Good on you for getting that deal with the USN! Even if afaik the DoD had to review your video before you posted it, it did not detract at all from the quality of this video. Very happy to see you going places, literally and figuratively.
@@NotWhatYouThink I have no money anyways. Why say I skipped ads? You can tell or it's a guess? I know views gets you money with ads. Does the video count as an ad for the army?
This is perhaps my most favorite video you’ve done. These ships are not as well known as the carriers and you have shown how important they are to the worldwide mission of peacekeeping and humanitarian relief. Also, I actually like that you did not want your face shown on camera. This was not about you, but about the men, women and machinery of the US Navy and Marines.
Army has a small navy or at least they did "The service has 132 cargo and logistics watercraft, and several thousand soldiers tasked with manning and operating them. By comparison, the Navy now has 242 active ships in commission, according to the U.S. Naval Vessel Register. While the Army’s fleet has dwindled in recent years, it once had about 300 hulls in service."
My last ship was an LHA, very similar to the Bataan and the other LHDs. During my last cruise we picked up a National Guard CE unit with equipment (2 companies IIRC) for transport from Jamaca to an off-load at Moorhead City, NC. It was an interesting trip as we also had a couple dozen NROTC Midshipmen (women actually) aboard. Both groups wanted to see the engineering spaces (including the big assed boilers that made everything go,) Bridge and how we did flight operations as well as well deck ops.
Very much so. Even though they’re seldom counted as carriers the amphibs are more capable and larger than what other countries have to offer. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up developing a light attack / escort carrier as a fleet multiplier and as a trade off in hostile areas instead of risking the super carriers, I’m envisioning something akin to the UKs Queen Elizabeth class but nuclear powered, angled deck, and catapults which are things they removed from the design to cut costs.
@@cruisinguy6024 That's basically what we have already here, and what the WW2 escort carriers were for. They were able to park themselves off them and fly dive bombers and somewhat outmoded fighters in support of troops ashore, freeing up fleet carriers to go after the Japanese fleet. Except for that one time when they and a bunch of destroyers/destroyer escorts took on the Yamato and won.
@@wrenchinator9715 I'm thinking of something between these and the 11 supercarriers, but still capable of launching E-2 Hawkeyes and Hornets plus a theoretical fixed wing ASW aircraft which we will certainly need in a peer / near peer conflict. The ambibs simply don't have the force projection let alone ASW capability like the 11 big boys do, not to mention they're not nuclear powered and don't have catapults or arresting gear. Really a nuclear QEII class would be a good platform. Basically, many experts believe we need more carriers. For every 1 deployed carrier there's 2 back home so we can only deploy 3 or 4 at a time. Considering in a peer / near peer conflict we're likely to lose 2 right off the bat that puts the US Navy in a huge bind especially given the limited shipyard capacity. A new class of intermediate carriers would add significant capabilities without the extreme cost of the super carriers. Hell, they could even be turbine powered like the QEII class to save money but of course nukes would be ideal.
@@cruisinguy6024 So you want something closer to the Forrestals or Kitty Hawks then. Supercarriers, but not quite at the level of an Enterprise, Nimitz, or GRF.
@@cruisinguy6024 The US has already developed the America class of LHA's which are essentially these same amphibious ships but with no well deck to allow for more focus on aviation. I imagine that is to help fill this same gap you're mentioning.
It is everything, a mobile base, an escort aircraft carrier, an amphibious assault ship, a logistics hub, a vehicle transport ship (including aircrafts), an anti submarine aircraft carrier.
@@michaelmappin4425 It can be equipped with up to 25 ASW Helicopters, maintaining 6~8 on fly constantly. Providing a effective bubble of AWS warfare. While the main carriers operate fighter jets.
@emanuelfigueroa5657 Is it possible? Yes. Has it been done? No. Would it make sense? No. My experience is 26 years of flight deck operations on 5 aircraft carriers and 1 big deck amphib. I was Air Department Leading Chief aboard USS Iwo Jima. We'd have to lose nearly all our other capabilities to do something our destroyers love to do for us.
@@michaelmappin4425 Well it can be done, should be done? thats for the navy to decide. But it can be done. I think it was tried one or twice in 70s just for test (the same time Harrie was tested) and that was it. Awesome job by the way.
