Interviews

Reporters on board wanted to get footage of specific jobs performed by Sailors. Started with a Chief Warrant Officer who heads the kitchen ops talking about the tons of food that gets processed on a daily basis. They also interviewed cooks, people cleaning and asked a couple females what it was like to be a woman on a carrier. Later, during a break in the wardroom having some lunch, one of the foreign reporters saw a female in a flight suit and asked, "what does she do?" He was shocked to hear me say that she was an F/A-18 pilot. "You let women fly your planes?" he asked. He wasn't opposed or anything - just surprised - and he was pretty intrigued, so I had to go find one to talk to. Found a Marine, pictured here.

And one sign of the times, the reporters wanted to interview female Sailors studying in the library. In the library were a few bookshelves, naturally, but they were pushed to the side to make room for a 60 inch plasma TV with a movie playing in surround sound and Sailors kicking back in recliners. No one was reading an actual book, but the connecting room was packed with computers hooked up to broadband internet and a webcam at every seat.