All you have to do is read of main ladders that don't work, the majority of watertight spaces that aren't watertight, and engine controls that lock up while underway to get the picture of a total screwup...
this is an email i just got from my bro after i sent him this thread and the Navy FitRep
"Hey, look on the bright side. At least somebody is paying attention to what's wrong with this thing! Not everyone has been bought off yet. Those people could have easily been bought along with all the other crap going on here. Another $Billion ought to pay off a few more people and fix a few things. Hey, it's only money...I'll bet too that not one contractor or other person who didn't do their job (or did such a shit job and maybe should be in jail for SOMETHING) went unpaid...
I repeat...I wouldn't leave the dock on this thing...I saw too many things that just weren't right there. I am not really experienced on ship things but I just knew that things weren't being done right. I was told to build things that I KNEW wouldn't work (so did management). Double dip...pay to build it and then paid again to rebuild it. Those words were said to me when I questioned inconsistencies and errors. They probably get paid more than twice too.
High tech components missing (stolen, black market)...Illegal aliens working on the next generation assault vessel for the US Navy (really something wrong here)...Systems compromised daily. I've seen cables routed to "make them fit" with no regard to ship survivability (redundant cabling on both sides of the ship, running through certain parts of the ship and secured cables that were supposed to be routed in their own "secure" conduits and wire ways via specific routes in the ship, AC power, CAT5, and other data cables all running together in wire ways, wires literally tied in knots, wire ways so overloaded that a flashlight beam could not be seen through bulkheads and wire ways...) just to make the pre-cut cable lengths work and get it in. So, even some of the systems that do work may not be just the way they are supposed to be. Nothing would surprise me there.
I suppose too that the lack of security around this boat (sat in full view of the world in the Mississippi river when I worked on it) would allow a terrorist attack on this ship (and the damned thing probably can't even defend itself) pretty much anytime. Nah, they won't blow it up until we waste a couple of more billion dollars on it.
It's really too bad because the Navy can't very well say that they don't want the ship (at this point). NGSS has made A LOT of money on this project (BTW, I just talked with a friend that still works in Avondale...he's working on the LPD 20. Can you say butt fuc times 4 or more?) and stands to make even more to correct problems. And we pay for this shit. I want to be a government contractor. I could just sit in my kitchen and send bills for doing nothing and not be as big of a liability as NGSS is to the American taxpayer.
I share your disgust my friend...you should have seen it first hand...Really helps put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence... now you know why i quit.
Talk soon."
and there it is...