I was on the USS Makin Island, an LHD-8 wasp class ship. I was a motor T operator, and most of the time, I was moving trucks in the well deck, getting them on and off the LCACs. That was a lot of my job, but I also got to fly on V-22s to get into different places, and on CH-53s. It was a good time and definitely the best part of my time in the Corps. Moving trucks around the well deck is one hell of a task. I would only put people I trusted in my trucks to move them around in such tight spaces. There are people around the well deck guiding you, but if you're not precise with the brake and gas, you could very easily hit something or someone. I saw some Marines who didn't have good throttle control try to climb up the ramp off the LCAC. They'd mash the gas to get going too fast, then have to stop, and repeat that all the way up the ramp. I always taught my guys how to modulate the gas pedal with very minor movements to keep a constant speed up the ramps and how to hold themselves in place on the ramp without using the brake pedal. I always loved teaching things like that to the Marines who were under me and watching them improve their driving skills.
Landing Ship Docks have been more fascinating to me than Supercarriers. They are capable of so much in terms of force projection and yet smaller than a super carrier. Thanks for covering this!
Yup - I'll admit to having ship-envy! Our naval vessels are in sad shape. These are Master Class. Canadian Military and Navy Planners - - please watch and learn!
I got to visit and tour USS Wasp as a tiny 12-year-old Canadian Sea Cadet when she visited Halifax for the RCN Naval Centennial. Pretty sure my mouth was hanging open in amazement nearly the entire time - easily the biggest most complex machine I had ever been up close and personal with, and the amphibious component totally blew my mind. We even stayed onboard when she sailed out into the middle of the harbour to participate in the Royal sail-past. Still remember that the lunch we got onboard was terrible though lol, I was really puzzled that with all the fancy tech going on they still couldn't manage to cook salmon and rice on a setting other than "dessicate". I was too young to know the universal truths of bad military food yet lol.
Yes though it's pronounced like: Baw-taw-awn It's a historically significant place for the US military in the Philippines. Not sure why they don't know it.
I was deployed with a surgical team from San Diego to the Tarawa and then the Belleau Wood for the Iranian Crisis in 1981. I became a shellback on her just out of Diego Garcia. What a mess with all of the young Marines and us on that deck! My jeans were good and shot after that - along with my knees lol. It took a lot of time to get all of the mayonnaise and other unknown substances out of my hair as well. I'm looking at the framed certificate on the wall as I type. I was aboard for 90 days or so and will never forget the experience as the Harriers visited as well. Man are they loud. My hearing has not been the same since. It was a genuine honor and there was rarely a dull moment as there was plenty do do both on and off duty. It's hard to believe that such a huge vessel that served as home and host to so many people was sunk as a target and is now at the bottom of the sea. I guess it beats being scrapped. It must have been a sight to see those fireworks! Still, it's a bit of a heartbreak to know that she and so many ships and boats have gone on - like a home that has burned to the ground, they take ghosts with them. Thanks for your service, Chief. Really. From the heart.
I love this channel and I am so glad you get to see these in person. I am living vicariously through you! Appreciate everything you do to bring these to us :)
Your videos are among the best on the net for Careful Research and ACCURACY, avoiding the use of unrelated "filler" stock images that just confuse things. Thanks for all the careful work you do. I bet a lot of folks would be amazed to watch the activities of a modern LSD type Landing Ship Dock, like the one shown briefly at 18:57, similar to the USS Tortuga (LSD 46.)
Wow, cool that you got that access. I wasn't aware of how big and versatile these ships are. It's my understanding that we need more of these ships, as the cut-backs from a few years ago has limited how many simultaneous missions we can support, keeping in mind that some have to be in dry dock for maintenance/refit and the need to rotate in an out of active deployment (you can't keep a crew on deployment indefinitely).
Very well done. Thank you. Here in San Diego, California, USA, we are very proud of the women and men of the USS BOXER (LHD-4), and the Marines who deploy with it.
Served onboard an amphib in 1999 to 2001 albeit the smaller and older ones. An LPD (Amphibious Transport Dock), USS CLEVELAND LPD-7. If you're prone to being seasick, this is not your ship! We carried up to 800 Marines and their equipment and we fly helos (helicopters for you civilians) and surveillance drones. It was fun especially with the Marine contingent onboard!
You guys are doing a bloody good job! The "regular" videos are still REALLY good, even after god-knows how many years - but these special episodes where you get to visit the ships/planes, are just world class documentary work
I find the logistics of military operations really fascinating. Most dont think about everything that goes into getting to those locations and making those operations work
I served as a Amphibious Tactical Squadron Operations officer on several types of ships while deployment to the Med and North Sea. This video is extremely accurate.
