USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76 Tiger Cruise 2006

I'm going to say sorry now for so many pictures, but how do you compress 8 days into as little as possible when they were spent on board a US Navy carrier? This is the best I could do. There are more pictures but I felt these were the best. ENJOY!


Everyone told me to take pictures of Hawaii...


So here they are lol :)
I was only in Hawaii for less than a day, but I had fun. I met the mother of a girl who was also doing the Tiger Cruise and we ended up staying at the same hotel so we had lunch together and did some shopping. Later I went out and walked around a bit until I found a country bar that was right below the hotel I was staying in. So of course I had to go in, hehe, and after 11 Carlos and his buddies fnally made it :) Would you believe me if I told you I got Carlos to dance?!


I took these on deck before we left Pearl Harbor






The Arizona Memorial


Everyone on deck had to stop what they were doing and watch zs we went by.


Looking at this ship gave me an idea of how Pearl Harbor must have looked that day.


My first picture of the Ronald Reagan :)


Me and Carlos


This was the brother of a girl that slept in the same place as me and we went on some tours together.


We were on deck when this guy came over and asked us if we wanted to take a picture sitting in the jet.


Of course we couldn't say no


Afterwards we thanked him and he told us a bit about the jet.

Aboard The USS Ronald Reagan

This is part of the radar room. I couldn't get a very good picture because we weren't allowed to use flash in there.


Left-to-Right: Carlos, Aggy, Iffy, and Chris.


VFA 25 Most of the day crew
Left-to-Right: Saggy, Iffy, Martinez (Mom), Aggy, Carlos, and Chris.


Carlos checking the tip of the wing


We played BINGO one night...we didn't win but came really close with only needing three more numbers.


When they had their practice for the flight show, Carlos' squadren dressed me up like them so I could go on deck while they launched the jets. It was loud and I had to wear Carlos' boots that were way too big. lol It looked like I was wearing clown shoes. :)


This is how close I was while the jets were taking off. I was excited to see such a thing.

Flight Show

The next few pictures I took during the flight show. I wish I had a video camera so that all of you could see what I was able to see!






This was a demonstration of how they pick someone up who has fallen over board or is stranded in the water.


These guys scared me at first because I wasn't expecting them to shoot off guns lol.


These were all the jets used in the show.






Since I was already in uniform I got to stay on deck to see some of the jets land. No Tigers were allowed on deck during flight ops. I was very lucky!




Carlos


These are some of the guys loading a bomb carrier on the wing of the jet.

Fun On The Water

In the Hanger Bay activities were set up for the Tigers. I thought about doing Sumo wrestling with Carlos but I figured I'm so short that I wouldn't be able to get my head above the suit.




Everyday they had tours you could go on around the ship. This was a tour Carlos and I took to the brig.








This was the first day it started to get cloudy and very windy.
It also made a very beautiful sight to see.


On Volture's Row


"Where's Moni"

Fun On The Water Continued

Fisher and Hepner
I got to hang out with night crew a few times when I wasn't tired.




Hepner


Fisher
I call Fisher Teddy Bear because of a twinkie story lol. I offered him a twinkie because I couldn't eat it and he didn't want it. So I told him that if he didn't take it that I was gonna have to shove it in his mouth. Well I think the picture says it all lol :)


Night Crew


On the Fourth of July they had a Still Beach Picnic on deck and served hot dogs and steak.


I don't know why, but I really like this picture. It also shows how cold it was.


Weapons and bombs


Guns...

Guns...


and more guns :)


looking down from the back of the ship


You all better know who this is lol :)