Graduating from Annapolis is an advantage not a requirement to be a Capt of a carrier. Also must be a naval aviator (doesn't have to be a fighter pilot either) and have a degree in Nuclear Engineering which makes sense.
Having served on an aircraft carrier. There are things wrong and missed. The repeated calling the Commanding Officer a "Commander" is wrong it Captain, sometimes "Skipper" also I very rarely saw the XO ( Executive Officer) and almost never saw the Commanding Officer. The Commanding Officer does not go around talking to the crew about their feelings. Ship's company morale is something for the Executive Officer.
Same way it was when I was in the Army. I saw my company's XO more than my CO at all assignments. It was also a rare occasion to see the CO come out to a formation. If he did it was usually not good news...
I was a Radioman on the USS Nimitz our quarters were very comfortable. Close to the XO. We used to meet every year unfortunately most of my brothers have passed away. Cherish your memories with your brothers time goes by quickly.
A commander just by his rank could never be a commander of a aircraft carrier only captains, and by the way ona ship of 5000 sailors their are many commanders and captains of various air wings. Not mention CIA and NIS.
Yes. Poorly researched, gross oversimplification and just plain WRONG info. I lived on the USS Theodore Roosevelt for 4 years and this robot voice got about half of shit right. The stock footage shown doesn't match what is being said and whoever did the research took things out of context. Another cookie cutter channel that likes to dazzle the simpletons with official sounding tripe. I am gone. Never to return. They did get this comment and view, so I unwittingly contributed to the cesspool
Guys! You show the naval academy located in the wrong place on your map! It in Annapolis, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and NOT on the eastern shore, next to Kent Island in the Eastern Bay which is off the Chesapeake. You missed the mark by about 10 nautical miles!
EDIT, ok so i finally watched the video, i won't say anything different really, except the CO doesn't interact with the crew all that often, at least not most of them that i've known, except for maybe Capt Kelly, from USS Constellation, he would have been the exception. I didn't watch the video, but i know how the CO lives on a carrier, and while it's considerably better than the enlisted, it's still not glorious. Sure, the CO and XO (and a very few othera) get their own stateroom (bedroom/work center), they also get their meals catered and delivered to them versus standing in the chow line, and someone picks up their laundry and delivers it clean and pressed to them, with those exceptions, they don't have it that much better than anyone else. They work stupid hours, maybe get 4 hours a night to sleep, get woken up for everything out of the ordinary that happens, and get blamed for everything bad that happens even if they had nothing to do with it. What I mean by that last statement is, if someone causes a catastrophic problem in engineering, or on the flight deck, or wherever, the CO gets blamed for not ensuring the person was properly trained. Yes, the CO makes way more money than everyone else on board, but they're also the easiest to fire for any problem that happens.
On US and NATO vessels, things rarely go wrong as a result of incompetence or neglect. In some ways, the ship's chief engineer has more responsibility than the captain.
@wilsjane I disagree, I was in the U.S. Navy for 24 years, I saw some seriously bad things happen, to include people killed by the accidents, and the C.O. was blamed more often than not, even though he was asleep when these things happened. The only exception i can speak of was on the USS Frank Cable (AS40), the CO and everyone else onboard knew the Cable had a steam leak in its #1 main boiler, there was steam shooting out of the boiler through a pinhole leak, people reported it, but we're told to avoid it, and keep on steaming, it wasn't until the steam plant was shut down that the boiler exploded, because when the plant was operating most of the steam was being used, but if the steam isn't being used and the plant is shut down it takes several hours (maybe as many as 2 days) before the steam evaporates completely, and pressure builds up, which caused the boiler to explode and kill several sailors, the CO was investigated, but wasn't punished, and the only reason he wasn't was the Commodore ordered him to ignore the steam leak, the commodore was the boss of the pacific submarine fleet, and he was too important to punish or replace.