@@bruderschweigen6889 yes indeed! They've also been deployed around here to Smith and Tangier Island for hurricane evac. Always had a sigh of relief when I heard them rumbling out that way
I was Proud to be on the USS Peleliu LHA-5 Amphibious Assault. Now decommissioned. From being on the bridge to manning the helm, to well-deck operations. Being on port lookout to look over the flight deck, I had seen the helicopters and harrier jets. Assisted refueling at see when the two ships collided 😮
This was an excellent review, well scripted and designed. I use alot of amphib vessel footage in my military fiction videos on my YT channel, I learned alot from this episode. Thanks
I get to run around these ships from time to time for work, they are pretty neat, Ship forces are always helpful and get us what we need ...despite being tired from all the drills and watches they do. (Shoutout to LHD 7, yall were great)
I remember seeing the USS Peleliu in dock and and hadn't realized how big it was until I was looking at it's flight deck from the flight deck of the USS Contellation.
"Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars." --General John Pershing This should be the motto of this ship. I read a book talking about landing at Guadalcanal, The units going a shore needed typewriters, but they needed bullets blood and food too. Something along the lines of one typewriter needed to go ashore in the first wave to be used for communications with the fleet, you didn't need 20 of them, but you might need 20 pallets of bullets in the first wave and you probably don't need food for a day or two (they carry C-Rations) but you didn't have the room on the ship to sort things out while offloading. SO first on, last off is a true Tetris puzzle.
Thank you for the video, Education/Information. I kinda expect Our Military to be able to do what you explained but you made it sound like something WE CAN DO!
A question if you don't mind: What do the Marines do when the ship is floating around? Pushups and play xbox, or do they help out the Navy crew with maintenance?
@@TurboHappyCar depends. A lot of the embarked marines are part of the flight crews and do maintenance and things like that . Infantry type people basically just worked out and cleaned their rifles until we ultimately got them to where they were going.
@@joeyindahl2593 You mean to say that Infantry just eat all the food and take up space. The ship would go from 1000 sailors up to 3000 with the marines on board. The chow line became like 20mins to like a 1hr. But I guess they helped with the working parties.
@@joeyindahl2593 Thanks for the reply. What kind of time duration would the infantry be embarked for? I can just imagine thousands of 18-20 year olds getting pretty rowdy being cooped up for too long.
I'll be honest, I don't really like people saying which ship is more complex than another, in simpler terms, yes, an AAS ship is much more complex, if you look at more specifics, it's on par with the Aircraft carrier. Range isn't that great of a factor anymore with long range weapons that are in play currently such as Cruise missiles and non-nuclear SRBMs or IRBMs (Short-Range Ballistic Missiles and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles) which, if they hit the right spots, can almost instantly disable an Aircraft carrier, or heavily slow it's operations. Aircraft launch and recovery in combat conditions can also be a very complex operation because, while what we see is only training, in actual total war conditions, you may be having to launch 20, 40, or even all 80 aircraft within a very short time frame, which then have to potentially group up for whatever their missions are, which even launching all 80 at once, that's including AWACS, ground attack, air dominance, electronic warfare, and many more that all have to, not only be launched, but coordinated, potentially in combination with another aircraft carrier or even an AAS ship. Destroyers and Cruisers don't have it easy either, they have to do a lot as well, but I won't get into that because that might double the length of this comment Basically, This ship doesn't make aircraft carriers look simple to me, they just, like carriers, submarines, destroyers and cruisers, are a cog in a much grander machine that is the US Armed Forces, and shows just how much planning goes into the designs of these ships. But that's just me voicing an opinion on the title, I like that more people are starting to bring attention to AAS ships that don't get much attention.
For Fleet Week Miami I went on that same exact ship and they had like 4 different helicopters and they had all the guns and vehicles in the main area. Then also had an LCAC.
how do all you dev wizards and computer programmers can't code a simple 200000 player server, with real time 100's of thousands of actions of unique animations and unique moves per computer or player on the same server, are you all limited by the technology of your time or are you all just dumb bast-ards
I know time was limited due to fleet week but man, you could have made an entire series out of this ship. Heck, just the LCU is worthy of its own episode - did you get to explore the crew quarters? Very “cozy” especially the toilet! I think you have enough subscribers to qualify for an extended visit on a ship, like they fly you out to spend a couple days at sea on board and give you the full experience. Just a suggestion for ships that often get neglected: *the hospital ships *the submarine tenders. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen any TV show or TH-cam cover these *the various ships under Military Sealift Command such as the underway replenishment ships that have massive on board freezers, such as the Lewis and Clark class of dry cargo ships *the Ro/Ro ships *the Expeditionary Mobile Bases *the amphibious command ships (these are always neglected and never get mentioned) These often are totally overlooked and would be an awesome opportunity for you to cover ships that don’t get much attention. Anyway I hope you see this comment because I’d love to see you make a video series on any of these.
