Posted on 09/27/2024 10:33:16 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
A Virginia shipbuilder has informed the Department of Justice that faulty welds may have been intentionally made on noncritical parts of in-service U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.
Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding this week reported that the welds that were made on in-service submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers were not made by following welding procedure, reports USNI News Friday.
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About 31 people need to “walk the plank” this afternoon.
If the government employees found fault with the deliverables, well they could go complain in the mirror.
No. Just no. If the safety of sailors was of paramount importance, there wouldn't be a DEI hire cleaning the parking lot, much less welding the ship together.
When a nation rejects a common culture, rejects a common religious world view, treats citizens equally (or worse) than illegal foreigners, allows government-crony thievery and a vast scale, and generally devalues real citizenship to zero - you will find such problems everywhere
In this context, DEI is a method of sabotage.
Ya think?
It’s true that sometimes people fail to follow approved procedures. That’s incompetence.
But there are people who inspect the welds. Maybe they are also incompetent.
And there are people who inspect the inspections. Maybe they are also incompetent.
I can see layers of incompetence. Wouldn’t actually surprise me at all.
But to say it’s “intentional” implies, I think, that someone like China is sabotaging our shipbuilding. I find that harder to believe.
Surprise!
Surprise!
Not!
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardner
In a completely unrelated note, I recently heard that the Kilroy of “Kilroy was here” was an inspector in a ship building yard. Riveters were paid for the number of rivets they installed per day and Kilroy would put a little mark where they stopped at the end of their shift. The riveters would erase Kilroy’s mark and put in a fake one to boost their production numbers. Kilroy countered this strategy buy writing “Kilroy was here” which was much more difficult to fake.
Union sabotage?
>>>the workers had not followed proper techniques while welding joints, indicating that some of the errors had been intentional.
Why is the DOJ even involved? Where’s the Navy?
Even the military and their contractors are against the country. I hope he spent these four years secretly organizing, getting patriots together to quickly swoop in and take over. But I doubt Mr. 3456789-D chess lives up to what the qtards claim he is.
No. Not true.
(That is, “Clear and deliberate incompetence “ during USN submarine and nuclear ship construction HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE. In the early 1980s, six 688 class submarines at Electric Boat (General Dynamics, owner) in Groton CT were built with COMPLETELY MISSING hull and structural welds. Welds that had been signed by the welders, by their supervisor(s), AND by the EB weld inspectors.
SSBN Trident submarines under construction at the same time we’re being cut apart and their supports and tank steel were being replaced because those Trident submarine metal certifications “could not be found”.
EB had the world’s third largest nuclear submarine fleet at the time. All of them being cut apart and rebuilt properly.
That was then, when the Walker family was selling US codes and radio transmitter crypto devices to the Soviet Union.
Today? Pure DIE malice, DIE incompetence NOT FOUND or covered up by other diligent workers is very likely. A DIE chief radioman/ET mounted a private satellite receiver transmitter on a USN destroyer to (deliberately) get WiFi signals transmitted to her cell phones and chief’s quarters in a combat zone. AND NO OTHER CPO COMPLAINED ABOUT IT.
Chinese and Muslim and BLM-Antifa sabotage is even more probable. The recent fire that destroyed a US amphib carrier in drydock was just as effective as the Japanese armor-piercing bomb that blew up the Arizona.
The information was contained in a memo from Nickolas Guertin, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition to Carlos Del Toro, secretary of the Navy, and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations.
According to Guertin, the workers had not followed proper techniques while welding joints, indicating that some of the errors had been intentional.
After the Newport News shipyard assessed the welds, it notified the Department of Justice.
A U.S. Navy spokesperson, in a statement to Newsmax on Friday, commented that the Navy is “aware of the issue and a thorough evaluation is underway to determine the scope” of the reports.
“The safety of our Sailors and our ships is of paramount importance,” the statement added. “We are working closely with industry partners to address this situation and will provide additional information when available.”
Huntington Ingalls Industries told USNI News on Thursday that it took “immediate action” after discovering through internal reporting “that the quality of some welds did not meet our high-quality standards.”
The shipbuilders informed customers and regulators and worked to investigate the matter, to determine the root cause, and “insert immediate corrective actions to prevent any recurrence of these issues,” read the statement.
“HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding is committed to building the highest-quality aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy,” the company said. “We do not tolerate any conduct that compromises our company’s values and our mission of delivering ships that safeguard our nation and its sailors.”
The DOJ did not immediately respond to USNI with comments about the reports.
Newport News, one of two nuclear shipyards in the United States, builds Ford-class aircraft carriers, as well as the Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines in cooperation with General Dynamics Electric Boat. It also builds bow and stern sections for the Virginia-class submarines.
Never hire “Mohammed.”
Weldon and shit.
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