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Sooo...Iranian drone...or disgruntled sailors/smoking accident/~~old~~ less maintained ship?
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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I’ll bet on poor morale, which led to an accident. You’d have to be out of your mind to want the ship you’re trapped on to catch fire.
I could imagine someone thinking a small fire might be safer than the ship carrying on to Hormuz.
Nobody is running a carrier through Hormuz and no one aboard would think they might be heading there, that's not how any of this works. Escort/freedom of navigation work would be done by destroyers or smaller vessels.
How many layers of "nobody would be stupid enough to..." deep are we into this situation at this point?
Nobody would be stupid enough to suggest that the Trump administration is stupid enough to do all of these things.
A lint fire. And honestly, I believe it - there's been a pattern of maintenance issues and sloppiness causing problems this year
Plus she was supposed to be in port for scheduled maintenance ages ago, but then someone started moving carriers around to feed their ego. Deferred maintenance is never a good thing.
maybe the firing of competent leadership by hesgeth might have something to do with it
For sure... Also creating an environment of distrust isn't great for morale or performance
Not to mention reenlistment rates are way down. Hard to overstate the importance of institutional knowledge
they seem to have recovered somewhat in 2024, due to the top gun maverick movie, yes the militaryganda movie boosted enlistment, i dont know about re-enlisting though.
It probably has a lot more to do with the job market, the military is always hiring. The poverty to grunt pipeline has basically always been a cornerstone of military recruitment
And reenlistment rates have been consistently falling, especially with MAGA at the helm. Especially among more skilled roles...I mean it's one thing to want to fly planes or be a tech when the US was untouchable, now planes are falling out of the sky
Maybe the pipes to the shitter exploded
She was laid down in 2009, so not very old. The Nimitz class dates to the 70s.
200 sailors injured in a "laundry room fire". uh huh.
Smoke inhalation is no joke.
Scrambling around in firefighting gear on a ship (limited visibility and hearing from the hood and smoke, slippery from the water) leads to plenty of injury too.
Also, I would imagine the laundry room on a carrier is pretty massive.
A fire……at a Sea Parks?
First the blocked toilets and now this