I would agree with all statements except that the LHA is more complex than a supercarrier. It not only operates long range fixed wing aircraft, but the nuclear power plant, the four steam catapults, the four arresting engines plus all the rotary wing and VTOL air operations like the LHA. The weapons elevators on a supercarrier are a mechanical marvel unto themselves. The communication/radar and weapons aboard are state of the art and have entire divisions to maintain. Feeding 5300 sailors and Marines is also a very complex evolution. And we used to UNREP smaller ships with our supplies. I would concede that the LHA is a different type of complexity, not a degree of more complex. I don't know if that sounds right, you know what I mean
The Tetris reference could also be applied to packing a backpack for backpacking. You not only need to make the best use of the available space but you need to keep the parts of the load balanced and assessable while keeping everything as light as possible.
Hmmm, someone is flexing their boat, uh? That’s some awesome piece of tech, this Swiss Army knife of a ship. I‘m beyond impressed. Is there anything it can‘t do? And well done, this was another awesome video. Well scripted, interesting shots. Informative *and* entertaining. Thank you very much!
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Which ship should I visit next?
YAMATO :)
BRP Sierra Madre
How about aircraft carrier either Nimitz or Ford-class?!
New Jersey
USS Theodore Roosevelt (in theater).
Good on you for getting that deal with the USN! Even if afaik the DoD had to review your video before you posted it, it did not detract at all from the quality of this video.
Very happy to see you going places, literally and figuratively.
Well said - and I note that he's just about to clear THREE million subscribers. That's incredible channel growth in a short time, IMO. He's earned it.
What is that pfp and username?? lol
@@JawsFan27 this is why I love anonymous social media, you get people with a shitpost username and picture making a normal comment lol
@@JawsFan27 Don't worry about it uwu
@@bc-guy852 Wow, it shows 2.99M subs under the video right now. 2:30pm on 7/15/24, in case anyone cares! Hopefully that'll tick up soon!
NWYT edging us with a face reveal never gets old
You edge to NWYT? 😳
@@uss_liberty_incident get ur dirty mind from the washer out now
@@uss_liberty_incidentyou don’t??
Lmao. Doesn't everyone edge to NWYT
I'm shocked that's his real voice 😅
Very impressive quality of work here ! So glad we get to watch it for free somehow. Thank you
well, you may have skipped an ad or two, but yes, more or less free :-D
@@NotWhatYouThink I have no money anyways. Why say I skipped ads? You can tell or it's a guess? I know views gets you money with ads. Does the video count as an ad for the army?
@@Platypus_Warrior He is joking, most people skip longer ad videos.
@NotWhatYouThink
I have one question
Why are you afraid to show your face on camera ???? I hope you brave enough to answer
Agreed!
This is perhaps my most favorite video you’ve done. These ships are not as well known as the carriers and you have shown how important they are to the worldwide mission of peacekeeping and humanitarian relief.
Also, I actually like that you did not want your face shown on camera. This was not about you, but about the men, women and machinery of the US Navy and Marines.
Army vet here but have always been fascinated with the Navy ships. Very cool, thank you.
Army has a small navy or at least they did
"The service has 132 cargo and logistics watercraft, and several thousand soldiers tasked with manning and operating them. By comparison, the Navy now has 242 active ships in commission, according to the U.S. Naval Vessel Register. While the Army’s fleet has dwindled in recent years, it once had about 300 hulls in service."
My last ship was an LHA, very similar to the Bataan and the other LHDs. During my last cruise we picked up a National Guard CE unit with equipment (2 companies IIRC) for transport from Jamaca to an off-load at Moorhead City, NC. It was an interesting trip as we also had a couple dozen NROTC Midshipmen (women actually) aboard. Both groups wanted to see the engineering spaces (including the big assed boilers that made everything go,) Bridge and how we did flight operations as well as well deck ops.
It's amazing to think of how large carriers have gotten, when you realize that the Wasp class is slightly larger than an Essex fleet carrier from WW2.
Very much so. Even though they’re seldom counted as carriers the amphibs are more capable and larger than what other countries have to offer. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up developing a light attack / escort carrier as a fleet multiplier and as a trade off in hostile areas instead of risking the super carriers, I’m envisioning something akin to the UKs Queen Elizabeth class but nuclear powered, angled deck, and catapults which are things they removed from the design to cut costs.
@@cruisinguy6024 That's basically what we have already here, and what the WW2 escort carriers were for. They were able to park themselves off them and fly dive bombers and somewhat outmoded fighters in support of troops ashore, freeing up fleet carriers to go after the Japanese fleet.
Except for that one time when they and a bunch of destroyers/destroyer escorts took on the Yamato and won.
