[Bryanw92]

Lots of sailors hate the Navy. Even if he did it, the fact that a bucket of rags could burn a ship down is testament to just how pathetic the Navy has become.

[hopespringseternal]

Just imagine what a bomb or a torpedo would have done.

It would seem to take a special kind of incompetence to make a big steel ship that flammable.

[thinkthenpost]

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Everyone loves throwing absolutes around when situations similar to this arise!
There used to be a poster here cva66snipe i believe. He would go on about how one person could make the Kitty Hawk, dead in the water with relative ease, and this was underway when watch stations were manned and plenty of sailors about.
The Bonhomme Richard was in an extended maintenance availability with its HALON, (or whatever automatic firefighting system is current) tagged out (disabled) and I'm sure minimally manned duty sections.
I would hope that the sounding and security rover was doing their rounds and checking everything out, but if they had shipyard workers onboard, I don't know what watches would even be manned.
I understand it is terrible and kind of astounding what one person can did, I will be very interested in what they will come out with that could have prevented the fire spreading as widely and perhaps quickly as it did.
I expect this individual to be breaking big rocks into small rocks at Fort Leavenworth for a very long time.
I can certainly see how this could happen, there is no why that can ever explain his actions but I hope we get good coverage of the courts martial so we ca all curse him for his selfcenteredness when his reasoning sees the light of day.
I am very thankful no one died.
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