How 5,000 Sailors Survived The Red Sea: Steel Beach Picnics & Sleeping Under Catapults

Описание: For 9 months, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) sat in the most dangerous waters on Earth: The Red Sea. While the world watched the headlines about Houthi missiles, 5,000 sailors were fighting a different battle inside the ship. A battle against 130-degree heat, exhaustion, and the "Fresh Food Cliff."

Welcome aboard the "Ike." This is the ship where the Captain hands out cookies to boost morale, where a Labrador Retriever named Demo has his own rank, and where sailors sleep directly under the crashing weight of arresting gear wires.

In this documentary, we go beyond the combat footage to show you the grit, the grease, and the logistics of survival on a 50-year-old warship.

In this video, you will discover:

The Red Sea Reality: Life inside the most intense combat deployment since WWII.

The "Fresh Food Cliff": What happens when the salad bar turns into canned beans.

Captain's Cookies & Demo: How a dog and some baked goods kept the crew sane.

The Earthquake Zone: The brutal reality of sleeping under the flight deck during night ops.

Steel Beach Picnic: Grilling burgers on top of a nuclear reactor in a combat zone.

This is the uncensored reality of life inside Hull Number Sixty-Nine.

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