Dangers of a Navy Replenishment at Sea (UNREP/VERTREP)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Steps involved with a Navy replenishment at sea and several ways sailors can be killed during the process. Replenishment at sea (RAS) or underway replenishment (UNREP) is a method of transferring fuel, munitions, and stores from one ship to another while under way. #navy #military #unrep
First developed in the early 20th century it was used extensively by the United States Navy as a logistics support technique in the Pacific theatre of World War II, permitting U.S. carrier task forces to remain at sea indefinitely.
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I like the way you put this cinematography and now ready as well good job, I really enjoyed thank you peace
I really like the way you put this together you're pretty good at cinematography and narrating as well, good job, Peace,!!!
You have a voice for radio or podcast Benny.
Riskful, hard, and impressive work. Hopeful for anyone in these processes.
Venturi effect also creates an area of high pressure at the bow and low pressure at the stern which naturally makes the ships wanna go in opposite directions so the Master Helmsman are actually at a slight left or right rudder respectively.
I’m a newer 1stLT on my ship and I’m fortunate to work with all the BMs. They do great work as well as everyone else out there with them!
i hope i didn’t touched a nerve there Benny…seems to me ur talking about totally different ships fighting…i’m talking about the Awesome BM’s in the Navy since ur video is about them and the one of many dangerous Operations that they do.
1stLT on a ship. Army or Marine?
@@bigbrother9531 Army or Marine, what? LT
@@bigbrother9531 It's a "BILLET" not a rank, dipstick.
I was 1st LT at the end of the Cold War & during Desert Shield/Storm. BEST JOB in an FF. Absolutely a blast. If you get a chance, and you have the misfortune of having POS midshipmen during the summer, see if you can do a HIGH-LINE transfer of the middies from one ship to another. Take a pic of them while half-way. The middies will go back to their school/USNA with a hard-on, waving the photo, while bragging to everyone about the crazy shit they did.
Another exceptional job of putting this video together Ben. Awesome!
Thanks Pops!
I spent several years on unrep ships as both licensed and unlicensed. The only serious injury I witnessed was a sailor on the receiving ship not following procedures. The s.p. phone line is to be hand tended. The sailor apparently was tired of holding it and made it around a stationary point. when the ships surged the phone line parted and the sailor was struck in the throat by the jack box, killing him. Long established procedures are there for a reason.
USS CACAPON AO 52 had a man overboard during an unrep.....probably in '71 or '72....black kid from Chicago; he survived. Last name was Gage; I think his first name was Arthur.
It's different at night time.
We used to unrep every four to five day, usually at two in the morning in the rain for some reason. As long as you had a comprehensive safety brief before each and every unrep, things would usually go well. Then practice the emergency breakaways whenever we were finished. Good times.
I got temporarily assigned to an AOE in the early 90s. Had no idea what it even was. After 2 times on a team, BMC sent me to work for SH1. lol
My first ship 1980 was AOE 3 Deck Division
deck apes are real
OUTSTANDING! Great job with the cam. First rule of law at sea: You have to have a great sense of humor, sometimes sick, with BM's. I was an IC Man which they referred to as Fresh Air Snipes on the USS Truckee AO-147. I was involved at doing this at 18 years old.
Fresh air snipes. The best of both worlds! IC1, USS Cushing DD985, USS Pigeon ASR21, Naval Weapons Station Concord.
Great video! I served on the USS Monongahela AO 178 back in the late 90's before it was decommissioned. I was part of the RASE division. Unrepping was certainly a dangerous part of our job
USS Sabine (AO 25) here. Refueling a carrier and five WWII era destroyer at night was about as stressful as it got.
Great Video. I Remember the first time I seen this happen while serving onboard The USS Detroit AOE 4 along time ago. We were the supply.
Me too not on detroit but sacramento aoe 1
Unrep videos are so cool...that said....NOT ONE manilla high line for fuel probes, reserved for personnel transport ONLY.....I was 'there' even before the probes came about, difficult connecting those bastards...the probes were a great move forward....we made transport to ships as small as the Riverine PG's of Saigon river, to return downed pilots from the Kearsage...oh THEY paid for that...15 gallons on Kearsage best ice cream...DD's 'tribute' for returned pilots....unrepping was our specialty, during the Tet 69 we fueled 43 vessels in 40 consecutive hours....it wasn't done when we got to Yankee Station...we took 'Sierra' control as SOPA present....jeez our little 10 man radar and the whole 'Gulf' at our fingertips....