@@daved4120 Thank you for your reply, in my opinion the chief engineer was responsible, he should have been making the decisions. I find it hard to believe, that work could not have started sooner, by either valving the steam during the cooling down period to the condensers, or venting it to atmosphere when the submarine was surfaced. The problem to me seems to be that engineers are rated officers, rather than expert engineers. You do not need to spent training time marching up and down a parade ground to know how the technical side of a ship works. I believe that this is changing, now that ships have state of the art radar and weapon guidance systems.
@wilsjane Have you been the chief engineer on a U.S. Navy ship and had the CO tell you to do something you disagreed with? If not then I suggest you go to OCS, get commissioned, and then have a person that can destroy your life on a whim tell you to do something you disagree with, and see how long it takes for you to get fired. Sure, the chief engineer (the CHENG) should refuse, but how many of them will refuse both the CO and the Commodore/Admiral? Not many...
@5:56 Compaq Portable and a teletype and a combination CRT-TV/VHS-VCR. and an electric typewriter . And that tile floor, I hope it's not asbestos.. What year 1984?
Interesting that at about 2:15 the video talking about the CO of a US aircraft carrier shows the CO of HMCS Athabaskan in her pre-1994 configuration as DDH before conversion to DDG. See the sailor’s cap. Athabaskan was decommissioned in 1997.
Could you please clarify whether the captain of the aircraft carrier also holds the position of commander for the other ships within the strike group? I'm interested in understanding the command structure and responsibilities associated with these roles.
I'd recommend you go elsewhere for information on naval matters. This video is so poor I would not trust anything from the authors or anyone who thinks this is a good way to educate people about the Navy.
The commander of a carrier is really unlike any other vessel in the fleet (apart from maybe large amphibous ships) since the commander has a CAG thats (almost) equal to him and usually has an embarked admiral above him thats commands the carrier strike group. Thus its must be a bit tricky knowing whom is in charge of what when they are deployed.
well the problem arises when your carrier confront nations with high speed antiship missiles or even high tech drones including under water drones, the carriers are ok when you want to confront nations or groups with no capable weapons….
The captains not in charge he runs he runs the carrier but the most important decisions there's a now always an admiral on site with every Carrier group
The battle group commander is smart and stays on the carrier. It’s the most protected ship in the group. It’s a 1 star rear admiral. I’ve served under 2
They live like the crew, but their Cabin is alot bigger than the crew! Officers eat seperate than the crew, That's the way it's been since the 4 mast ships, even subs!
As we just saw on a BLUE ON BLUE shot down. It was very critical that as soon as the fighter team on deck saw the explosion of the first fighter jet tanker take a hit ( thinking it was a drone) that the fighter jet guys on dewho had redundancy call up to Captain the stop firing to support Navy vessels around the carrier 😊 this mishap was a very near miss to the second Fighter tanker jet. Thank gosh these 4 fighter pilots got rescue ( two) , ejected, and two who had seconds to react to near miss. I feel for the captain of the support Navy vessel protection of the carrier his future in naver is probably over.
This video is a joke and embarrassing to those that have served aboard an aircraft carrier. There is no such thing as an “aircraft carrier commander”. Strong dislike. Take it down, and leave videos like this to those that actually know what they are talking about.
Aircraft Carrier Commanding Officers can be commissioned through other avenues. I hate when non-military people do videos of the military and are totally clueless. Navy Mustang here.
@@ssarsi I see you need to spend some time working with the snipes of engineering, cleaning the condensers and bilges! I don't have to pretend, I lived it and i have the disability to prove it!
@@steves6407 - No.. if you are officer (Captain) you dont clean Bilges. Only entry-level position and Cadets clean bilges. I'm not a Navy personel. I'm a seaman in a Cargo ship. I do clean cargo hold bilges.
God bless the officers and crews of our ships at sea.
Graduating from Annapolis is an advantage not a requirement to be a Capt of a carrier. Also must be a naval aviator (doesn't have to be a fighter pilot either) and have a degree in Nuclear Engineering which makes sense.
Must graduate from nuc power school/prototype.
Best Navy in the world hands down!
