Posted on 04/18/2024 7:59:53 PM PDT by Reverend Wright
The Navy revealed that one of the ships it deployed to support the mission of building a pier to deliver aid to starving residents in Gaza was forced to turn back last week after it suffered a fire in its engine room.
The incident comes as the Pentagon's self-imposed deadline of having the pier operational and delivering the needed aid by May rapidly approaches, and experts say there are other delays and problems cropping up with the mission.
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A retired Army chief warrant officer who has significant experience in the Army's watercraft community also told Military.com in an interview Wednesday that "if those boats don't have multiple major mechanical failures -- I mean 'dead in the water' mechanical failures -- I will be shocked."
"They're horrendously maintained. I've got videos of these things falling apart," the retired officer added.
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This is what they get with a $900+ billion budget.
Good, don’t need a stupid Gaza pier anyway
Too much DEI?
...................we’re paying for both sides of the war????????????????????????????????
Get ready for an influx of Palestinians from gaza making their way to USA complements of our corrupt government!!
That’s OK, the Gazan “Palestinians” were frolicking on the beach in droves today, so apparently it can wait. None of them looked like they were in any danger of starving.
Sounds like longstanding maintenance issues.
This was a problem back in the day of the Carter military and underfunding.
But this military is not underfunded...
It’s DEI, wokeness, elite incompetence, political promotions...
Every Western military is a shambles. That UK carrier broke a driveshaft even before it got out of port.
” Get ready for an influx of Palestinians from gaza making their way to USA complements of our corrupt government!!”
those are the boats that won’t break down.
No surprise. The port building idea was hatched by the same guy that left $81 billion worth of military supplies for the terrorists to use.
That’s a sad state of readiness.
Some sailor couldn’t find his dress or something.
This is the thread I posted earlier today:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4231976/posts
The vid from Sal and the comments to the vid are quite informative.
As long as no trannies were injured, all is well.
thanks I hand’t seen that.
Biden generated “ClusterF*ck!”
Our Arleigh-Burkes and carriers do fine. But you can’t expect to take a logistics ship out of layup and just go charging out to sea with it. Just taking a CAR not used for several years and right off taking a long trip with it is a lousy idea, even if well stored.
You would have thought that the Gazans would have built a massive sea port on the Mediterranean. However their rigid mentality would not guarantee that no dangerous materials (guns, ballistic missiles, mortars, etc) would not go through the port.
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