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At this rate there won't be any left for the birthday parade!
Trump said he wanted submarines for the parade. I don't think he knows the concept of a submarine, dragging one on the streets probably makes it not surfacable anymore.
I think he thinks the Navy has those little dinky two man subs that the Japanese used for Pearl Harbor. I don't think he realizes that even if you could find a trailer to put one of our nuclear subs on, it would destroy every single street it touches just from sheer mass alone.
Which is dumb, because he's one of the people who could just go see one literally any time.
Kinda. It would involve The Navy moving heaven and earth for him, logistically and security speaking, but they do that as a normal operating procedure.
It would also involve him being able to get inside one, which is another logistical challenge, as I don't know if a crane or pallet jack would be more useful in this particular exercise.
Also would involve him actually giving a shit about the reality of the military and the veterans, which we all know that he despises, based on almost a decade of him openly insulting the military in general, and the rank and file directly.
So in 6 months time, the Truman has shot one of their own down, and lost two more overboard.
The Gettysburg shot down the Truman F-18; the Truman didn't do the shooting.
It has dropped two F18s into the sea though.
To lose one expensive fighter jet is an accident...
To lose two is a big oof
I'm trying to imagine what they sound like falling into the water. I imagine a thud and screech as the front wheel goes over the edge. I doubt they sink straight away though, but is it a stealthy slide into the water, or a backwards somersault with a thwack.
It must sound amazing if it was worth hearing a second time. Maybe some of the boys missed the first one
A quick search prices them at about $50 to $70 million each
And I'm sure it would cost a lot more to replace them with something newer
Isn't that convenient, seeing how all the money DOGE has acquired will be wasted on military equipment
Is this a tax/insurance thing?
Need to check the local pawn shops to see if any F-18s show up.
I got a guy in Atlantis who can hook you up.
This wouldn't be happening if they weren't running sorties to attack Houthis for the crime of fighting back against Israel's genocide of Gaza.
Devils advocate: propublica was warning for a few years that the navy wasn’t putting enough into maintenance/training, vs contracts for shiny new boats.
The guy in charge was promoted to rear admiral late last year, was put in command in late February.
The real issue, though, is what the fuck is a CVN doing that close to the launchers.
You have a ship full of planes. Keep it away from shore and have the planes drop bombs and cruise missiles from far away, or better yet, use the B2s on Diego Garcia, or just the airfield at Al Udeid is right there if we could just ask Saudi Arabia nicely to use their airspace, but no the Fox News Drunk needs his “show of force” to be scary so it has to be visible from shore.
It’s sort of ridiculous how dumb they are. I think you’re right, that they’ve staged a bunch of ships off shore like it’s WWII to be “scary” vs offering up surprise death from above by an enemy the Houthis cannot attack or anticipate, all brought to them by a partnership of their neighbor countries.
The latter is scary in many ways, whereas the former is result of people who confuse TV with reality.
Greatest military in the world, folks
I see the US is secretly arming the Atlanteans, concerning...
The wouldn't have happened if Trump's finger's weren't so short.
Hoping for more of this in the weeks to come.
Why is this in the news. This happens more often than you think.
That’s like saying “why are measles news? It happens more often than you think”
The point is: it shouldn’t be happening. We’re starting to see outward signs of a decaying system. If their personnel were correctly trained, with following proper procedures (for example, securing all equipment and vehicles to the deck) this wouldn’t happen.
It’s news because “it’s happening” period.
I've served in the navy for 15 years. Never have I ever seen any navy more incompetent than the US navy. Once I even singlehandedly prevented them from shooting down their own helicopter which returned from Germany back to their ship from a medevac. The helicopter forgot to turn on their IFF transponder and the ship was shouting warnings on the wrong channel. Once I met a navigation officer who didn't know port was red and starboard was green. How can you be a navigation officer, the standard buoys are red and green. It's like a baker who has no clue what yeast is. During one of my deployments there was bad weather and a US carrier in the vicinity lost 3 aircraft and had 2 badly damaged because they forgot to tell the deck crew there would be bad weather so the aircraft weren't properly locked to the deck. Oopsie. Once on the Mediterranean there was an Arleigh Burke demanding all other shipping to stay clear 10 nmi to avoid collision. This was nearly impossible and would disrupt all traffic, because ships were sailing through shipping channels. 10 nmi is ~18.5 km. Once during an exercise they accidentally shot a Turkish ship pretending to be the enemy with real ammo, destroying the bridge and killing everyone on it including their captain and commander. That's why Turkey now has 4 OHP frigates.
I can go on and on about how stupid the US navy is. I have loads of stories, can't even count them.
Take away the water from your stories and you have the US Army.
Nah, they aren't stupid. It's not like they would be engaged in a war for over 20 years with nomads armed with rusted AK's and still lose or something. It's not like blue on blue ever happens.
I know, right? It just happened last week!
It happens often. It's like school shootings. When it's a regular thing, is not in the news anymore.
This is going to keep happening if we don't get Ai atc.
Please walk me through your logic on this, I am so curious.
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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