This is a US Navy Ohio Class submarine outbound this afternoon. Can you imagine serving on this rust bucket? I'd feel ashamed.
rust never sleeps
Speaking of which, our defense budget is nearly $1 trillion or approximately one year's interest payment on our national debt. And here's the new head of the Navy, Admiral Lisa Franchetti.
some kind of joke?
Are you filled with confidence in our diversity hiring warfighting capability? Or, on the other hand, do you think we're gambling like Europe on never really having to fight a peer-to-peer war again on an industrial scale, ever?
live rust
Serious questions, and what's up with our mighty and once proud Navy. Our ships are starting to look like the rusting SovBloc hulks of the 1990s. Your call, readers.
Non Sibi Sed Patriae,
LSP
Join the Waves and ride the rusty Navy, there's your joke.
ReplyDeleteIf you look close, there's a sheen gun atop the sub's sail. What? The Navy can't afford escort vessels anymore? I guess that shouldn't be a surprise.
Wild, I look at those photos and worry.
ReplyDeleteUgly! A granddaughter's fiancee is on one of those boomers.
ReplyDeleteThe lunatics are running the asylum.
The sheener is probably just for polar bears. One has to wonder what else is getting deteriorated. Oh, wait, that has a nuke motor doesn't it.
ReplyDeleteMy Navy didn't look like that.
ReplyDeleteThen again, queers didn't serve in my Navy - then along came don't ask, don't tell. Then the Rainbow fleet.
LL, I know, and it's beyond outrageous.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, can't some Flag Officers put this nonsense right? Our ships are fkn rusting.
Ritchie, I shudder.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to your girl, WSF.
ReplyDeleteThis is a total disgrace.
The sub in "Operation Petticoat" looked better...
ReplyDeleteYou all be safe and God bless.
To work off of LindaG, the sub in Down Periscope was better looking and more operationally fit than a quarter of our fast attacks and probably our boomers.
ReplyDeleteShips are like planes. If they look good they work good. A sloppy looking ship is an indication of sloppy leadership and sloppy followers.
To play devil's advocate - could it be that 6 months under water doesn't give much time for scraping rust and re-painting while giving corrosive salt water ample opportunity to work its magic?
ReplyDeleteA little work with a chipping hammer and some red lead primer would fix it right up.. but wait! Red lead and most other effective coatings are banned by the EPA! no tin antifouling for you!
ReplyDeleteGood call, Linda. God bless.
ReplyDeleteBeans, I'm no expert but it seems there's something wrong with our Navy.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right, T, but rusty ships seem to be an issue right now. Part of it's USN compliance with EPA regs.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Surfer.
ReplyDeleteNuke the EPA. They've caused more toxic spills in the last 30 years than they've cleaned up. But if you spill, they'll fine you out of existence.
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