@@wrenchinator9715 I'm thinking of something between these and the 11 supercarriers, but still capable of launching E-2 Hawkeyes and Hornets plus a theoretical fixed wing ASW aircraft which we will certainly need in a peer / near peer conflict. The ambibs simply don't have the force projection let alone ASW capability like the 11 big boys do, not to mention they're not nuclear powered and don't have catapults or arresting gear. Really a nuclear QEII class would be a good platform.
Basically, many experts believe we need more carriers. For every 1 deployed carrier there's 2 back home so we can only deploy 3 or 4 at a time. Considering in a peer / near peer conflict we're likely to lose 2 right off the bat that puts the US Navy in a huge bind especially given the limited shipyard capacity.
A new class of intermediate carriers would add significant capabilities without the extreme cost of the super carriers. Hell, they could even be turbine powered like the QEII class to save money but of course nukes would be ideal.
@@cruisinguy6024 So you want something closer to the Forrestals or Kitty Hawks then. Supercarriers, but not quite at the level of an Enterprise, Nimitz, or GRF.
@@cruisinguy6024 The US has already developed the America class of LHA's which are essentially these same amphibious ships but with no well deck to allow for more focus on aviation. I imagine that is to help fill this same gap you're mentioning.
It is everything, a mobile base, an escort aircraft carrier, an amphibious assault ship, a logistics hub, a vehicle transport ship (including aircrafts), an anti submarine aircraft carrier.
No anti submarine capability apart from the destroyers in the ARG.
@@michaelmappin4425 It can be equipped with up to 25 ASW Helicopters, maintaining 6~8 on fly constantly. Providing a effective bubble of AWS warfare. While the main carriers operate fighter jets.
@emanuelfigueroa5657 Is it possible? Yes. Has it been done? No. Would it make sense? No. My experience is 26 years of flight deck operations on 5 aircraft carriers and 1 big deck amphib. I was Air Department Leading Chief aboard USS Iwo Jima. We'd have to lose nearly all our other capabilities to do something our destroyers love to do for us.
@@michaelmappin4425 Well it can be done, should be done? thats for the navy to decide. But it can be done. I think it was tried one or twice in 70s just for test (the same time Harrie was tested) and that was it.
Awesome job by the way.
@@michaelmappin4425Oh, that IWO that literally lives in yards?? 😅
One of your best uploads yet.
I seem to say that - every episode.
I was on the USS Makin Island, an LHD-8 wasp class ship. I was a motor T operator, and most of the time, I was moving trucks in the well deck, getting them on and off the LCACs. That was a lot of my job, but I also got to fly on V-22s to get into different places, and on CH-53s. It was a good time and definitely the best part of my time in the Corps.
Moving trucks around the well deck is one hell of a task. I would only put people I trusted in my trucks to move them around in such tight spaces. There are people around the well deck guiding you, but if you're not precise with the brake and gas, you could very easily hit something or someone. I saw some Marines who didn't have good throttle control try to climb up the ramp off the LCAC. They'd mash the gas to get going too fast, then have to stop, and repeat that all the way up the ramp. I always taught my guys how to modulate the gas pedal with very minor movements to keep a constant speed up the ramps and how to hold themselves in place on the ramp without using the brake pedal. I always loved teaching things like that to the Marines who were under me and watching them improve their driving skills.
Alright, NWYT, you worked your magic. I'm sold on this thing. These slick salesmen..... How soon can I take delivery?
Perfect! I'm just gonna need proof of parking spot near your residence.
@@NotWhatYouThink Damn the luck. It's too tall to bring it this far up the Missouri river.
Landing Ship Docks have been more fascinating to me than Supercarriers. They are capable of so much in terms of force projection and yet smaller than a super carrier.
Thanks for covering this!
So Wise , Thank You . A fine example of why we need so many different types of ships, Aircraft and other things
Yup - I'll admit to having ship-envy! Our naval vessels are in sad shape. These are Master Class.
Canadian Military and Navy Planners - - please watch and learn!
@@bc-guy852 Sadly from what I can see , Canada is even worse off than we the Us are
It’s always a great start to a weekend seeing another NWYT vid drop! Thank you for the work and dedication you do.
I got to visit and tour USS Wasp as a tiny 12-year-old Canadian Sea Cadet when she visited Halifax for the RCN Naval Centennial. Pretty sure my mouth was hanging open in amazement nearly the entire time - easily the biggest most complex machine I had ever been up close and personal with, and the amphibious component totally blew my mind. We even stayed onboard when she sailed out into the middle of the harbour to participate in the Royal sail-past. Still remember that the lunch we got onboard was terrible though lol, I was really puzzled that with all the fancy tech going on they still couldn't manage to cook salmon and rice on a setting other than "dessicate". I was too young to know the universal truths of bad military food yet lol.
This was a top notch video. Probably one of the best in a long time. Keep up the great work!
