USS Abraham Lincoln Flight Ops 1991

This is some more video I shot of flight operations aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), where I was assigned while in the US Navy from 1989-1992. These flight ops were most likely conducted in the Indian Ocean enroute to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. I was part of the Public Affairs Office (PAO) on the ship and filmed various ports of call, shipboard activities, and the best part...flight ops. Look for more to come. I will also be putting up some of the travel footage from our port visits. We visited Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai, as well as the Philippines after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1990. That eruption led to one of the largest evacuations of military dependants in the navy's history. It was called Operation Fiery Vigil, in which the ship earned the Humanitarian Service Award.

A note about the footage - Our mode of acquisition was the betamax format. It was a good format back in the day, but can't hold a candle to the new formats of today. One thing you'll notice is the disruption in the video every couple of seconds. This was the powerful radars on the superstructure used while at sea. There wasn't much that could be done about it. We did use a light lead shield around the cameras, but they didn't really work to well. The lines were in the video right from the day it was shot. CNN, NBC, and ABC crews that came on the ship in the Persian Gulf didn't have any lines in their video. They must have been able to get them to turn it off, but I'm not sure.

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