I was lucky to get a 1on1 V I P tour of the USS RANGER CV 61 when it sailed into Port Vancouver B C Canada 1992 WOW 🤩JUST WOW 👍👌The men on that ship were very proud of the RANGER. Even had The Privalige to sit down in the crews mess and have a Cheezeburger 🍔& fries🍟and to actually touch a FIGHTER JET down on the hanger deck🥰 THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE OFFICER THAT gave a 15yr old kid a memory I will never forget ❤🤍💙 PS: even got to sit in the pilots seat of a Helocopter 💋
I served on the Independence, CV-62 for 3 -1/2 years, I see her in the background. This tour brings back memories. I worked in the Air Department and later AIMD from 74 thru78. AZ2 Mark Stephan
My dad flew off the "Connie" (USS Constellation) in the Vietnam war, his plane was shot down and spent the rest of the war as a POW and did make it back home. My dad passed in 2006, seeing these carriers makes me think of him. Thank you for this tour. The irony is my daughter is in the Navy and does force protection at this base.
I flew off of Ranger on her last Vietnam deployment. The carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin made coordinated attacks with the Airforce during Operation Linebacker II. It was one of the bloodiest air operations of the war.
Thank you for this awesome video! Brings back some great memories. I proudly served onboard CV- 61 from 1984-87. Finished BE &E and IC 'A' School in San Diego, took leave then met up with Ranger boat in Bremerton. I was there waiting while she pulled into dry dock! Wowser!!! When they pumped the water out and that beast was sitting up on blocks you really got an idea of the enormity of an aircraft carrier, truly unbelievable! Ranger went through 18 months of major overhaul after the fire in # 4 main machinery room while in the Indian Ocean. 7 sailors were lost, may they rest in peace. Flew me to Treasure Island for Firefighting School, when I came back I was assigned to firewatch for a minute then I worked out of the Aft IC shop, l had the folkshole as my sea and anchor detail during the first shake down cruise. When they free fell the anchor I shit all over myself! Thought the ship was being ripped apart, for reals! We spent an eternity at General Quarters drilling constantly I could don my OBA while blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back. No joke. I was the on scene phone talker during fire drills every 4 days, then in the Engineering room, had 4 MMR as my general quarters station, and was the IC man in charge of 4 MMR. Recieved Jr. Engineer of the month with parking up front next to after brow, 72 hrs. special liberty. I spent a great deal of my time running around looking for spaces and ensuring all the repeaters for the Gryo were dead nuts on and the bitch boxes, sound powered phones, and speakers for the 1MC were all in working order. I was all over that bad boy from stem to stern and top to bottom. No shit! Went to the Navigation bridge on numersion ocassions, and I made the mistake of showing up with coveralls and a ball cap to work on gryo repeater when Capt. Davis was there. He contacted the Chief Engineer and the E Division Officer ripped me a new ass! Had to get my spit shined boots, best set of dungarees on and show back up to apologize. My bad!First black man to serve as Commanding Officer of an aircraft carrier, great guy he would stop you and ask how you was and where you was from, pretty cool compared to the previous C.O., he could have cared less. Had a Master Chief of Command named Hobbs that lied bout his age after Pearl Harbor to get in the Navy anyhow he had gold chevrons all up one side for 47 yrs good conduct. I went to 'C' school for propulsion alarm and indicating sys. in San Diego. Took early out after Ranger was to go on another West Pac, i should have stayed in and done 20 yrs. But was young and dumb. Anyhow thanks for the tour! Go KC Chiefs! Patrick Mahomes is the real deal!!!
@@jmdriver2 Davis was a stand up guy, met him from the INDY ABH V3 crew that came from philly to help man her. He was interested to here about some crap V3 was up to! lol....RESPECT!! i was on the CONNIE ,INDY, RANGER miss all very much
Served on the Ranger from 1980-1985, Working in CIC for those 5 years was one of the highlights of my 20 years in the Navy. Loved that ship. One correction. I was stationed on her when the movie Top Gun was filmed. It wasn't filmed in CIC it was filmed in CATCC.
Allen - the first carrier I ever laid eyes on was the RANGER. I was 13 yrs. old with my grandfather (LSO Korean War) in San Diego and he said "Look, there is the RANGER...home from the gulf." I didn't really know what I was looking at. I looked up and saw that great big "61" and my life was changed forever....
CIC was my workspace from '90 to '93. I started out working behind the aircraft fuel and status board writing backwards, and later worked in "tracker ally" and on the I.D. console. It looks like a couple of things are missing now but otherwise just the same as I left it 20 years ago. Thanks for sharing this.
