Aircraft carrier has been participating in strikes on Iran, after previously taking part in the operation to seize Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro
A fire onboard the USS Gerald R Ford, injuring sailors and destroying 100 beds, is the latest mishap to plague the world’s largest aircraft carrier on a marathon deployment some argue has sapped crew morale.
At sea for almost nine months, and currently stationed in the Red Sea to support the war on Iran, the carrier will reportedly set sail for Crete for repairs.
The length of the deployment has raised questions about morale of the sailors on board and the readiness of the warship.
requires acid flushes on a regular basis to clear it, at a cost of $400,000 each time.
What the fuck kind of acids are they using, and have they tried feeding the sailors more fibre?
I said in another thread - go clean your dryer vent line. If it causes a fire that bad in a big steel boat just think what it does in a flammable house.
I’ll say it again, the US military isn’t designed to win wars, or for tactical superiority. it’s designed to be a money funnel for public funds straight into shareholders’s pockets
I listened to an Articles of Interest podcast in which the statement was made, roughly, that the only reason a company makes clothing in USA is because they get military money. It’s probably true for many things made in USA. I think of the people I know or at least am familiar with and the number who are somehow linked to the military - not as service members - is awfully high. A significant proportion relies on military contracts. And these aren’t weapons manufacturers.
Starts to look pretty “communist” if ya squint.
It’s a jobs program. Jobs programs are great but this one is exremely inefficient as so much money is scooped up by the top.
I think you are right, our leaders seem incompetent, but it’s just that they only care about extracting money from the government for their pals that kick back to them.
Democracy™ since 1789
sigh I’ll add it to my growing todo list. I’m worried that I’m gunna tear a hole in it when I clean it.
Then it’s an opportunity to put in solid instead of the flexy crap; flex really limits flow.
Homeownership is just an unending matryoshka set of yak-shaving isn’t it.
I’m actually looking at getting a heat pump combo since they don’t need ducting
Absolutely disgraceful to treat them like this. I hope this causes his support among servicemembers to plummet.
I don’t know how he had support to begin with. He clearly hates them. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say a positive thing about servicemen.
And yet, recruits are lining up in big numbers again.
are they? do you have any evidence to support this? or are you just making baseless assertions, again?
https://www.usamm.com/blogs/news/military-recruitment-numbers-over-the-years “While military recruitment has shown resilience in the face of challenges, the overall trend points to significant pressures. For most branches, recruitment has generally been down since 2020.”
https://usafacts.org/articles/is-military-enlistment-down/ “Every military branch has fewer active-duty personnel than it did in the latter half of the 20th century. Total enlistment peaked in the late 1960s during the Vietnam War. The Army had its most members — more than 1.5 million — in 1968. In 2024, it had about 450,000; 29% of the 1968 high.”
They don’t want to die for Israel, Epstein, or the orange traitor
The writing was on the wall long before now.
Did the fire really start in laundry, or was it hit with something? They always lie if they can, blame pilot error for plane crashes and helicoptor crashes when they are shot down. Seems a little harder to hide if a drone or missile got through though, but maybe some other kind of sabotage?
Pissed off sailors that don’t want to be part of one illegal war after another, maybe they are plugging the toilets and causing small fires to take themselves away from the action.
Too bad no one gave him the idea to rename it last year.
1917 style revolution when?
