The most common problem is a valve at the back of the toilets that can be knocked loose and cause all of the toilets (which the Navy calls heads) in one of 10 zones to lose suction.

"That's just the nature of VCHT. It's a closed system and thousands of components ship-wide that fail daily. With one commode control valve failure, depending on the location brings down the entire zone"

The engineers looked at an old string of Christmas lights and thought "Yes. Yes this design will be perfect for the bathrooms of a multi billion dollar military craft that all of the crew members rely on wile out at sea. There's no possible way it could go wrong."

hope they dont slip on the poop.

Plumbing should be the first thing they teach everyone in the military, tbh. But sanitation is woke so... better to shit on the floor.

A poopdeck?

The poop deck wasn't used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.

they won't let them do that, but they'll dump all sorts of garbage into the ocean

They are being recommended to do that, go off the side

I'd say it would be a MARPOP violation, but I dunno if military vessels have exceptions or something wild like that.

I have a difficult time understanding how soldiers are able to shit in New Jersey when they're stationed in the Mediterranean on a warship.

Would love to see the news of marines falling out that ship while taking a shit

theres is a poop deck , is there not?