🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE LARGEST USA NAVAL BASES!

[@stevengoodpaster3870]

You want a perspective…try this. I’m literally lying on my death bed (housebound w/30% lung function) and I choose to spend my time watching you reacting to my home country. Kinda makes you important huh? Love you bro keep putting a smile on my face. Oh and 🙏🥳

[@Ira88881]

You’re cool, dude. My thoughts and best wishes are with you.

[@kabirconsiders]

Steven, you’ve just moved me with this comment. God bless you mate! Thanks so much for always being supportive of the channel, I honestly really appreciate it so much

[@stevengoodpaster3870]

@Derek Renne that is a fine and appropriate sentiment, thank you. But would it freak you out if I said it’s a temporary condition, and I know this because I was told this by Jesus while looking Him in the eye? Or does it bring questions?

[@davidvanriper60]

God bless you brother....Know Jesus, know peace. No Jesus, no peace....

[@rozjones2035]

God Speed🙏🙏

[@williampilling2168]

Pearl Harbor was back up and running within days. 6 of the 8 battleships that were sunk were re floated and returned to service. 5 of those 6 took part in the battle of Leyte Gulf, which basically ended the Japanese navy. May be a good topic for you to react to.

[@Rick-Rarick]

Drachenfiel did a great couple of videos on this topic. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHOQh2yZeLh2btE

[@mauriciomorro6693]

"Up and running" is kind of misleading. They were tending ships that very same night but the deeper mooring spots were unusable, the dry docks were full of debris, the hangars destroyed, etc. But huge mistake for the japanese was not realizing that battleships were no longer the most important class of ships the carriers were the future and they proved in 1942. Additionally they didn't even try to destroy the submarine base or the tank farm south of Pearl Harbor

[@williampilling2168]

@@mauriciomorro6693 The Japanese realized that, thier main targets were the aircraft carriers. And, they had just launched a massive attack against the main US base in the Pacific, with Aircraft Carriers.

[@bobn3553]

Thanks for this info William.

[@mauriciomorro6693]

@@williampilling2168 only Yamamoto knew the importance of the carriers, in 1941 even American admirals were "old school" and thought the battleships were the decisive factor

[@lextek.]

As was said below, the actual base at Pearl Harbor was relatively undamaged and was up and running in days, with six of the eight battleships re-floated, repaired, and put back in service. It has been reported that Admiral Yamamoto prophetically said "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve".

[@zellabelle]

you honestly have one of the best reaction channels, you take the time to actually learn what youre reacting to and have genuine interestweather its millitary or sports big up! been here since 1000 subs

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks so much for the kind words brother :)

[@OniIzanagi]

Right, Kabir's are the only reaction videos I watch

[@Montweezy]

That's for sure! I can see right through fake reactors and Kabir is the truth in the reaction world! He loves to ingest the information and then talk about it at the end. I don't know if he is still a teacher, I know he has his teachers Liscense or Degree. You know he would be an awesome teacher!!!!

[@zellabelle]

@@Montweezy exactly the fake reactor you can tell right away because you can watch 3 videos they did on the same topic but learned nothing. And they just say “ that’s crazy” the whole time

[@Montweezy]

@@zellabelle exactly or hold their hand over their mouth being overly dramatic....

[@jeffburdick869]

I've been to NAS Jax and Mayport. My uncle is a retired US Marine who lives in Jacksonville. He was also a Top Gun pilot and was an extra in the movie Top Gun. He was at the "you've lost that lovin feelin" scene. You can see the back of his head. LOL.

[@knightlife98]

It was basically back in full operation a year later, but they were still salvaging ships another year after that, talking about Pearl Harbor. Fun Fact: By December 7th 1942(Just two years after the attack), the U.S. had a Navy, larger than all of the Navies of the World combined.

[@itbechelsea]

My husband is in the US Navy. We've lived in a few of these places. And yes, many military bases are basically little towns of their own. I lived on a small Army base in Germany as a teenager and we hardly had to leave it. We had everything we needed, including a grocery store, furniture store, gas station, recreation centers (like cinema and bowling), post office, schools, gym, parks, doctor/dentist, etc.

[@lynnegulbrand2298]

That's one thing about the US Military they take care of their troops.both my brother's and mom and dad served in the military.

[@stephsdlnthms3957]

For perspective, (in England) Glasgow is slightly less than 3,500 acres, New Castle is roughly 27,000 acres, and Manchester is about 28,500 acres. Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is a little over 65,200 acres, so slightly bigger than Coranado. However, this video just dealt with our (the US) naval bases and our Army bases tend to be much larger. I live close to Fort Knox, a mid-size Army base, and its about 109,000 acres 😁.

[@sledgehammerk35]

Drachinifel has a great series of videos called The Salvage of Pearl Harbor, where he talks a lot about the repairs of the ships and the base. But it was operational immediately after the attack. The aircraft carrier Enterprise and her task force sailed into the harbor the day after the attack while it was still burning and were resupplied and sent back out to sea within about 7 hours.

[@Rick-Rarick]

I lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for 10 years. We had Norfolk Naval base to our South, Dover AFB to our North, and Andrew's AFB to our West with the Ocean to the East. There were very few commercial flights in the area and only a small commercial airport here and there. SO many military fly overs though! Was always fun to watch them train!

[@sherryarflin726]

It took navy divers working inside the damaged ships. Within six months, five battleships and two cruisers were patched or relocated so they could be sent to shipyards inside Pearl Harbor and the mainland for extensive repair. Salvage operations continued for another year or so and a total of 20,000 man-hours under water.

