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.
Without enough carriers we simply lose the Pacific. Qui bono?
Ya think!
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?
A pattern of poor practices. It has nothing to do with the class of ship.
And a LHD or LHA is not a carrier.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action" ― Ian Fleming
The pattern is that all three were in dockyard hands, either being overhauled or under construction. Crew is reduced, trash is all over the place, shipyard workers don't care. It's not surprising at all.
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.