General Discussion

First, we heard from the "media" that they had a fire in their ship's laundry.

Then we find out that it took 60 hours to get the fire under control, and now, due to the damage to Berthing 600-700 Sailors are sleeping on tables and the floor! OH! And they are entering month 10 of what was to be a 6.month deployment.

I had not heard about the Head and CHT system, but THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!

We put up with a lot of crazy shit in the Navy, but these Sailors are only human. I can imagine what the morale on board is like at this moment.

The Surface Warfare (SWO) community in the Navy has, notoriously, a "CAN DO" attitude and NOT always in a "good way".

My answer is that IT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE to keep the ship at sea in these conditions.

Even in war-time, Sailors need to eat, sleep, bathe, have access to cleanliness and use the head.

These Sailors will continue to try to do what is asked of them with the conditions they have, but my best guess is that a great many of them are at a breaking point.

And don't get me started on how these extensions to deployment impact the entire maintenance schedule, not only for the Ford, but for EVERY SHIP in the maintenance pipeline.

We have the most advanced and lethal military force the world has ever seen, but it's NOT unbreakable.

If it turns out that the fire may have been intentional, as some rumors speculate, then "HOLY FUCK"!!! It's worse than we know.