This is the navy thay thinks they can fight china in their own territorial waters
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
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Yup. The same navy that was supposedly going to "show 'em why we don't have healthcare"
China finna show us how they protect their healthcare
They did show them: Corrupt government with ineffecient bureaucracies focused on giving money to an old boys club rather than do what the government ostensibly claims it exists to do.
Clarifyer: I know you're referring to that dumbass redditor joke, I just felt like being cheeky
great point. They really did show them lol
The Houthi's showed us why they have healthcare.
mission awompwomplished
It's just a Tactical Withdrawal until they come back with giant robots and laser guns, then we'll show those [redacted] what for! 
Saw the title and thought this was about the stranded astronauts.
The hits keep comin and they don't stop comin-
That one cool astronaut that uses Hexbear and .ml woke up this morning feeling groggy, having the previous night raided the emergency medicine cabinent for fun drugs while waiting for mission control to come up with a fix. They slept like shit, their still tired, still dissociating about the thought of whether or not this worsening incident will be the worst disaster in spaceflight history. Whether this is the thing that ends their lives.
They saw this thread, and clicked on it, their eyes wide and awash with hope that Boeing figured it out while they were asleep. That somehow the news got to them through Hexbear first. The ship is coming home! We're getting off this piece of shit station. We get to say goodbye to breathing this shitty recycled air that smells like a mixture of all the worst smells you associate with your some of your coworkers.
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Oh, I'm still in a life threatening ongoing emergency alongside all my astronaut and cosmonaut friends. We may still die yet! It's actually just the genocide ship going home, the genocide sailors are getting a bit tired of doing genocide, so they're taking a break from all this helping to do a genocide stuff.
scram imperialist 
uss eisenhower found out why we don't have healthcare
buh-bye genociders.
b-but it thought yanks didnt have healthcare for this 
Yankee go home.
Yankee go ~~home~~ to hell
I like Ike.
something something paper tiger.
i'm just glad they are now being told no for a change.
All outta ice cream, gotta get resupply.
The warriors need more cookies
Boat power does not mean the same thing it did 70 years ago
No stated reason why it's pulling back... Lol
US carriers are only supposed to be deployed for six months at a time. This one was 43 days less than the post-Cold War record of ~290 days.
Our enemies/rivals flee, we leave
They probably don't want to be in the neighborhood when things kick off with Hezbollah
I wonder if future historians will look back on this as the first step in America's Suez moment.
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looks like some kind of panel missing near the rear? maybe hit by a missile?
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the wake in the water shows a clear 180 degree turn, but deff not running away m I right lol
That's just the port side elevator between the flight deck and the hangar deck. 
i’m not a boat expert, but i think it’s a boarding dock. i remember getting one of those time for kids magazines during the iraq war showing marines launching amphibious tanks and trucks out of the side of an aircraft carrier in a space that looked a lot like that one. like, if you zoom in, it looks like the bottom half (ish) has a big lip keeping the water out
this is a PR photo issued by the navy that they have taken for all their ships, it isn't contemporary of it literally turning around
Hilarious self posted L then since that's what it looks like
Huh who knew it wasn't fun to hang out floating over a 120° ocean
The article says that "the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will head to the Middle East to maintain a presence in the region".
So it looks like it could be a routine ship swap. But if that were the case, I'd expect NPR to emphasize that in the article, and they don't. They mention the other ship one time and then the rest of the article is talking about how the Houthis are doing lots of attacks.
I'm just confused about this article from a propaganda perspective, I guess. Is it trying to say "the Ike has done good work, it's time for it to come home and be replaced by another ship, no worries, the US rocks, we have this under control" or is it trying to say "the Houthis are terrifying, they're an absolute menace and our smol bean navy is trying valiantly to keep the strait safe, but we have to bring home our carrier because the Houthis are just too scary"?
Because this article seems to gesture in both of those directions, and they're pretty contradictory.
The enemy is both weak and strong
Another article I read mentioned that the navy said it was the most intense deployment since WW2. Reading between the lines, my hypothesis is that the ship, the planes, the pilots, and sailors are all tired. Equipment is breaking, systems are inoperative for too long, and the crew is getting more injury and mistake prone.
If Answer Allah actually managed to score a hit, that would be an amazing accomplishment by them. But until I see evidence, I think it has just reached the limit of what it can accomplish without rest for the crew and repairs/maintenance/restocking back at home.
I mean what has the navy had to do since WW2? Combat wise Korea had nothing really, Vietnam had small patrol craft, there was the Cuban blockade I guess, Iraq the most use we got out of them was using our remaining Battleship to launch missiles, Afghanistan is landlocked.