I live in the greater Portland, Oregon area. The only reasons why Portland refused to allow the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61 to become a museum in 2013, because, all the city and county counsel members and all the state and federal politicians voted against the idea, because, they said that it a thing of war and they don't want something that reminds them of war. Although, the submarine that was in the movie "The Hunt for Red October" is moored at a dock on the Willamette river in Portland. That was a very sad moment for those who served aboard the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61, either as ship's crew or airwing.
Funny story about Portland. USS Gridley (CG-21) visited that city for 2 days years ago. We had a sort of "open house" and gave tours. One morning the FCs were doing maintenance on the starboard CIWS .... some "reporter" (so he said), came up to the quarterdeck and cried (shrieked actually - I was there and saw it) that they were "pointing that gun at the crowd!" The O.O.D. was a friend of mine and I watched him painfully and carefully explain the PMS system and that they were just making sure the turret would move according to the PMS card .... my heart really went out to my friend for his patience. I'd have told the guy it's not loaded and had him escorted over the brow! :) Our skipper at the time had a policy: It's my ship, but it's *your* quarterdeck. Gave me all the authority I needed .... but I wasn't the OOD at the time, so I kept my trap shut.
I served from 90-93 on the ranger, the best ship that I served on. I went to CIC once, you reminded of that, I believe I had to get some info for the Air Dept. I remember it being dark in there, of course I did not step in, just talked to the guy who answered the door. it was kind of weird, since I worked on the flight deck lol
I was an AX with VS-21 and spent a LOT of time on the flight deck during the work up for the 82 West Pac and the cruise itself.....ate more than my fair share of non-skid. All I can really remember is running from aircraft to aircraft during flight ops when needed...running, running and more running. I swear by the end of the cruise I could run 10 miles effortlessly.
A buddy of mine worked for the captain and we would hang out in his wardroom when the captain was on the bridge. Very cool space. I don't remember marines posted at the entrances to officers country. When I was a PC3, I would travel thru there, but I dont remember seeing marines.
The California Contractors License Guru I don't recall seeing Marines in Officer's Country either. Officer's Country was located on the 03 level, which was the same level that my berthing compartment was located on, while my shop was up forward under the Number 1 catapult on the 01 level. It was easier to just duck through Officer's Country on my way to the shop at the beginning of shift and the only time I ever encountered ANYONE there was the time when I ran into Master Chief Hobbs. He was standing in the passageway having a conversation and I distingly heard him say "Yes, sir!", so I figured Captain Pederson was in the passageway, so I tried to spruce myself up as quickly as possible, which is kind of hard to do when you're in Air Force green rejects that were soaked in hydraulic fluid and jet fuel. When I passed the MC and greeted him, I realized that there was no one else in the passageway, he was talking to himself!!! Good memories!!! :-)
John, my previous comment got deleted so I rewrote and added to it. Your tour of CIC brings back vivid memories of a Search and Rescue operation I conducted as Strike Air Controller on November 4th, 1980 for the crewmen of our A-6 tanker 520, who had ejected after losing all power in the aircraft. An event that got me the Navy Achievement Medal. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Commander Phil Tripp, the CIC Officer, for his role in CIC that day and in presenting the sequence of events to Captain Pederson. Thank goodness Commander Tripp was there because the CIC Watch Officer was trying to poke holes in my story, apparently willing to throw me under the bus. I knew if I told this particular Watch Officer what I was doing right at the start he would have ordered me to stop, and not to do anything until he okayed it. As an E4 at the time, my hands would have been tied. That would have taken me completely out of the picture. There was no way I was to going pass up this opportunity to take the lead in the search for this downed aircraft. So I said nothing and pressed on, hoping to get results before someone ordered me to stop. After all, I was only asking aircraft in the area to take a “look around” because of the emergency Beeper on the Military Air Distress Frequency. I was late by several minutes getting the information out that I had the aircrew's position marked because several aircraft needed to check in with me before they could return to the ship and get into the landing pattern. The final factor that made it such a solid exploit was that we found them before the second crewman had even gotten to the life raft. I'd also like to thank my AIC Sup Bill Carpenter, for teaching me the proper procedures during an aircraft emergency. By the way, I never knew Captain Pederson was MISTER Top Gun, until I watched this video several months ago: th-cam.com/video/16z2wqAVtkc/w-d-xo.html Apparently he was the man who was picked to start the school. Wow! I have never had any success reaching out to any of these people. If any of you read this, look me up on Facebook guys! facebook.com/paul.boehm.56 Thanks again John.
It's great to connect with guys that were there John, thank you. I found lots of Dan Pedersons on Facebook but couldn't pick him out. Can you send me a link?