I was in the Main Space during Unreps (BTOW). Occasionally on main deck to transfer refueling horn from port to starboard for refueling. USS San Jose AFS7 82-86.
Ben. To use a Navy term here- OUTSTANDING job, Sailor!
Seriously. All around great job. The filming, the action, the edits and the superb narration.
I’m a former Second Class Boatswain’s Mate from the 70’s, so I’ve been through countless Unreps, Vert-reps etc (including a real personnel transfer that you begrudgingly mentioned).
Worked alongside the QM’s while standing watch on the bridge.
I really like how you’ve covered just about every aspect of this operation. This should be a mini feature film.
The dangers involved here are ever present. There’s a hundred things that could go wrong in a heartbeat.
But with the proper training and each crew member doing their job as required, it all gets accomplished without incident.
Although I’ve done my share of hauling lines, I eventually got a much better assignment.
I was a member of our ship’s band and our XO thought that it was a pretty cool idea to have us set up and entertain the ships that were supplying us with the much needed good, ammo and fuel.
I’ve gotta tell you, it was really something special coming alongside the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk CVA 63 whilst kicking out the jams to about 5000 sailors manning the rails from stem to stern!
We arrived in the Philippines the next day, and a guy in a bar started telling me that they had refueled a Destroyer Escort (Fast Frigate, today) the previous day and they had a band.
I humbly said-
“THAT WAS US!!!”
Great video and very informative. Love the OHP frigates there's some beauty in their design. Had the privelage to get on board of the USS Stark and USS Clark in the 90's during the Dutch Navy days at the Naval Base Den helder the Netherlands. Thanks for uploading.
Hey there shipmate. You do a great narration. Loved the relaxed voice and cadence. Good tunes at the end. It is a propeller not rotor.
Keep these coming. You should rate change to photographers mate.
My experience doing unreps:
USS Philippines: straight up struggle pulling lines in
USS Winston Churchill: bunch of meth heads, they pulled that line in
USS Kersarge: their gunner mates can’t shoot for shit
USS Truman: they threw my phone line when we didn’t even tell them to so they ain’t shit
USS Cole: we traded 10 things of toilet paper and they gave us shirts
Nighttime ops: bunch of goons running around and it’s after dinner time, let’s milk this
This Norwegian ship: they launched a dildo at us so we could hook up
Overall, best days of my life because I’m not in the engine room
USNS Ponchatoula (T-AO-148), WEST PAC 1984-85
7:15 SS Delta Ecuador, 1979, tying up in Arica Chile, was an engineer observing. A line parted, sounded like a cannon. I was was 25 feet away from a guy, able-body seaman (AB) Maximo Cruz died, did CPR on him for 20 minutes, but he died anyway. We took him home with the frozen shrimp.
12:59 12:59 Lost seaman Gillespie. RIP. Westpac 1981 U.S.S. TRIPOLI during a fuel unrep! Lost at sea. He went down in between went over the side after he took off his lifevest. Never recovered his body.
From an old , early 70’s QM3, on an oiler (aoe-3) job well done on this video shipmate. My job was the helm as we welcomed ships alongside. Our chief bosun was getting ready to retire as he was WWll. Thanks for the memory
This guy claims to be a Qmaster, yet he has limited knowledge of the correct terms. Rotor, basket thing, jet oil, diesel oil, ?? You would think man overboard happened everyday the way he talks. 67 to 69 on two supply ships, never happened. We were doing multiple unreps per day and night AOE-1 Tonkin Gulf. We could do it in our sleep, this guy couldn't find it with both hands in sun light. Sounds like he was smoking his way through it. 🚬😵
I worked at the shipyard that built the ship that you were getting replenishment from, USNS Guadeloupe (T-AO 200). We built 16 of the Kaiser Class fleet oilers. Always good to see one of "my" ships in action. Thank you.
Amazing video
Thank you for showing us !
Thank you for your service?
Was a rig captain forward starboard station on a Destroyer. Use to love doing UNREPs. The gunners-mates would aim for the white helmet if it was out on deck on the other side. lol
Have had a couple go wrong but it happens.
Back in the '70's we refueled from a MSC (military sealift command) oiler during a rare daylight evolution. Here we are all squared away and ready to go and we come along side this ship. The crew on that ship looked like a bunch of has been, burned out and scrounged out bikers. But they knew their shit.
