Umm, how would you like the be the guy who’s got to secure the lines on these decks?
CUTLINE:ATLANTIC OCEAN (Nov. 6, 2007) — Rough seas pound the hull of Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 
as she sails alongside Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) while preparing for a replenishment at sea. Truman is a part of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 10 and is en route to the Central Command area of responsibility as part of the ongoing rotation to support maritime security operations in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua A. Moore
(Gouge: NC)
– Christian
That is a really cool picture. Hats off to both the photographer and the sailors who do have to secure the lines!
are there still lines to secure?
it doesn’t really matter that much, because they all do such an amazing and important job!
Im fine with riding the waves till I see them, then I start freaking out.
My hat is off to the guys who deal with that every day. Dang it isnt a job for me.
Aharrrr Matey…Where be me Dramamine ?
Regards & all
Thomas L. Nielsen
Denmark
That is truly a beautiful picture. Hats off to the guys in the middle of the atlantic. I’m sure they’ll miss that November in the north atlantic weather when it is 120 degrees out in the middle east, though.
At least it’s daylight — try it in the same weather, same requirements, but at 0230 (that’s 2:30 AM to the uniinitiated) in winter in the North Atlantic. Cold, wet, dark — and all for canned beef!
Hey, it’s better than living for 3 weeks in the field without a shower! I’ll take a little sea-sickness anytime over that.
I work with a Navy Captain (ret.) when I E-mailed a link to this page his reply was as follows. “Picturesque! But that isn’t really an angry sea — just the sloshing of the tub between the ships.
A replenishment in really bad weather is awesome to watch and exhausting for everyone, even the spectators.”
If you look past the bow the sea state isn’t really all that bad. I agree with the “slosh” comment. Looks cool though.
Been there Done That Got the Wet Tee Shirt.
I’ve looked at this pic for a couple of days now and every time I see it I think of a cousin who got out of the Navy as a mid-career crypto tech because he kept getting sea duty on tin cans.
Hope they weren’t about to start the resupply process…Just doesn’t look like a good time to be moving bombs across a couple of cables.
Hey Max,
You try working in the engine room of a small boy (frigate/destroyer) in 120 degree tempratures and then taking a salt water shower because you don’t have enough potable water!!!!
I don’t sit here and call what you did a cake walk, so try going down the path in a squid’s shoes before you think you have it that bad.
BTW, Jim S is correct, that is just slop between two very big boats. However, this is a very difficult and dangerous operation that happens every day.
DC2,
You read my post wrong. I was a swab too (6 years active, 6 reserve) I said that getting a little sea-sickness was preferable to what the Army folks do in their field exercises. At least the swab-jockeys like me can get a shower once every few days at minimum. In fact, on the USS Virginia (CGN-38), we had hot water almost constantly thanks to the nuclear power. I say almost, because sometimes the engineer types would get JP-5 in the water by mistake and we would have to wait a while, but that wasn’t all that often.
Anyway, I’m not sure why you thought I was a ground-pounder (I like ground-pounders, BTW; jar-heads, air-heads, bubble-heads, whatever; we’re all on the same team).
IT2 (now civilian)
Shame on Petty Officer Moore for putting such a cutline below a very exciting photo. He could have cropped the bow off a bit so the relative calm sea state did not appear in the background if he wanted us to think it was a ‘heavy’ sea. Any thing could have been done with Photo Shop, even bring one of the waves up to the bow and cover the background. The gray clouds add a sense of ‘drama’ to the photo also.
Good pic ruined with a bad cutline.
Still I have a certain love for the military and their ablities with the “camera obscura.“
They take a lot of damn good (informational and enjoyable) photos.
Joe
IT2,
Yeah I got the point of your message all wrong, sorry about that.
It’s not that I would have a problem going out in the field for 3 weeks. It is going “outside the wire” that I truly respect. Maneuvers are maneuvers, no matter what branch of service you are in. It is what the grunts are going through today that I truly respect.
DC2
I was on the USNS SIRIUS T-AFS 8 from Jan 1981 — Apr 1985. Believe me, I know what it’s like to do unreps at all hours of the day and night and just about any every kind of sea state. I recall we assigned the USNS RIGEL T-AF 58 to unrep the USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER CVN 69 in the Med during some heavy seas one time. The Rigel’s bow was coming out of the water. Then there was the Unrep the USNS SIRIUS did with the USS SYLVANIA AFS 2, I remember the swells lifting Sylvania up so high we were looking straight up to her from our main deck, then visa versa.
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