[@davidw5629]

What is a really big military base? 214,968-acre Ft. Hood is the Army's premier installation to train and deploy heavy forces. A 214,968 acre- installation, and is the only post in the United States capable of stationing and training two armored divisions.

[@JM-gj7de]

Currently stationed at #2...Pearl Harbor, HI...the Navy's BEST homeport:)

[@gderoxtro]

Rule of thumb, 2 years to become a fighter pilot. Navy/Marine pilots fly considerably more hours than their Air Force counterparts due to carrier deployment. AF about 120-150 hours per year, Navy about 350 hours per year (deployment years) and 180 non-deployment years. AF trying to bump up to 200-250.

[@willrobinson4976]

Naval base Coronado is in a beautiful setting, it is just across the bay from Naval Base San Diego. I often had to drive over there to pick and drop off repair parts, and I got to see spectacular views of downtown San Diego, and a full view of the base at 32nd street. Coronado Island is a beautiful place.

[@u4riahsc]

I was born in San Diego, my father (civilian) worked at North Island and I ended up working for a contractor that had work on all the Naval Bases in the Southwest Division. I always loved driving across the bay bridge, both ways - gorgeous scenery.

[@willrobinson4976]

@@u4riahsc Absolutely

[@la_old_salt2241]

Sailed out of 32nd street on the Elliot. DD 967

[@willrobinson4976]

@@la_old_salt2241 I was on the Thach FFG-43

[@seanjones7474]

Great water views, going over the bridge from North Island/Coronado to downtown San Diego...I served my whole career at NASNI and 32nd street...🇺🇲

[@barbarapohl887]

Not everyone on those bases is fed three meals a day. A percentage of, say, 54,000 people are family members. Usually (not always) these families live in base housing, which vary in type but are often single family homes. So the families feed themselves, as well as the mom or dad who is in service. Civilian employees live off base and feed themselves. Even the active duty personnel without families probably often choose to eat wherever they want. So it’s not like feeding a crew on a ship at sea where they have no options. Love your channel!

[@robertlewis1290]

The Andirondack State park in itself is 6 million acres (1/10 the size of the UK) which puts the size of a US naval base into perspective.

[@protonneutron9046]

Fort Bragg (US Army) base in North Caroline is the largest US military base at over 251 square miles (650 km). The largest military facility in the USA is the White Sands testing range in New Mexico. The range occupies around 3,200 square miles (8,300 sq. km) of land. That is larger than Cyprus & Luxembourg combined.

[@yugioht42]

It took about six months to get Pearl fully operational again after the japanese strike. The ships that were saved were repaired in less than a week. anything not useable was trashed or sunk in the harbor away from lanes. The man power was replenished about a month later as the draft hit. That was the fastest we did something and we kept doing things to Pearl constantly adding or removing defenses, extending airfields, changing propellers to jets, the work never stops. We left the sunken battleships as underwater memorials which are still there today which you can actually see. There was no time in those days just it was forget everything and get to work and think later.

[@kabirconsiders]

Six months is a pretty fast turnaround!

[@michaelschemlab]

@@kabirconsiders That’s because they didn’t bomb the repair yards or refueling stations, just some of the ships

[@thekevindeucey]

Pearl Harbour, tactically, was a double edged sword. Yes, Japan decimating our battleship fleet, but little did either side realize carriers were the future of Pacific warfare. And it just so happens that, our carriers were all out to sea during the attack.

[@funnyturtles825]

Most the destroyers and other ships were back running soon. There were a lot that were down yes but if I’m correct just as many or more were still running or repaired after the attack

[@webbtrekker534]

Little did they realize that Subs were the future. (They ignored bombing the Sub Base but it was a Submarine that shot down one of the first Japanese planes in the attack) US Submarines sank over 55% of all Japanese shipping and 30% of its Navy in WW II strangling the country for fuel and resources. Sub operations were kept secret in WW II and still are to this day. We are the SILENT SERVICE.

[@brianharrington1468]

The Japanese also missed most of the main repair and support areas of pearl harbor allowing it to be back up and running pretty quickly after the attack.

[@chago4202000]

The Japanese launched a huge attack, using mostly aircraft carriers, to take out the American carriers, but they didn't realize aircraft carriers were the new weapon of choice. Hmmm...

[@xsubsquid]

Relatively new viewer and a retired US Navy submariner. In the video they showed two bases that made up the top 10 - Naval Base San Diego and Naval Base Coronado. What the video doesn't show you is that both of those bases are essentially joined by that curvy bridge you see in a couple of the shots. Additionally, just north of Coronado, in clear view of the base, is Naval Submarine Base Point Loma, California. That bay is one huge military megastructure.

[@Lyeit]

My grandfather was in the US navy in WWII and a number of years after. My aunt was born when he was stationed at Pearl Harbor in 57. According to them, you could still see bullet holes in the brick buildings around that time.

[@sadiekincaid5310]

@Lyeit to this day there are still some of the barracks that were there then that have the bullet holes still in them and those buildings will not be demolished unless they absolutely have to. The barracks are still there as a reminder of what happened that day just like the Arizona and the Utah are still in the places were they sink.

[@RandomTrinidadian]

Well from what i can remember, salvage operations began just days after the attack. All but one of the battleships were raised and 6 of them were returned to active duty.

[@loach392]

Actually the USS Utah plus The USS Arizona are still at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. The Utah was a target ship and one of the crew members received the Medal Of Honor.

