Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that U.S. aircraft carriers aren’t safe.
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Was this U.S. aircraft carrier safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
The ones that are safe?
Go check your dryer vents, people
Great advice, cleaned mine out this past weekend.
So, an Iranian drone probably hit it. But they’re of course never admitting that
it can't always be friendly fire, so this time it is a dryer fire.
Apparently, careless smoking is not a uniquely Eastern European thing. Or perhaps someone decided to frag their ship (just a little bit, not badly).
From the article:
The U.S. military’s Central Command said two sailors received treatment for “non-life-threatening injuries.” People on the ship reported that dozens of service members suffered smoke inhalation.
And in the category of non-life-threatening, but still not ideal, many sailors have not been able to do laundry since the fire.
The ship, along with its 4,500 sailors and fighter pilots, was in the Mediterranean on Oct. 24 when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered it to steam to the Caribbean to add weight to President Trump’s pressure campaign on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader before his seizure.
From the Caribbean, the carrier rushed to the Middle East for the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which is now in its third week.
Speaking to sailors on board aircraft carriers is difficult in the best of circumstances. During a war, the ships and military bases involved in operations go “dark,” limiting the ability of service members to communicate with the outside world. The officials and sailors interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The Ford is now entering its 10th month of deployment. It will break the record for longest post-Vietnam War carrier deployment if it is still at sea in mid-April. That record, at 294 days, was set by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2020.
Crew members on the Ford have been told that their deployment will probably be extended into May, which would put them at an entire year at sea, twice the length of a normal aircraft carrier deployment.
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities
Nah, dryer vent fires happen all the time in improperly maintained systems. Especially when you have people like college students or junior enlisted using them. Dryer lint is very flammable. Ask any boy scout.
"Careless smoking" is a cover for an airstrike. This is more akin to the Kuznetsov catching fire. Hopefully there are no cranes around to fall on the Ford.
improperly maintained systems
On a US Navy warship? The US military which has procedures and protocols for everything just... compromised mission-readiness by overlooking a simple, well-known, but critical maintenance item? I mean, this could possibly be something that the yard staff was tasked with when the ship comes in after a standard six-month deployment, but if they're overlooking stuff like that, it makes one wonder about the overall preparedness of the Navy.
That's the thing about militaries. Like any other organization, it's all still humans.
I imagine this would be a large, commercial style dryer too, not a domestic one.
The fire, according to two officials, began in the vent of a dryer in the ship’s laundry facilities and quickly spread. Sailors battled the blaze for more than 30 hours, officials and sailors said.
That's actually pretty likely.
Sailors will smoke anywhere they can, but in a laundry room it's gonna be clogged dryer vents.
Again? Isnt this old news
I wouldn't be surprised if the US military is a paper tiger just as Russia. Not to the same extent but I'd bet there's just as much rot and corruption under the hood.
Because they had a dryer catch fire, and despite that, the ship is still combat ready?
I get that you're not a fan of the US military, but this is just silly.