A drone view of the scene where vessels used for delivering aid to Palestinians via a U.S.-built pier in Gaza got stuck after they ran aground on the Mediterranean coast in Ashdod, Israel, May 25, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
Posted on 05/29/2024 11:18:39 AM PDT by SJackson
A drone view of the scene where vessels used for delivering aid to Palestinians via a U.S.-built pier in Gaza got stuck after they ran aground on the Mediterranean coast in Ashdod, Israel, May 25, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
On the menu today: The Gaza Pier — you know, the one where the U.S. and allied countries unloaded food, so it could be stolen off trucks before reaching its intended destination — is no longer operational, and it will be out of operation for “at least over a week.” It turns out that the pier system was not intended to be used in waters with waves higher than three feet, and three-foot waves occur in that part of the Mediterranean Sea frequently. We know that Pentagon officials can read a weather and surf report. Now the question is, did someone in the administration tell them to go ahead with the operation, knowing the risks?
Biden’s Gaza Pier Wasn’t Built to Withstand . . . Waves
A lot of us figured that Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad would have targeted the U.S.-built Gaza pier by now. But the wind and the sea got there first; what few of us realized was that the Pentagon built the pier in a location where it would regularly operate at the maximum safe-wave height and wind, and any bout of bad weather could break the structure apart.
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But it did not require a “perfect storm” to break apart the pier. CNN reported May 9: “It can only be safely operated in conditions with a maximum of 3-foot waves and winds less than approximately 15 miles per hour, according to a 2006 Naval War College paper on the systems limitations.”
Three-foot waves appear regularly on the Gaza coastline.
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Slow Joe has the Midas touch in reverse; everything he touches turns to chit.
We built a pier in the Mediterranean which cannot withstand 4 foot waves or 15mph wind. Surprising it lasted as long as it did. Wouldn't want to be a truck driver on it when it reopens.
It says everything about the Pentagon and State Dept. Brass. All optics no 10 ring.
$320 million for that little thing ?
I think that’s a pix of one of the little service boats, not the main pier.
Sounds less efficient than the Mulberry Harbors 80 years ago at Normandy.
Post-war (particularly American) historians say that although it was a success, the vast resources used on the Mulberry may have been wasted, as the American forces were supplied mostly over the beaches without the use of a Mulberry right through to September 1944
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour
That why God sent a storm/message to Obama that he’s not bringing his kindred chit here!!!
“Never underestimate the ability of Joe to F things up”— B. H Obozo
I am trying to remember the last time I saw sheet metal float.
Looks like the quality of planning and execution we saw in the mighty Afghanistan withdrawal.
before D-Day, the Allies had frogmen (secretly of course) taking samples of sand and soil all along the Normandy coast, which were then analyzed and compared to known records to be sure that the beaches could support the weight of cement caisons for the Mulberry Harbors, and other heavy armor being off-loaded, like tanks and half-tracks.
Even in spite of this work one Mulberry Harbor was destroyed by a storm in the English Channel, 3 days after D-Day.
Nonetheless over 2 million men, their equipment and 5000 vehicles were successfully unloaded over these temporary floating piers
Of course, that was when the US Federal Government wasn’t a woke and corrupt enterprise.
Except for his ten percent...
Biden brought back Build Back Better to Gaza I see.
What this really shows is how far down the Army Corps of Engineers have fallen in basic competency. This is full blown DEI in action.
The contractors that snared this pitiful gig are a gaggle of retired military offices and some other agency strap hangers. Follow the money.
That’s one of the supporting boats and a part of the pier that blew away.
And no access to Accuweather
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