[@RandomTrinidadian]

@@loach392 i onow about the Arizona, and i know Oklahoma was raised but Scrapped. Didnt know the Utah was not salvaged

[@puterbac]

Ultimately the fate of Japan was sealed nice they attacked and the US carriers were all out to sea. Yamamoto knew Japan could not compete against the industrial might of the US. Hence his quote (paraphrasing): I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with terrible resolve.” - There is some controversy about whether he said/wrote those exact words but had apparently said something similar on several occasions. The entire plan was hit the US hard, set their navy back 2-3 years, build up defense in depth, and hope the USA would decide not to fight. Neither side respected the others fighting man at the start.

[@williampilling2168]

The Utah was a target ship. It had been converted from a battleship to conform with the Washington Naval Treaty.

[@webbtrekker534]

@@loach392 Utah is forgotten by most. When I was in the Navy in the 1960's sometimes we'd have to circle Ford Island several times until our mooring was ready. As we passed Utah and Arizona we'd have to stand to attention and salute as we passed rendering honors to the dead.

[@kdrapertrucker]

My grandfather was a Navy seabed in WWII stationed at Bremerton, Washington. He was an expert in radarand installed it on carriers and battleships.

[@bassventurafretdetective8899]

I’m active duty Air Force stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Great video! Would love to see your reaction to NHL goalie goals.

[@wildbronco038]

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but six months after Pearl Harbor, the US Navy had recovered to a point where it could defeat the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway, which was a major turning point in the Pacific front. (Of course, helped by the fact that the American carriers were not present at Pearl Harbor during the attack)

[@tomyoung9049]

also helped that the Japanese never launched their third wave attack at Pearl, if they had taken out the oil storage or more important the drydocks it would have seriously slowed everything down. With the drydocks intact nearly all of the damaged ships were refitted and sent to sea as soon as possible.

[@davidfreeman4426]

Both my ships USS Philippine Sea and USS Moosebrugger were homeported at Mayport. So I can say NAS Jax and Mayport are huge. Now I live in San Diego and i cam see Coronado and NS San Diego from my balcony.

[@firstnlastnamethe3rd771]

The fact you own two war ships is impressive, but the fact one of em is called "Moosebrugger" is what really amazes me

[@davidfreeman4426]

@@firstnlastnamethe3rd771 Yeah, the Moose as she was known is probably scrapped by now. She was named after Admiral Frederick Moosebrugger.

[@firstnlastnamethe3rd771]

@@davidfreeman4426 "The Moose" sounds way better than what I was thinking... I mean, who would wanna set sail on the good ship Moose-Burger?

[@davidfreeman4426]

@@firstnlastnamethe3rd771 And you're correct, some people would refer to the Moosebrugger as such. Oddly enough when we were in Halifax Nova Scotia I actually had a moose Burger. By the way, moose is good eating!!

[@victorwaddell6530]

I remember when USS Moosbrugger was homeported in Naval Base Charleston , South Carolina. The Mighty Moose had a rack of moose antlers mounted below the bridge above the forecastle. I was stationed onboard USS Sellers , DDG 11.

[@scottwillcockson6089]

57,000 acres is bigger than Liechtenstein and Aruba, so you are correct that it is bigger than more than 1 country. Also, "Gosh, it's so much bigger than I thought it was! 😍"

[@YOSHI450R]

89 miles doesn't sound as cool as 57k acres but still that's massive, Area 51 is 575 miles or 368,000 acres.

[@TheGLORY13]

Realistically if you're in port and aren't required to stay on the ship and the people who are simply on the base they are welcome to leave (obviously after work shifts) and go out and eat if they want, don't think of it as the base is "supplying" meals 3 times a day to the entire base. Majority of jobs are normal jobs that you can find in the civilian world. Those people are not stuck on base and besides working can typically come and go. The civlians and contractors who work on base are definitely welcome to come and go as they please if they have access. --- I worked at Portsmouth Shipyard for the past 5 years on and off paving for them, (i was also an Air Force brat so I had a dependent ID that granted me access to the vast majority of bases up until 18)

[@tinajezek5141]

I was in NJROTC in high school and we got to stay in the Corpus Christi naval base all the time. I loved it

[@callmelyn73]

I live in Washington and Navel Base Kisap is up north from me. We still call it Bremerton here…lol. Didn’t know it had merged. Dad’s retired USAF and I knew about the AF and Army bases joining. They are now Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM).

[@davidhohn9106]

So do we in T-town. Bremerton Shipyards, and Ft Lewis or McChord.

[@62rowley]

If someone hasn’t mentioned it already, a good way to compare acreage size when you consider 1 mile x 1 mile square is 640 acres.

[@ninjafroggie1]

To answer your question about pearl harbor: Damage to shore facilities, airbases, etc, was repaired within a couple weeks. Salvage efforts to refloat and repair the ships sunk or damaged in the attack were ongoing until early 1944, when efforts to salvage the USS Utah, the last ship other than the USS Arizona still remaining on the bottom, were abandoned due to the ship sinking too far into the mud to be worth the effort. Most of the ships were salvaged succesfully in early to mid 1942, with only the capsized ships like Oklahoma and Utah remaining to be salvaged. Drachinifel made a pretty good series of vids talking about the salvaging efforts of pearl harbor. Link to pt1 of 3 below kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHOQh2yZeLh2btE

[@JenKnee423]

I grew up in San Diego ( we had 3 bases at the time: San Diego, Coronado and NAS Miramar) and a lot of our neighbors were in the Navy. A lot of the sailors lived off of the base in their own homes, while some lived on or close to the base in Navy Housing. They were responsible for buying their own food while working at the base (when they’d ship off then they were fed on ship) but they do have what’s called a Commissaire or Exchange on base (like a military version of Walmart) where you can buy food and other items much cheaper than a civilian store).

