Victor Juhasz laying down the scene in the Ready Room on USS Bataan 16 September 2016
A sketch artist should always be prepared--- sketch book in hand and pencils sharpened-- ready to go when duty calls.... If only we had a room in which to get ready, and to focus on the task before us... a "ready room" so to speak (Oh wait, I guess that's what a studio is, really!).
Aviators also must be ready to go, available to take off at a moments notice. There is a place set aside for this on board navy vessels. The Ready Room on an aircraft carrier (or other aviation-capable vessel such as an LHD) is a combination office, conference room, lounge, in which pilots fellowship as well as train and prepare mentally as they stand by for missions.
I got to sketch again in the Ready Room on USS Bataan along with a couple artists in our group.
We were allowed to come in and watch a briefing being given to some of the pilots of VMM-365 (Rein) -- a class on the IFF transponder (exciting subject to be sure). We sat and sketched while the pilots sat in rapt attention:
