Day in the Life Tour
Everyone loves to visit our bakery. Even though this room hasn’t baked anything for about 50 years, it still has a slight scent of freshly baked bread and freshly risen dough. Visitors can’t help but smile when they enter the room.
By Ron Ucovich, Docent USS Hornet
A file that documents the A Day in the Life of a Sailor as given by Toe-Knee Cooper retracing the memorable day the he reported aboard CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson.
When you enter the Dentistry Department, the first room on your right is reception. If you have a toothache, this is where you make an appointment to see the dentist. If you are enlisted personnel, you may get an appointment, but no matter how much pain you are in, you will have to wait until all drop-in officers are taken care of first.
By Ron Ucovich
The Hornet has two galleys on the ship; both of them located on the Third Deck. These two facilities prepare all the food for the 16,000 meals served every day. In addition to these two galleys, there are several pantries which can prepare light meals, breakfasts, or special-need snacks between meals. The Main Galley has chow line on the starboard side for a full meal, and also an express line on the port side for a quick breakfast or a hamburger or hot dog for lunch. The CPO Pantry is on Second Deck. The food for the main meals was prepared in the Third Deck Galley, and then served on Second Deck, but breakfasts and light meals could also be prepared in the Second-Deck Pantry.
El Hornet cuenta con dos cocinas, ambas ubicadas en la Tercera Cubierta. Estas instalaciones preparan los alimentos para las 16.000 comidas que se sirven diariamente. Además de estas dos cocinas, hay varias despensas que pueden preparar comidas ligeras, desayunos o refrigerios especiales entre comidas. La Cocina Principal tiene una línea de comida a estribor para una comida completa, y también una línea exprés a babor para un desayuno rápido o una hamburguesa o un perrito caliente para el almuerzo. La Despensa del Oficial de Primera Clase se encuentra en la Segunda Cubierta. La comida para las comidas principales se preparaba en la Cocina de la Tercera Cubierta y luego se servía en la Segunda Cubierta, pero los desayunos y las comidas ligeras también se podían preparar en la Despensa de la Segunda Cubierta.
The first thing people ask is, “Why does the Navy call a hospital a Sick Bay?” In navigational terms, the word bay refers to an inlet of the sea, as in San Francisco Bay, but in architectural terms it refers to a niche or nook built off to the side, as in storage bay or bay window. Our hangar deck is divided into three sections, and each one is called a Hangar Bay. You may have also heard the term Med Bay, but that term was never used by our Navy. It was created in Hollywood during the 1960s when the TV show Star Trek was popular. You may recall Dr. McCoy yelling to Captain Kirk, “We need to get this guy to Med Bay right away, or he is going to die within 2 minutes and 15 seconds!”
By Ron Ucovich