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USNS 2nd Lt John P Bobo Has Engine Fire and Aborts Gaza Mission | Status of Other Ships
What is Going on With Shipping? (You Tube) ^ | 4/17/2024 | Sal Mercogliano

Posted on 04/18/2024 3:35:55 AM PDT by Paul R.

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the fire onboard the US Navy's Military Sealift Command USNS 2nd Lt John P Bobo while enroute to Gaza, along with the status of the other ships sent to the Mediterranean.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; gaza; navy; ship
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Our Navy has... issues.
1 posted on 04/18/2024 3:35:55 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Paul R.

Banging headset on the desk.


2 posted on 04/18/2024 3:37:14 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Paul R.

2nd Lieutenant? What happened to Lieutenant JG?


3 posted on 04/18/2024 3:38:38 AM PDT by STJPII ( )
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To: STJPII

2LT Bobo was a Marine.


4 posted on 04/18/2024 3:39:56 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Paul R.

I was on a destroyer. That thing was breaking down all the time.


5 posted on 04/18/2024 3:43:39 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: STJPII

Bobo was a hero. 2Lt USMC


6 posted on 04/18/2024 3:45:45 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Paul R.

The guy definitely knows what he’s talking about. Near the end of this video he speaks about the U.S. sealift capability readiness. The recent tests of our sealift capacities came in at a 2/3 ready rate. DC needs to consider factors like this before they wrongheadedly deploy our troops in some God forsaken battlefield halfway round the world with limited ability to supply them. Just another example of the high profit, broken military our MIC has stuck us with.


7 posted on 04/18/2024 4:12:09 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: STJPII

The USNS Bobo is named after a Marine Officer Medal of Honor Recipient as are all the Maritime Prepositioning Ships of Military Sealift Command.

I worked the USNS Button at 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, MCAS Kane’ohe Bay, HI in 1990 leading up to Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Look up Military Sealift Command, USCOMPSRON, etc. Interesting.


8 posted on 04/18/2024 4:38:51 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: Joe Marine 76

Thanks for you service, FRiend.

Well, at least they didn’t name the ship after Harvey Milk. What a bleeding disgrace, worthy of ribald, biting ridicule and scorn.


9 posted on 04/18/2024 4:57:25 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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...here is an interesting tidbit along the lines of this article....Mr. Chavez said years later that the two years he served in the United States Navy were the worst two years of his life...yet they named a United States Naval Ship (USNS,not USS..) after him......

USNS Cesar Chavez, a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, is the first ship operated by the United States Navy to be named for Cesar Chavez, labor leader and civil rights activist. Chávez joined the Navy at the age of seventeen in 1944 during World War II, and served for two years.


10 posted on 04/18/2024 5:11:54 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: roving

When my son served in the Navy, he served on several 688 Los Angeles class submarines. Several times he would tell us that their deployment was delayed or interrupted because “something broke.” On one occassion, they were stuck on Gibralter, so the crews’ wives and girlfriends took a plane over and they toured the Rock.

When he was on shore duty, he was assigned to do a study on the readiness of the submarines. In one of his reports he showed that if 3 parts broke, it could cripple the entire 688 fleet.


11 posted on 04/18/2024 5:58:21 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: STJPII

Navy 2nd Lt is an ensign.


12 posted on 04/18/2024 6:20:22 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Paul R.

Been aboard several times.


13 posted on 04/18/2024 6:45:27 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: ComputerGuy

What does anyone expect with only 3% of the GDP devoted to the military, minus the $400 billion Biden cut for missile defense?


14 posted on 04/18/2024 7:39:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ComputerGuy

Sorry that comment was for ‘roving’.


15 posted on 04/18/2024 7:40:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: roving

See #14


16 posted on 04/18/2024 7:41:04 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

DEI strikes again. No wonder the US military can’t get many to voluntreer5. Apparently, the military generally is similar to a burning outhouse pit.


17 posted on 04/18/2024 7:52:32 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: hal ogen

Rather, it all comes down to how much money is allocated to the military - right now, we expect miracles by giving them only 3% of the GDP.

During WWII, the military got 40% for reference.

The number of defense contractors and shipyards have shrunk by a similar percentage.

Skills, like making hardened steel for Navy ships’ hulls and ice breakers, are long forgotten - lost as part of various ‘peace dividends’ and de-milling efforts.

As skills and money was lost, so the quality of the military personnel shrunk.


18 posted on 04/18/2024 8:13:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

and sold a ton of bonds to fund the war effort also


19 posted on 04/18/2024 4:58:10 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Fury

Thanks


20 posted on 04/18/2024 5:44:20 PM PDT by STJPII ( )
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