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Cue the Yakety Sax theme music again for the Pentagon idiots. $20 Billion worth of equipment and there was one ship to fuel it all?
1 posted on 09/24/2024 5:41:05 AM PDT by hardspunned
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Government planning planning for you.


2 posted on 09/24/2024 5:45:38 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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The weakest point in a system is usually the best place to attack.

Perhaps the navy should even consider submarine tankers.


3 posted on 09/24/2024 5:47:03 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Don't vote to be a tax slave on Kamala's plantation.)
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Why did it run aground?


4 posted on 09/24/2024 5:47:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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But you have trans admirals and tons of DEI. What more do they need?


6 posted on 09/24/2024 5:48:31 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Piloting and navigation are becoming lost arts in the New Navy.


7 posted on 09/24/2024 5:50:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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In other words, if you can get to the tanker, you’ve crippled the strike group, and perhaps even made them sitting ducks.


8 posted on 09/24/2024 5:50:32 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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“I’ve got those yellow stain blues....”


9 posted on 09/24/2024 5:51:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Depending on DEI people to run the ship?


12 posted on 09/24/2024 5:56:45 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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My friend and neighbor is a retired rear admiral. He tells me about things. The Navy is a wreck.


14 posted on 09/24/2024 5:58:43 AM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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The Hootie and BlowUpYourShips gang loves this news. US Fleet crippled !
Biden drooling 🤤
Kamala Cackles ! 🤪
Speaker Johnson snuggles up to Democrats ! 🥰
Ukrainian dwarf invades Pennsylvania !🤡
What Is Taylor Swift up to?😍🤮


18 posted on 09/24/2024 6:03:14 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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If you click through to the gcaptain source link, there’s a picture of the ship with big Ukraine flag-colored stripes painted on its smokestack. Are these colors just a coincidence or is this intentional and authorized? I’d post a picture to show what I mean but that’s too high-tech.


20 posted on 09/24/2024 6:06:31 AM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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I learned that the Navy’s VLS vertical launch system cannot be reloaded at sea, they can only be reloaded at port.

So if and when a destroyer fires all of her VLS missiles, it must return to a port to rearm. The VLS cannot be reloaded at sea.


22 posted on 09/24/2024 6:15:52 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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They have just about ruined our Navy. Oh, LORD, please allow Trump to be elected!


25 posted on 09/24/2024 6:20:56 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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But did their internet go down?


27 posted on 09/24/2024 6:25:05 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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Three Carriers for the planes
Seven destroyers for the missiles
Nine replenishment ships
One oiler to rule them all
29 posted on 09/24/2024 6:26:37 AM PDT by Enterprise
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It's the USNS BigHorn that was run aground off the coast of Oman.

https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-oiler-usns-big-horn-aground-forcing-carrier-strike-group-to-scramble-for-fuel/

30 posted on 09/24/2024 6:27:19 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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[or past post-delivery acceptance.]

passed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuQsb181Cc

Better chase the sign guy


35 posted on 09/24/2024 6:46:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Will the Navy finally uh, get on board and demand wind and solar powered vessels? It could bump up their ‘esg’ score. /S


39 posted on 09/24/2024 6:50:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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I posted a thread the week before last about that atrocious incident where a Chief Petty Officer had an Starlink system illegally installed, then when it was investigated, lied OPENLY to her Captain multiple times about it.

I just went back and read that thread for the first time (not my usual practice if I start a thread) but a lot went down in the world since then, and when I remembered I had posted that thread and re-examined it, there were people who posted sarcastic responses in it, and I had to concede part of that was my responsibility.

It is undoubtedly, in this case, DEI or more accurately in military terms, DIE which is going to be the root cause.

Resources are indeed a factor, as is piss poor planning. And yes, ships have been running aground as long as there have been ships on the sea. The author of the X post “gCaptain” is being moderate in the initial response by acknowledging that point)

But we are going to undoubtedly find out (though we will have to “read between the lines” to get to the heart of it) that the grounding is going to come down to a lack or inadequacy of training. Every single second spent on DIE training, testing, and indoctrination (and there is a lot of it) is a second taken away from warfighting, damage control, or in this case...ship handling.


42 posted on 09/24/2024 6:52:30 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Which is a worse statement on military readiness?

A missile blowing up (Satan) or a critical support ship becoming disabled (ran aground) due to utter institutional incompetence?

Just sayin’…


46 posted on 09/24/2024 6:58:05 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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