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1 posted on 06/08/2015 11:29:42 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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But their mainstreaming homosexuals and transgenders in the military, and purging those in the officer corps that have problems with that for “failure to inspire confidence,” is going gangbusters!


2 posted on 06/08/2015 11:31:57 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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Yes, because corrosion happens so fast!


4 posted on 06/08/2015 11:35:38 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (21 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day! The BIG seven ohhhh.)
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Stress-related accelerated corrosion — common in metallurgy, by dislocations and grain-boundary in the cryatalline structure of high-alloy metal supporting components. Attack by salty-air halides??


5 posted on 06/08/2015 11:35:48 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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Took them by surprise my ass. There needs to be some Squadron Commanders, Maintenance officers, and Maintenance Chiefs looking for a new line of work. Corrosion has always been an issue in the Navy and Marine Corps. This problem didn’t just suddenly appear out of thin air.


6 posted on 06/08/2015 11:37:42 AM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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Send Mike a can...

Allegedly developed to improve Navy carrier based aircraft airframe lifetime...

7 posted on 06/08/2015 11:40:16 AM PDT by Regulator
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Next thing we will hear is they have discovered water is wet.


9 posted on 06/08/2015 11:42:10 AM PDT by wrench
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another way of saying Unexpected


12 posted on 06/08/2015 11:48:38 AM PDT by Delphster
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10,000 flight hours, up from 6,000 flight hours

That is a lot of extra fatigue and corrosion. Still, as long as the service life extension frees up money for military gender reassignments on demand, it's worth it in Obama's tiny little mind.

15 posted on 06/08/2015 11:55:03 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Perhaps they were so busy celebrating Navy LGBT Celebration Month/Day that they lost track of aircraft maintenance.

Oh well, first things first.

From a DoD internal website:


19 posted on 06/08/2015 12:10:28 PM PDT by Barry Cratus
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Suddenly there were EPA requirements in our military contracts. We couldn’t use chromium or cadmium, which are used to plate parts and render them immune to corrosion. I suspect this might be part of the problem. Incidentally, I read the EPA’s report and essentially these parts could be in a landfill forever and they would never leech in the water supply. Never.


21 posted on 06/08/2015 12:29:01 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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This regime has totally failed at keeping the citizens of the US safe. This is just a tip of the iceberg.

FREEPERS are aware of all the stories about special tools for nukes that are not being replaced and the acceleration of the natural deterioration of our offensive and defensive capabilities caused by the Jarrett administration.

The question is, why is no one reporting this and how do we get the info out there?


23 posted on 06/08/2015 12:35:36 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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oh what a bunch of bs..

these planes went into production in the early ‘80’s..

that is over 35 years for those who cannot count...

metal rots... period...

f-18’s, a-10’s, f-15’s.. and so on and so on..

HAVE ROTTED METAL ON THE AIRFRAMES.....

they should have been replaced 15 to 20 years ago..

is there a metalurgist on this site to confirm this???


26 posted on 06/08/2015 3:56:08 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Time to put the taxpayer first)
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