Ed Helms

Which has happened.

I feel like John Travolta was in that movie.

I can't remember anything else about it.

But anyway, the term broken arrow, that refers to any time we lose a nuclear missile or a bomb or device of some sort.

And it happens.

It has happened throughout history.

Numerous like way more than you want to know.

Well, losing a nuclear weapon sounds completely insane, and it is.

But part of why I wanted to bring this story to you guys in particular is that it has kind of a familiar flavor.

Clashing personalities, baffling miscommunication, questionable leadership choices.

Basically, this is a classic workplace comedy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And instead of cubicles, we're on a thousand foot warship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Instead of paper jams, we're dealing with hydrogen bombs.

On December 5th, 1965, just off the coast of Japan's Ryukyu Islands, U.S.

naval officers were running through a routine training exercise called the crew cut on the USS Ticonderoga.

An A-4E Skyhawk, an attack fighter jet, was being wheeled into the elevator to be taken up to the flight deck.

So quick pause.

Are you guys nervous flyers?