What is wrong with the US navy?

https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-unsure-why-aircraft-carrier-water-was-cloudy-had-odor-2022-10
>Water on the USS Abraham Lincoln - water that sailors use for drinking and bathing - reported to be "cloudy" and "have an odour".
>Sailors forced to subsist on bottled water supplies while the ship returned to port
>E. Coli subsequently found in 3 (!) of the aircraft carrier's water tanks.
>Water quality problems persist for up to 48h.
>Over a month later US navy still don't know how this blunder happened.
>US navy spokesmen unable to confirm no sailors became sick as a result.
>If the Abraham Lincoln is decommissioned as a result only 10 aircraft carriers will remain in service.
How can the US/HATO expect to defeat Russia and China when their navy is suffering from problems like this?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >How can the US/HATO expect to defeat Russia and China when their navy is suffering from problems like this?
    China and russia have it even worse.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit they do

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >drinkable water delivered with a speed that capitalist transexuals can only dream of

        Cope and enjoy your bro.Coli water.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >that dude at 0:12
        That man just took a face full of solid metal hatch.
        Think that might be the end of his sailing days.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >that dude at 0:12
        That man just took a face full of solid metal hatch.
        Think that might be the end of his sailing days.

        >>that dude at 0:12
        >That man just took a face full of solid metal hatch.
        >Think that might be the end of his sailing days.
        More than that. He died.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What was wrong with the hatch?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It opened inward, moronic incompetent Chinese design decision

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >he doesn't roll coal to dab on the greens
      Bruh

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>US navy spokesmen unable to confirm no sailors became sick as a result.
    So no one was confirmed to be sick either?
    >>If the Abraham Lincoln is decommissioned as a result only 10 aircraft carriers will remain in service.
    >decommissioning an entire carrier over some water tank issues
    Next level second world cope.
    >pic unrelated
    Oh no, it's VERY related as to why Russia and China couldn't hope to match the US nazy.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why did you post a picture of a Russian ship?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >If the Abraham Lincoln is decommissioned as a result only 10 aircraft carriers will remain in service

    Oh no whatever will we do

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Shit happens sometimes? You can't expect everything to go right 100 percent of the time.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No matter how anons try to spin it, losing an entire carrier to negligence or sabotage is a big deal.

    And to answer OP - the problems of the NAVY start at the top - the admiralty and Congress.
    Congress is doing absolutely horrible sabotage on procurement and the admiralty requires insane time out of port which takes its toll on both crews and ships.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Congress is doing absolutely horrible sabotage on procurement
      Nah, the navy has done that to itself with the number of reatard projects and decisions they've had over the past two decade.

      The lcs is the laughing stock of the world. The zumwalt and ford frickups. Whatever the frick is happening with the burke lines. All of that is because of the brasses dev and procurement decisions.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    frick ya mudda

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      who the heck posts all this "frick ya mudda" verbal diarrhea in every thread? Some 13 year old who thinks it is the height of edgy and original baiting?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        frick ya mudd
        lurk more

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >who the heck posts all this "frick ya mudda" verbal diarrhea in every thread? Some 13 year old who thinks it is the height of edgy and original baiting?
        The same delinquents who keep on posting chuck's feed and sneed or the picture of that dude in the red t-shirt showing his ass hole.

        I'd bet some dumb frick pumped jet fuel into the potable water tanks and then tried to cover it up.

        >I'd bet some dumb frick pumped jet fuel into the potable water tanks and then tried to cover it up.
        Given it's easy to incapacitate an entire destroyer crew with stomach flu from one dumb frick grabbing communal ice with his bare unwashed hands, I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually the case.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >pic is Russian
    >Decom one CV the US still has more than all the rest of world combined
    >It was a transient issue
    Holy shit, foreigners are so fricking pathetic.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Some corrections on this:
    1)They isolated the faulty tanks instead of relying on bottled water only.
    2)The tanks will be cleaned or decomission and replaced.
    3)The rest of the system is reported as fine.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know, maybe we should ask their newest admiral.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      utterly trounced by a fraction of the US' troony power

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Are you moronic?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > US Public Health Service
      > Admiral
      I am convinced that the right wing is moronic more and more each day

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >right wing
        Hey libtard, you living under a rock?
        Senile Joe (D) is the president, and the one who nominated Richard for the job and the Libtard controlled senate approved.
        Republicans (except for two of the mongs) voted "NO" on his confirmation.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          And you're too fricking moronic to even have basic comprehension of ehat that anon said.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You cannot in2reading

          Way to prove anon right about conservatives

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Least illiterate /misc/ user

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Technically his job title is Admiral because some homosexual desk jockey a hundred years ago wanted a cool title

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          PHS have naval ranks for two reasons: one, they ran the naval hospitals, and two, in times of national health emergency they're nominally supposed to have more authority to direct the medical response, and giving them an actual rank means that DoD forces can be made subservient to them for ease of command. This does not mean that they have authority in a combat situation, or can be put in command of a ship or fleet. It just means if shit gets Spanish Flu-tier again, they can issue medical-related orders to military personnel responding to the emergency. If someone was dumb enough to try and invade during said emergency, combat arms would resume command of the troops.

