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The US Navy now knows why the water on an aircraft carrier looked and smelled strange. It had wastewater in it.
Business Insider ^ | October 24, 2022 | Jake Epstein

Posted on 10/25/2022 8:14:02 AM PDT by rod5591

Sailors on the Lincoln originally noticed an "odor and cloudy appearance" in the ship's drinking and bathing water on September 21, and testing the following day revealed that E. coli bacteria was present in some of the vessel's potable water tanks, the Navy said in an October 13 statement.

The Navy said at the time that the presence of E. coli bacteria was actually unrelated to reports of an "odor and cloudiness," which the service said disappeared on September 22.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, bilge water is liquid that drains from the interior areas or upper decks of a ship and gets collected in the lowest part of its body. Though the physical composition of a ship's bilge water can vary, it's considered to be wastewater and can consist of everything from sink drainage to fuel to chemicals to even sewage.

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To: rlmorel

I was on the Kennedy too...
LOL...
That ship was run by Captain Jerry O Tuttle...
He came over the M1C when we departed Norfolk and said:
They call me SLUF....
I have a brig, and I keep it full...

I personally saw him get in line on the mess deck, ate what we ate, and promptly threw the entire kitchen staff in the brig...
That ship was clean, and we ate very well...


21 posted on 10/25/2022 8:47:34 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Fido969

Launched 13 February 1988.


22 posted on 10/25/2022 8:56:19 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: joe fonebone

Hey! I was on the Kennedy at that time too! We had to be shipmates!

I must say-I was alarmed and a little frightened by a display Captain Tuttle put on one time.

Before I continue, I will say-he had plenty of good reason to be as angry as he was, but IMO, it was not the place for his performance. It was extremely poor leadership. Even if he was justified, he should never have done what he did.

I was in a squadron, and some guys were discovered smoking pot on the ship. I even heard a rumor that a couple of them went on the flight deck while high. (If I had known that, I would have ratted them out, no questions asked. But people thought I was a narc anyway, I was so straight-laced with respect to drugs in those days) I still cannot believe they did that, but now, who knows.

Anyway, he got our squadron lined up in the hangar bay, and absolutely went insane. His eyes were bulging, and he had spittle coming out of his mouth as he screamed.

I remember feeling real fear.

I thought “Mother of God. This is the Captain of one of the most powerful ships in the world, with nuclear weapons aboard, and he is completely become unhinged! WTF!”

He had lost control of himself, IMO.

I could absolutely see him doing this behind closed doors, and he had damn good reason to. But doing it in front of everyone, the world...well, that isn’t what a Captain does.

That’s poor leadership, and not what you want from the Captain of a ship.

With the passing years, my conviction has only grown deeper.


23 posted on 10/25/2022 9:00:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rod5591

If the water on a ship suddenly looks and smells funny wouldn’t the immediate suspicion be that it’s been contaminated with bilge water?


24 posted on 10/25/2022 9:04:25 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Fido969

Old Cheech and Chong skit?

Memory getting bad but sounds familiar...


25 posted on 10/25/2022 9:09:16 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: crusty old prospector

Will they hire the Village People to sing in their commercials...sarc


26 posted on 10/25/2022 9:09:25 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: rlmorel

I was an Airedale too...
The same day I was in line behind him at chow, a snipe hole opened up, and out popped the pastiest white dude, with hair about down to his shoulders... He closed and sealed the snipe hole, turned around and was face to face with the captain.
Jerry just looked at him and said, Get your ass to the barber shop.


27 posted on 10/25/2022 9:15:39 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I used to love reading the Marmaduke Surfaceblow stories in Power magazine, usually when I was supposed to be studying something else.


28 posted on 10/25/2022 9:18:44 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: rod5591

Building their immune systems. Navy Strong!


29 posted on 10/25/2022 9:23:47 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: RedMonqey

It’s a really old joke. I remember hearing a version of it nearly 60 years ago, well before Cheech and Chong.


30 posted on 10/25/2022 9:24:36 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: chopperk

But they probably DID use the right pronouns, so they do have their priorities right. < / sarcasm >


31 posted on 10/25/2022 9:26:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: rod5591

Responsible recycling technology.


32 posted on 10/25/2022 9:26:25 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: rod5591

Bilge water is famously vile. I saw it and smelled it. We had a bilge pump on my father’s 1948 Chis Craft. Powered by an inboard Chrysler slant Six. Wooden hull.


33 posted on 10/25/2022 9:29:03 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to stupidity, what can be attributed to malice)
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To: rlmorel
It isn’t just in the Military.

I see things going to hell right in front of my eyes in a variety of things...health care, construction, industry, you name it.

I was having this very conversation with my two young sons last week. Lamenting that everything is falling apart into chaos, disorder, and dysfunction. Nothing works right anymore.

34 posted on 10/25/2022 9:30:44 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: ConservativeMind
Sounds like someone tainted the water.

Yeah, this sounds intentional.

At the same time, it's damming that bio-environmental team didn't detect it sooner.

35 posted on 10/25/2022 9:32:21 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

It sounds like some were left untainted, seemingly because the person doing this wanted fresh water he knew he could get.


36 posted on 10/25/2022 9:46:30 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: rlmorel

Agreed


37 posted on 10/25/2022 9:59:42 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: joe fonebone

Hahahaha...I burst out laughing when I saw “snipe hole”!

Remember he called himself “Sluf”? Okay, totally odd. When he would say that over the 1MC, I remember people looking at each other (I was in an A-7 squadron whose planes were referred to disparagingly as “Slufs”...:) and registering a subtle eye roll.

I thought that was weird. I didn’t want a “Sluf” leading me. I wanted a Captain. A real one. That was just odd.


38 posted on 10/25/2022 10:16:35 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Drew68

That fills me with foreboding, that things are just...slipping and failing.

I feel in my heart it is going to get worse-a lot worse.

I hope I am wrong on this.


39 posted on 10/25/2022 10:17:42 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Attention...Ensign Putz report to the bridge...”


40 posted on 10/25/2022 10:21:26 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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