“Quit the job at Starbucks, joins the Navy, works in Starbucks on Naval Warships.”

@Cantetinza17

Жыл бұрын

Praise God that wasn't on my ship.

@SamPashmi

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure it’s optional

@NazriB

Жыл бұрын

Lies again? AMWF CAR COLD STORAGE

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

With.....NO TIPS!!! But.....port calls.

@carryeveryday910

Жыл бұрын

Get way better benefits though lol.

"Yeah I was in the Navy. 2nd Fleet, Starbucks unit."

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

Way after my time. Bug juice, canned soda, soft serve ice cream. 😄

@wiseandhumble2470

Жыл бұрын

If your ever in chas sc, hmu ill buy ya some bucks if desired, we got dd and krispy kreme too, although i know from hearing its goid shit ive not confirmed coffee sales, be foolish if not but yeah get here lmk and ill treat ya. Ty for being you...

@markmiller3308

Жыл бұрын

“Special Forces; Pumpkin Spice Brigade! Hoorah!”

@isaacthehuman6343

Жыл бұрын

Retail specialist be like

@toastnjam7384

Жыл бұрын

"Got a unit citation for the great lunch rush of 2017."

I honestly thought this was going to be about numerous crazy stores on board.

@charlienoble7862

Жыл бұрын

"Woah a Best Buy on a carrier?!?!"

@TigraWatanabe

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this are not realy "Crazy Stores" just general Stores and its about 3 Minutes of Stores and 10 Minutes Commercial for a Aircraft Carrier.

@Cantetinza17

Жыл бұрын

No it's just what they sell in the ship store. Now if you want to know about CRAZY you have to go outside what the ship knows your selling on the boat. 😉The stories I have! When they say it's a floating city. That's what they mean.

Imagine traveling abroad surrounded by billions of dollars and the most highly trained people in the world doing exceedingly dangerous tasks only to still work retail. The machine never stops, I swear.

@dano727

Жыл бұрын

That is what they sign up for.

@daserfomalhaut9809

Жыл бұрын

@@dano727 I'm not shitting on the crew members. Bless them for the stress at seas to protect us. I just think it's funny how no matter what, there's those pesky brands demanding they be sold to customers. There goes that there fucking *Starbucks* on a damn aircraft carrier. I just draw a bit of cynical humor from these inevitabilities is all.

@jamesdukes597

Жыл бұрын

@@dano727 bro they should at least get something better I mean cmon they shouldn't expect no Starbucks coffee on a billion dollar ship but at a dealership or some goofy looking coffee shop I understand but a ship filled with multiple crew members that's cheap service

@clemclemson9259

Жыл бұрын

it never will either .. good point!

@dano727

Жыл бұрын

@@daserfomalhaut9809 They didn't have this when I served 30 years ago, but The Navy does try to make life at sea more comfortable. Life at sea can be tough.

Served on Ike '86-'90 only coffee was black with cream and sugar to taste. Beans came already ground in 20lb olive drab, vacuum packed tins. Once got one dated March 1966, meaning it was 2 months older than I was.

@travelwannabe5392

Жыл бұрын

Omg....

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

Stevemre1989 approves

@lilricky2515

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the Universal Grind coffee, so many jokes...

@Jimmy-bm3xy

4 ай бұрын

Served 86 and 88 West-pac. We referred to the coffee as MUD.

I was a Plane Capt and Mech on F-14s working mostly on the flight deck in the mid 80s. Average day was 12 to 16 hours. I would have love to find time to stand in line for coffee. We barely had time to go to the chow hall. I did love this video. Brings back great memories.

@user-mu1tq8kt1x

Жыл бұрын

اكيد ذكريات جميلة ربي يعطيك العمر كله والصحه الجيده

@1020donny

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, I wonder if the zips wait in the lines with the enlisted folks or do they go straight to the front?

@faguilin

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your service sir.

@geddon436

Жыл бұрын

16 hour days? I can easily see people making mistakes working that many hours.

@bnunes50

Жыл бұрын

Not much has changed for line personnel. Different aircraft, same job.

I wish they had shown more of the store itself, the items being sold, the people that work there, the customers that shop there. Instead seems like majority of footage is of outside the aircraft carrier with scenes of the jets and ocean.

@ladybugtrail2815

Жыл бұрын

Agree. The video is called 'crazy stores you find on an aircraft carrier'; they showed two.

@ckm-mkc

Жыл бұрын

It just looks like a normal US grocery store but smaller. In the past there were paper catalogs of stuff you could order for delivery to your house, dunno about now, it's been 30 years since I've been on one.

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

@@ckm-mkc Everything is either online, or moving that way. The problem is getting companies to ship to FPO/APO addresses. That little customs slip screws up their automated system. SMH

@rs61434

Жыл бұрын

Served 6 years in the Navy. Was assigned to a carrier for most of that time. The stores aren't crazy. You could make a 15 minute video of someone walking around a 7/11 and get the gist of it. I think they officers might have had some better stuff but I doubt if it would blow your mind.

@Cantetinza17

Жыл бұрын

I was on an Aircraft Carrier and what they showed was pretty much it. There isn't too much to the ship store. They only let 3-4 people in the store at a time because it's so small. I bet all those people waiting in line while the camera crew were in there were probably so annoyed because the crew took the spot of at least service members. All you want is your Candy, soda, and Ramen and you want to hit your rack.

I met a woman whose entire job in the aircraft carrier was filling the candy machines. She did this type of full time work for 4 years. The favorite candy was Hershey’s products. The least favorite was non chocolate candy.