          But the RW rageosphere wants to reeee about trannies some more, so some trannie getting a high position in the NHS means that the gays run the military and are mandating estrogen injections instead of combat training.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      While this... thing does technically hold the rank of Admiral/O-10, it's a part of the Public Health Service, and therefore not military. As a civilian, you can safely disregard anything it has to say about literally any topic, it doesn't have any actual authority over any private citizens conduct, save the poor bastards working under it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        PHS is led by the surgeon general(O-9) not the assistant sec

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Rachel Leland Levine (born October 28, 1957)[1] is an American pediatrician and a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She has served as the United States assistant secretary for health since March 26, 2021.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine

          >Flag officers of the Commissioned Corps are authorized to use rank flags. When the Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health is a Commissioned Corps admiral, he or she is authorized use of the flag of the Assistant Secretary for Health as a four-star rank flag. The Commissioned Corps vice admiral serving as Surgeon General of the United States uses the flag of the Surgeon General as a three-star rank flag, while the Commissioned Corps rear admiral serving as deputy surgeon general uses the deputy surgeon general's flag as a two-star rank flag.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps#Rank_flags

          The PHS is headed by a civilian Secretary of Health and Human Services, and is assisted in their duties by the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, carrying the rank of Admiral/O-10. The Surgeon General is subordinate to the Assistant Secretary, carrying a rank of Vice Admiral/O-9. Unfortunately, it does hold the highest rank in that service.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Former navy here. This is most likely the result of small maintenance items like valve greasing being repeatedly blazed (signed off without actually being performed) over a period of many years. In fact, almost all maintenance is done this way. There are too many obstacles to doing quality maintenance so just signing for it is the preferred method.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ever been on a ship that looked as bad as the one in OP's pic? is that normal for naval vessels?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Never seen one that dirty. That would not fly in the US navy. Cleanliness is a big thing. It's also a great way to impress the higher ups and distract from actual plant deficiencies. "Perception is reality" is why the whole division will be forced into the plant to clean for hours at a time.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not that anon but no, even on a Destroyer our engine room never looked like this and our coveralls never looked like that either.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Navy gay here. This still doesn't happen for critical shit that needs maintained for real, and as soon as an issue is actually found, it will be fixed.

      t. gold NCO before the Navy took that away for all the turds to feel good

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >and as soon as an issue is actually found, it will be fixed.
        This is true... unfortunately the issue was bad enough to make headlines lmao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Interesting. The Air Force calls it pencil-whipping but it's supposed to be done for non-aircraft stuff like bullshit of the day training. No one sane would forge safety related shit since there is no reason to.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >How can the US/HATO expect to defeat Russia and China when their navy is suffering from problems like this?

    Because the US Navy reports the problems and fixes them instead of pretending that it's fine and letting the problems accumulate until it is unable to defend itself against a volley of only 2 Neptune missiles.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      See

      Former navy here. This is most likely the result of small maintenance items like valve greasing being repeatedly blazed (signed off without actually being performed) over a period of many years. In fact, almost all maintenance is done this way. There are too many obstacles to doing quality maintenance so just signing for it is the preferred method.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Because the US Navy reports the problems and fixes them
      Hahahaha. Yeah, thats why they just had a predestined court marshall over the bonhomme richard fire that censured the only people doing anything to deal with the problem.

      Why address the systemic issues with maintenance and training when you can just blame people stepping outside of the implied chain of command to get shit done?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Hahahaha. Yeah, thats why they just had a predestined court marshall over the bonhomme richard fire that censured the only people doing anything to deal with the problem.
        Black person did you actually read that report? They were extremely sloppy.with their response, up to and including the Navy fire department OIC telling San Diego FD to frick off, while they were in the middle of fighting the fire. Everyone dropped the ball, and as a result we lost a ship.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >be surrounded by water literally on all sides for hundreds of miles
    >drink bottled water

    I bet it was Evian, fricking millenials I swear to god.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    > If the Abraham Lincoln is decommissioned as a result
    Ahahaha, do morons actually believe this will happen?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because the HATO monster provides clean water to it's soliders...even the Water Queens. Old Commie Dumbass would let their navy die of thirst at see because it's a hilarious way to kill it's own pesants.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Somebody pooped in the tank

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's what I'd think too.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >water is cloudy
    >it's not MDF

    This is an 'aww shucks' pat on the back for the Navy and well they deserve it.

