I worked for a young fellow that was a sailor on the Princeton after she hit a mine in the Gulf War. They claimed she was sea worthy but tons of stuff didn’t work right. They’re supposed to do a test at sea out of San Diego but leadership knows the skipper and that the ship is a disaster and says you can do test while tied up at dock with other ships. They’re doing the test and a sailor hits the button to close the hanger doors, but he hits the foam dispenser instead. There was foam everywhere. A huge mess. There was foam on their ship as well as the ones tied next to them. The skipper walked out to see it and said, “Well, at least there’s one thing that works on this f**g ship”. The sailors were picking up the foam in plastic bags. The guy I worked for said it was very funny.
LOL, that’s hilarious!
That must have been the cruiser Princeton (CG-59). I was on the carrier Princeton (LPH-5),which was scrapped in 1972. But it figures.
There once was a sailor (Aircraft Hydraulics Mate) who managed to install the actuator to fold wings. Upside down. Which was “impossible” to do. Broke both wings up on the flight deck. True story; it was written up in Naval Aviation News, circa 1961.