@jettron1

Жыл бұрын

That is pathetic! Guess she has no ambition in life (hope you didn't hook-up with that loser).

@butlerdawgs78

Жыл бұрын

Not all heroes wear capes

@Morpheus187

Жыл бұрын

Her mos would have been Storekeeper. Yes that is real

@parkernorris3397

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I am. The rate is called a Retail Service Specialist or RS

@coover65

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't imagine doing the same repetitious work for a week, let alone four years. Does the USN not promote personal or professional development?

I was on the Forrestal during the fire as a plane captain and on the Intrepid on WestPac when she turned 25 years old. We had none of these bennies. I would not trade my time for anything. The job was tough and long, but I learned a lot. Made me a better man. Go NAVY

@gary-qn7wu

Жыл бұрын

The USS FOREST FIRE!

@thomassmartin9728

Жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is, Starbucks ain't everything it's cracked up to be. Now if you had a Dutch Brothers on board, now you're talking !!!

I love this. These men and women, not just Navy but all military, deserve this type of treatment. They are willing to give their lives for our way of life.

I served aboard the USS MIDWAY out of Yokosuka, Japan from '78 through '80... The ship had a barber shop, a US Post Office and a general store... There were also video game consoles near the Forward Mess Deck... That was all...Now look how far the Navy had come...

@frankmontez6853

Жыл бұрын

How did your daily routine work out ? You had your duty or work maybe an 8 hour shift then sleep for several hours then the rest of your 24 hours were your personal time off ?

@MacDaddyRico

Жыл бұрын

@@frankmontez6853 Different divisions and rates have different schedules...As an Interior Communications Electrician (E Division,) I had a regular 8 hour daytime/normal business hours shift...but we also had rotating watches of four hours each in a 24-hour period...At times, the watch would fall during the work day...The watches were: Midnight to 4 am 4 am to 8 am 8 am to 12 pm 12 pm to 4 pm 4 pm to 8 pm 8 pm to Midnight

@gary-qn7wu

Жыл бұрын

I was on the USS SAMUEL GOMPERS same time frame, West Pac 78 I remember seeing the Midway in Yokosuka,great small carrier!

@MacDaddyRico

Жыл бұрын

@@gary-qn7wu Yes, she only held 4,800 crew members...

@I.want_2piss_on.U

Жыл бұрын

Currently in Yoko cvn 76 and it’s actually gone backwards the navy as you know it is gone

I was on the Constellation (CVA64) in the early 70’s. Lucky to find drinkable Luke warm water ,then powered eggs & milk. Things change. Got it made now ! 🇺🇸

5:25 Amazon Prime boxes even in the middle of the ocean. 🤣

@Elliesbow

Жыл бұрын

As an Amazon worker this makes me proud

Sheesh! Starbucks? When I was in the Navy in the 60s, serving aboard the Enterprise, all we had was good ol' Navy coffee. The kind that if you stuck a spoon in it the spoon would stand on it's own. You had to bite off a chunk to get a mouthful of coffee. Oh yes, it also tasted like JP-5! (Well, at least it kept you regular! Not much constipation on a carrier in those days!)

@ThomasKent1346

Жыл бұрын

p.s. How long ago did I serve? Ship's Stores still sold tobacco. Once we were outside the 3 mile limit, cigs cost $1.10 for regular, $1.20 for kings. (No 100s back then). Oh, those prices? they were for a CARTON, not a PACK! (Ten packs to a carton = eleven cents a pack for regular, 12 cents a pack for kings.)

Morale, welfare, and recreation to the crew. All profits made in the Ship’s Store/vending machines/coffee bars go straight back to the crew in various ways. Sailors that work in those spaces also do firefighting, knows first aid, and stand inport quarterdeck/security watches.

@spaghetti9845

Жыл бұрын

everyone in the navy knows how to fight fire, basic first aid and standing watch.

@sagsfv3122

Жыл бұрын

On my Destroyer, the ship's store was smaller than my current bathroom. We had a gedunk machine back by the ship's office, with a selection of 4 types of soda. When we left Australia, all the selections were Aussie brands with unique flavors, one being which included Passionfruit.

@Geeksmithing

Жыл бұрын

@Spaghetti exactly! I am not sure what point that commenter was trying to make. 😆

@ShohTann

Жыл бұрын

@@Geeksmithing I’m not making a point or anything. It’s just a comment and info that some people that might not know because some people obviously didn’t know that there are convenient stores inside naval ships.

@Geeksmithing

Жыл бұрын

@@ShohTann half of your comments info was covered in the video and the other half is inaccurate, so mission accomplished? 👍

I did the 92-93 Med / Adriatic Sea cruise on the Kennedy, CV 67. We were lucky to have any kind of resemblance to milk or cream for coffee and sure didn’t have anything like Starbucks. We called or candy store the Geedunk. Worked on the flight deck 12 hours a day and loved every minute of it. Also took a cat and a trap in a Cod, awesome experience. Go Navy

@Unbridled13

Жыл бұрын

Haven't heard the word geedunk in many years since my parents passing. My Dad was career Navy. He was on carriers. ❤ He was on a cruise when I was born. Met him in Hawaii for first time when I was several months old.

@Norton300

Жыл бұрын

We relieved you. I was on the TR

@kevinhendrix8786

Жыл бұрын

I was there with you (VA-75). If you remember, canned sodas were forbidden on the JFK...they said because of a FOD risk. Which didn't make much sense. And maybe you remember the JFK pizza nights. The pizza wasn't that good, but they had all the khakis serve it. Nice break in the routine and was pretty cool when the XO was asking what kind of pizza toppings you wanted.

