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.
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Banging headset on the desk.
2nd Lieutenant? What happened to Lieutenant JG?
2LT Bobo was a Marine.
I was on a destroyer. That thing was breaking down all the time.
Bobo was a hero. 2Lt USMC
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.
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.
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.
...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.
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.
Navy 2nd Lt is an ensign.
Been aboard several times.
What does anyone expect with only 3% of the GDP devoted to the military, minus the $400 billion Biden cut for missile defense?
Sorry that comment was for ‘roving’.
See #14
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.
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.
and sold a ton of bonds to fund the war effort also
Thanks
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