U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Austin Haist
Ping.
sabotage
Awful thing. At least they weren’t out at sea... and no one died.
Iran takes credit in .... 3...2...1...
“cause still unknown”
May I suggest incompetency?
Soooo....
The smoking lamp is out?
Cause of the fire unknown?
How about...a combination of fuel, oxygen and an ignition source?
Clearly, the fire was the result of Climate Change.
Iran.
She’s dead, Jim.
At work we’ve heard from some of our people who were out there to do a ship check on her are telling us navy personel have told them that they suspect very strongly that a fire watch was not set on the opposite side of bulkead that was have hot work done on it. Either way, this should be proof, considering the other two major Navy F__K UPS, USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald, it is now obvious that the Senior Navy Leadership, i.e., the Flag ranks have to be totally overhauled and the politically correct careerist POS’s that now inhabit the Flag Ranks have to be replaced with a warrior class of officers, new blood is needed badly in the Navy Flag Ranks.
The ghost of John McCain was seen drifting away, cackling and rattling his chains.
Well, I don’t really know much about ships, but it seems to me that if you shut down the automatic fire suppression system for maintenance that it might be a good idea to have seaman standing by with fire fighting equipment at the ready in case something goes wrong during the shut down.
Likely cheaper to build a new one than attempt to salvage this one.
The Navy department needs to be cleaned out. It’s unthinkable that this fire went on for four days. They were doing construction, with contractors, which is a high risk operation. They were doing it at a time when the fire suppression system was down. And apparently had no back up plan whatsoever, and it appears the ship was unbuttoned where the fire could spread at will.
Maybe they need to spend a little less time prosecuting seals, having captains firing off letters to the editor about Covid, undermining the president in every way they can, having drag queen shows at sea, pushing for trannies and homos and diversity and having women crashing destroyers into giant slow moving lumbering container ships.
I saw her yesterday afternoon. She was tilting at about the 2:00pm position.
Next step is to strip it and make razor blades out of it.
Here’s what my Navy brother had to say:
US Navy safety regulations are written in blood.
this is going to be a total loss , fire started in the well deck and has now progressed all the way to the bridge , several interior decks have collapsed from the heat.
luckily crew is off ship , only duty station is aboard , they are in yard for upgrades , but thats part of the reason why its burning so bad
losing this ship is way more that just one ship , Richard is the core of a strike group , without her the strike group fails to exist . there is a small ‘fleet’ of vessels whose sole reason to exist is to support her , DD’s FFG’s CG’s and SSN’s , along with other ships for fuel and stores.
If an accident can cause the destruction of the whole ship while sitting in port, what would happen to this ship while under enemy fire? Sounds like someone needs to rethink the design of this ship!