[@willardwooten9582]

Back in the 70s I worked for an Agricultural Dealer where I made several trip to Bangor Sub Base now Kitsap sub delivering grass seed and fertilizer as they were building it. It could be bigger if they include the Aircraft Carrier based across Puget Sound in Everett. Well now you know how big a pitch is , I mow the backyard every 10 days and it is 4 acres of grass the dogs play in.

[@josephsoto9933]

I use go fishing at Pax River. They had their own fishing pier (plus they had other sites). The Navy's test pilot school was there too. I remember seeing them test the V-22 Osprey many times. One of my troops was a Marine brat, his father was a crew chief on "Marine One". They were stationed at Pax River. So he knew all the best fishing and crabbing spots.

[@keithroberts4028]

I was a computer operator at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton back in the 90s. On the midnight shift, we would print the checks for accounts payable. There were times when the water bill or electric bill would be over 1 million dollars for the previous month.

[@Thetequilashooter1]

I’ve toured the base in San Diego. It’s quite a sight. It’s cool to watch the navy ships go in and out. What surprised me most was one morning I didn’t see a carrier that was just sitting there the night before. I guess it’s common for them to depart at night. BTW, love your videos. You find really interesting content, and I like your sincerity and honesty when watching.

[@cyancey76]

A lot of the ships, and certainly the carriers, go in and out of San Diego based on the tides. SD bay is relatively shallow and the water has to be at high tide for there to be enough depth.

[@u4riahsc]

@@cyancey76 There is also a very narrow channel in the middle of the bay that the carriers have to navigate to keep from being grounded.

[@cyancey76]

@@u4riahsc yup, I learned of that from my buddy. He learned about it from having to do middle of the night, underwater navigation dives in the bay as part of BUDS training

[@kdrapertrucker]

At pearl harbor, the Japanese concentrated on battleships and airfields. The barely touched dry docks, naval stores warehouses, and didn't even try to hit the Tank Farms where all the fleetsfuel was stored.

[@gregorywright2798]

The Aircraft Carriers were not in port. So only Older Battle Ships and other Big Ships were Damaged. All Vessels that weren't Refloted were Replaced with Updated Vessels by late 1942. Navy divers worked inside the damaged ships. Within six months, five battleships and two cruisers were patched or refloated so they could be sent to shipyards in Pearl Harbor and on the mainland for extensive repair.

[@apex_blue]

I live 30 minutes away from corpus Christi TX and every so often I hear one of the training jets fly overheard and It's the loudest thing I have ever heard if you haven't heard it before it would startle you and if it doesn't you aren't human.

[@bobn3553]

I live about 2 miles south of St. Louis and about 20 miles west of Scott Airforce base which is over in Illinois. It is a sight to see when some fighter jet(s) or several helicopters fly over my home. You can hear them coming.

[@theblackbear211]

Just to put it into perspective - the Naval presence in San Diego: Naval Base Coronado is directly across San Diego Bay from Naval Base San Diego... But there is also Naval Station Point Loma directly on the bay. Also nearby is the Naval Hospital, and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, as well as Marine Corps Air Station (ex-Naval Air Station) Miramar. (where the movie "Top Gun" was filmed.) Just up the Coast in Camp Pendleton Marine Base occupying about 125,000 acres and over 17 miles of the Southern California Coastline.

[@jeffzcubfan]

While operations were back up within days, the ongoing recovery of ships/repairs took months all the way up to the latter half of 1942...almost 1 year later. While they did quite a bit of damage to ships, they failed to hit critical fuel areas and the docks were not heavily damaged and were operable.

[@jackp8583]

For reference: Greater London covers 1,579 sq. km (390,179 acres). The City of London covers about 26 sq. km (6,424 acres).

[@tcar904]

Just saw this video today. I live a mile from NAS Jacksonville and see the planes daily. And you’re right, it’s amazing and it never gets old.

[@reddevilparatrooper]

I am a former US Army Paratrooper. I grew up US Navy for 5 years living with my Uncle Chief Petty Officer Maldonado and Aunt Ashley with my cousins Jim and John. Naval Base San Diego is an awesome place!!!

[@MovieGuy808]

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. We have a big Pearl Harbor commemoration event every year on December 7th. 🇺🇸

[@jamesblanton3744]

I looked it up 57000 acres is 89 square miles and for example Liverpool is 43 square miles

[@thomasthomasthomas296]

I live right next to a naval base (doesn't support much in terms of active duty people, has a lot of acquisition work done on the base though and houses the test pilot school, 2 giant runways on it that form a big X shape, that naval base is roughly 13,800 acres..... when including an island used for testing bombs and other explosive ordinance and a small airfield not that far away from the naval base. The island testing range is 6,000 acres, completely uninhabited (and dangerous due to unexploded ordinance).

[@Gantzz321]

I live beside one of the largest bases you (most people) have never heard of CFB Gagetown It is has1,100 square KM (180,000 Acres, a little bit bigger than 3400) training area, 1,500 km of roads, 900 km of tracks (FOR TANK TRAINING) and 740 buildings. As such, 5 CDSB Gagetown is the SECOND largest military base in Canada and the largest military facility in Eastern Canada

[@mikescafidi]

Greetings from NAS Corpus Christi. Primary flight training syllabus lasts approximately 22 weeks. After that, pilots choose their pipeline Jet, E2/C2, Maritime, Helicopter, and E-6 TACAMO, and potentially move on to another base for Intermediate training.

[@g.g.hochstetler2286]

Hard to believe the F22 first flew almost 25 years ago. It was definitely ahead of its time.

