Posted on 03/18/2026 8:19:05 AM PDT by moviefan8
he USS Gerald Ford is headed for service repairs in Crete days after experiencing an hourslong fire while deployed in the Red Sea for service in the Iran war.
The aircraft carrier will spend over a week in port at the Naval Support Activity Souda Bay for repairs, according to the U.S. Naval Institute. The ship's move from the Middle East comes after a fire that started in the laundry area on Thursday reportedly burned through part of the ship's sleeping quarters and lasted about 30 hours before it was extinguished.
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I didn’t work the laundry- I was a deck ape. So, never!
US ships have previously dealt with treasonous stuff like this. A laundry fire?
Dryer Dust & lint is highly flammable as in flash fire. So is some chemicals used in dry cleaning process.
Laundry lint trap fire according to all reports. Poor maintenance.
It was a “market place of ideas,” some which you might disagree with.
Today, as with Covid, Ukraine (early on especially), the Russian hoax, the BS insurrection... You have a media and social media that on many of the significant issues is nearly monolithic.
In the 1800s ... sure.
By the 1970s, the idea of the "democrat paper" and the "republican paper" in town had nearly vanished. I saw its demise first hand. By the 1980s, it was gone entirely. TV was pure leftism from the beginning.
"Social media" introduced something that had never existed in my lifetime ... information channels that Big Media could not control.
From what I can read they are electric dryers. I also saw mention of also having a smaller laundry kind of hinting at self service on that one. Lint removal should have been at least a D-1 on the equipment's PMS requirement meaning daily.
The overlords in DC both in Congress and Pentagon need to pull their heads out of their butts. You can not put a ship to sea for nearly a year and not believe it won't harm ship nor crew. We are at a bare bones carrier fleet. The very fact of FORDS deployment's prove it. The reactor can run 50 years the crew and auxiliary machinery can't hold up to this type over abuse. This has been happening since the days of GHW Bush and it needs to end.
Put on hold the CVN builds and build four conventional CV's then resume CVN building. SWE can have three - four CV's active and on deployment schedule in the times Newport News is taking to build one CVN and a CV which is conventional steamer have the same maintenance downtime requirement as a CVN. The forever deployed CV capability is urban legend farce. It's not possible and it needs correction. We need to be back up to 15 active duty carriers. If left uncorrected the CVN build program and our carrier fleet will collapse to about 6.
The heads also not working too well on the USS Gerald R. Ford...more details on the “laundry fire” here:
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/17/uss-gerald-r-ford-headed-to-souda-bay-for-repairs-after-fire
Again, look at Covid as an example.
The internet today is even WORSE than what the papers were in the early 90s.
And here we are ... on the internet. With a freer, two way flow of information, than anything available in the 1960s or 1970s.
By sending it to Crete for repairs, they could be risking a Greece fire.
Do you really think that the U.S. Navy that can’t design and build a new type of frigate for the past 30 years will be able to design, and build, a whole new type of CV in less than a lifetime?
Well they shut down all CV builders but one and place a majority of entire U.S. Naval assets in NORVA, so No and I see your point. They have the plans the CV/CVA 63 class plans for a CV though.
Notice the lowering of the number of beds from 600 to 100 !
Lots of misinformation out there.
No video of the incident from anyone.
It is more ‘lack of evidence’.
Meanwhile the enemy runs with crazy stories like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CyLrMVd30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5Aqpb_oN8
Hmmm ‘wargrid’ and ‘redline Observers’
and ‘Redline Observers 2.0’
Bit of a catch22... To prove your ships were not sunk or your leader was not killed, you have to expose their location... so that the enemy can target them and sink/kill them.
*groan*
Laundry? It was Ensign Pulver with the big firecracker he was gonna toss under the captain’s bunk.
And you’re reaching maybe 4 people that will read this.
Our news media, print, TV, and Internet, is really just controlled by a handful of folks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/fs5g0b/more_than_90_of_the_us_media_is_controlled_by/#lightbox (legacy media)
Social media (total trash qualitatively) has become the PRIMARY source where people get their information from and when a sitting President is in disagreement with Zuckerberg (a Democrat) he gets censored and banned.
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/06/facebook-response-to-oversight-board-recommendations-trump/
Meanwhile, when Ukraine is fashionable on the political left Facebook permits neo Nazis to post their crap and use their platform to organize and communicate specifically because of Ukraine:
Zuckerberg, basically single handedly controls what most Americans see and hear and consider “news:” https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQRaDVN59kPbcw3Gi8QqCV6CZeggbuejOILuzzwRIXmZ8ZA13BFfUjnDP0&s=10 (controls #1, 3, 4 and 8)
Did you know EVERYTHING coming into and going out of the US goes through only 4 servers, 2 on the East Coast, 2 on the West coast, and the government (NSA) controls these?
Did you know the government has their hands in Google really an NSA creation: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
(The governments game)
Did you know Cisco, your anti virus, operating system, telecom providers, search engine, national channels (4 servers) connecting the country to the world are all working with the government in various ways?
(Private ownership of media and social media)
You have just 6 media conglomerates control 90% of what people see and hear on TV. On social media it’s even WORSE, there you have 1 single person control what most Americans see and hear and call the news.
But sure, we have more freedom today. LOL
In 2000, he didn't.
Were you even alive in 1970? I think you weren't, and you don't understand the absolute information dominance ABC/NBC/CBS had, along with leftist newspapers.
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