I took some heat a while back on this forum, when I saw a picture of a Arleigh Burke class that had been deployed for some time as it came home, and that thing had orange rust all over it and I commented negatively. A Freeper took issue with that and implied I had no idea what I was talking about.
Maybe.
I grew up on Navy bases during the Vietnam era, and served a tour myself in the Seventies, and I never saw active US Navy ships that looked like that one.
I understand they do things differently now-the crew doesn’t do corrosion control, or so I am told, and they hire civilian laborers top do it for them when they pull into port.
I know they are overburdened and have long deployments, but to my eyes, that was disgraceful. It reeked of poor morale.
Check out this photo taken onboard the Moskva decades ago.
The deck seems to have been rust colored even then.
Is it actual rust, or rust-colored nonskid? You make the call.
I remember that :)