Bonhomme Richard flight deck unfit for flight operations, could delay next deployment

Stars and Stripes ^ | 22 Aug 2014 | James Kimber

[rlmorel]

Hahaha some poor bastards with little hammers would do the trick!

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[B4Ranch]

>>Only in gvt does the screwup get a chance to screw it up again. <<

Not quite true. Local weather forecasters by the hundreds get it wrong everyday for weeks and they don’t get fired.

[missnry]

When I was in Sasebo last month a Tsunami headed straight for the port while the ship was being worked on. The Bonhomme Richard had to get underway to avoid the storm... it turned out that the Tsunami went to the east and Sasebo barely got a rain drop!

[cva66snipe]

I slept port side third deck more or less below the aft mess decks chow line. We could hear the planes land even that far down and had to hear the sonar dome pinging 24/7 at sea. It sounded like a cross between a door in needing oiling and a whale. We were the only carrier built with a sonar dome from what the guys operating said. It was taken out in the 80 overhaul I think.

[kaehurowing]

Another Obamanation.

[FDNYRHEROES]

I believe you meant “typhoon”, not tsunami...

[jonascord]

You’re making the assumption that no one in the logistics system was bought. This is the New Federal Supply System. That’s the Chicago Mob. The Navy should consider itself lucky it wasn’t old motor oil.

[GATOR NAVY]

I left in 2001 and it has changed considerably even since then. I had to do a double take on the photo-what in the heck is that LHD doing in Juliet Basin? Then I did a little research and found out it has been dredged to make new berths.

[GATOR NAVY]

Usually the Japanese shipyards do a pretty good job with the repairs they do. I sailed in Independence back in the late nineties and they kept that old boat running.

Yes they did. And the Midway before her and a lot of other '60s built FDNF hulls. When we swapped Dubuque for Juneau, it was the SRF maintained Dubuque that was able to steam back to San Diego on schedule. We spent a lot of time and money on Juneau getting her up to the level that Dubuque had been.

[Rockpile]

I disagree with you about McScum criticizing 99 other senators. He only does that to other Republicans.

[Rockpile]

USS Franklin CV13 was the fifth ship of that name and was nick-named “Big Ben”. She was repaired after the horrific kamikaze attack but was never recommisioned.

[itsahoot]

I agree, but also find it kind of messed up that a $3 million mistake seems like chump-change these days

They admitted a week or so ago that they had no clue what happened to $700,000,000,000.00 so why are you surprised?

My ship, AO 62 fueled Bonhomme Richard several times in the Tonkin Gulf I made three cruises 63, 64, 65.

[AlanGreenSpam]

How many aircraft carriers do we have total and where deployed?

I read that the size of the US navy is now 50% of what it was a few years ago.

[cva66snipe]

Here you go. http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org9-4.htm#1993 I think with ENTERPRISE gone were at ten. The Gerald R Ford was launched last year and should be close to comissioning.

[cva66snipe]

BTW deployment wise? We are supposed to headed into a one carrier deployed policy which is insanity. Any ship to stay ready both training and maintenance wise needs sufficient time at sea. Worse still sometime in the 1980’s there was added to NOB Norfolk another pier with a two carrier capacity making Norfolk Naval Base capable of having five carriers in port at the same time at the exact same place. Put five there, one in Newport News in overhaul, one or two up at Portsmouth at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and it's another Pearl Harbor in the making.

The entire Atlantic Carrier Fleet is now home ported in the same city and must cross the same tunnels. They are also about a mile or two downstream of the International Piers. IOW we have planners who are fools. My guess is Norfolk was expanded because at that time it was likely assumed the carrier fleet would be expanded by two or more carriers. That didn't happen. The USSR break up changed things but not anywhere near enough IMO to justify the severity of cuts we've seen.

[kitkat]

“Added to that the fact that McInsane stopped trying to win in July for some reason. He gave up at that point for some reason.”

I remember that well! Three weeks before the election he hadn’t made any statements. Two weeks before the election I wondered why he was still silent. One week before, I knew we had already lost the election.

[aumrl]

I believe we have 10
5 east coast, 5 west coast.
Check ‘Stratfor’ site for deposition.

[aumrl]

You can refuse to call China a threat all you want.
and I will refuse to acknowledge Reagan is no longer president

[octex]

I had a friend who served on The Bonhomme Richard in the early 1960s.
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I served on the FDR (CVA-42) in the early ‘60s in the Med and recall the earlier Bonnie Dick was there. That ship was not a helo carrier like the one presently, as far as I recall.

The DoD cutbacks are setting up the US for disaster by killing funding for Navy ships/aircraft and Air Force aircraft. ....Their policy changes regarding females and LGBT are not doing anything but weakening our forces.

[sport]

I did the same thing , except the Fourth Estate that you did from November 5, 2008 until May, 2014. And all it got me was high blood pressure along with a few other things. I finally realized that most, particularly the young, don't mind being controlled by the Government as long as they get what they want. they welcome the Government making their daily living choices for them so that they can occupy their time on productive things such as rock concerts, sporting events, watching reality television and soap operas, drinking alcohol and using drugs.

Very few know the history of this Country. Very few know about the Founding Fathers. Very few know why the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. Few know who the Supreme Court justices are. Few know their State Representative, County Commissioner, or City Council Representative. most can tell you what color their NFL or NBA player's toilet paper is. Spend their paycheck on drugs and at the sporting event or rock concert, thus no rent or food money. No problem, just go down to the food stamp office and get food stamps then go to the welfare department to get rent money. Buy a house they know they can't afford on their salary and it is repossessed because they can't make the mortgage payment. Again, no problem, just go to, the Section 8 Housing office and they will put then in a house and pay the rent for them. Get sick, just go to the emergency room at the local hospital.