Yes, I get it, fuelled a few USN ships back in the day, was in Australian Navy, small but capable, there are a few home movies on my channel, not plugging it though. Nice post.
9 years US Navy. Deck Seaman 4 years, master helmsman, Signalman 2nd class (SW) until forced conversion to quartermaster 2nd class (SW) and then I got out. But I did my share of underway replenishment on the bridge as a master helmsman, on station as a deck seaman and on signal bridge as a signalman
Been there....done that
I was always in the engine room or after steering hoping nothing goes wrong during unrep .My last three years I stood EOW. I was a 1st class MM in the #1 engine room on DD.We always refuel at 15 knots.Best years of my life. I’m 73 now,but I can still feel the motion of the ship.
I was a BM2 on the USA Bridge AOE-10 in the RAS division, ran the booths. Loved that job, had a blast on there. Miss it a lot and would do it again if the opportunity existed.
I was on a aor ....USS Roanoke AOR-7 we did this all the time every time we went out to sea ....nice video sweet memories thank you
Thanks for your service and comment Richard.
USS Kalamazoo AOR-6 here. Hey Wichita bro!
USS Milwaukee AOR-2, 1976-1977. 1st division.
USS WABASH AOR-5 2nd Div
When I i was in the Navy, all unreps at night siets to exist sometime after 2000 because the u.s.s. cole got bombed in Port. So no more shore refuels in the Persian Gulf and all resupply refuel was to be done by unreps only. So then it was decided due to weekly unreps that night time unreps were too dangerous and an unnecessary added risk. ORM. I served on Carriers the nukes only got jet fuel and food and ammo, we never had a single port of call in the gulf.
GMG on USS Nitro AE23 in '70s. Got to fire the line throwing gun.
We had operations where we were UNREPing port and starboard simultaneously.
Served on the USS CACAPON AO 52 and USS MISPILLION AO 105 R Division 1965-1968 West Pac
It's for shooting bearings. I was a signalman and was converted to quartermaster in 2004 and I know that. As the ship makes approach, oiler has Romeo at the Dip. So we do the same. Then they raise it up meaning they are ready to receive alongside. We raise up meaning we are ready to come alongside. Usually we approach faster so we can overcome the venturi effects of being too close and avoid collision. Once alongside we slow down and match speed.
Then we signal 1 whistle prepare to receive shot lines, the response 2 whistles ready to receive shot lines and the we blow 3 whistles which means we are firing the shot lines and on the 3rd whistle the gunner shoots.
I was on 2 of those ships as a master helmsman unrep helmsman at MSc for 12 yrs I think in all those years I've only heard that word venturi effect maybe twice at MSc you get paid alot extra to be an unrep driver. I had steering go out 5or6 times 2 times minor collision ww2 sea mines floated between ships pirates attacked once ships held took care of that once we were coming along side of a ship and their was something hanging over the side one of their seaman hung himself got hit by a rogue wave came down between ships came about 15 ft above the deck almost washed 10 people over broken ribs and arms were the worst has a hero crash on flight deck during unrep looking back it was pretty dam cool
I've done so many unreps why are they pulling the probe manually. I never did it manually. Once the shot line comes over we get the messenger line and take it directly to the capstan and take it to power. It's too much work for human beings. I guess my ship just did it differently. And we never tied off the T&D line on the bridge or station to station phone line, that was hand tended. Only thing that was tied off was safety line for the span wire.
I've done so many unreps why are they pulling the probe manually. I never did it manually. Once the shot line comes over we get the messenger line and take it directly to the capstan and take it to power. It's too much work for human beings. I guess my ship just did it differently. And we never tied off the T&D line on the bridge or station to station phone line, that was hand tended. Only thing that was tied off was safety line for the span wire.
Iam a retired MSC sailor. Work down in the engine room. I also serve 11years in the US Navy deck department and engineering department.
During an unrep U.S.S. TRIPOLI LPH-1 We had a russian cruiser cut in front of us trying to disrupt ops
Very well done! Truly heartfelt. My David
Thank you!
From an ole AFS crewman from the 80s when resupply was done by the Navy, thanks for the memories.
