[hardspunned]

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?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

“US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground yesterday, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Group without it's primary fuel source. The Navy doesn't have a spare oiler to deploy and is now scrambling to find a commercial tanker.”

A short video from inside

Lisa Franchetti, under the Biden-Harris regime, is the female in supposed 'buck stops here" charge. Anchors away, my'lads,

Democrats. Named a ship after Harvey Milk years ago. Anyone recall what happened at the latest DEI, LGBT+ Navy conference?

[PGR88]

At Naval Academy class reunions, I imagine those running oil tankers are off in the corners alone with their drinks.

[redfreedom]

Supporting a strike group has got to be like supporting any other combat outfit in that the support is a job unto itself. One would think a task force would have more than one oiler along with the other types of support ships.

Slightly off topic is watching the cavalry shows on TV. There is a long column of mounted soldiers heading towards the Confederates or Indians. And not one chuck wagon, medical wagon or supply wagon.

Or there’s a bunch of guys with horses in the desert with just one canteen of water a piece. The movie shows them rationing that water swallow by swallow and they get two or three days out of it. What about the horses?

[dynachrome]

Image of a flooded mechanical space aboard the USNS Big Horn after grounding incident.

[M Kehoe]

I guess the U. S. Navy is no longer based on a meritocracy.

We are doomed.

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