Re:US navy released worst rust photo to date
by mlindner on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:56PM
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Ships get rusty all the time. In fact they get that way every deployment.
Re:US navy released worst rust photo to date
by themitigating on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:07PM
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That's not evidence that money for maintenance has been redirected.
Prove the money was redirected and that the new funding amount for maintenance is insufficient that it caused the rust you specified, and that the rust levels are greater than other time periods.
You want to me to look at a photo of rust and get mad and then believe you about funding?
Re:US navy released worst rust photo to date
by Spooky23 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:54PM
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Sure, let me whip out the 4000 page defense authorization act for the last decade.
There’s a wide variety of material available from GAO regarding the many issues that the Navy has with maintenance. Feel free to read it.
Another evidence point is the poisoning of Hawaii’s water supply with tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel when a maintenance worker bumped into a cob-job PVC pipe in a tunnel. Thousands of people poisoned and I imagine leaky jet fuel tanks aren’t t great for fleet readiness. The commander who oversaw that disaster was promoted.