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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Contractors need to be vetted 6 directions from north AND carefully supervised and searched , if necessary, on the job.
At work We say we are in peace time red tape war. Can’t do crap without asking permission all the way up to some 4 star level.
Yeah, I guess so. If a fire breaks out on a fully manned carrier at sea, the crew will fight like demons to get the fire extinguished. Their lives depend on it.
I saw that info about other fires on ships. They didn’t say if this is an unusual string of fires or normal. But my reaction was the same as yours — there’s a pattern here.
Who likes setting fires and arson? Antifa, BLM, and Al Qaeda.
AND a HUGE fire suppression system.
That quote was bothering me, so I researched it, and you were correct, it *WAS* Ian Fleming’s character Auric Goldfinger.
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