[@timreno72]

I live in a small community outside Reno,NV called Stead. We have a small military air port and military base w/ homes. I learned in college that the military base homes built out hear was a massive military oops. Somehow the blueprints for here (Stead) go mixed up with plans for a base in Florida. The military homes built here have high vaulted ceilings with very little insulation and the ones built in Florida have short ceilings with thick insulation. It's hard to believe but I've seen it myself and my college professor confirmed it.

[@josephdillon5203]

Sunday, December 7, 1941 was when it was attacked by Japan

[@Haltech007]

Something that was glossed over is that NAS Jacksonville and Mayport Naval Station are both here in Jacksonville. They are just across town from one another. Jacksonville is HUGE. It is the largest city in the USA.

[@cerridwencaverhill4139]

I served at Naval Station Mayport and NAS Jacksonville (about 30 miles from each other), and my father at Naval Base San Diego. I currently live near Naval Base Kitsap. Love your videos. Keep up the good work, Kabir.

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks mate :)

[@skyhawksailor8736]

As for the actual bases damaged during the attack at Pearl Harbor, the bases were up and running in very short order. The Japanese focused on ships and not on the base. This caused the dry docks and fuel farms not to be attacked, which really came back to bite the Japanese. For Naval and Marine pilots, first they have a bunch of hours at basic flight school, then they go to advance flight school. After they get their wings and are assigned the aircraft they will fly, they then have to go to the training command for those aircraft, this is call the RAG squadron. I was stationed with an A-7 RAG command VA-174 DET El Centro, the actual command was at Cecile Field Florida. Pilots would have to go to Cecile Field for orientation training before they would be sent to El Centro to start learning how to use the A-7 for missions including bombing and other missions. The pilots had to have 60 hours in the A-7 before they came to El Centro. I would estimate the total of flight hours in all the aircraft they had flown since the start of basic flight school would have been at least 200 to 300 hours in the air. The video you watched stated the size of the base was based on the number of personnel stationed there. If it was based on land size then the top three would have been NAS Lemoore, NAS Fallon and the winner would be Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake with a total of 1,100,000 acres or roughly 1,718 square miles. If you would like to watch a video concerning NAS Lemoore, to kind of get a look at its size, and a screw up by California Highway Patrol and Base Security, watch the attached video. The main part of the base I am told is over five miles from the airfield. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJimY3WNjNaXhcU

[@suzannefitzgerald4473]

Yay...i live in Corpus Christi...glad we made the top 10...my Grandfather was an Instructor there until he retired as Chief Master Sergeant

[@hardtackbeans9790]

4:50 Damage to facilities were pretty much done in 6 months. Although some was put off entirely until the end of the war. Ships were almost all recovered within a year. Some sunk ships were floating again in 3 months. A monumental task considering some were in awful shape & literally sunk on the harbor bottom. The USS Arizona was left as a war memorial & one cruiser I believe were deemed not worth salvage. Two battleships that were raised (just to say they did it) were deemed to old & obsolete to repair & were scraped. The USS Utah & one other which I don't remember. The damage to ships was overwhelming. The port facilities had some bad damage in places. For the Blue Angels it is 1200 hours. 57k acres would be bigger than some countries but not many. Luxembourg is roughly 600k acres.

[@kattcity]

Besides NAS Jacksonville, Mayport Naval Station and the nearby Kings Bay Sub Base. Jacksonville used to Have Cecil Field NAS. Which covered a whopping 66,000 Acres. It was one of 2 master jet bases. The other is Top Gun in California. Cecil Field held most all the fighter squadrons for the Atlantic Fleet carriers. It fell victim to a round of base closings which the Navy later regretted because they wanted it back later but the city had already spent millions on the infrastructure and It now continues as a jet port, For private jets and cargo jets etc. It also houses many military contractors some of whom do the overhauls of the fighters. The area now hosts a huge equestrian center, Massive swimming center, One of the campuses of Florida State college and other industries. The old Naval facilities such as the gym, weight room, saunas and such are open for the public and there is a public golf course, ball parks and other parks available to the public some of which I use from time to time the on base housing was converted to senior housing. I torn with having the navy base there or what is there now ,,,I reckon it is better as is now. And we still have the other 3 large bases.

[@SHeltFC]

I’m from Bremerton and worked at the Kitsap base for a few years. It’s basically its own city inside the gates.

[@tony_m_km6mzp]

A lot of people don't know this but NAS JRB Ft. Worth actually the former Carswell AFB.

[@TheToweringOtakunt]

The attack on Pearl Harbor involved somewhat more limited numbers than is generally known, though this does not diminish the importance of the event in any way. It's estimated that only about 40 torpedoes (responsible for the lion's share of the damage) were dropped in the harbor. A number of bombs and some direct hits by crashing or possibly kamikaze planes also contributed to the damage. Beyond this, the damage was limited to what the mounted guns on the planes could achieve. Since the primary weapon of the attack were the aforementioned torpedoes, most damage was limited to water-bound targets. Several nearby airfields were attacked to prevent effective aerial counter-attack, and a few civilian facilities were also hit, though there's no knowing how intentional this was. It's likely most of this damage was repaired within a few weeks. The main targets were the American warships on Battleship Row, of course. Of the roughly 100 ships moored in the harbor, 21 were damaged and 9 were sunk, 8 of them active. The battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, California, and Nevada were sunk along with the destroyers Cassin, Downes, and Shaw. A retired pre-WWI battleship, the USS Utah (BB-31), which was moored in the harbor as a target vessel and was not a planned target of the Japanese attack was mistakenly hit by a number of torpedoes. In this sense, she probably saved several of the active vessels from greater damage as these torpedoes were quite limited. The vast majority of the ships sunk or damaged at Pearl were put back into service within six months while a few of the most severely damaged vessels remained under repair until 1944 (the attack having occurred on December 7th, 1941). Of these vessels, only Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah were deemed to be total losses. Arizona is the most recognized and severe loss from the attack. Nearly 1,200 of her crew were killed and her hull still lies on the floor of the harbor. A memorial structure was built astride the wreckage which is visited by thousands of people every year. Utah is the only other ship that was left in the harbor. Having capsized to port during the attack, efforts were made to right her where she lay, but they were only partially successful. Utah can still be viewed in the harbor, though only with a valid military identification. Her observation area is inside the bounds of the active base and is not part of the normal tour route. Finally, Oklahoma is the only of the three total losses to be raised and removed from the harbor. She was so severely damaged that the Navy deemed her repair a non-starter and so she was stripped down and sold for scrap to the Moore Drydock Company of Oakland, California for $46,127 (roughly $715,000 today). However, while being towed to San Francisco, the Oklahoma and her tugs were caught up in a storm roughly 500 miles from Hawaii and the ship had to be cut loose. She sank shortly thereafter. She is one of the only ships lost in World War II whose current whereabouts are unknown. There are ongoing efforts to identify her final resting place.