John, great stuff -- you missed a part of CIC that I worked in (03 level) and the supply computer room behind Disbursing and the other real moral booster, the Post Office. Anyway the PO1 mess brought back memories, I was watching a movie in there when the hostages were released from Tehran. The CO came over the 1mc without his usual fanfare and just said: Sorry for interrupting movie but the hostages have been released . DP2/1 Lieberman - 06/80-06/83.
I was an IC tech so I spent a lot of time in CIC. I found out much later after I got out that for the security clearance they talked to my 2nd grade teacher.
VA-145 , VQ-1 got to be a master at arms for a few months when I got on board … worked in tool room for VA-145 80 to 81 cruise. VA-145 s inlisted berthing was forward ,deck below forward cat room,, noisy during flight opps , mostly 24/7 ,noise! ears still ring ,, screaming,,should say,,,,
I don't understand why they couldn't just give the ship to the foundation. Years wasted and peoples money milked for nothing. If it's costing $200k a year to have them there, then why on earth wouldn't you want to give it to a foundation wanting to preserve it and put it to good use. Ah yes, I forgot, Uncle Sam at his best.
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I was lucky to get a 1on1 V I P tour of the USS RANGER CV 61 when it sailed into Port
Vancouver B C Canada 1992 WOW 🤩JUST WOW 👍👌The men on that ship were
very proud of the RANGER. Even had The Privalige to sit down in the crews mess and have
a Cheezeburger 🍔& fries🍟and to actually touch a FIGHTER JET down on the hanger deck🥰
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE OFFICER THAT gave a 15yr old kid a memory I will never forget ❤🤍💙
PS: even got to sit in the pilots seat of a Helocopter 💋
I served on the Independence, CV-62 for 3 -1/2 years, I see her in the background. This tour brings back memories. I worked in the Air Department and later AIMD from 74 thru78. AZ2 Mark Stephan
My first West Pac as a plane captain for VAQ 137 ON THE RANGER 1980. Brings back some fond memories. Thank you!
My dad flew off the "Connie" (USS Constellation) in the Vietnam war, his plane was shot down and spent the rest of the war as a POW and did make it back home. My dad passed in 2006, seeing these carriers makes me think of him. Thank you for this tour. The irony is my daughter is in the Navy and does force protection at this base.
Thanks for a Great video. Served aboard Top Gun 62-64, YN3, Air Dept., V-6 Div., WestPac 62-63.
I flew off of Ranger on her last Vietnam deployment. The carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin made coordinated attacks with the Airforce during Operation Linebacker II. It was one of the bloodiest air operations of the war.
Thank you for this awesome video! Brings back some great memories. I proudly served onboard CV- 61 from 1984-87. Finished BE &E and IC 'A' School in San Diego, took leave then met up with Ranger boat in Bremerton. I was there waiting while she pulled into dry dock! Wowser!!! When they pumped the water out and that beast was sitting up on blocks you really got an idea of the enormity of an aircraft carrier, truly unbelievable! Ranger went through 18 months of major overhaul after the fire in # 4 main machinery room while in the Indian Ocean. 7 sailors were lost, may they rest in peace. Flew me to Treasure Island for Firefighting School, when I came back I was assigned to firewatch for a minute then I worked out of the Aft IC shop, l had the folkshole as my sea and anchor detail during the first shake down cruise. When they free fell the anchor I shit all over myself! Thought the ship was being ripped apart, for reals! We spent an eternity at General Quarters drilling constantly I could don my OBA while blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back. No joke. I was the on scene phone talker during fire drills every 4 days, then in the Engineering room, had 4 MMR as my general quarters station, and was the IC man in charge of 4 MMR. Recieved Jr. Engineer of the month with parking up front next to after brow, 72 hrs. special liberty. I spent a great deal of my time running around looking for spaces and ensuring all the repeaters for the Gryo were dead nuts on and the bitch boxes, sound powered phones, and speakers for the 1MC were all in working order. I was all over that bad boy from stem to stern and top to bottom. No shit! Went to the Navigation bridge on numersion ocassions, and I made the mistake of showing up with coveralls and a ball cap to work on gryo repeater when Capt. Davis was there. He contacted the Chief Engineer and the E Division Officer ripped me a new ass! Had to get my spit shined boots, best set of dungarees on and show back up to apologize. My bad!First black man to serve as Commanding Officer of an aircraft carrier, great guy he would stop you and ask how you was and where you was from, pretty cool compared to the previous C.O., he could have cared less. Had a Master Chief of Command named Hobbs that lied bout his age after Pearl Harbor to get in the Navy anyhow he had gold chevrons all up one side for 47 yrs good conduct. I went to 'C' school for propulsion alarm and indicating sys. in San Diego. Took early out after Ranger was to go on another West Pac, i should have stayed in and done 20 yrs. But was young and dumb. Anyhow thanks for the tour! Go KC Chiefs! Patrick Mahomes is the real deal!!!