At Lakehurst we had an old welder who had quit school to work at the Philly Navy Yard in WWII. He was sent to a carrier for a week and wore his tan work clothes, you sailors see where this is going. He wore a Navair ball cap and the crew started saluting :) Once going between decks a sailor asked him if he needed directions. No son, I built this ship, I welded the keel and now I build the JBD's :)

@navydad8916

Жыл бұрын

Lakehurst? ABE ,H,F?

@johnclaybaugh9536

Жыл бұрын

@@chairmanmeow2413 have you seen a dictionary? Didn't think so. Also, my stepfather was a welder.

@edwardweeden8837

Жыл бұрын

And they say welders are sort of LOOPY because of all the fumes and grit - NO WAY! This guy knew what he was doing!!!

Things have certainly changed, with regards to the stores available. On the USS Forrestal, in 82, we had a ship's store of a surprising size, for a ship. But it wasn't groceries. Clothing, uniform items, audio cassettes, personal items, etc. Sodas were available, but only via a soda mess, which meant your shop had to organize, pay for it, and store it. The bulk sodas were stored in voids, which are the oddball shaped spaces between "rooms" on a ship. Which means, no climate control at all. I was an ET in the radar shop, and we were fortunate enough to have a refrigerator to use. But, by the time we got them, a lot of the sodas were affected by the heat, cans swelling, etc. And we certainly didn't have a Starbucks. Or a McDonald's. Or any other "brand name" shop. We had a forward mess deck, which served hamburgers ("sliders") on the starboard side, hot dogs on the port side, open 23 hours a day. And, an aft mess deck which operated like a mess hall ashore. Open for a few hours each standard meal time and served similar meals. Coffee, like the sodas, was available via a coffee mess in your shop, or on the mess decks or lounges in some cases. We had a five gallon urn in the radar shop for that. Thing is, you had to go down 3 decks with a big jug to get the water. Plus, we worked two shifts 7-7, 7 days a week, but the only time we were all in the shop at once, was at shift turnover. So, you never knew for sure how long that urn had been cooking that coffee.... I was also on a frigate. One ship's store, served through a window. One mess deck which served the usual meals, like the aft deck on the carrier. And certainly no "brand name" stores of any sort. I remember about halfway through that 82 cruise, our SPN-35 tech walked into the shop with a 2 liter bottle of soda. Something you couldn't have bought since we'd left the states months ago. Something you couldn't keep in your spaces, legally, that would be considered contraband during a zone inspection. We were all stunned to see it, and he never explained where he'd kept it. But, he sort of "lived" in the SPN-35 radome, to the point it was nicknamed "Freddy's penthouse". Our best guess is he stashed it in there...somewhere. When we took that ship to the yards in 83, the SPN-35 was being removed. As a joke, "Fast Freddy" put in a request chit to have the radome transferred to his mother's home in Jax, FL. All the way up the chain, everyone played along, approving it with notes about the "potential psychological impact", etc. Obviously, he didn't get it. But, he got one hell of a souvenir in the form of that rather hilarious request chit.

@WRITING-DRAGONS

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this….😲😲😲😀😀😀👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

@werewolflover8636

Жыл бұрын

Quality of life updates. I don’t see why anyone would complain about it.

@DaveL188

Жыл бұрын

We must have walked by each other at least once during the 82 med Cruise work V1 and was to security. 😊

@brolinofvandar

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveL188 Could be. While I did spend most of my time in or near the island, I was all over the shop at times. We had equipment in places like Secondary Control up in the forecastle, and all the way back aft. Had to go down to the main spaces to get distilled water for my radar. Etc. I rode her into the yards in 83, working Fire Watch and MAA there. One of the people I met as a MAA, was a signalman. He brought me a picture of myself, up on top of the SPS-43 radar antenna. He didn't know me when he took the picture, just thought it interesting seeing us up there. Don't know if you'd have even heard about it, but we lost the transmission line system for that radar right after we left Naples. That picture was when I found the problem. Small world sometimes. Went to work in MD when I got out, and found myself working with someone that has been my student years before, at ET "A" school.

@DaveL188

Жыл бұрын

@@brolinofvandar if you ever went into flight deck control I was playing with the ouji board. Have guy I graduated with that was a MS,3 on my the FID at the same time s very small world.

Since female’s came on board there is lots nicer things for the crew. In my days no female’s, there were no cans of coke or bottles of coke and no snacks, cookies and candy sold in the ships store. We had a couple coke machines and it cost 15 cents for a cup of coke and most of the time the machine either didn’t work or you got a empty cup or no cup and watched the coke shoot down the drain. We either drank water out of the scuttle butt, bug juice from the galley, coffee or sometimes milk. There was a little hole no bigger than a closet that was a candy store and maybe once a month it opened but was emptied in a matter of minutes. And yes this was on a carrier. When at sea we drank coffee mostly and in port we drank and drank and drank!!!!

@surmatise

Жыл бұрын

Sounds about the same as we had in 2004-06 on FFG55. We had hills bros coffee (looks like muddy water, tastes like turpentine probably originated from it)on the enlisted mess. You could only find starbucks in o country and that was just bagged starbucks coffe put in there coffee maker, there were no actual coffee shops. We had an ice cream maker that had room for one flaver(chocolate or vanilla) and it was used once per underway period and almost always vanilla. We had a tiny ships store that was rarely open and a soda and candy machine on the mess deck.

