to Captain's mast
yesterday.

He told me my charges and asked
me if I'm aware of them,

and I told him, "yes, sir."

He asked me if I admit
to being racist.

I told him, "yes, sir."

He said, "Are you racist
against Asians or Hispanics or

Jews or blacks?"

And I just told him, "Black
people, pretty much."

And he asked me why.

And I told him that was just
the way back home I was raised

around and it's the way I grew up,
it's just what I feel right now.

He said, "well"...
we talked a little bit more, he's like,

the Navy's a team, and you're

"no longer on the team anymore."

He paused and he's like,
"this is off the record."

The Captain's mast was pretty
much over, but I just stood

there and kept talking to
him like a conversation.

And he said, "Well, I'm gonna send you home.
You're gonna be

a civilian."

He said, "maybe when you
get home, you'll change.

Maybe one of these days you'll
grow up and change and see

people like they should be seen"

or whatever.

And I was like, "well, maybe,
sir.

I don't really know yet, but
"this is how I feel right now."

I'm not playing the spook song.

I'm gonna get so drunk
on the airplane.

Play "Scotty doesn't know."

Can you play "Scotty doesn't
know"?

Scotty doesn't know that
Robert's going home,

getting out of the [Beep] Navy.

Going to get stoned.

I got an administrative
separation with other than

honorable mentions.

That's a, that's a good
discharge, I guess, 'cause like

I don't know, I could still get
a job and I'm eligible for a

lot of stuff still.

I just don't get my G.I. Bill

but I don't really
give a... about that anyways.

I don't plan on going to
college.

After two years or something,
it goes away, doesn't it?

What do you mean, if you
have to like apply to a job

you don't have to say nothing?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Remember this?

What the [Beep]?

What was I doing talking to
this guy?

That was in Guam.

What's he doing huggin' me?

What the [Beep], dude?

What's this guy doing?

What are you really
thinking in that picture?

I was drunker than [Beep].

I don't have any idea.

You don't remember this at all?

You remember her?

I was wasted, dude.

I don't remember even
taking these pictures.

Guam's the last place I drank
beer.

That's where I got [Beep]
up, got in trouble.

It was fun, though.
It was worth it.

If I get stoned and sing all night
long it's a family tradition

you whooped my ass.

I was so drunk, I couldn't even...
You passed out.

I had sand all over my
face and in my mouth.

That was a...
Oh, yeah, I remember that.

There he's dancing
like Michael Jackson.

He ran outside like
he was gonna do it.

I was like damn.

I got some whites from him.

Got some dress whites and
dress blues for 40 bucks.

Did you buy them?

Yeah.

Allen!

Hey, there's Allen.

Allen.

He took off running.

Who beat the [Beep] out of him?
You did?

Allen, tell us about the
time you and him fought.

What time was that?

Damn, you guys fight more
than once?

Oh, at the hotel?

Yeah.

That was crazy.

That's the night I drank
that shampoo and [Beep].

Thought it was [Beep] Alcohol.

Those little shampoos at the
hotel?

Drank all that [Beep].

Gonna buy that [Beep]?

Got your money?

Yeah.

Go get it.

Don't forget the whites.

Hey, is it gonna fit?

No, it don't fit.

Man, come on!

You ain't gonna buy it?

I can't even wear it.

You wore it before!

Those were your pants.

Sell you the pants for 20.

Man, ask milk.
He can fit 'em.

I got to go to personnel because
I might be leaving tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow.

Hey, man, take care of
yourself, man.

Yeah, I will.

Hey, shoot me an email, man.

All right?
Yeah, I'll see.

Nimitz style, man.
Yeah.

A'ight?
A'ight, man.

A'ight, man.
A'ight. Take it easy.

He's the one that calls
me petty officer.

Or magic chief of hatred.

Kid gets kicked out for racism
but he has black friends.

He don't have black friends.

I made black friends.

No, he don't have black
friends, that racist bitch.

They still like him.

No, I hate his ass.

I don't know what that's about.

See if I can fit this bitch
in there.

Yeah, I'm just ready to go home.

I have no doubt, no regrets.

I'll miss you, man.
Yeah.

Take it easy.

See you, man.

Yeah, see you, Derik.

Airman Allen might think he
won by gaming the system,

but an other than honorable
discharge has real consequences.

It's equivalent to being
fired from the Navy.

It will limit his G.I. Bill
and job preference opportunities

for the rest of his life.

Allen's behavior on board and
in port was unacceptable.

And you know, it's really a
shame he didn't listen to his

peers and his chain of command as
they tried to straighten him out.

You back at the shack?

You walk around a ship and
you see people making jokes,

and you see people swearing at
each other, and yelling at each

other, and fighting each other, and
doing just general dumb stuff.

But when they call man
overboard or when they call

general quarters or when they
call any kind of drill that

requires response, everyone
may be in mid joke, but they

snap to and they go.

And I think you have
to have faith in that.

In the next couple of days
we'll pass through the straits

of Hormuz and enter the
Arabian Gulf.

We've worked hard and come a
long way to be here and we're

ready to support the guys
on the ground in Iraq.

If today was not a crooked highway
if tonight was not a crooked trail

if tomorrow wasn't such a long
time and lonesome would mean

nothing to you at all I can't
see my reflection in the water

I can't speak the sounds to show
no pain I can't hear the echo

of my footsteps or remember
the sounds of my own name

yes, and only if my own
true love's waitin'

I could only hear her
heart softly pounding

yes, and if only she was lying
by me and I'm lying in my bed

once again.

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