I am friends with Adm. Davis, great guy! :-)
@@jmdriver2 Davis was a stand up guy, met him from the INDY ABH V3 crew that came from philly to help man her. He was interested to here about some crap V3 was up to! lol....RESPECT!! i was on the CONNIE ,INDY, RANGER miss all very much
Served on the Ranger from 1980-1985, Working in CIC for those 5 years was one of the highlights of my 20 years in the Navy. Loved that ship. One correction. I was stationed on her when the movie Top Gun was filmed. It wasn't filmed in CIC it was filmed in CATCC.
Thanks for capturing this in such detail for future generations
My Dad was a machinist mate on the Ranger in the 60's.
I served aboard ranger, enjoyed your tour's 👍
Great video...BTW the blackshoes use to referred to us as F*ckin Airdales...😉
Well you are! :-)
Allen - the first carrier I ever laid eyes on was the RANGER. I was 13 yrs. old with my grandfather (LSO Korean War) in San Diego and he said "Look, there is the RANGER...home from the gulf." I didn't really know what I was looking at. I looked up and saw that great big "61" and my life was changed forever....
Glad you got some shots of CIC... I was an OS 2 (Radarman) on the Ranger and Bainbridge CGN 25. Lots of memories :)
CIC was my workspace from '90 to '93. I started out working behind the aircraft fuel and status board writing backwards, and later worked in "tracker ally" and on the I.D. console. It looks like a couple of things are missing now but otherwise just the same as I left it 20 years ago. Thanks for sharing this.
Great tour. Thanks John. It has been 10 years since this video was made. I hope you are still doing well.
Doing well, just added all the raw video we used to produce this video! Enjoy Shipmate.
Served on KH 1985, Connie 1989 around the horn, Ranger 1990-91 Desert Storm. Weird to see them all together and silent.
Instablaster.
I live in the greater Portland, Oregon area. The only reasons why Portland refused to allow the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61 to become a museum in 2013, because, all the city and county counsel members and all the state and federal politicians voted against the idea, because, they said that it a thing of war and they don't want something that reminds them of war. Although, the submarine that was in the movie "The Hunt for Red October" is moored at a dock on the Willamette river in Portland. That was a very sad moment for those who served aboard the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61, either as ship's crew or airwing.
Funny story about Portland. USS Gridley (CG-21) visited that city for 2 days years ago. We had a sort of "open house" and gave tours. One morning the FCs were doing maintenance on the starboard CIWS .... some "reporter" (so he said), came up to the quarterdeck and cried (shrieked actually - I was there and saw it) that they were "pointing that gun at the crowd!" The O.O.D. was a friend of mine and I watched him painfully and carefully explain the PMS system and that they were just making sure the turret would move according to the PMS card .... my heart really went out to my friend for his patience. I'd have told the guy it's not loaded and had him escorted over the brow! :) Our skipper at the time had a policy: It's my ship, but it's *your* quarterdeck. Gave me all the authority I needed .... but I wasn't the OOD at the time, so I kept my trap shut.
I served from 90-93 on the ranger, the best ship that I served on. I went to CIC once, you reminded of that, I believe I had to get some info for the Air Dept. I remember it being dark in there, of course I did not step in, just talked to the guy who answered the door. it was kind of weird, since I worked on the flight deck lol
my dad served in uss ranger thank you for makeing vidio
I was an AX with VS-21 and spent a LOT of time on the flight deck during the work up for the 82 West Pac and the cruise itself.....ate more than my fair share of non-skid. All I can really remember is running from aircraft to aircraft during flight ops when needed...running, running and more running. I swear by the end of the cruise I could run 10 miles effortlessly.
That scene you described from Top Gun was not shot in CIC. It was shot in OC Division. How do I know? I was there.
I was a snipe what the hell do I know! LOL
A buddy of mine worked for the captain and we would hang out in his wardroom when the captain was on the bridge. Very cool space. I don't remember marines posted at the entrances to officers country. When I was a PC3, I would travel thru there, but I dont remember seeing marines.