[@mollieorzehowski9409]

2 of my former duty stations are on here. Naval Air station North Island and Naval station San Diego. I visited the Naval station Pearl Harbor while I was still in the Navy and now live near Naval Station Norfolk.

[@Trenton-om9qs]

Other than sinking 8 battleships the japanese didnt do much damage to pearl harbor. They were back up in running fairly quickly and i think 6 of the 8 battleships that sank were refloated and returned to service. Their main objective was to sink the aircraft carriers but they were not in Pearl Harbor that day. You should react to The Attack on Pearl harbor by Montemayor if you havent already. It explains it really well

[@shaftshaft]

Been on Kitsap a few times. Bangor is up the road about 15-20 miles or so. Security is super tight on Bangor. Shut down the entire Bangor Base because I got in the wrong lane and the only way to get turned around is for base security to shut down every road past the check point and they watch you turn around with their hands on their guns.

[@generichardson4771]

The navy does bombing practice in the Ocala national forest area and when they do as a kid growing up we used to feel the rumble of the explosions what they did was they would fly out to a carrier maybe off the coast of North Carolina and land refuel arm then take off and drop the ordinance and be back on ship by the time I'd hear the boom

[@therealslimshady19]

Damage from the Pearl Harbor attack only took a few months to repair. All ships but 2 or 3 that were sunk or damage were returned to service by or before 6 months

[@judyvalencia3257]

Hey, my hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas is here. We're on the Gulf Coast here in Texas and I love living next to the water, it's so calming! Also you mentioned the Blue Angels, We were home to the Blue Angels for years!

[@artmichel5572]

Kabir, many thanks for your appreciation of the United States military. You confused three different aircraft in this vid but no worries, all three are awesome. FYI, you specifically mentioned the F22 Raptor (USAF) [your favorite, I believe], but later showed an F16 Fighting Falcon (USAF) and then later the F35 Lightning II (USN,USMC, USAF). It’s all cool though, I appreciate your enthusiasm. Without giving away any state secrets, you would shit your pants to see some of the ranges/test areas that all services utilize for training and certification..hell the U.S. Army owns some pretty large bases as well! Cheers

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks so much for the kind words mate, and also for explaining this!

[@AngelA-qi1br]

As a comparison the largest naval base in England/ Western Europe is HMNB Devonport in Plymouth, England at 650 acres

[@kabirconsiders]

Oh wow, that’s quite a difference 😂

[@kingjellybean9795]

My uncle was in the navy for 20 years, I've been to most of the east coast bases got to take tours of a few ships, and a family trip to pearl harbor when he was stationed there. Took my grandpa who was in the navy pre ww2 who had buddies who died in the attack, and whe he heard the news he enlisted in the army to go fight in the pacific

[@roberthamilton6986]

The thing about Naval Station Norfolk, is that it has the surface side, and an air side. It's own airport terminal, and numerous squadrons. It's fucking huge

[@JPMadden]

The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor caused extensive damage and loss of life to the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but very little damage to the facilities of the naval base and no damage to the aircraft carriers. The Japanese navy had some of the best carrier experts in the world, but Admiral Nagumo, commander of the raid, was not one of them. His 6 carriers should have been enough to both further attack Pearl Harbor and the American carriers, when they arrived. Nagumo was too cautious, although in his defense he did not know the location of the U.S. carriers and could easily be surprised by their aircraft, since his fleet lacked radar. More attacks on Pearl Harbor would not have altered the outcome of the war, but probably would have lengthened it. Aside from the deaths of about 2400, the attack on Pearl Harbor was not as devastating to the U.S. Navy as was initially believed. Battleships had been made obsolete by the airplane, a fact which the old men who ran every navy in the world could not accept. The aircraft carrier was the most important warship then and now. The U.S. sank 4 Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway, but the Japanese sank 4 American carriers in different battles in 1942. At one point in late 1942 the U.S. Navy had one large fleet carrier in the Pacific and one light carrier in the Atlantic. The situation was so desperate that the Royal Navy loaned the U.S. one of its fleet carriers. When the war ended roughly two-and-a-half years later, the U.S. Navy had about 20 fleet carriers, 10 light carriers, and more than 100 of the small escort carriers (if you include the Royal Navy) used to escort convoys and sink U-boats.

[@webbtrekker534]

People keep forgetting the Submarines that sank well over half their shipping and 30% of their navy. The ONLY offensive weapon the US had after Pearl Harbor was her Submarines. The US lost 52 subs in WW II, over 3600 men.