My rig captain would have tossed me overboard for what that guy was doing with the pile of line. We never laid the line out like that it's a trip hazzard
Did my time hauling lines day and night. Once our entire line crew got smashed against a bulkhead by a huge wave rolling up over the side. Lost no one but one in particular got a nice big scar out of it in the middle of his forehead
the subtitle keeps saying "rudder not rotor" but I feel he means "prop" because that's what is gonna kill you
I did the ride of a lifetime. I was in transit on Mediterranean cruise. Transferred from oiler Truckee to Guided missle cruiser
i was on the uss Kansas City a0r3 and we were refuleing the enterprise and the dummy gunners mate fired the shotline and i was leaning against the electric winch and the chief said hit the deck and i did the bulbs on those m14's are shatter proof and it hit the winch side where my head had been resting and made a big dent in it i started yelling at them in language i won' use it would have killed me
Great documentary on this event . It shows how hard thesr sailors have to work in order to keep these great vessels operating.
God bless our sailors and merchant marines.
I worked for MSC and was hit by the rubber on the end of the shot line. Each time it happens you feel it.
Refueled every 3 days at around midnight. Very seldom did a daylight refueling.
Is this a warning or a tutorial
I'm surprised, ships cant use water intakes on opposite side if ship during unreps.
Thank You for sharing... I spent 3 years on a AOR.
SEAMEN (on board USNS), not "sailors". ... 10:12 ... sorry.
Good Days.... Berthing Battles...I was that Dude!!!
Where is the leather gloves 🤔 👀 to protect their hands. They are not wearing
Better safety gear today compared to 30 years ago.
BZ Petty Officer Winslow. I served on FFG-58 and remember many, many UnReps.
Thank you Dan! Thank you also for your service!👍
Unreps are very dangerous even in calm seas.
I spent 3 deployments on USS Sacramento(AOE-1). Many, many UNREPs and VERTREPs. Any line snapping under tension is bad. A pallet of bombs still attached to a snapped line bouncing off the hull is bad. And having to do an UNREP at 18 knots is far from good. UNREPs all day long, or all night long are not fun. But at the end of an evolution, all is good.
Also fun going from UNREP to emergency break away to GQ. North Arabian Sea after 9/11. And night UNREP with a carrier doing recovery flight ops. Fun, fun, fun.
Thanks for this info Echo Whiskey and thank you for serving our great country! 🤙
Uss Sacramento 77-81
Why are you mixing two different UNREP evolutions?
The hardest job in the navy is the BM. We had close competitors who would always announce our presence. Their cry was 'DECKAPE IN THE HOLE'. There are no sailors tougher than BM and those who worked deep inside the hull of the ship. I miss being at sea and wish I was never stationed on shore duty. I hated it. Replenishment at sea was my favorite operation, even with danger being present. We had a rule during this operation. NEVER turn your back to the water. Replenishment was both fun and dangerous, in my opinion. Oh yeah, about the BOLO, it will knock you down if you're hit. Thanks to the life vest, which is required. Being a Boatswain's Mate (BM) made me tough. I miss it so much.
14:22 Another great & educational vid, im working my way thru all ur vids after finding/subing ur channel. I'm curious, u mentioned someone getting into the shipping delivery of morphine & said it caused harm to all, how did it harm all of u?? Maybe a shortage in stock for normal use, possibly the crew getting a massive ass chewing for it or the person made a mistake while high working that harmed rhe crew?? That person's action could have jeopardized the life & safety of the crew. THX FOR SHARNG THIS INSIGHT INTO THE NAVY & FOR UR SERVICE MY FRIEND.
🇺🇸 Go Navy 🇨🇦 🍻🍻
Bm2 here, stationed on a spruance class. Many unreps . Fuel, traveling surf, hi line, cross deck, hifer,hot pump, vertrep! No one ever went overboard, none I know of in desron 23. 7th fleet! For several years. And if so, yeah e- breakaway, then Williamson turn to fetch lost sailor out the drink!
Arghhh matey! Heave around.
ON BOARD. CARRIER MAINTAIN DISTANCE LINE WHILE REP AT SEA AT NIGHT NOT EASY 1971 SERVED INS VIKRANT
Yes sir Vijayan. Thank you for your service. 🙏
Downloaded this, other than the Roder bit lol very edifying video :)
Sorry about the roder bit. That was garbage. Thank you for watching it.
