[PIF]

Here's what ships look like after they spend too long at sea without needed maintenance

This is the result of the need for expensive toys that are always over-budget and need years of work before they can perform any mission or are combat survivable:
Littoral Comabt Ships (LCS) sent to the scrapper;
DDG-1000 has no mission no weapons but are building 4 more;
CVN Ford $13 billion spent and the radar has been ripped out; the toilet plumbing leaks badly - but the sinks have granite tops;
the EMALS system barely works and cannot do standard combat sortie rates - and has been relegated to status as training ship - but they are building 3 more.

Then there is the need to have the latest and greatest bridge controls that only a skilled long time video gamer could work in a timely manner.

A huge amount from consecutive Navy budgets when toward the purchase of F-35Bs and Cs with the unexpected need to re-plate landing decks for the Cs - and it just goes on with this less than well thought out planned direction. Rudderless and leaderless but they do go to some swell DC parties.

[Sequoyah101]

The shape of that ship is shameful. I have seen rust bucket cold stacked semi-submersibles and drill ships in better condition.

All the things you mention reek of incompetence at the highest levels and people that make nothing but excuses even making allowance for the wreck and ruin that barky exacted on the fleet and military in general.

Just sad. They aren’t flying the flag. Good to see that and not ID the ship as one of ours.