Posted on 07/27/2020 6:36:06 AM PDT by texas booster
The Navy's top officer says that the fires that burned for four days on the Wasp class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard last week left 11 of its 14 decks damaged and its island effectively gutted. Meanwhile, there has been a rash of other fire incidents aboard other U.S. Navy ships undergoing work in recent days. 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.
Defense News was first to report the new details about Bonhomme Richard's condition on July 22, 2020. This information came from a letter that Admiral Michael Gilday, the Chief of Naval Operations, had sent other flag officers and senior non-commissioned officers. The fire onboard the amphibious assault ship, exacerbated by multiple explosions, first broke out on July 12. The Navy announced that all known fires on the ship had been extinguished on July 16.
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Other FReepers have said that Sunday work on ships is SOP. Seems odd to me.
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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As a Navy type, I read the headline and my first thought was some reporter snuck into the CPO club and ‘overheard’ a conversation.
BUT
The First line mention the ‘Navy’s top officer’
Also in today’s world when you have a pResident reading a ‘speech’ and saying CorpSEman for Corpsman and local news readers (IN DC) looking at her script and mentioning the fire stops, looks twice then says U S Bon.......etc etc.
Apparently the idiots don’t read what they are given, just take it and run with it.
I (unfortunately) ‘met’ Barbara Boxer and had on a ships cap and she ‘A long time Politician in a big NAVY state’ asked me if USS Terrell County meant where I came from and what state.
I looked at her, shook my head and asked someone to put Rush on the radio...
Of course, but resistance to fire is all relative. Additionally, engineering these ships considers normal operating conditions. This yard period was not a "normal" state, so there is a question as to whether or not the commanding officer should've anticipated better, IMO.
So, whose career is over?
Give them a Hammer and make them straighten it out
Yorktown, may 1942
A pattern of poor practices. It has nothing to do with the class of ship.
LOL! And these assclowns make laws for us to follow. Sad dang state of affairs.
And a LHD or LHA is not a carrier.
Other FReepers have said that Sunday work on ships is SOP. Seems odd to me.
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In contract PLUS overruns, cost plus jobs etc one can’t let that TRIPLE time just sit there.
In the US Navy Shipyard Yokosuka Japan it would take 3 or 4 people to ‘change a light bulb’ because the Union demanded that any work done in a foreign port had to pay the same as a union stateside worker.
When you figure that ONE of our dollars was worth 360 yen, we couldn’t very well pay shipyard workers in Japan the prevailing wage for the US so it had to be split up amongst the Japanese workers.
(Imagine what a Japanese National making 10 bucks an hour in 1957 would do to their economy.
The old lawyer ‘joke’ comes to mind... Lawyer Calhoun was the only lawyer in town and did very well. One day a second lawyer moved in and now BOTH of them darn near own the whole county)
It was the ammo locker of a friend serving on the Oriskany that was the problem. As I recall, he was the officer in charge
He came to visit me as Subic when she came to port. He was extremely up set. As far as I can remember, he was cleared of charges.
From further down in the article:
This information came from a letter that Admiral Michael Gilday, the Chief of Naval Operations, had sent other flag officers and senior non-commissioned officers.
Not a carrier like the Nimitz class, but it is a ship designed with the ability to project air power. So “carrier” in that sense of the word.
Sounds like scrap metal to me.
Perhaps a there is a Captain who is now an Admiral...
...a PLAN Captain who is now an Admiral!
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action" ― Ian Fleming
Thanks.
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