@@BennyWinslow haha no it's all good bro 😎 I appreciate you and your video. I'm now watching The truth about the US military pulling out of Afghanistan. You have a gift of telling your story bro. I'm enjoying your videos as a newbie subscriber ☺️
3:03... venturi effect will not "suck you under the other ship", it will pull the two ships together, causing them to collide. also, the rudder won't "chop you up"...the propeller will. This is why the navy has so many oil spills/collisions/accidents because they have very little knowledge about seafaring and aren't even licensed sailors.
Licensed sailors? Poppycock.
@@BennyWinslow yes, MMC issued by the coast guard
@@BennyWinslow real sailors have an education from a maritime academy and have to pass an exam to stand watch, much more extensive than an OOW certification in the navy. navy are good warfighters, not good sailors
We always told our gunners mate to aim for the guy with the yellow helmet (the rig captain). He made the perfect target.
Been there, done that, 50 pallets all hands evolution,glorious days!
*180 ft
Let me say that we on station always look forward to the cookies or goodies they send over after the UNREP is complete.
Very cool
Nice to see the Rainier AOE-7! Legend of service. I'm a plankowner when she was a USS. Great video ⚓️
Many years ago, I was navigator on USS Rainier AE-5. Great views from the bridge of lots of unreps. Great QMs and SMs.
Watched a few of those. As an Airdale on a carrier that was all I would do - watch. Coolest one I ever saw started at night in a thick fog. It continued into daybreak while still heavy fog. Everything was lite up red. The fog also surpressed sound. Glad I didn't do drugs cause I'd have freaked out. Love the video.
Thank you Mr. Garcia.
btw Japan sailors are BAD ASS SHARP
Had a great view (from the O-4 level) of an at sea collision in '93 on the USS Willamette AO180....As they pulled along side of us and lines started to go over, the Ingraham (FFG) lost steering and hit our Starbord side....Twice!!! Second time they keeled over on their Stbd side so far I thought they were going to roll over. Luckily nobody was hurt on either ship. At least one career (on the Ingraham) ended that day. Possibly more...
Would be crazy taking a rudder casualty during one of these but that's why they have the master helmsman up there
Great job!
Nobody but the squids care.
I did UNREP the other day it is no joke
Got you on thumbs up, great vid, and I just subscribed!
Sweet! Thanks David! 🍺
Thanks for sharing
USS Ruin My Day...
The "vortex" will NOT capsize your ship... period !
When they say "sucked in" they mean both ships are pulled together by the low pressure area between the ships caused by their close proximity. Based on what I'm hearing from this individual in this video he's a very "green", inexperienced crewmember.
Great video man. Quick question, why isn't a windlass used for hauling the cables and hoses back and forth? You could still have people to haul as a back up if it breaks, but I'm sure there's a reason
Cost, space, maintenance, reliability, and control.
Mostly control, you can feel exactly what that line is doing.
Civilian here, why aren't the line handlers not wearing gloves when pulling on the ropes?
Good question Canlib. Not sure.
I never understood that either when I was in the Navy. On my first ship in 87, a submarine tender, we were expected to wear gloves. On my second ship, an amphibious cargo ship, we were ordered not to wear gloves with natural or synthetic line because they said gloves get caught in lines. Yet, on both ships we wore gloves for any wire rope. I never got a straight answer on my second ship "why the difference" when I asked back then except "do as you're told". Especially frustrating when you get told that and then find out someone on your line crew got a fishhook stuck in their hand.
not bad for a wanna be BM’s, 5.35 line handler wearing gloves, safety officer not wearing chin strap…you want to see real BM’s? go Amphib Navy…
need to order more blue hard hats, (Phone and distance line handlersHard Hats) wrong color, White hard hats are for safety officers, corpman and officers. it’s in the manual, line handlers wear blue(no exceptions).
11:57 rig captain too busy being a rigger, that the BMC is running the station vise being a safety officer
…overall not bad for a tin can ship, but if you want to see how it’s really done, GO GATOR NAVY!
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You better go ask somebody about a frigate. Amphib is weak compared to a frigate. Educate yourself.
Man I loved UNREP?VERTREP/RAS. Loved it!! I was the 1st LT on an FF and would regularly scheduled the RAS ops at night. I would tell my men: If we can do it a night, we can do it in combat.
From Closing Up ROMEO, closing the last 500 yds, to P/D line across we easily did it in less than 7 minutes. Refueling line time would depend on the speed of the refueling ship.
But that was in a REAL NAVY. Not the "woke" sensitive diversity joke of today.