Yes though it's pronounced like: Baw-taw-awn
It's a historically significant place for the US military in the Philippines. Not sure why they don't know it.
I served aboard the U.S.S. Belleau Wood from 1986-1990. Thanks for giving us all a good look at the new Gator Navy.
I was deployed with a surgical team from San Diego to the Tarawa and then the Belleau Wood for the Iranian Crisis in 1981. I became a shellback on her just out of Diego Garcia. What a mess with all of the young Marines and us on that deck! My jeans were good and shot after that - along with my knees lol. It took a lot of time to get all of the mayonnaise and other unknown substances out of my hair as well. I'm looking at the framed certificate on the wall as I type.
I was aboard for 90 days or so and will never forget the experience as the Harriers visited as well. Man are they loud. My hearing has not been the same since. It was a genuine honor and there was rarely a dull moment as there was plenty do do both on and off duty. It's hard to believe that such a huge vessel that served as home and host to so many people was sunk as a target and is now at the bottom of the sea. I guess it beats being scrapped. It must have been a sight to see those fireworks! Still, it's a bit of a heartbreak to know that she and so many ships and boats have gone on - like a home that has burned to the ground, they take ghosts with them.
Thanks for your service, Chief. Really. From the heart.
This might be your best video yet. Very well done!
Awesome video! I was on a MEU before, I honestly miss being out at sea. There's something about the experience that you just don't get back ashore.
I love this channel and I am so glad you get to see these in person. I am living vicariously through you! Appreciate everything you do to bring these to us :)
Thanks James!
19:00 setting up that smokescreen looks so awesome
Your videos are among the best on the net for Careful Research and ACCURACY, avoiding the use of unrelated "filler" stock images that just confuse things.
Thanks for all the careful work you do.
I bet a lot of folks would be amazed to watch the activities of a modern LSD type Landing Ship Dock,
like the one shown briefly at 18:57, similar to the USS Tortuga (LSD 46.)
Wow, cool that you got that access. I wasn't aware of how big and versatile these ships are. It's my understanding that we need more of these ships, as the cut-backs from a few years ago has limited how many simultaneous missions we can support, keeping in mind that some have to be in dry dock for maintenance/refit and the need to rotate in an out of active deployment (you can't keep a crew on deployment indefinitely).
Good stuff. I served on the USS Peleliu,(LHA-5). Your video brings back good memories. Thanks for making it sir.
Noiiiiice content brother! Keep up the good work! 🇵🇭🇺🇲
You make some of the best videos about all things military. Keep making the best, & I'll watch'em all with a like every time.
I loved this episode little bit more than others because of the banging expensive suit on 9:46
It’s really amazing the amount of access the military is giving you. Keep up the great work!
Very well done. Thank you. Here in San Diego, California, USA, we are very proud of the women and men of the USS BOXER (LHD-4), and the Marines who deploy with it.
This is your most interesting content yet. Great insight and glad you seem to be getting the access you deserve.
Every episode gets better and better. The Navy wants you in their PR and media group.
Wow!
Thanks for sharing this awesome video! Thanks to those who let you film aboard those ships!
It's amazing how you can even make logistics sound engaging. Another amazing vid
Served onboard an amphib in 1999 to 2001 albeit the smaller and older ones. An LPD (Amphibious Transport Dock), USS CLEVELAND LPD-7. If you're prone to being seasick, this is not your ship! We carried up to 800 Marines and their equipment and we fly helos (helicopters for you civilians) and surveillance drones. It was fun especially with the Marine contingent onboard!
You guys are doing a bloody good job! The "regular" videos are still REALLY good, even after god-knows how many years - but these special episodes where you get to visit the ships/planes, are just world class documentary work
It means a lot, Martin!
The best explanation for Carriers and Amphibious Assault Ships is... Carriers go out to end problems, Amphibious ships go out to start problems.
Nice!
I find the logistics of military operations really fascinating. Most dont think about everything that goes into getting to those locations and making those operations work
I served as a Amphibious Tactical Squadron Operations officer on several types of ships while deployment to the Med and North Sea. This video is extremely accurate.
Thank you for showing this, I was on the LCU's in the well deck for LHA-1 and LHA-5 during deployments in the gulf.
ACU 1 ?
I love me some Marines. I learn something new every time I watch your channel. Thanks NWYT.
WoW 😮
I had not thought about the various uses of this 1 ship!
Thanks for a great educational video and some cool video content. Great job 👍🏽
I love seeing LCACs on the Chesapeake Bay. You can hear them before you see them, though - not super stealthy 😂
They aren't supposed be stealthy also stealth doesn't mean quiet it means it shouldn't be seen on radar no piece of equipment is silent lol
@@bruderschweigen6889 yes indeed!
