Ed Helms
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Angela and Jenna, are you ready to dive into today's snafu?
Today's snafu takes us aboard the USS Ticonderoga, a massive aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of Japan in 1965.
This thing was built like it was auditioning for a Cold War action movie.
Tough exterior, fighter jets everywhere, total mid-century badass.
Picture if Don Draper and Maverick from Top Gun had a baby and the baby was a boat.
And it like chain smoked all the time.
Like that's what this aircraft carrier was like.
Unfortunately, that swagger was about to trip into a colossal face plant.
So what happened was what is known in military circles as a broken arrow incident.
Do either of you know what that term means?
But a broken arrow incident, that's when we lose a nuclear device.