Biggest and best equipment does not necessarily mean the best. In exercise s carriers have been sunk by allies!
beware of China
Having served on an aircraft carrier. There are things wrong and missed. The repeated calling the Commanding Officer a "Commander" is wrong it Captain, sometimes "Skipper" also I very rarely saw the XO ( Executive Officer) and almost never saw the Commanding Officer. The Commanding Officer does not go around talking to the crew about their feelings. Ship's company morale is something for the Executive Officer.
Same way it was when I was in the Army. I saw my company's XO more than my CO at all assignments. It was also a rare occasion to see the CO come out to a formation. If he did it was usually not good news...
I was a Radioman on the USS Nimitz our quarters were very comfortable. Close to the XO. We used to meet every year unfortunately most of my brothers have passed away. Cherish your memories with your brothers time goes by quickly.
The only time you see the Captain is if you happen to be on quarterdeck 4-8 watch or at Mast. This was aboard one nuke cruiser and one heavy cruiser.
There are only 11 of Captains in the USN. They live well being Commander of the very best naval ships in the World 🗺 bar none.🇺🇲💙⚓️👍
A commander just by his rank could never be a commander of a aircraft carrier only captains, and by the way ona ship of 5000 sailors their are many commanders and captains of various air wings. Not mention CIA and NIS.
Thank you, sober Seth Rogan for the narration.
At a minute 20 into it, now I see him narrating too!
Video has nothing to do with Captains. Worst video ever.
And that's why you read the comments first
thank you now I don't have to waste my time
Yes. Poorly researched, gross oversimplification and just plain WRONG info. I lived on the USS Theodore Roosevelt for 4 years and this robot voice got about half of shit right. The stock footage shown doesn't match what is being said and whoever did the research took things out of context. Another cookie cutter channel that likes to dazzle the simpletons with official sounding tripe. I am gone. Never to return. They did get this comment and view, so I unwittingly contributed to the cesspool
Guys! You show the naval academy located in the wrong place on your map! It in Annapolis, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and NOT on the eastern shore, next to Kent Island in the Eastern Bay which is off the Chesapeake. You missed the mark by about 10 nautical miles!
I think north korea intelligence is watching this and making plenty of notes...
The head fake has been revealed. Your security clearance is hereby revoked immediately.
So why make a video at all......
As an Annapolis resident, you are 100% correct !! I noticed that too.
I caught that error as well
EDIT, ok so i finally watched the video, i won't say anything different really, except the CO doesn't interact with the crew all that often, at least not most of them that i've known, except for maybe Capt Kelly, from USS Constellation, he would have been the exception. I didn't watch the video, but i know how the CO lives on a carrier, and while it's considerably better than the enlisted, it's still not glorious. Sure, the CO and XO (and a very few othera) get their own stateroom (bedroom/work center), they also get their meals catered and delivered to them versus standing in the chow line, and someone picks up their laundry and delivers it clean and pressed to them, with those exceptions, they don't have it that much better than anyone else. They work stupid hours, maybe get 4 hours a night to sleep, get woken up for everything out of the ordinary that happens, and get blamed for everything bad that happens even if they had nothing to do with it. What I mean by that last statement is, if someone causes a catastrophic problem in engineering, or on the flight deck, or wherever, the CO gets blamed for not ensuring the person was properly trained. Yes, the CO makes way more money than everyone else on board, but they're also the easiest to fire for any problem that happens.
On US and NATO vessels, things rarely go wrong as a result of incompetence or neglect. In some ways, the ship's chief engineer has more responsibility than the captain.
@wilsjane I disagree, I was in the U.S. Navy for 24 years, I saw some seriously bad things happen, to include people killed by the accidents, and the C.O. was blamed more often than not, even though he was asleep when these things happened. The only exception i can speak of was on the USS Frank Cable (AS40), the CO and everyone else onboard knew the Cable had a steam leak in its #1 main boiler, there was steam shooting out of the boiler through a pinhole leak, people reported it, but we're told to avoid it, and keep on steaming, it wasn't until the steam plant was shut down that the boiler exploded, because when the plant was operating most of the steam was being used, but if the steam isn't being used and the plant is shut down it takes several hours (maybe as many as 2 days) before the steam evaporates completely, and pressure builds up, which caused the boiler to explode and kill several sailors, the CO was investigated, but wasn't punished, and the only reason he wasn't was the Commodore ordered him to ignore the steam leak, the commodore was the boss of the pacific submarine fleet, and he was too important to punish or replace.