@frankbalazs8816

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like prison!! No thanks

@UrAshWhole

Жыл бұрын

So a civilian 4/10 females becomes a 9 inside.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

These women just there to have fun. If you get what I mean. Its destructive to defensive capabilities and unit cohesion

@oldfarmer4700

Жыл бұрын

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti you probably said something a lot of old timers would like to say but this day and time your not politically correct. Lots are way different like mail, calling family. We got a letter from home when the cod brought the mail and was excited when some one was waiting on the pier when we returned from a cruise. News you got from home in the mail was at least two to three weeks old. Made a person appreciate things a lot more than what’s going in today.

In my ≈ 4 yrs on a carrier I fielded multiple questions about where the bowling alley and the swimming pool were. _These were serious questions._

@edwardwilliams8759

Жыл бұрын

USS MIDWAY 83-86. We did have a "bowling alley"!

@blaineedwards8078

Жыл бұрын

Don't you need to get a certain series of medical shots when you join the Navy? I mean like in basic training when you go through all the medical stuff?

@Provocateur3

Жыл бұрын

@@blaineedwards8078: I went through boot in 1968, in San Diego. That Naval Training Center has been closed years, decades ago. Things were different then. AIDS didn't exist yet. Every known infection could be cured. Yes, tons of shots. Some went in your shot record. Some did not. Government, you know. I'd bet they've got even more shots now.

@gary-qn7wu

Жыл бұрын

Was active 77-84 Samuel gompers AD-37,Beeville NAS,and USS Flint AE-32,then retired in 02 after 18 years reserves EN-1 lots of good times!

Anyone who served in the last two decades or so can date this video based on the uniforms. There was a shot of an SK stocking shirts in Utilities which were phased out in 2010 and the Type I NWO that is shown most prevalently (the blue digicam) was phased out in favor of the Type III NWU (green digicam) in 2019. So the footage is anywhere from over a decade old to a few years. Still, I recognized exactly where some of these spaces were as I served on two different Nimitz-class carriers in my 20 year career.

@stephenobrien1505

Жыл бұрын

As a former crew member aboard the USS Constellation, I find nothing inaccurate in your comment, HOWEVER... One needn't have served a single day in the Navy to know with absolute certainty which footage was shot in the last couple of years simply by noting the presence of masks adorning the sailors' faces. j/s

@whirledpeaz5758

Жыл бұрын

No Dungarees from my time pre 1990.

@Geeksmithing

Жыл бұрын

Enterprise class was the best! ;)

@sharonrigs7999

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine seeing people in masks spraying down boxes before 2020

Did two tours in VRC-40 working on the COD's. Great memories with those C2 aircraft.

Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!

Imagine getting a full-ride through college and making 40k a year with excellent benefits and retirement for making the same starbucks coffee as an 18 year old making $10/hr.

@201hastings

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a half baked opinion on a subject you’re unfamiliar with

@TheRealFoop

Жыл бұрын

@@201hastings I'm probably more familiar with the concept than you are, having served in a support unit as well. I just know how to laugh at things in life instead of taking everything so seriously.

@whirledpeaz5758

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRealFoop $40K/yr ($3333/mo) would have to be an E6 over 4yr or E5 over 6yr /w sea pay at minimum. That kind of seniority would not be cashiering. E4 pay caps out at $2829/mo (2021 pay chart).

@TheRealFoop

Жыл бұрын

​@@whirledpeaz5758 I considered the incredible health benefits, GI benefits, retirement options, and no mortgage or food expenses as at least something. So yes, I rounded up to 40k instead of rounding down to 30k.

@theangelwearsprana1869

Жыл бұрын

Hilarious username 🤣🤣🤣

Man this was really cool to see…a lot of operations on some of these cargo items

@I.want_2piss_on.U

Жыл бұрын

You should join to see how cool it really is

Join the Navy and work in a C store. My dad did 20 years and 15 civil working on ships electronics. When I hit 18 he said are you ready to join, I politely said, with no disrespect I've had 18 years of the Navy that's enough.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

What a stolen childhood

In my day these shops were called 'GeeDunks' - with a hard 'G' as in 'Gum'. Origin of this word is probably 'oriental slang' - like the Navy term 'kum-shaw' but I'm not sure of this. I don't know about the types of magazines available nowadays in the era of female/male crew, but when I was aboard my carriers we had the full range including the 'adult' variety. Stars & Stripes was the only 'newspaper' though. There was all kinds of stuff with the ship's logo on it as well: pens, scrapbook covers, pins, badges, wallets, key rings, civvie swim trunks, civvie shirts and civvie caps, etc. The only logo items unavailable through the ship's store were ship's cruise patches (or overhaul duty patches) which were strictly controlled by the Departments and only distributed to individuals assigned onboard during those activities. There was no sale of 'uniform insignia' either - in other words, a Seaman (E-2) couldn't become an instant First Class Petty Officer (E-6) by just switching pins on their ball caps! Candy of all kinds, salty snacks, teas, coffee, soft drinks etc. were available. By far the most popular 'soda fountain' items were soft serve ice cream and slushes and what we called 'frosties' (very similar to the Wendy's variety - only two flavors though, chocolate and vanilla). After 1977 on the Main deck forward, the Carl's Jr. Corporation put in a 'Navy version' of one of their fast food restaurants. Extremely popular! All proceeds from these GeeDunks went to the Ship's Special Services fund which supplied athletic equipment for the crew and paid for tours when we were visiting liberty ports. My workcenters (usually on the 03 deck) were about 50 feet from a GeeDunk and I often skipped the walk to a galley (and the huge lines/delays) by going over to my 'local' and snacking up! HAPPY MEMORIES SHIPMATES!!!