They've also been deployed around here to Smith and Tangier Island for hurricane evac. Always had a sigh of relief when I heard them rumbling out that way
Your explanations are always so clear. Thanks for this!
I was Proud to be on the USS Peleliu LHA-5 Amphibious Assault. Now decommissioned. From being on the bridge to manning the helm, to well-deck operations. Being on port lookout to look over the flight deck, I had seen the helicopters and harrier jets. Assisted refueling at see when the two ships collided 😮
This was an excellent review, well scripted and designed. I use alot of amphib vessel footage in my military fiction videos on my YT channel, I learned alot from this episode. Thanks
Well documented/videography! Loved the coverage of this particular type of vessel. Kudos
Been on a few different types of amphibs. Nice video.
I get to run around these ships from time to time for work, they are pretty neat, Ship forces are always helpful and get us what we need ...despite being tired from all the drills and watches they do. (Shoutout to LHD 7, yall were great)
Magn8ficent video. Have watched you for years and THIS is your best work!
I remember seeing the USS Peleliu in dock and and hadn't realized how big it was until I was looking at it's flight deck from the flight deck of the USS Contellation.
Hey I served onboard that ship for 2 deployments 2011 and 2014. Good times back then. They’re were so loud when landing
"Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars." --General John Pershing This should be the motto of this ship. I read a book talking about landing at Guadalcanal, The units going a shore needed typewriters, but they needed bullets blood and food too. Something along the lines of one typewriter needed to go ashore in the first wave to be used for communications with the fleet, you didn't need 20 of them, but you might need 20 pallets of bullets in the first wave and you probably don't need food for a day or two (they carry C-Rations) but you didn't have the room on the ship to sort things out while offloading. SO first on, last off is a true Tetris puzzle.
I'd never thought about how they take aboard landing craft. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for this I had no idea of the complexity of these ships
Love this channel!! Awesome to see how big and respected you've become.. Thank you for your hard work.
You cover every angle in your videos, you are a hell of a journalist 💯
Our Military is SO AMAZING! I was in the USN in the’60’s(SCUBA Diver, collector for a Marine Biology Museum) things have really changed. Go USA!
Yo, this channel is seriously stepping their game up. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much. Bless our Vets 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video! That's a hardcore ship!
Thank you for the video, Education/Information. I kinda expect Our Military to be able to do what you explained but you made it sound like something WE CAN DO!
My cousin served on the Bataan during Iraqi Freedom. This was so cool to watch, thanks for sharing this!
I was on USS Kearsarge, LHD-3 those are great ships and when deployed as a MEU can bring a whole lot of freedom to any shore in quick order.
I'm so proud of how far you've gotten with your videos!
Very interesting and informative. Thank you very much. I had no idea all the things these ships were involved with. 😄😄😄❤❤❤
Well done, man! Very informative video,as always
So it's like the swiss army knife of the us navy. Pretty cool ship!
I was stationed on LHD6 from 2000-2004. I really enjoyed my time on there.
A question if you don't mind: What do the Marines do when the ship is floating around? Pushups and play xbox, or do they help out the Navy crew with maintenance?
@@TurboHappyCar depends. A lot of the embarked marines are part of the flight crews and do maintenance and things like that . Infantry type people basically just worked out and cleaned their rifles until we ultimately got them to where they were going.
@@joeyindahl2593 You mean to say that Infantry just eat all the food and take up space. The ship would go from 1000 sailors up to 3000 with the marines on board. The chow line became like 20mins to like a 1hr. But I guess they helped with the working parties.
@@Sevenspent I was trying to be nice, but yea you aren’t wrong ! lol
@@joeyindahl2593 Thanks for the reply. What kind of time duration would the infantry be embarked for? I can just imagine thousands of 18-20 year olds getting pretty rowdy being cooped up for too long.
I'll be honest, I don't really like people saying which ship is more complex than another, in simpler terms, yes, an AAS ship is much more complex, if you look at more specifics, it's on par with the Aircraft carrier. Range isn't that great of a factor anymore with long range weapons that are in play currently such as Cruise missiles and non-nuclear SRBMs or IRBMs (Short-Range Ballistic Missiles and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles) which, if they hit the right spots, can almost instantly disable an Aircraft carrier, or heavily slow it's operations. Aircraft launch and recovery in combat conditions can also be a very complex operation because, while what we see is only training, in actual total war conditions, you may be having to launch 20, 40, or even all 80 aircraft within a very short time frame, which then have to potentially group up for whatever their missions are, which even launching all 80 at once, that's including AWACS, ground attack, air dominance, electronic warfare, and many more that all have to, not only be launched, but coordinated, potentially in combination with another aircraft carrier or even an AAS ship. Destroyers and Cruisers don't have it easy either, they have to do a lot as well, but I won't get into that because that might double the length of this comment
Basically, This ship doesn't make aircraft carriers look simple to me, they just, like carriers, submarines, destroyers and cruisers, are a cog in a much grander machine that is the US Armed Forces, and shows just how much planning goes into the designs of these ships.
