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Navy officers have it much better than the enlisted men when out to sea, at least in terms of comfort.
I’m guessing their meals are similar, but the…
This has been a good time for a trip at sea. Until today, I couldn’t feel any significant movement of this massive ship.
But the waters do seem to…
Have you ever wondered where sailors get the necessities of life -- and a few luxuries -- while at sea? Wonder no more. They go to the ship store.…
As a Christian, one of the things I was curious to see on the USS Kearsarge was the chapel. I was disappointed.
I’m not a fan of fancy church…
Navy men have to get their hair cut about every two weeks. That’s what we learned during our stop at the barbershop on the Kearsarge today.
We also…
After lunch today, I joined three other bloggers for some fresh sea air. We walked through a series of three hatches that took us to a deck directly…
Word has it that the motto of military life is “hurry up and wait” After a couple of days aboard the USS Kearsarge, I certainly believe it -- but…
The USS Kearsarge has a gym equipped with all manner of equipment so the men and women aboard can stay in shape. And they do stay in shape.
Just…
I mentioned the inter-service rivalry in passing once already. It has reared its ugly head at least one other time on this trip, not because of the…
I missed the memo.
It was an important memo, too -- the one to bloggers that said to be sure and bring shower shoes onto the USS Kearsarge.…
The blog presence aboard the USS Kearsarge is a first. We are the Navy’s new media virgins -- and it shows because the service doesn’t know what to…
We learned quite a bit about life at sea today, but there were two highlights from my perspective: the arrival of the helicopters at about 2 p.m. and…
That’s about how much fresh water the USS Kearsarge creates from the ocean as it travels. The ship is steam-powered, and if I understand the…
That would be the engineers in the heart of the ship. They keep it powered and running. They'll tell you themselves that they're the hardest workers…
That’s what the USS Kearsarge is – on this mission in particular but also for all of its missions. The medical area contains one of the largest naval…
Overheard in the hallways of the medical area aboard the USS Kearsarge, one Army veterinarian talking to another: “We have to keep them from getting…
Here’s an interesting factoid we gathered from lunch today with a Northrop Grumman contractor onboard the USS Kearsarge: His company pays the full…
An Air Force nurse we bloggers met last night joined us for lunch this afternoon. Like all of us, he’s a first-timer on a Navy ship.
He wondered…
Last night in the wardroom, the mess hall where the officers eat, the ship’s physician only half-jokingly told us land-loving bloggers to take…
The U.S. military gets a fair rap as a bureaucracy that wastes money right and left. So I was shocked today to hear that penny-pinching accountants…