This Field Based Learning trip was to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum located in midtown west Manhattan. This museum is known as a National Historic Landmark, especially featuring the aircraft carrier, the USS Intrepid surviving five kamikaze attacks and a torpedo strike. The famous museum also features the Avenger, the world’s fastest jets and a guided missile submarine. However, I mainly learned about the USS Intrepid and the Avenger. This field trip was accompanied by some rain and strong winds, but nothing my rain boots, umbrella and jacket could not handle. The peer leader, other students and I walked about four blocks while enjoying the scenery of the area with many shops and restaurants. I then identified the Intrepid Museum from seeing the many United States Flags ahead. After receiving our tickets, all students then congregated and we were divided into two groups and led by different tour guides. My group’s tour guide began with the history of the famous aircraft carrier, the USS Intrepid launched in 1943, surviving five kamikaze attacks as well as one torpedo strike. He shared with us a picture of the Intrepid’s first birthday cake from August 1944, weighing approximately seven hundred pounds and was happily devoured by the sailors in about thirty minutes. “As Napoleon Bonaparte said, "An army marches on its stomach and those men sailed on their stomachs as well.” The average age of the sailors was seventeen years old. We then learned about things going on aboard the ship, such as the ritual that took place when passing the equator. In the United States, they turned it into a hazing ceremony. A few days prior to passing the equator, the sailors who would be passing the equator for the first time, referred to as “pollywogs” would receive a summons from King Neptune, the ancient Greek God of the sea. The day of passing the equator, the pollywogs would be lined up on the flight deck of the carrier dressed up