[@JPMadden]

@@webbtrekker534 You are correct about U.S. submarines. Aside from the minor Doolittle Raid (although it did convince the Japanese to attack Midway Island) the submarines were the only weapon which could reach Japan itself. In the early months of the war our carriers carried out some relatively minor attacks on Pacific islands around the periphery of the Japanese Empire.

[@kenhelmick5149]

I find the assertion that Nagumo "should have been able to handle the American carriers when they arrived" to be far too optimistic. Consider this from Nagumo's point of view. He has attacked the base with carrier aircraft, which have a finite range of operation. Thus, the American's know about how far his fleet is from Pearl Harbor. His planes flew in daylight, and observers could see their flight paths in both directions -- thus the American's know his approximate heading. The American's also have radio, so they can notify their carriers of his approximate location. He, on the other hand, has no idea where the US carriers are; let alone their course, speed, or battlegroup composition. Basically, he is now potentially on the other end of the stick of what happened to the sailors at Pearl Harbor -- an attack may be incoming at any time, from any direction, and he has no idea if, when, or where this will happen. Furthermore, if he launches a full attack, his air assets will not be available for local defense. The Japanese navy fully appreciated that the American's could easily out-built them and that their edge was fleeting -- losing any carriers at this point could severely reduce the amount of time that they held their advantage. Taking the win was not an irrational act

[@JPMadden]

@@kenhelmick5149 I did present both the pros and cons had Nagumo lingered near Hawaii. But it's just speculating for fun, since the truly irrational act (or thought) was the Japanese thinking that the U.S. would acquiesce to the Japanese conquests after being attacked. Perhaps this was due to their perception that we were racially inferior to them. Coincidentally, we thought they were inferior.

[@SeanVedell]

The base personnel aren’t all fed on the bases by base food services every day. Those who live on the base or just off it live in houses like everyone else and feed themselves. Certainly feeding active duty personnel on deployment is a huge task and cost but is often supplemented by franchise outlets of popular restaurants on bases and even on some aircraft carriers, if I’m not mistaken. We won’t talk about MRE’s. Nobody thinks they’re food anyway.

[@rh1507]

The only base I have been to was the Navy base in Charleston, SC. It's been so long ago now since I went there between 94 to 98. I and my former went down there to visit my brother who was stationed there. That feels like forever ago now. It was cool though. Those seem like a lot of almost lost memories. Oh if I could get back to my 20's again.

[@TheGLORY13]

Damage wise on Peral yeah some ships were lost completely some damaged pretty well, but they ships that could be saved and get put back into action were up and running far quicker then really any expected. Facilities were damaged but the base was far from "out of commission" The attack was successful to an extent but in terms of knocking out the base and the pacific fleet it wasn't that effective. Within 6 months Midway occurred and all but ended the Japanese fleet.

[@cyancey76]

I’d like to see a summary of bases in close proximity to each other. San Diego has the largest concentration of military in the US but not all at 1 base. Between San Diego, Coronado, MCAS Miramar, and Camp Pendleton (about 30 miles north), there are almost 100,000 personnel, 175,000 people including family members.

[@sadiekincaid5310]

MCAS Miramar is not outside San Diego. It's actually in Los Angeles, California. I know this because Top Gun advanced Flight School used to be at Miramar until they moved it to Fallon, Nevada. They moved Top Gun to Fallon, Nevada because of encroachment around Miramar. Miramar used to be a navy base before it was turned over to the Marines for their use. Miramar is actually where Naval and Marine personnel are sent to when they are sentenced to time in the brig (military jail) (less than one year sentence) on the West Coast.

[@amyfrench8678]

@@sadiekincaid5310 Miramar is most definitely outside San Diego. Unless of course the Naval Air Station that I worked next to for many years was called Miramar just to throw off the spies.

[@cyancey76]

@@sadiekincaid5310 Uh, what? MCAS Miramar is literally surrounded by San Diego. I should know, I live less than 5 minutes from the MCAS Miramar main gate... and I definitely have a San Diego address, not Los Angeles. Everything else you said is correct though.

[@u4riahsc]

I’m a San Diego native for 67 years and for all that time, Miramar, originally a Naval Base and now a Marine Corps Base, is most definitely in San Diego, off Miramar road, between highways 163 and 805. I lived near the base in the 70s, and later worked for a contractor that had a contract on the base. The base is near the housing developments of Mira Mesa and Scripps Ranch. The north side of the base is close to the big Miramar landfill.

[@LarryHatch]

By the end of WWII the Japanese had so few working planes some of their pilots trained in mockup tubes of steel on the ground. Only when a factory produced the real "no return" planes did they actually get to fly. Their first flight was often their last one.

[@stephanie5872]

Fun fact, MCAGC (marine corps air and ground combat station) 29 palms is the largest base but lowest numbers of members stationed there

[@dallasarnold8615]

A really impressive video, for anyone that has not already seen it, is Brian Shul " From Butterflies to Blackbirds " speaking at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories regarding the SR-71. It is just over an hour, but well worth the watch. He keeps it interesting, not just a lot of statistics.

[@Derek-no8fu]

@3:06 USS Kearsarge LHD-3, I served 4years on that ship.

[@Derek-no8fu]

I got a heart !!!

[@herbiesnerd]

At the USS Arizona Memorial, which straddles the sunken hull, oil still drips forming a rainbow oil slick in the surface, 1 drop at a time.

[@Texkota]

Look at the battle of midway as well. The base in Fort Worth used to be Carswell air force base before 1994. Also use to fly the B52 bombers. Always awesome as a kid to see the big planes fly around the house. Another fact the Fort Worth base is on a lake and landlocked otherwise. No coast just a lake. I was surprised by its placement in this countdown.

[@navyninja1]

Naval Base Coronado is absolutely massive. Hearing how big it is is impressive in itself, but being there is a whole different animal. I have a few family members who work in different departments there, including my dad. He’s taken me on the base many times, and in the 15 years since he’s worked there, I can safely say that I still haven’t seen the entire thing!!

[@dstamour625]

I love Groton nuclear sub base. I have delivered a few time to them for work. It’s so beautiful it’s amazing. Wish it made it here but it’s def smaller.

[@ExUSSailor]

Primary Flight training to become a Naval Aviator adds up to about 100 hours, BUT, that doesn't include the additional specialization training focusing on the particular aircraft you're going to fly.

[@thommoore6027]

NAS Coranodo is where the SEAL’s are stationed and train. The mountain training base Michael Monsoor was named after a Navy SEAL who died in battle. There is also a ship named after him.

[@Montweezy]

Seal team 6/DEVGRU trains in Little Creek,Virginia Beach but BUD\s in Coronado is where they do boot camp and I think 4 teams are in Coronado...in Virginia Beach there are teams 2,4,8,10 and reserve team 18

[@pen1208]

@@Montweezy yes Coronado is where buds is. But SEALs train in many places in the USA. Georgia is another big one where they train for jump school if I am not mistaking. Ranger Airborn as well

[@Montweezy]

@@pen1208 Yeah jumpschool for everyone is at Ft. Benning in Georgia...That's also where Army Rangers go through BCT some SEALs also go through Ranger training because that's the DOD's toughest leadership school...SEALs also go through SERE school in Warner Springs, CA in the Cleveland National Forest

[@chetstevens4583]

A couple of these are actually combined. Coronado and San Diego are opposite sides of the same bay. Mayport is an easier access than Jacksonville as the latter is another hour up the river. They already mentioned in the video that they combined bases in Puget Sound.

[@JayStephens8]

Just now finding this one I’m not to far away from the Norfolk base if you ever come to the area I highly recommend going to Nauticus which is a naval museum and it also has the battleship Wisconsin docked it’s one of the last remaining battleships

[@Ira88881]

Kabir, good question. The damage to our fleet at Pearl Harbor was not “horrible” because none of the carriers were there and damaged. Yes, it was horrible, but I think you get my point. As far as the port itself, it didn’t matter all that much, because of all our other port resources. And the proof is in the pudding, since the U.S. was still able to destroy the main Japanese naval fleet (their carriers) just 6 months after Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway, essentially totally eliminating Japan’s naval threat not to just the U.S. mainland, but the entire Pacific theater.

[@kabirconsiders]

Thanks for answering my question Ira! I definitely need to put a Pearl Harbor video on my list

[@EthanBSide]

I lived at NAS Pensacola while my Marine father was going through flight school (Marines are technically part of the Navy so Navy and Marine pilots are "Naval Aviators", all qualified for carrier landing). I learned that the world's largest air force is the USAF, world's second largest? The US Navy/Marines

[@kinghershybar4294]

San Diego is awesome. You can visit retired Aircraft Carries

[@wolfmanjack3451]

Highly recommend you take a look at Edwards Air Force Base California,this is the home of the legendary flight test and X plane programs from 1947-present day. Reference "The Right Stuff".

[@RandomTrinidadian]

When it comes to Pearl Harbor, Salvage operation started a few days after the attack. Out of the 9 battleships that were sunk, 8 were raised and seven were returned to action.

[@4freebird69]

15:02 I thought I heard someone talking to me (I'm wearing headphones) but no one was there and I'm the only one home. I went back 5 sec. in your video and it was someone on your end in the back ground. lol... it freaked me out

[@kentgrady9226]

An acre is 4000 square meters, or about 63.25M×63.25M. A square mile is 640 acres, or 2,560,000 square meters. In other words, these naval bases of 25,000-35,000 acres are the size of small cities unto themselves - roughly 100 square kilometers. A single lap around the perimeter of Pearl Harbor is almost exactly a marathon. The damage at Pearl Harbor was largely confined to the ships themselves and to planes on the ground at airfields. Invasion of the Hawaiian islands was a real possibility, although some historians contend that was never a Japanese objective. Others speculate that pilots were explicitly instructed to avoid damage to infrastructure - drydocks, airfields, fuel stores, etc - for future Japanese use. Pearl Harbor was a functional naval base very quickly after the attack. Many of the sunken ships were raised, repaired, and back in service within months. The USS Yorktown, a flagship aircraft carrier, was severely damaged at the Battle of Coral Sea in May, 1942. She limped back to Pearl, where the estimated timeline for repairs was 100 days. Admiral Nimitz ordered that she be seaworthy and combat ready in under a week. The dock workers at Pearl completed the work in 3 days. She set sail and joined Admiral Spruance's battle group northeast of Midway Atoll. There, U.S. naval air forces, including those from Yorktown, engaged and destroyed a much larger Japanese strike force. Four Japanese carriers, all of which participated in the Pearl Harbor raid, were sunk. The Imperial Navy never recovered. The Battle of Midway Island is, in my estimation, one of the three greatest feats of American arms in the history of the Republic. The other two are the Battle of Yorktown, and the Battle of Gettysburg.

[@nicholasuszko]

Drachinifel did a 3 part series on the salvage efforts for peal harbor if you have the time, its about 2 hours in total.

[@OneJourney3]

Some bases also serves a late snack a couple of hours after the evening/dinner meal.

[@LibertyWolf1]

@ 2:00 that's Pier 12 @ Norfolk Naval Base. I'm VERY familiar with that pier.