Imagine working at Starbucks before enlisting in the navy to find some adventure and end up working at Starbucks in an aircraft carrier lol

I remember being kind-of stunned by the number of Human souls on a US fleet carrier.

As an Infantryman in Viet Nam I was over joyed when we got a (semi) hot meal. :-)

Wow, times have really improved. I was on CV41 USS Midway; we had nothing but a small Gedunk shop with nothing in it. I still enjoyed the experience.

@dejavu666wampas9

Жыл бұрын

When was that? Any chance you went across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea in July of 1970, accompanied by the LKA - USS El Paso? I was a Marine being transported to Greece for some war games. The USS Guam went with us. A group of us Marines, who knew Morse Code, worked on the signal bridge, just to keep us occupied while at sea. I used the Very Light (spelling?), the big signal light, and talked to the Guam’s signal bridge a couple of times. It would be awesome if our paths had crossed 52 years ago. Thanks for standing your watch for your country.

@Cha-y412

Жыл бұрын

My Uncle Jim was a 17 year old plank owner of the USS Astoria CL 90 in 1944. Coming from a very poor upbringing they had very little to eat and ice cream was rare. When he was in his 70s he told me of his War experiences in the Navy in the Pacific. He never touched stories of non stop Kamakazi attacks, shelling Iwo Jima or Okinawa for days non stop. He spoke at length with a smile on his face about the ships Gedunk and unlimited ice cream for free. Gedunk -- I haven't heard that word in years.

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

Cool. And great that CV 41 Midway is a museum. I toured USS Lexington in Corpus last Veterans day.

USS Guam, 1991- bought box of raisins from ship store, opened them, full of maggots. Wasn't about to stand in line again, oh well.

Unless I missed it in the video you missed a very common replenishment technique. Ship to ship underway replenishment. It's pretty cool. They get the two ships side by side with matching speeds about 50 yards apart. Then they shoot a line from one ship to another. That line is used to pull a heavier line which is used to pull and even heavier line. Eventually they have a cable between the two and pallets of goods are transferred across the cable from the supply ship to the carrier.

@jimmylight4866

Жыл бұрын

Nah, vert reps were more fun.

@booboo699254

Жыл бұрын

There's another video from Flutus that has the ship to ship ferrying.

@johnclaybaugh9536

Жыл бұрын

It's great until there's a steering casualty. Oh, but I was on the carrier. Being on the bigger ship meant that everything was fine (for me).

@markbrown9765

Жыл бұрын

@@johnclaybaugh9536 What carrier? USS America '84-85 and USS Enterprise '88-89 for me.

@johnclaybaugh9536

Жыл бұрын

@@markbrown9765 USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Persian gulf in 95. If I remember correctly we bumped the California when they had a steering casualty. It's the one event that happened in my life that is talked about on Wikipedia, lol.

The World needs a strong USA Navy 👍

@speedracer2336

Жыл бұрын

Army, Air Force and Marines too!

@elusivelectron

Жыл бұрын

I wasn't aware there are stores.

This is why America is the greatest country in the world. Cheers from Canada

Incredible, impressive and a whole lot of other things! Excellent video

Always loved vertical replenishment Got assigned every time

They deserve the star bucks and more. I love the Navy.

@Adrian_Nel

Жыл бұрын

@Eric Owren. What horrible things have they done to deserve that sugar-laden garbage? Can they not be forgiven and served decent coffee?

@tracykingston9668

Жыл бұрын

@@Adrian_Nel So far , it's 15 to zero. You're not doing too good, bud. Maybe it'll get better. Cheers.

@DanaTheInsane

Жыл бұрын

@@Adrian_Nel Maybe its what they want. Not everybody wants to drink black rocket fuel.

The biggest ship I ever was on was a LST to Puerto Rico. I remember one Marine at the end of our boot camp getting Sea Duty and the DI said you're going to be on a boat.

I heard a story from WW2 where some ensigns tried to pull rank in the gedunk line, and got chewed out by a 5-star to wait their turn like everyone else.

@kennixox262

Жыл бұрын

A Five Star Admiral actually on a Navy shop in WW2? Hmmm, not so sure about that.

@joshuabessire9169

Жыл бұрын

@@kennixox262 well, they say a fairy tale starts "once upon a time," and a sailor story starts "No sh!t!"

@ronalddavis

Жыл бұрын

that was admiral halsey. a two star at the time i think

"What did you do during the war dad?" " It was horrible Timmy! I remember one morning at exactly 0630, I had to fill an order for 14 Cappachino Grandes, 3 Iced Lates, and a French Vanilla Expresso! I lost a lot of my best cashiers that morning. I can still see their faces in my sleep. Thats why they say, " coffee retail is hell!" Thats why I have PTSD ( Pretty Terrible Sales Disorder)"

@powerbadpowerbad

Жыл бұрын

That ptsd joke was FUNNY !!! I'm gonna use that.

I'm a retired sailor. I served on fast attack subs. This is so hard for me to process on several layers. Lol

@whirledpeaz5758

Жыл бұрын

Bet you had better food.