@@daved4120 Thank you for your reply, in my opinion the chief engineer was responsible, he should have been making the decisions.
I find it hard to believe, that work could not have started sooner, by either valving the steam during the cooling down period to the condensers, or venting it to atmosphere when the submarine was surfaced.
The problem to me seems to be that engineers are rated officers, rather than expert engineers. You do not need to spent training time marching up and down a parade ground to know how the technical side of a ship works.
I believe that this is changing, now that ships have state of the art radar and weapon guidance systems.
@wilsjane Have you been the chief engineer on a U.S. Navy ship and had the CO tell you to do something you disagreed with? If not then I suggest you go to OCS, get commissioned, and then have a person that can destroy your life on a whim tell you to do something you disagree with, and see how long it takes for you to get fired. Sure, the chief engineer (the CHENG) should refuse, but how many of them will refuse both the CO and the Commodore/Admiral? Not many...
Bless our Vets 🇺🇸
@5:56 Compaq Portable and a teletype and a combination CRT-TV/VHS-VCR. and an electric typewriter . And that tile floor, I hope it's not asbestos.. What year 1984?
Interesting that at about 2:15 the video talking about the CO of a US aircraft carrier shows the CO of HMCS Athabaskan in her pre-1994 configuration as DDH before conversion to DDG. See the sailor’s cap. Athabaskan was decommissioned in 1997.
Please translate; Not all who read this are as intelligent as you, oh, sire !
@@axiomist4488 True!
Hey, this is about an Aircraft Carrier Commander. Wow.
Great work
Could you please clarify whether the captain of the aircraft carrier also holds the position of commander for the other ships within the strike group? I'm interested in understanding the command structure and responsibilities associated with these roles.
No...the Captain doesn't oversee the rest of the strike group. There's a Strike Group Commander on the ship that oversees the whole group
I'd recommend you go elsewhere for information on naval matters. This video is so poor I would not trust anything from the authors or anyone who thinks this is a good way to educate people about the Navy.
It’s a 1 star admiral in charge of the battle group or a RADM
Showing each scene for one or 2 seconds gives me a headache
Often just 1 second. I agree it is really annoying.
The commander of a carrier is really unlike any other vessel in the fleet (apart from maybe large amphibous ships) since the commander has a CAG thats (almost) equal to him and usually has an embarked admiral above him thats commands the carrier strike group. Thus its must be a bit tricky knowing whom is in charge of what when they are deployed.
well the problem arises when your carrier confront nations with high speed antiship missiles or even high tech drones including under water drones, the carriers are ok when you want to confront nations or groups with no capable weapons….
USN veteran 1966-70. Think God that I never got orders to a bird farm.
I spent 3 years on one 1982-85...I requested one and never regretted my decision but to each his own shipmate.
What kind of uniform is that with all those medals on his chest ? You really think a Captain wears then while at sea ? lol.
Title bears no resemblance to content. 🤦♂
Except that the XO handles a lot of the intra-ship stuff.
The captains not in charge he runs he runs the carrier but the most important decisions there's a now always an admiral on site with every Carrier group
Thanks for your video. I served on the USS Coral Sea before.
Who commands the carrier group in.e. Has overall command of all the ships? Is that officer on board the carrier?
No an admiral commands a strike group and he has his own ship usually a cruiser
@ ah ok thx
The battle group commander is smart and stays on the carrier. It’s the most protected ship in the group. It’s a 1 star rear admiral. I’ve served under 2
They Live like Someone who lives in Trump Tower.
Navy ROTC officers who choose aviation can also command carriers.
May the lord bless our military and their families
Have you ever notice how military news go out their way to focus on women in the military ?
Carrier captains are always pilots also
Hi ! How can I get in touch with you?.
