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Distracted, Woke US Navy Can’t Launch A Ship Without Breaking It
armedforces.press ^ | April 23, 2023 | John Hughes

Posted on 04/23/2023 1:49:46 PM PDT by grundle

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21 posted on 04/23/2023 2:16:15 PM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: grundle

What moron ordered a tug boat to be in the way???


22 posted on 04/23/2023 2:17:14 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: grundle

This would not have happened if the Navy had taken climate change more seriously.
(Everything bad is due to climate change, right?)


23 posted on 04/23/2023 2:17:53 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: grundle

The Chinese assigned to spy on us were likely falling off their monitor chairs from the laughter, having to use inhalers to overcome the hyperventillation.

That said, I hope this present a learning experience for our Navy. I have heard zero about this incident.
We may be running out of that temporary luxury known as Peacetime. Time to get serious, again.


24 posted on 04/23/2023 2:19:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ryderann

“Helmsman, steady as ze goes.”


25 posted on 04/23/2023 2:19:37 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: lee martell

So were the Russian spies...


26 posted on 04/23/2023 2:23:10 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: skepsel

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27 posted on 04/23/2023 2:23:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

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28 posted on 04/23/2023 2:40:59 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Law of Gross Tonnage.


29 posted on 04/23/2023 2:48:18 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ansel12

Navy doesn’t build ships it buys ships. Contractor built and launched at Wisconsin Shipyard.


30 posted on 04/23/2023 2:55:21 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ansel12

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31 posted on 04/23/2023 3:04:39 PM PDT by rovenstinez ( )
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32 posted on 04/23/2023 3:06:37 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: grundle

“Breaking it” is a bit dramatic. And it wasn’t the Navy that launched it, it was the shipyard.


33 posted on 04/23/2023 3:09:09 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: ansel12

The contractor.


34 posted on 04/23/2023 3:09:56 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: grundle

Crabs launch sideways
Lobsters launch straight


35 posted on 04/23/2023 3:10:24 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (`)
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To: rlmorel

WTF...


36 posted on 04/23/2023 3:16:40 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: bunkerhill7; maddog55; BenLurkin; grundle

I was certain it was the contractor building the ship, but then one sees thread articles like this one.

Stories like this with misleading titles and subjects are becoming common.


37 posted on 04/23/2023 3:49:50 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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38 posted on 04/23/2023 3:59:15 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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To: Yo-Yo

—And there’s a reason the tug is there. There is a risk in a sidewise launch that the ship will rock back into the ways. I’d be pretty sure there’s a line that the tug can use to keep the ship from rocking back too far. Back in the 60’s Mare Island skipped that step and launched a submarine into the opposite river bank-—no safety lines on it.
A way bigger problem is what is the Navy going to do with a hull they didn’t want? They’ve been trying to give away the LCS’s they already have?


39 posted on 04/23/2023 4:18:18 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: grundle
Tug boat captain be all like “I thought the launch was tomorrow!"
40 posted on 04/23/2023 4:34:44 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most importan.t election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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