@fasfan

Жыл бұрын

@@whirledpeaz5758 I don't know.. we didn't have a store or a Starbucks. We had coffee. It came in a large #10 can. It was brewed in a coffee pot. It was coffee, black, 1 each. Any "store" that you got snacks from was whatever you bought and fit in your rack. The food was pretty good though. Cooks only had to cook for about 60-80 people at a time underway. The other half of the crew was sleeping.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

​@@fasfanand no pussy!!! No pussy at all!!! Today navy ships are like a brothel....BUT FOR FREEE!!!! its like you sign up to roleplay War and get a buffet of food and pussy for free. Its like a disney movie come true

A guy once said to me "We don't rely on luck in the Navy !"

I was in A Gang on the Kitty Hawk, and Ranger in the late 70's to the late 80's and it was nothing like this !! Thank you all that have, and currently serving I saw all the soda pop hauled in, shortly after they filled them, all we had was fanta, fresca, tab, and maybe dietrite...lol

@gary-qn7wu

Жыл бұрын

I was an A ganger on my first 2 ships great div. To be in

@ronalddavis

Жыл бұрын

i wouldnt give tab to my worst enemy

I was one of the lucky ones. I was an ABH3 V1 Div flight deck. Crash and Salvage USS Boxer LHD 4. I was outside in the sunshine and jet exhaust 14-16hrs a day. I really felt bad for all the people down below decks.

Didn't have all these 'comforts' on carrier I was on. Had a ships store , post office and barber shop, that was about it. No vending machines.

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

HEYYY Shipmate! Another old school Sailor to 2nd your comment. Soft serve ice cream was the thing when I was in. 😄 Oh, and the transition from being paid in cash at sea, to the 'onboard ATM'.

@justdoingitjim7095

Жыл бұрын

In 1972 when I was in the Corps, for places to eat on base we only had the mess halls, a few vending machines in the barracks and the snack bar with grill at the central bus station. In the evenings though they would allow food trucks like you see at construction sites to cruise the alleys by the barracks once each night, honking his horn.

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

@@justdoingitjim7095 I can relate. In 87, in the barracks at, what was NATTC Memphis, now part of BUPERS or across the road from it, the cigarette and beer machines were removed 😡. Up until before I retired in 2018, the food trucks, we affectionately called a Roach Coach, were still making rounds on the piers at different bases. Some GOOD eats indeed. Loved seeing them pull up and set up shop.

@ac2-rm141

Жыл бұрын

@@Jaeh1 Yep, the 50 cent can of beer from the beer machine.

The Uk has the NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes ) for treats on bases and ships.

I think that it is wonderful for the Navy to be able to create shops such as Starbucks onboard. While, my father was serving in the Navy, he only had the cafeteria and a shop onboard for the necessities that were needed for hygiene, etc. All other regulation supplies were issued by the Navy's supply corpse department.

@karensamuels390

Жыл бұрын

Corpse department, how ghoulish. Lol

@Lindarianmusic

Жыл бұрын

@karensamuels390 HI, Karen: Supply corpse is the department in the Navy that supplies the sailors with all their uniforms and supplies. Just as the quarter master would in the army. I think you're thinking of a morgue, it is still called a morgue where the deceased are stored on board. The term corpse, which the military uses to represents the supply department is spelled correctly, this is how the military spells it, and it can be shortened to corps.

The H-60's are actually the first and last aircraft to takeoff and land, thought I appreciate the Hawkeye love nonetheless!

Time Stamp 2:00 STAR BUCKS< first use was on CVN 77, AS I was LPO during the first deployment in 2011/2012 this footage was taken then, the female serving at the star bucks i believed transferred after deployment. , was very popular place, we had profit of MIL before the cruise was over, the money earned off Set the MWR cost for tours and much morale promotions, giving out free drinks(soda) Movie nights in Hangar. And most popular Bingo. As this was my Last tour prior to retirement, i would rather spend doing my Job that NAVY spent 1k's of dollars training me to do, instead was tasked with LPO of MWR. yea me it was fun group of energetic young sailors who did their Job well. All Starbucks was pre ordered delivered straight from US bases delivered to the SHIP.

@user-ph2ht9jk7o

Жыл бұрын

👋 زغلا

Thank you kindly for this interesting glimpse of the life on board!

Wow, some 'crazy stores' alright. Could you imagine, being able to buy stuff while at see for weeks on end...

When I left an aircraft carrier in 2008 we didn't have a Starbucks shop. But our coffee was ground Starbucks with commercial coffee makers. The ship's store hours seem stingy here, closed on the weekend is kind of stingy. That might be the in port hours.

The C2A Greyhounds are being replaced by the CMV-22BG Osprey, and the C2A will be retired by 2024.

I have full respect for anyone deployed , be safe

Outstanding shipmate. Press on. USS Kitty Hawk CV-63. Jan 1980 to July 1983. USN never again.

Would be a dream to deploy on an aircraft carrier! Can you enlist for that or it's just luck to be chosen to deploy to?

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

SURE! Pick an Aviation job. At least an 75% chance of ending up on a 'flat top', or if you prefer, 'bird farm' at some point. Want to increase your odds to 90 or better? Pick one of the AB fields ABH, those wearing blue jerseys and vests, and promote to those wearing yellow jerseys and vests. Move planes around, set them up for launch, remove from landing area after landing, flight deck firefighters (wear red, but don't confuse them with AOs, who also wear red). ABE, those wearing green jerseys and vests. They shoot and catch the birds, and maintain the equipment that does it. ABF, those wearing purple jerseys and vests. Handle the aviation fuel (JP5) from its purity, to distribution from the bowels of the ship, to the tanks on the birds. If you are an adrenaline junkie, you WILL get your fix constantly, and consistently. When all entities bring their A Game, it's organized chaos. A beautiful thing to witness. Better yet, be a part of!

