Six Months on an Aircraft CARRIER. How would YOU do?

Okay, I don’t know about you, but I’m not crazy about sharing my personal space with a lot of other folks. It’s not that I don’t like people, it’s just that I want some territory to call my own. Wiggle room. Crowd the human race, and the rats-in-a-cage syndrome starts to kick in… which is why, when I started learning that 5,000 Navy personnel and 85 military aircraft are all crowded together onto a nuclear aircraft carrier, in this case the USS Nimitz, I started getting that skin-crawly feeling. I give great respect to those who do it, but it’s obviously not a job for me. Especially if you’re sleeping UNDER a runway, and on TOP of a nuclear reactor!

Then again, honestly, I had never thought much about the ins and outs of aircraft carriers before. To me they had gone out, done their job, and come home. Looking back, what I knew about carriers was pretty much informed by TOP GUN. Sad and scary, I know. But CARRIER is better. FAR better. It airs five nights-in-a-row, Sunday, April 27 - Thursday, May 1 at 9:00 p.m.

Real people. Edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction drama, and a total immersion in the high-stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier. My kind of stories! Getting to know people up and down the chain of command. Those 5 nights provide a raw and personal look at life inside the Navy. CARRIER was shot May to Nov. 2005, during a full six-month deployment.

Six MONTHS at sea…in confined spaces. Definitely not my cup of tea. But it makes for great TV.