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Navy Chief Says USS Bonhomme Richard Fire Damaged Most Decks, Gutted Island, Warped Flight Deck
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| July 22 2020
| Joseph Trevithick
Posted on 07/27/2020 6:36:06 AM PDT by texas booster
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"There is fire and water damage, to varying degrees, on 11 of 14 decks," Gilday, who visited Bonhomme Richard on July 17, wrote in the letter Defense News obtained. "With the flight deck as a reference, I walked sections of the ship 5 levels below and had the opportunity to examine the superstructure."
"The island is nearly gutted, as are sections of some of the decks below; some perhaps, nearly encompassing the 844 ft length and 106 ft beam of the ship (NAVSEA's [Naval Sea System Command] detailed assessment is ongoing)," he continued. "Sections of the flight deck are warped/bulging."
To: texas booster
Looking for an update on the BHR.
This is one ship that may need replacing, rather than a billion $$ repair.
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:37:08 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: texas booster
So, whose career is over?
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:39:23 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: texas booster
A shipyard in Virginia where Navy ships are repaired has resumed normal operations after halting work following a thankfully much less severe fire on Bonhomme Richard’s sister ship, USS Kearsarge. Another fire broke out on the future USS John F. Kennedy, a Ford class aircraft carrier under construction at a separate Virginia yard, two days ago.
All these incidents involved carriers. In my view, there’s a pattern.
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:39:45 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: texas booster
So who was speaking? A CPO or some officer who got his info from a CPO? Regardless it did a bunch of damage.
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:41:11 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: texas booster
USS America (CVA-66) served its final mission as a live fire exercise target.
Sadly a similar fate ought to await the BHR
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:43:29 AM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
To: texas booster
The hull is compromised, too..............
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:43:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: HombreSecreto
Without enough carriers we simply lose the Pacific. Qui bono?
To: texas booster
Shouldn’t a warship have a very large degree of fire resistance?
To: Oscar in Batangas
The Oriskany is now a reef off Pensacola, FL................
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:45:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: HombreSecreto
<>"theres a pattern."<>Ya think!
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:46:10 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Freedom Is In Peril! Defend it with your life.)
To: EEGator
“It was the contractor” No excuse, the Navy is supposed to be in charge.
This and other similar events are shameful. Some really big heads need to roll. If not that then show us the saboteurs.
This is simply inexcusable. Trump needs to address this and address us as to what he is doing about it.
Shameful and disgusting. The navy is seriously incompetent. There is ample evidence for that.
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:47:24 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
To: Sequoyah101
Didn’t a couple ships crash in the last few years as well?
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:50:43 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: texas booster
To: Sequoyah101
"Shameful and disgusting. The navy is seriously incompetent. There is ample evidence for that." WHAT has happened to the Navy?? They used to be competent.
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:55:59 AM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
To: mad_as_he$$
It happened on a Sunday just like Pearl Harbor. Contractors working on Sunday?
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:56:35 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: I am Richard Brandon
During the Battle of Midway, damage & fire control teams aboard the USS Yorktown were so effective that fires from battle damage were quickly brought under control and even convinced the Japs that an additional carrier had entered the zone of action.
Many other WWII carriers were saved or survived to return home in similar manner.
That was nearly eighty years ago! What’s happened since then!!?
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:56:57 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
To: EEGator
No, I suspect that some admiral will get “promoted” to the Pentagon, or somewhere in Maryland, and will quietly write papers on ship safety until a full retirement is allowed.
Unless the culture has truly changed ... they will penalize the contractor and protect their own.
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:58:33 AM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: HombreSecreto
"All these incidents involved carriers. In my view, theres a pattern."
Yes, and that deserves an investigation, as well. How much of this is caused by a military that, at the top, at least does not support Trump?
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posted on
07/27/2020 6:59:05 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: elcid1970
As I recall the fire equipment was out of commission due to repairs.
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