@USSLKA-116

Жыл бұрын

It depends on the needs of the USN. If have an aviation rate it greatly increases your chance of being on one.

@tracykingston9668

Жыл бұрын

@@Jaeh1 Hope the aviation fuel is not petroleum based, that is sinful . Joey does not allow that in his world. You need to get electrical airplanes now. You do not want the wrath of Joey to come down upon you. Trust me.

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

@@tracykingston9668 I retired some years back. Last I heard, aviation was still running on petroleum, so the Navy was still using JP-5. Plant based, nor electric hasn't dominated the market yet.

@jamessephar9458

Жыл бұрын

A dream? It ain't easy being at Sea if you don't believe me, enlist and find out.

Yep! A new Navy! Uniforms and Sailors working with short sleeve shirts! I will stick with my Folgers! Thank You Star Bucks,what ever that is!

@sagsfv3122

Жыл бұрын

We had SS Chambray shirts in the 70's!

@kevincrosby1760

Жыл бұрын

@@sagsfv3122 As of the late 80's, the Navy still hadn't figured out how to keep the Fire Room and Engine Room under 100F. Didn't see many in Engineering with long-sleeved shirts. I had LS shirts which I kept stashed at my GQ station and in my shop in case I needed to wear one.

@sagsfv3122

Жыл бұрын

@@kevincrosby1760 Some days we had to wear coveralls. I was the Heat Stress team leader. Like consultants, all we could do was take readings and advise. FNs still got heat exhaustion and many went to sick bay. These days, firerooms are history and BTs no longer exist due to all ships now using alternate propulsion. Even my rating of IC, is no more. I understand it was merged back into EM, lasting about 40 years!

@kevincrosby1760

Жыл бұрын

@@sagsfv3122 Actually, I just ran into an IC the other day, one of the local recruiters. Apparently they changed course and brought it back...possibly because the EMs were getting confused when confronted with more than 2 wires. IC2, USS Kansas City (AOR-3), '88-'90

@sagsfv3122

Жыл бұрын

@@kevincrosby1760 HAHAHAHAHA !!!

This man got side tracked as fuck half way through lmao. Dude went from talking about the stores to just aircrafts

Bruce! Yes Steve! Let's get our Starbucks together! Toodaloo! Can we hold hands! Of course! We're out in the open around here!

Just imagine that 900 million dollar helicopter and all that fuel used to replace the Doritos in the commissary.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

Well I monthly import a box full of Chips from anothet country that are flown here by plane. I think around 20 people are involved in getting them here to my house

I'm going to tell the recruiter i don't want to see the MOS list because I already know what I want. I want the Starbucks because that's gotta be better than scrubbing toilets.

@whirledpeaz5758

Жыл бұрын

Oh, you get to do that anyway. Until you get promoted to E4, E5 if your a Nuc.

@abc876

Жыл бұрын

@@whirledpeaz5758 lol I was gonna say that, everybody cleans every morning. CVN 69

What an exciting video. I can't wait to join the Navy.

Nice one! Dear God Blesses the USA.

We had basically a closet for the ship store on my CG ship

@chrispolito4863

Жыл бұрын

Same here on CG-19. And it was hardly ever open.

@sagsfv3122

Жыл бұрын

@@chrispolito4863 The same for my DDG (31, that is). Ours was usually open a few hours a day - only at sea and not on Sunday.

Always had a special respect for the Navy. I'm a WW2 buff.

Amazing! I am proud of the USA as a Non US citizen. No other country in the world is capable to maintain such a huge Navy Fleet. Long live the USA

Greta video! Lots of interesting subjects not typically seen in many USN carrier videos!

I will never ever step foot in a Starbucks ever again. Back in 2007 I was asked to leave one in Seattle because I was part of the US military,and just returned from Iraq. I guess we were upsetting some dude in a dress that was in there. We weren’t even in uniform and being very respectful and courteous to everyone. The manager asked us to leave so we wouldn’t upset her clientele. So they will never ever ever get any money from me ever again for any product they sell.

As Russian military personnel's jaws hit the floor.

@sagsfv3122

Жыл бұрын

They had specialty machines dispensing Borscht. . .

so crew members can buy Starbucks at reduced price... now is this due to some kind of military discount or is it only because you don't get charged taxes in international waters?

So what did you do in the Navy? "Worked at Starbucks". YES!!! Best Government Job ever!

Do they still have a store they call a Gedunk?

@1020donny

Жыл бұрын

Gedunk is a thing. So the "gedunk" store sold "gedunk" and yes it was in the video.

@Maxid1

Жыл бұрын

@@1020donny They never call any of the stores "Gedunks".

@1020donny

Жыл бұрын

@@Maxid1 All I know is we called it a "gedunk store" not "Gedunk". Gedunk is what you bought at the "gedunk store". Kind of like a liquor store. A liquor store sells liquor but but I've never heard the store simply called"Liquor". I would assume with over 6k on board one of these boats somebody will just say gedunk. That bag of Doritos is a type of gedunk as are candy or a soda.

Imagine joining the Navy just to find yourself working in a shop.

@SaturnV69

Жыл бұрын

It depends on your job classification, I don't know how they classify it in the US Navy but in the US Air Force it was called your AFSC ( Air Force Specialty Code). Like the Air Force, the Navy must have many job classifications as well.

