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The Organizational Challenges in Operating an Aircraft Carrier

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    FBN’s Melissa Francis on the challenges in ensuring the USS Enterprise operates smoothly.

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Well nearly seventeen million barrels of oil is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz every day the US fifth fleet is the linchpin of security for companies that are keeping the oil flowing to the world energy market.

Are -- I'm Melissa Francis is live -- Manama bale rain with an inside look at what it takes to guard the Strait of Hormuz Melissa.

That's right we just got off the USS enterprise and -- patrol.

This sea of Arabia at this is a critical oil and commerce through point 20% of the world's oil flows through and also a lot of goods that are coming in going.

To gulf states now -- very tricky.

To organize all the planes that sit on the flight deck of that carrier and one -- and has that job his name.

They call on the handler he speaks a language of his own seat you can understand -- and and what -- -- look at -- o'clock.

The bands are -- -- and they go out there with a -- Scrub the BLA in the latter line the senator lines.

And -- out there -- rooms and the -- the pressure washer.

-- -- -- What's actually have quite challenging and gotten out of debt and the -- who actually got different there is on the -- that you it is the -- when he angle on the about me.

Forget the corral between India and if we got corral -- -- -- -- -- to.

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Office in blood all these young men and women out your consciences.

To finish.

Today they -- straight everybody's everybody's got -- can do attitude in.

You know our job is protecting the troops on the ground so.

Please feel that everybody Clinton I don't let him know the importance to get these are aircraft off the indexation in back on.

-- -- we are sort of joking around that the very serious job obviously and we we're talking about the pilots that are going out over Afghanistan to -- our troops their cover.

Now the enterprise itself has been out operating 451.

Years it was parked off Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis and it's actually retiring.

-- fall back to you.

I'm Melissa Francis live out of all Rangel.