https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-navy-investigates-sabotage-uss-gerald-r-ford-fire-1786273
any sailors from the Gerald Ford reading this post
thank you for your service 🫡
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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I personally think this one is true. This is the ship that had the toilet sabotage, where sailors were flushing clothing down the toilets.
They fix that and then fires break out? These sailors want to go home and they're trying to force the ship into it.
You keep suggesting/stating the toilet stuff was sabotage when there is little reason to believe that.
Ever see the toilet suction on a ship? That will tear the clothes right off your body, and suck them right down the pipe. I'm sure that's what must have happened. There's absolutely no other explanation for how those clothes got into the toilet. Surely it wasn't done by young sailors who want to go home and get laid.
If they're finding t-shirts flushed down the toilets that is 100% sabotage.
This ship is only supposed to be deployed for 6 months at a time. It has been deployed for 11 months. They have every reason to be engaging in this behaviour. They want to go home.
It isn't 100% sabotage, I wouldn't even say it is 50% sabotage
Exactly, I find my old t-shirts clogging my toilet all the time. Sometimes I'm looking for a favorite shirt, and after I've looked everywhere, I take apart the plumbing, and it's always there. It just happens.
you think the crew are shitting out t shirts…?
Are "magic towels" still a thing? You know, these small balls of fabric that expand when you put them into water.
I will quote a previous comment of mine on this:
I’m not trying to “support the troops” lmao. I think they’re a bunch of treatlerites who want to go home and play xbox/abuse their girlfriends because they’ve been at sea for 11 months.
Also I would like it to be sabotage because it’ll be funny
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I don't think it's very likely that a bunch of 19 year olds who signed up to get free college and a dodge charger are super excited about being targeted by Iranian anti-ship missiles eleven months into their six month deployment
So I guess all those bombs being dropped on Iran are just in our imaginations, because these small innocent beans just want to go home and get their free college and wouldn't want to do anything against Iran and would not hoot and holler in excitement about launching planes and bombs at school girls... Or a couple of dumbass genocidal sailors got drunk or on fent and threw up and shit on themselves and flushed their clothes down the toilet. I have seen worse in public bathrooms, and heard plenty of worse in school bathrooms not sure why it is so unbelievable that fucking crayon eaters, that signed up to do dumb evil shit, do dumb shit.
Fucking tired of this "just signed up for school" propaganda bullshit
Y'know, I hadn't thought of that before, but that makes sense. What are they feeding those boys?
I think sometimes they just do things like that without much of a discernible reason tbh. Not a sign of being particularly dedicated to the mission either way though.