The Sacramento has fuel hoses coming to the Kitty Hawk carrying jet fuel for the aircraft and diesel fuel for our boilers. At the same time there are usually two helicopters carrying food and sodas from the Sacramento to our flight deck. Sometimes personnel are transferred by hanging a basket from a cable and pulling them from one ship to the other. One thing about the sodas. We drink a lot of sodas.
Sodas are also treated like gold much as like in prisons, prisoners use cigarettes for money.
Many of the maintenance shops on the Kitty Hawk would have their own refridgerators where we kept our sodas. It was customary to write your name on a peice of tape and stick it on the soda before you put it in the refridgerator. If you needed a soda, and you didn't have one in the refridgerator, you many times had to stand in line for twenty minutes just to buy one from the soda machines. This is why we treated them like gold. It was terrible to go and have to stand in line to get a soda.