Ship has been plagued by reports of deteriorating living conditions and poor mental health because of lengthy deployment

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[–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have never seen that much rust on an active USN ship! That's insane and indicative of serious neglect.

I served on this same ship during the extended deployment in support of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was not even close to being this bad.

What the actual fuck did they do to that ship?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    A former Air Service Vet from a few few decades back was quite thorough in explaining how the US has traditionally taken very good care of it's military hardware.

    He said after the soviets fell there was some joint thing with the whatever the plane the soviets were using, stutkas or whatever, with the B-42's, and the same year planes were striking in that the Russians' was all rusted and looked like shit while the Flying Fortress was pristine.

    My point being that these fucking clowns are making everything work less well.

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