USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)

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Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on October 19, 2014 at 2:19pm

Operation "Inherent Resolve"......

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on October 18, 2014 at 8:45am

USS Carl Vinson relieving the USS George Bush on station!

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on October 12, 2014 at 10:02pm

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on October 12, 2014 at 4:48pm

Welcome to the fold, John!

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on September 24, 2014 at 1:14pm

Great Grandson???? It looks like you are just starting over, my friend!

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on September 24, 2014 at 11:48am

Operation Valiant Shield

Comment by Greg Hunter on September 21, 2014 at 8:22pm

Could someone tell me the mailing address to the Carl Vincent my son has a b-day coming up and he hasn't emailed us the address.Thanks in advance Greg Hunter

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on September 18, 2014 at 7:49pm

Byron...that's a picture of my daughter from the USS Carl Vinson's page. I was pleasantly surprised to find it this morning! Comms have been light the last 10 days or so....

Comment by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on September 18, 2014 at 10:07am

From the USS Carl Vinson

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on September 17, 2014 at 9:56pm

RE: Concerning the lost aviator

If there’s any way possible, I’d like to get a brief message to the commanding officer of the USS Carl Vinson. This may not be important in the grand scheme of things, but it’s important to me.

I’m a cab driver for Coronado Cab Company, and me and my co-workers drive Vinson sailors every time the ship is in port. When we heard about the loss of the two F18s, and the missing aviator, we talked about it on the cab stands. We felt bad. One of our drivers has a daughter in the Marines, and one driver is in the Naval Reserves.

We’re just cab drivers, ordinary people living ordinary American lives, and as such we normally take for granted the safety and security we have. Those two things, safety and security, are the reason we can normally be oblivious of world events, and just live our safe little lives. But, with the loss of a brave pilot, it made us think for a little while that our cocoon of safety is actually guaranteed by people who volunteered to make sacrifices on our behalf. Sadly, somebody just made the ultimate sacrifice — for us. That means something. The loss wasn’t in vain. It wasn’t just a workplace accident. It was a sacrifice for others. I hope the family and people who knew the lost aviator fully understand that. If the loss is felt by a taxi driver, I believe it’s felt by a lot of people in America.

The BBC News story paid more attention to the value of the jets, $57 million each, than the lost aviator. We have a budget of — what? –$3.9 trillion? No context even for the monetary angle. All of that hurts because the largest news service on Earth is more interested in the cost of the machines, with no context, than the person who gave his life for others. Please remember that not everybody reads headlines at news sites, shrugs, and moves on. Some of us know the meaning of what happened. I wanted to read a profile of the aviator, where he’s from, why he decided to serve, and who he left behind — but I got none of that.

In Syria and Iraq and many other places in the world today, there are thousands, probably millions, of refugees because they lack basic security. They have no homes, no jobs, and are wondering if they will survive until tomorrow. We don’t have those problems here, because of you. What’s that really worth? Everything. I just wish somebody would explain that to the media and Capitol Hill. I just wished the media cared enough to tell the real story.

Thanks, everyone on the Vinson, for serving, and know that some ordinary Americans who don’t usually think about “the big picture” are thinking about it now.

Thanks for serving.

Brian Blazevic
Ordinary American/Taxi driver

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