There have also been reports of sailors flushing all sorts of things down toilets to clog them. These guys are doing everything they can to sabotage their ships and get out of there.
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They wouldn't need to do that much either. The sewerage system was a new vacuum-based system that was supposed to be more efficient, but ended up being very finicky/fragile, and on top of that, was undersized for the demands of the crew, since it was designed around the average usage on a ship, rather than the peak usage.
So when everyone decides they want to go to the WC and have a shower after a shift, the thing would back up because it couldn't keep up.
They have been on the boat for 260 some odd days.
They tie the post vietnam record on april 15.
Well the good thing is they at least have a clear goal to achieve then they can go home.... right.... I mean it would be a form of hell to serve endlessly in a conflict no one wants running missions that are just as likely warcrimes than not while your likely being told that everyone will be home soon.
Gee its almost like this was not well planed.
Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that U.S. aircraft carriers aren’t safe.
We think Americans are unsafe dude. Since the boats are crewed by them it’s probably too late to be concerned about this.
I’m not saying it wasn’t safe. It’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.
None of them are safe to the rest of us. Their operators would turn on any of us, on a dime.
I think you misunderstood what I said, Senator Collins. It’s the people that are the problem tp us and while it might be a wisecrack right here, it’s the truth in reality.
At least the front didn't fall off.
yet
Was this U.S. aircraft carrier safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
I just noticed your display name. Nice.
The whole profile, even!
Well, now that you point that out, I notice that most of their comments are playing on the theme. lol. Must surely be a multi, or maybe they just don't say much, but that is crazy. And fun. :)
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About as good as one expects out of a Ford.
Well, some of them are built so that the ship’s main laundry area doesn’t catch fire at all.
This is hilarious for the way it makes clear that he was never helping her whatsoever, lmao. He entirely vanishes in his way, the lass barely moves. Seems like a metaphor or something, idk.
Apparently, careless smoking is not a uniquely Eastern European thing. Or perhaps someone decided to frag their ship (just a little bit, not badly).
From the article:
The U.S. military’s Central Command said two sailors received treatment for “non-life-threatening injuries.” People on the ship reported that dozens of service members suffered smoke inhalation.
And in the category of non-life-threatening, but still not ideal, many sailors have not been able to do laundry since the fire.
The ship, along with its 4,500 sailors and fighter pilots, was in the Mediterranean on Oct. 24 when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered it to steam to the Caribbean to add weight to President Trump’s pressure campaign on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader before his seizure.
From the Caribbean, the carrier rushed to the Middle East for the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which is now in its third week.
Speaking to sailors on board aircraft carriers is difficult in the best of circumstances. During a war, the ships and military bases involved in operations go “dark,” limiting the ability of service members to communicate with the outside world. The officials and sailors interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The Ford is now entering its 10th month of deployment. It will break the record for longest post-Vietnam War carrier deployment if it is still at sea in mid-April. That record, at 294 days, was set by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2020.
Crew members on the Ford have been told that their deployment will probably be extended into May, which would put them at an entire year at sea, twice the length of a normal aircraft carrier deployment.
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities
Nah, dryer vent fires happen all the time in improperly maintained systems. Especially when you have people like college students or junior enlisted using them. Dryer lint is very flammable. Ask any boy scout.
"Careless smoking" is a cover for an airstrike. This is more akin to the Kuznetsov catching fire. Hopefully there are no cranes around to fall on the Ford.
improperly maintained systems
On a US Navy warship? The US military which has procedures and protocols for everything just... compromised mission-readiness by overlooking a simple, well-known, but critical maintenance item? I mean, this could possibly be something that the yard staff was tasked with when the ship comes in after a standard six-month deployment, but if they're overlooking stuff like that, it makes one wonder about the overall preparedness of the Navy.
It works like this, before they go to fight, they're the most invincible, most prepared, most tactical, most notorious, with the most fire power ready to turn countries to glass.
When they get fucked, its a local scout's fault, not that serious, happens all the time, nothing suspicious, rookie mistake, maintenance problems, not a big deal, just jets sliding off of ships, smoking mistake, and so on.
You get the idea. You can almost predict what their "explanation" are going to be. It'll be anything but accepting that they got their ass handed to them.
It's a meme that the weakness of the Death Star is a tiny overlooked vent for a reason. The big things are carefully considered. The tiny things, like a dryer vent, are often overlooked.
I found online a Navy manual from the '70s which prescribed laundry operations in excruciating detail, running over a hundred pages. It required cleaning the dryer lint traps every 2 hours, and monthly cleaning of the ducts. The Navy even has ratings specifically for laundry workers, Ship's Serviceman (Laundry).
It just blows mind that this isn't a solved problem, since it was solved 50 years ago!
Right, that's all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they've been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.
I'd believe that some corners were cut in these servicemen's duty, and it just happened to be one too many corners one too many times. The men are fatigued, they want to get off the ship. It's possible these corners were even cut on purpose with exactly this result in mind in an attempt to get them off the ship.
Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.
On a ship where the toilets don't work properly. Little wonder that people are half-arsing it if they're stuck on a small metal box for months longer than expected, the toilets don't work properly, and now part of the ship has also caught fire.
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That doesn't mean the procedure was actually followed though.
That's the thing about militaries. Like any other organization, it's all still humans.
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I'd bet on it actually being a dryer fire. The timing though, yeah, it makes me think that maybe it was on purpose. Sure, it happens sometimes. It isn't that strange. However, that's what makes it the perfect target for sabotage.
Most military personnel don't agree with invading random nations. Most joined to have a decent job that takes them out of a bad situation, and they get college paid for. At most, they joined for the idea of "defending the nation" (which is why the DoD was named that, as propoganda, and why I think the DoW is more honest and better).
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities and quickly spread. Sailors battled the blaze for more than 30 hours, officials and sailors said.
That's actually pretty likely.
Sailors will smoke anywhere they can, but in a laundry room it's gonna be clogged dryer vents.
Go check your dryer vents, people
Back in the day, I had a roommate in her late 20s, that didn't even know there was a dryer screen, let alone know to empty it. I spent months wondering why my least-linty clothes were still filling up the screen... My wife spent months wondering why it took 3 cycles to dry her stuff... The landlord spent hours cleaning out the dangerously blocked duct.
Clean your filters after every use, peeps!
I'm really glad my dryer vent goes into a vertical chimney, because my wife never cleans out the trap. I stick a boroscope up it every few years to confirm that there's no buildup, and so far it's been pristine.
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Hmmm...
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