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Bring on the Night
After about 10 hours of daylight operations, the darkness came to the flight deck. It makes you think about your mortality more than ever and I was 19 years old. The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is not all lit up so you can see well, it’s very dark and no white light is used…flashlights are red, yellow, green, blue, depending on your function, but no light that you can see well with.
On what they call Carrier Qualifications, the West Coast Navy operates in what is called SOCAL OPS Area. These are the waters from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out 200 miles are heavily used by the US Navy for air, surface and sub-surface operations including training exercises and maneuvers, live fire demonstrations. The weather here, in my experience, is overcast, misty to rainy and colder that you might think for Southern California.