The California Contractors License Guru I don't recall seeing Marines in Officer's Country either. Officer's Country was located on the 03 level, which was the same level that my berthing compartment was located on, while my shop was up forward under the Number 1 catapult on the 01 level. It was easier to just duck through Officer's Country on my way to the shop at the beginning of shift and the only time I ever encountered ANYONE there was the time when I ran into Master Chief Hobbs. He was standing in the passageway having a conversation and I distingly heard him say "Yes, sir!", so I figured Captain Pederson was in the passageway, so I tried to spruce myself up as quickly as possible, which is kind of hard to do when you're in Air Force green rejects that were soaked in hydraulic fluid and jet fuel. When I passed the MC and greeted him, I realized that there was no one else in the passageway, he was talking to himself!!! Good memories!!! :-)
John, my previous comment got deleted so I rewrote and added to it. Your tour of CIC brings back vivid memories of a Search and Rescue operation I conducted as Strike Air Controller on November 4th, 1980 for the crewmen of our A-6 tanker 520, who had ejected after losing all power in the aircraft. An event that got me the Navy Achievement Medal. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Commander Phil Tripp, the CIC Officer, for his role in CIC that day and in presenting the sequence of events to Captain Pederson. Thank goodness Commander Tripp was there because the CIC Watch Officer was trying to poke holes in my story, apparently willing to throw me under the bus. I knew if I told this particular Watch Officer what I was doing right at the start he would have ordered me to stop, and not to do anything until he okayed it. As an E4 at the time, my hands would have been tied. That would have taken me completely out of the picture. There was no way I was to going pass up this opportunity to take the lead in the search for this downed aircraft. So I said nothing and pressed on, hoping to get results before someone ordered me to stop. After all, I was only asking aircraft in the area to take a “look around” because of the emergency Beeper on the Military Air Distress Frequency. I was late by several minutes getting the information out that I had the aircrew's position marked because several aircraft needed to check in with me before they could return to the ship and get into the landing pattern. The final factor that made it such a solid exploit was that we found them before the second crewman had even gotten to the life raft. I'd also like to thank my AIC Sup Bill Carpenter, for teaching me the proper procedures during an aircraft emergency. By the way, I never knew Captain Pederson was MISTER Top Gun, until I watched this video several months ago: th-cam.com/video/16z2wqAVtkc/w-d-xo.html Apparently he was the man who was picked to start the school. Wow! I have never had any success reaching out to any of these people. If any of you read this, look me up on Facebook guys! facebook.com/paul.boehm.56
Thanks again John.
Paul, Capt. Pedersen is on Facebook here......I was with you that day, reported aboard 22 Aug 1980
It's great to connect with guys that were there John, thank you. I found lots of Dan Pedersons on Facebook but couldn't pick him out. Can you send me a link?
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000573500411
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000573500411
Thanks John. I sent a friend request but have not received a reply yet. Send me a link to yours?
John, great stuff -- you missed a part of CIC that I worked in (03 level) and the supply computer room behind Disbursing and the other real moral booster, the Post Office. Anyway the PO1 mess brought back memories, I was watching a movie in there when the hostages were released from Tehran. The CO came over the 1mc without his usual fanfare and just said: Sorry for interrupting movie but the hostages have been released . DP2/1 Lieberman - 06/80-06/83.
I was an IC tech so I spent a lot of time in CIC. I found out much later after I got out that for the security clearance they talked to my 2nd grade teacher.
Its is called a background check
Joseph Wonderless They do a general background check when you join the service. It's more involved for a security clearance.
Kind of funny considering it’s now 2021 in the USS Ford is yet to do a single deployment
Brian Q. BT-3 85-89 worked in the Valve and Boiler Repair Shop.
Wow both my old ships 61/63.
VA-145 , VQ-1 got to be a master at arms for a few months when I got on board … worked in tool room for VA-145 80 to 81 cruise. VA-145 s inlisted berthing was forward ,deck below forward cat room,, noisy during flight opps , mostly 24/7 ,noise! ears still ring ,, screaming,,should say,,,,
Weapons Div. 85 to 88. Spent time below decks in assembly and in the bomb farm. Sad to see this lady go to scrap.
J lieberman. I was with you then, 80-83 A gang.
John Adams
Well I've never seen French doors on a U.S. Navy ship.
I was hoping they'd keep one Forrestal Class ship as a museum, but, alas, they're all gone now.
+Enbarr11 I know it sucks...
They didnt save ANY of the Forrestal Class Carriers?
@@Jarhead1086 no
HT3 R-DIV 84-88
It's sad knowing what's in store.
I don't understand why they couldn't just give the ship to the foundation. Years wasted and peoples money milked for nothing. If it's costing $200k a year to have them there, then why on earth wouldn't you want to give it to a foundation wanting to preserve it and put it to good use. Ah yes, I forgot, Uncle Sam at his best.
where is the fucken sound