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2025-02-21 -Land of the Free

Commanding officer of nuclear-powered US Navy aircraft carrier relieved of duty after crash with merchant ship

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Posted by Frank G 2025-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 The pictures I've seen of that vessel looked like crap. Did Biden so gut the military that we don't even have money for upkeep and paint?

Posted by Crusader 2025-02-21 00:53|| 2025-02-21 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I read somewhere that the Navy had gone to an ecologically clean paint or something politically correct, and it just doesn’t wear nearly as well as the stuff they used to use. I imagine they’ll be switching back under the new priorities.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-21 01:33|| 2025-02-21 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the by products of "optimized manning", i.e. cutting down on extra personel, is that you don't have extra bodies around to do extra maintenance.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-21 07:27|| 2025-02-21 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and temporarily reassigned

i.e. to fill out his retirement papers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-21 07:56|| 2025-02-21 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Regarding paint and appearances: Was in an outfit where the skipper mandated complete repainting of our aircraft every ‘corrosion inspection,’ but gave no time to address said corrosion. And the standard Navy dark green (part of squadron insignia) wasn’t good enough for him; did an ‘open purchase’ of 50 gallons of a Peterbilt green.
Pretty airplanes, from 25 feet, up close they were ate up.
Yeah we failed post cruise corrosion inspection.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2025-02-21 08:54|| 2025-02-21 08:54|| Front Page Top

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