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Five-thousand sailors and Marines bid farewell to their loved ones before leaving CaliforniaOn a bright May morning, 5,000 sailors and Marines bid farewell to their loved ones before the mammoth USS Nimitz pulls out of Coronado, California, and sets a course for Hawaii and beyond. Among the men and women who live and work on board are an airman who describes the ship as a small town; a pilot who considers the ship a powerful instrument of diplomacy; a sailor who questions “why we’re fighting to defend someone else’s freedom when we barely have our own”; a cook who dishes out 15,000 meals a day; and an airman who has just learned that his girlfriend is pregnant. This program contains explicit language. Viewer discretion is advised.   Availability: US Only
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 2008 | 60 min
On a bright May morning, 5,000 sailors and Marines bid farewell to their loved ones before the mammoth USS Nimitz pulls out of Coronado, California, and sets a course for Hawaii and beyond. Among the men and women who live and work on board are an airman who describes the ship as a small town; a pilot who considers the ship a powerful instrument of diplomacy; a sailor who questions “why we’re fighting to defend someone else’s freedom when we barely have our own”; a cook who dishes out 15,000 meals a day; and an airman who has just learned that his girlfriend is pregnant. This program contains explicit language. Viewer discretion is advised. Comments There are no comments for this entry
Executive Producers Mel Gibson Bruce Davey Nancy Cotton Mitchell Block Maro Chermayeff Producers Matthew Akers Michelle Smawley Pamela Yates Deborah Dickson Jeff Dupre Created by Maro Chermayeff Mitchell Block Consulting Producer Captain David M. Kennedy, USN (Retired) Michael Polaire Composer Edward Bilous Cinematographers Axel Baumann Ulli Bonnekamp Mark Brice Robert Hanna Wolfgang Held Editors Pamela Scott Arnold Jay Keuper Sabine Krayenbuhl Maeve O’Boyle Howard Sharp E. Donna Shepherd Sound Richard Fleming Mark Mandler Gabriel Monts Joshua Issac Alan Barker Recommended titles like this one:
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