NYT reports that one of the US aircraft carriers has to withdraw to port due to a laundry room fire. About 600 sailors lost access to their bunks.
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities and quickly spread. Sailors battled the blaze for more than 30 hours, officials and sailors said.
The Navy did not respond to a request for comment. Central Command said in its statement that the fire caused “no damage to the ship’s propulsion plant, and the aircraft carrier remains fully operational.”
Because they had a dryer catch fire, and despite that, the ship is still combat ready?
I get that you’re not a fan of the US military, but this is just silly.
A single dryer fire would not have raged for hours nor necessitated a return to port.
I said that’s where it started, there’s a lot of flammable shit in a laundry. Also, this was likely a commercial dryer, so much bigger than what you have at home.
The ship had to return to port, so it was not “combat effective” hell it was no longer in play. (combat ready is mostly meaningless outside of a mothballed ship).
This is an embarrassment since it was a larger dryer and clearly not maintained to even your local laundry mat standards. And so far the us military (kinda like the russian one) has had a fair number of “whoopsy daises” in only the last few weeks. The world is watching midair collisions of refueling aircraft, fires on aircraft carriers, key trade routes cut, successful attacks on american assets and no war goals. It would be strange if people where not making the inference to a paper tiger like russia. Clearly not to the level of the russian shitshow it calls an armed force but its very clear the us is not the military power they think they are, likely to do with the record low moral and ongoing issues with corporate corruption in the military industrial complex (where are those new ships for example, the Arleigh Burke is tired boss).
Sure the us spends the most on the military, but they also forget that those numbers kinda lose their meaning if every contractor is robbing them blind. And this is not unique to the us, its a tale as old as time.
“Combat Ready” as reported by Pete the Kegstand King, from his freshly laundered, empty suit.