    The real headline:
    >Ford does not have urinals
    kek what a buncha gays

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Ford does not have urinals
      Are you shitting me?
      Well... I guess the ladies will have to sit on the piss covered toilet seats!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I've seen heads closest to the bow (comm antenna) not have urinals so both sexes can use the toilet and move on.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    See, in America, when one of our ships has a problem like this, it is seen as a problem and is dealt with. In Russia or China? This is ‘normal.’

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Uses a pic of a Russian shitship to try and show how bad the US is

    Lol, lmao even.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >1 issue that occurs out of the thousands of days these ships are in production means that the entire country as a whole cannot defend itself

    are you fricking stupid? Your linux install has more bugs than a navy ship.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ^Confirmed for never maintaining complex military hardware. System theory accurately teaches that complex systems inherently operate in degraded condition. Well-designed systems are completely fit for purpose and take this into account like any other inherent limfac.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >spewing random bullshit
        >MUH SYSTEMS THEORY
        take your cringe PrepHole level onions-esque systems theory larp somewhere else.

        t. IT1

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Your a gay and a Black person IT1, gimme my fricking computer back for 310

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Sailors forced to subsist on bottled water supplies while the ship returned to port
    the american navy suffer mission failure of their potable water systems, and they switch to bottled water for 48 hours. Meanwhile, in the russian navy literally *nothing* happens, the crew can't stop chugging coolant for their CIWS, and they're blown up by the first missile strike that targets them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think its more about the fact that the potable drinking water was somehow contaminated

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Unknown maintenance/equipment issue comes up
    >Investigation is launched
    >Known bad equipment is shut down/separated from other equipment
    Sounds like exactly what a Navy should do.

    >A Nimitz sailor and their parents told Insider that the contaminated water situation on the ship was way worse than what the service initially revealed publicly.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-jet-fuel-traces-uss-nimitz-sailor-says-worse-problem-2022-9
    This would be the better article if you want to shit talk the US Navy. Otherwise it's just an article about an unforeseen equipment failure being dealt with in a reasonable fashion.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    First
    >that pic is from the Kuznetsov
    Second
    >implying accidents don’t happen
    Third
    >do I really need to bring up the Indian, Chinese or Russian navy’s history of accidents?

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care if this is a slide thread, I'm here to say as former Gavy that everyone's demotivated, de-invested, and ready to frick off from the Navy. So of course someone gundecks so hard they fail to check for e-coli and JP-5 in the water. Of course the khakis don't give enough of a frick to admit there's a frickup in the water while tightening their lips about the situation. Of course the fricking skipper gets their own supply of water in the form of plastic water bottles.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >JP-5 in the water
      There's jurassic 5 in the water? Based.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    > It said additional laboratory testing from late September indicated "the water was within drinking water standards for pH, turbidity, aluminum, copper, lead, sodium, and hardness."
    >and hardness
    How often to the sailors in Aircraft Carriers drink hard water?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The big issue is if water is too hard. Water that is too hard can cause minerals to deposit and eventually clog pipes, valves and fixtures.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here's an even better question. The US military spends the most on the military; I mean billions of shekels a year, yet has substandard living arrangements and food. Where does all that money go?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      mostly towards building and maintaining and especially researching new, high-end weaponry

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'd bet some dumb frick pumped jet fuel into the potable water tanks and then tried to cover it up.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the problem was E.coli

      probably some Black person didnt wash his hands after shitting

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Man wipes his ass with his bare hand
    >purposely contaminates water
    >takes aircraft carrier out of commission

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>Man wipes his ass with his bare hand
      Oh so you mean any mudslime on board the carrier?

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i'm going to reserve judgement on this one because that chinese ship is probably brand new and given time, it could become a victim of china's "good enough" culture just like the russian ship

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's literally the same class of ship. It's the Varyag that had sat rotting in Miykolav for 20 years.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's literally the same class of ship. It's the Varyag that had sat rotting in Miykolav for 20 years.

      >all that slap-dash jury-rigged bypassing all over the Russian one
      Looks like the engine compartment of my first car.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Man, I didn't expect so many people to take my post seriously.
    Honestly thought including the picture of a Russian ship made things too obvious. Not to mention "... only 10 aircraft carriers..."

    Poe's law I guess.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >that undershirt
    >those coveralls
    Congrats, you posted a picture of a Russian sailor

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