And Next up here on the Sunrise Show,
downtown Portland,
right there along the waterfront.
So this is a look from our Rose City
Skycam and we're showing you this
because Fleet Week is back this week.
It's actually been three years since
we had this Rose Festival event
here in town and to celebrate it,
Devin Haskins went down
to the Willamette River.
He's on board one of those
ships this morning.
Deb and I say good morning to you.
Good morning to you too.
Yeah, we're aboard the USS Michael Monsoor.
This is the bridge.
This is where basically
drive the boat I guess.
Is this simple way to say it joined right
now by the ship's commanding officer,
Captain Garrett Miller?
Appreciate you taking the time this morning.
Talk about us or talk with us
when people come aboard this.
What kind of experiences will
you be able to give them?
What kind of will they be able to see?
Well, I'll tell you, this is kind
of like Star Trek meets U.S.
Navy. We are the latest.
Tech most technologically advanced
shift we have in the Navy where
610 foot long, 80 foot wide,
16,000 ton electric drive ship that
that gets out there and and really
you know knows what it's doing and
and does its best when we're out at
sea and we're just super happy to
be here at the Rose Fest this year.
I know it's been tough for past
few years to get folks out and
we're excited just to be here.
I know I've been trying to come
here for they're over 30 years
and finally been able to make it.
And many of our sailors.
This is their first time here in
in Portland and and experiencing
one of these fleet fests like this.
And it'll be a great great
experience for them.
What
a great way to come to the city
when it's pouring down rain
for your first time exactly.
9:30 to 4:30 no.
I mean basically just show up.
You don't need any appointment lines,
you just need to have
your government issued ID.
You need to have you be fully
vaccinated against COVID-19 to
come aboard any of these U.S.
Navy ships.
Just I guess first overall experience. I
think it's great. I think being able
to get out of the pandemic and be
able to go and show America what
two of our finest ships you know,
the USS Coronado and USS
Michael Monsoor here fantastic.
Very new ships. Latest technology.
Latest greater the art state of the
art and you know really let people
come out and see what their navies
about, because that's
that's where about that.
Such a cool design to it.
So that way it's limited
detectable right by radar,
and that's why all those angles.
It's one of those it definitely
stands out on the Portland waterfront,
so it's one of the many shifts from
the US Coast Guard, the US Navy,
the Royal Canadian Navy,
and others that you can come
here and see during Fleet Week.
Friday, Saturday,
Sunday 9:30 to 4:30 are the tour
Times or the two were hours.
For more information,
though, you can head to Rose.
Festival.org,
and this is a look outside from our
Rose City Skycam downtown Portland.
Along the waterfront there,
where Fleet Week is playing out this week,
it's been three years since we
had those big ships here in town,
but they are back.
This is a Rose Festival event.
Devin Hawkins has been telling us
all about it this morning and he's
telling us from on board the USS
Michael Monsoor hey there, Devin.
Hey yeah we were on the the stern
of the ship Michael Monsoor.
This is the flight deck of of of
the ship joining me right now.
Christopher Jenkins,
an operations specialist here
with the US Navy so on board this
ship as an operations specialist.
What do you do? I'm
the guy that sits in the blue room.
I'm operating the radars so as you can
tell we don't have windows around the ship,
so I'm the eyes behind the ship so
we can navigate safely out to sea.
That's kind of one of the cool things
about the ship is all the angles and
whatnot and I was up in the bridge
earlier this morning and it is.
Really cool to kind of get inside the ship,
not just to see it from the outside,
but actually be a part of
this from a civilian.
I mean just to see something
you don't normally see.
So for those people that are coming on board,
whether it's Friday, Saturday,
Sunday during the Tour Times from
9:30 to 4:30 as a tour guide,
what are going to show them?
We're
going to show you a little
bit of the flight deck.
We're going to take you inside and
we're going to show you the memorial
that we did to Michael Monsoor,
so our ship's namesake.
And we're going to take you through civic.
Actually, where I work in the
giant blue room and we'll take it
to the bridge and then bring it,
bring it on back out.
How long would the tour last tour last?
Probably about 1520 minutes.
Alright, so all you need to do
when you show up here, bring your
government issued ID drivers license.
You know whatever and then also make sure
that you're vaccinated against COVID-19.
That's a U.S. Navy requirement before
coming aboard this for the tour.
So U.S. Navy, why did you join the US
Navy? I just need something different
in the job that I was working at and
I just need something more concrete
worth something that was more
sustainable so I I joined 14 years
ago and still doing it to this day.
Where have you been?
San Diego, for the most part.
Ohh really. I've deployed to the to
the middle Middle East several times.
Alright, so my Christopher Jenkins again.
One of the tour guides here over the weekend.
Friday, Saturday Sunday, 9:30 to 4:30.
You can catch a tour here on any one
of the number of U.S. Navy ships.
U.S. Coast Guard Royal Canadian Navy.
You can find all the details at their website
rosefestival.org.