He doesn't like to be touched, I heard.
They live like the crew, but their Cabin is alot bigger than the crew! Officers eat seperate than the crew, That's the way it's been since the 4 mast ships, even subs!
How do captains on big aircraft carriers get exposed to dioxin?
The best duty in the US Navy is aborard a small ship, like a 300 foot long ship, with small crews...this Duty is a nightmare...
Submarines are even worse. Most of them carry a doctor to keep an eye on the crew members psychological conditions.
Nice video 👍
Which one would you be..
USN Aircraft Carrier Captain
or
USN Boomer [SSBN] Submarine Captain
Captain, not Commander.
About the only people that are captain of an aircraft carrier talk to is the air boss, the ops boss, the XO and the department heads.
Your story sucks. The guy is a CAPTAIN.
As we just saw on a BLUE ON BLUE shot down. It was very critical that as soon as the fighter team on deck saw the explosion of the first fighter jet tanker take a hit ( thinking it was a drone) that the fighter jet guys on dewho had redundancy call up to Captain the stop firing to support Navy vessels around the carrier 😊 this mishap was a very near miss to the second Fighter tanker jet. Thank gosh these 4 fighter pilots got rescue ( two) , ejected, and two who had seconds to react to near miss. I feel for the captain of the support Navy vessel protection of the carrier his future in naver is probably over.
Very well
Badly written, badly edited and poorly researched.
Hodge podge of scenes spliced together. Some are Air Force personnel.
But misleading title.
This is completly wrong 1st and foremost they MUST a naval aviator.
I can sum up how CO's live on an aircraft carrier in three words..."pretty effing swell!"
Getting facts straight would be of benefit.
Stop Shouting!!!!!
Not every CO comes from the Boat School!
Certainly not dressed like the jerk in the picture! Doubt any of you actually know what you’re talking about!
To bad this foes not portray the facts according to Navy personnel with actual experience on aircraft carriers.
On their belly of course.
How do you spell UA-cam? G-A-R-B-A-G-E
Sorry d e I people, you don't get to be a commander. Only at the Air Force Academy, but that'll change soon. Thank god
Are you kidding, a career, me doesn't think so. Too much disciple for my taste.
Trump has got to get the woke OUT of the military
Could not agree more.
So only white males have positions of importance?
You mean diversity right? You have no clue
How are we not woke, & how many yrs did you serve?
@boxedinfo my brother just got out after 22 year's in the 82nd airborne, don't tell me what Barry Hussein Obama and Biden did with that DEI crap
dont screAM NOW wait till someone or something hears u, funsters on the web test test....
This video is a joke and embarrassing to those that have served aboard an aircraft carrier. There is no such thing as an “aircraft carrier commander”. Strong dislike. Take it down, and leave videos like this to those that actually know what they are talking about.
Agreed. He’s the CO or the old man. CAPT John Payne was my first CO and we referred to captains mast as “house of Payne”
How about sex life during long deployment? Masturbation?
Have fun during port visits. If you can’t get laid in the military, better become a priest😂
🇺🇸😇🙏🕊️👍🦅💪
Overexcited. I stopped watching.
Aircraft Carrier Commanding Officers can be commissioned through other avenues. I hate when non-military people do videos of the military and are totally clueless. Navy Mustang here.
God I hate this bot voice
Nice Propaganda, I wish it had more to do with reality!
This is not Propaganda. This is real. I saw US Aircraft carrier personally visited my country and it look so badass and Scary. i'm just civilian
@@ssarsi I served as a Nuke CMO on one yes it is Propaganda!
@@steves6407- Stop pretending.
@@ssarsi I see you need to spend some time working with the snipes of engineering, cleaning the condensers and bilges! I don't have to pretend, I lived it and i have the disability to prove it!
@@steves6407 - No.. if you are officer (Captain) you dont clean Bilges. Only entry-level position and Cadets clean bilges. I'm not a Navy personel. I'm a seaman in a Cargo ship. I do clean cargo hold bilges.
Yawn video!
The Captain is not the Commander bud