Fox The USS Fort Worth, a Navy littoral combat ship, has suffered extensive gear damage while docked at a port in Singapore. The Navy is blaming the incident on a crew error.
According to reports, the crew failed to use sufficient lube oil, leading to excessively high temperatures on the gears.
ht/ Boobie the Rocket Dog
Obama’s Navy.
Might be the answer to what’s happening to the lube.
Surely they have enough men on board with enough lube for one screw.
They likely pay ten times the market value for the lube, just like they do the fuel.
Obama was so “outraged” when he heard this, he told aides he’d be in “an all night meeting with his Rear Admirals” to “get to the bottom of it.”
Fairly new ship. Why is this not electronically monitored and automatically taken care of?
I C – did Obysmal alert the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
It takes a village, people…
Don’t believe it. Poor design or defective parts are the culprit, not the human element. Trying to save face for the contractor and government connections. It will probably be another huge cost added to the contract to fix this.
A light comes on in my Ford 500 “Check Oil.” WTF? Or all the sailors reservists? Whose real job is with the Post Office and they only go to sea for the cash?
When this jackass is out of office we’ll need a new Army, Navy, Marine Corp, and Air Force . It will take years to separate the shaft from the wheat.
Pure Bullshit. My son was stationed on the Rickover, and fudging a log brought an instantaneous Captain’s Mass, and if more serious, like damaging the boat, a Court Martial.
Swabbies don’t fuck around with shit like that.
Not even in Obola’s Navy.
Probably the fault of “green” petroleum replacements.
It took 58+ years for me to hear and learn what “littoral” is.
Pretty confident I’ll never use it in a sentence outside of talking about a U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship.
Something tells me the USS Fort Worth smells like a cattle car.
You’d have to know Ft. Worth, aka Cowtown.
Tim Good point Green energy. An oil and water mixture!
There was an article here and elsewhere yesterday about the Navy admiral who was key to that scam in Singapore.
I was wondering if they mistakenly left the letter ‘c’ off that word?
I was wondering if they mistakenly left off the letter ‘c’ from that word?
The check engine light was on thru the Bush years.
I started to tell you it’s “chaff”, not “shaft”, but then I thought about it for a while.
Never mind…
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