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Tiger Cruise

posted 18 years ago by KAnnD86
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I'm just curious, is Tiger Cruise a real thing? Is there really a week when the relatives of military people come aboard their ship for fun and games? Something tells me civilians wouldn't be allowed because the situation could turn dangerous. I don't know anybody in the military though, so I have no idea if this exists or not.

I read that this movie was somewhat based on real events, but mostly fiction. Does anyone know what it was based on? Did anything remotely close to this happen?

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[–] jammer1957 17 years ago

I found this in another subject Tiger Cruise 2
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The Constellation is retired so they can't focus on the same ship - maybe the dad got to go home after the ship was decommissioned. They didn't use the "Connie" for the filming - they used another ship (hence why they don't show the ship numbers it should be CV-64 ) (I think it was the Stennis that they used but I wasn't sure) Since I was there on the dock when it came home a few facts

There were no real young children on the ship Tiger cruises have an age limit
(also no wives, girlfriends or mistresses)(it really did say that in the instructions)

The ship came home at night - not during the day as it showed.

All incoming persons had to be escorted at all times by a Navy person assinged to them - the base was in full battle mode, barricades, M16s so different than my trip the month before.

The folks got off in street clothing per orders - and got off the ship at different times - depending on the schedule (I waited until 1:00am for the person I was waiting for)

But it was great that Disney did its best with the subject matter - one thing tney missed though because it was filmed on a different ship was that the mess hall I was in most of the time during my visit had all the NFL teams on the floor tiles.

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[–] CGSailor 10 years ago

Things have changed some since I was in, namely female crew and female tigers allowed on board.

But yes... a tiger cruise is a real thing. I don't know about East Coast ships and how they do it but on the West Coast, ships returning from a WESTPAC deployment will do a tiger cruise from Hawaii back to the West Coast. About a third of the crew will take early leave and fly home from Hawaii. The space freed is then used for the tigers to ride home from Hawaii back stateside. About 4 days.

At the time, tigers could only be male family members.
Fathers, Brothers, Sons, Uncles, Nephews, etc...

I haven't seen the show, but based on discriptions on this site, I'd say they are conflating a "Tiger Cruise" with a "Dependant's Day" cruise. Which is something entirely different.

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