USS Gerald Ford deployed for 303 days now. [View all]

I remember a time on the USS America with a mere three months straight with no ports ( mad dog station, 1986).

It seemed all past life had dissolved and this was all there is. 12 hour shifts 7 days a week. Fix planes, launch planes, land planes, fix planes and repeat. A grey, everything is grey, floating work prison from which there is no respite or escape.

Not a complaint, just recognition for our sailors hard and dangerous work.