But that's just me voicing an opinion on the title, I like that more people are starting to bring attention to AAS ships that don't get much attention.
Load planning was my job in the Marines, Ships, Aircraft and Trains.
For Fleet Week Miami I went on that same exact ship and they had like 4 different helicopters and they had all the guns and vehicles in the main area. Then also had an LCAC.
Nice, my first ship was in LHA-4 USS Nassau decommissioned back in 2011. Good, Bad, and funny memories since the ships are almost the same.
Excellent! Intelligently put forward.
By far the best video this TH-camr has ever done. Bravo Zulu.
'07 - '08 USS Kearsarge LHD 3 22d MEU 3/8 2d CEB 2d MarDiv
“Translate to English” 😊
Capt. Mahoney for the win! Very nice, pilot, very nice.
Awesome video! I had some great times on that boat !!! I do miss it
I'm building an RTS game with modern military hardware, so your content is a great resource to learn from!
how do all you dev wizards and computer programmers can't code a simple 200000 player server, with real time 100's of thousands of actions of unique animations and unique moves per computer or player on the same server, are you all limited by the technology of your time or are you all just dumb bast-ards
Man - your episodes are getting better and better! Fabulous stuff!
You're actually Livin' The Dream these days aren't you?
It’s been nice visiting these ships :-)
I know time was limited due to fleet week but man, you could have made an entire series out of this ship. Heck, just the LCU is worthy of its own episode - did you get to explore the crew quarters? Very “cozy” especially the toilet!
I think you have enough subscribers to qualify for an extended visit on a ship, like they fly you out to spend a couple days at sea on board and give you the full experience.
Just a suggestion for ships that often get neglected:
*the hospital ships
*the submarine tenders. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen any TV show or TH-cam cover these
*the various ships under Military Sealift Command such as the underway replenishment ships that have massive on board freezers, such as the Lewis and Clark class of dry cargo ships
*the Ro/Ro ships
*the Expeditionary Mobile Bases
*the amphibious command ships (these are always neglected and never get mentioned)
These often are totally overlooked and would be an awesome opportunity for you to cover ships that don’t get much attention. Anyway I hope you see this comment because I’d love to see you make a video series on any of these.
Great informative video. Well done!
Another great video man! It’s cool you cover interesting smaller details no one else does.
This was great 👍 I really enjoyed your video, and I look forward to seeing more.
At first I thought you were being cheeky editing your logo onto some random USN personnel, only to realize you got to be there yourself. Awesome!
One of your best yet, thanks.
This was most interesting and informative. Good job.
Great document. Thanks
Cant believe they named this ship after my province's name. Brutal battles happened in bataan and brutal tragedies too during WWII
Good lord I had no idea. That was incredible.
Amazing video. Great research. Thanks.
Nice man-bun dude!
The "Gator Freighter "(Marine Troops Amphibious Landing Vessel) was the closest we had in the 80's
Thanks for everything you do. Been with you since zumwat man. Hope you have a nice one!
I would agree with all statements except that the LHA is more complex than a supercarrier. It not only operates long range fixed wing aircraft, but the nuclear power plant, the four steam catapults, the four arresting engines plus all the rotary wing and VTOL air operations like the LHA. The weapons elevators on a supercarrier are a mechanical marvel unto themselves. The communication/radar and weapons aboard are state of the art and have entire divisions to maintain. Feeding 5300 sailors and Marines is also a very complex evolution. And we used to UNREP smaller ships with our supplies. I would concede that the LHA is a different type of complexity, not a degree of more complex. I don't know if that sounds right, you know what I mean
The Tetris reference could also be applied to packing a backpack for backpacking. You not only need to make the best use of the available space but you need to keep the parts of the load balanced and assessable while keeping everything as light as possible.
Best vid you've made! Keep it up
Really good explanations. Thanks.
Hmmm, someone is flexing their boat, uh?
That’s some awesome piece of tech, this Swiss Army knife of a ship. I‘m beyond impressed. Is there anything it can‘t do?
And well done, this was another awesome video. Well scripted, interesting shots. Informative *and* entertaining.
Thank you very much!
That 16k suit drip IS LIT🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👨🏻🚒👨🏻🚒👨🏻🚒
Excelente vídeo!
Love your videos, thanks for showing the Marine Corps Taxi