@webdev217

Жыл бұрын

@@just_because_ Negative, ever heard of an SK. Shop Keeper. lol

@whirledpeaz5758

Жыл бұрын

And just like an entry level job at Starbucks you can apply for another job(rating) with motivation and hard work. Had a couple of SK E3 strike for MM and join M-Div to work in the ship's engine room. I mentored one of them.

@michaeldowd8422

Жыл бұрын

@@whirledpeaz5758 steady on there bro, not everyone is familiar with US Navy acronyms. But I get what you're saying.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

​@@whirledpeaz5758🤡

Back when I was in you could smoke a board ship the smoke shop sold cartons for $2 that was back in the '70s what I miss is the package store great prices

Shoutout to the flight deck “Grapes” fuelies V4 division. Always Clean Clear Bright JP-5 boys! Stay safe. 🇺🇸

Basically its a mobile city at sea, with horrible coffee.

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

You can always get a Navy cup of Joe for FREE. Does the job a lot better than that ' dirty sugar water'.

Why did this start as a video about the store and then become about the Greyhound and then just starts talking about Early warning aircraft? Is this shit written by an AI?

😮😮😮😮it really is a city at sea! What Starbucks on warship!!! Sweet!!!!!!!!!!

'They have coffee shops, nice!' 'Oh.... it's starbucks.... :/ '

Imagine joining the Navy only to get put to work at a Starbucks.

@UrAshWhole

Жыл бұрын

Imagine what, if it pays their bills, free education, etc. Why not.

@nothanks3236

Жыл бұрын

@@UrAshWhole LOL. "What did you do in the war, Dad?" "Son, I made frappuccinos." Trust me the kids who are working at Starbucks in the Navy aren't using the education benefits, they can barely read.

@UrAshWhole

Жыл бұрын

@@nothanks3236 talking from experiences ah?

@nothanks3236

Жыл бұрын

@@UrAshWhole At least I'm not talking out my ass like you are chief. Blocked.

They got dope dealers too.

@Jaeh1

Жыл бұрын

It's legal 🤷🏻‍♂️ A REAL Navy cup of Joe will grow hair on your chest and singe it right off. It's FREE!, and gives a much better, longer lasting 'fix' than that 'dirty sugar water'. 😄

Good narration. Explained things as if they were talking to an adult

That would be cool to do that. I imagine the best gig is to be a White-Shirt and just stand around and watch people work and make sure they don't screw up.

A Starbucks aboard a CVN? Wow, you can tell those sailors are millennials, can't do anything without their fix. I remember having large containers of ground coffee that we brewed ourselves (and we went through a lot of it-especially post standers before going on duty). The only thing we had which came close was the ships store and the gedunk. We would buy 20-30 cases of soda at a time, and then keep our fridge stocked so we didn't have to buy them from the store and wait in line.

Person 1: So, where do you work? Person 2: At Starbucks. Person 1: Oh, which one? Person 2: On an aircraft carrier. Person 1:😮

A Starbucks in an aircraft carrier, is the most American thing ever.

I was always on the flight didnt have much time below decks in 7 months other then quick chow and little sleep , Never did find the bowling alley as promised , Always liked the ships hidden stores thou but definitely no Starbucks .VFA-131 Wilcats Ordnanceman out of NAS Cecil Field Fla , Med-Cruise 87/88 on board USS Coral Sea .

@1020donny

Жыл бұрын

The Connie had an escalator from the 03 to the mess deck. I was tickled about that.

Starbuck coffee-sissies! You guys are too soft! Back in the day you got regular coffee, that's it! They need to toughen you up!

Grocery store worker in an aircraft carrier has to be one of the most laid back jobs you can have in one. Where can I apply without joining the military? 😂😂

2:26 OMG! I can imagine "Good morning, can I get a tall coffee please? Of course, what's your name? I'm comander fleet” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎖️

I was on a Spruance Class destroyer 90 - 93 and the only thing we had was a 10x10 store that was never stocked and a shit load of tiger teams. We spent more time chippping paint with the deck division than we did on our actual jobs. I hated my time in the Navy.

I would have never knew about this if I never seen this video, alright I can die happy now.

@kevincrosby1760

Жыл бұрын

I never knew about it either, and I spent my entire enlistment other than my "A" school on a ship.

Cv-59 USS forestall we had a small shop that you could get uniform stuff and off to the side of that shop they had candy, pop, tobacco reading/writing material the aft galley had an ice cream shop (not open often) but was free when it was. But that was it…. Rumor had it there was a bowling alley somewhere…lol

There were lines everywhere. 7-11. Ships store. Barber shop. Chow forward and aft. Trash compactor. Disbursing. Post office. Liberty boats. Dental. Medical sick call port side. Two weeks out from Philippines medical on the starboard side AKA the clap line.

You should have all the amenities on the carrier as would at home...because let's face it...when you're on patrol...you are at home. 😉👍

@jessicaregina1956

Жыл бұрын

Ok where's the full open bar and the pole dancing pole? 🤣

@louisflores2552

Жыл бұрын

@@jessicaregina1956 he would take his fishing pole and take her to her fishing hole way below deck

Once you get past the five minute mark there's nothing about the 'crazy stores you can find on US aircraft carriers.'

Reminds me of this movie quote . "The more they tried to make it just like home, the more they made everybody miss it".

Absolutely amazing love seeing how it actually gets done. The utmost respect to all👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Love your cookie. ❤ making sure you’re fed.