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Look up Jason Potter, ASN/RDA now. I knew him previously as a Congressional staffer. He is a GREAT guy, trying to do the right thing, drive efficiency and expediency. No arrogance, soft spoken, Totally unusual for a political role like this.

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/Docum...

Good to know, and glad to hear!

Nicely expressed! Almost everything our modern infrastructure relies on comes out of an oil well or coal mine.

Your sentiments of what Trump could say or do mirrors my own thoughts. However, I don't think Trump will go that route because he will not telegraph a punch (or a feint punch) to the enemy. I figure he is drawing lines in the sand and not showing the enemy where they all are, but will provide painful feedback when required. He's the type that would hide a spiked mace behind his back and taunt the fool irritating him to come in nice and close.

Good Grief. I knew it was in the laundry but did not see anywhere that it was due to ozone based systems. Thanks for the post!

👍 Excellent rational action.

Late to respond, just got this batch today, April 14. They were well worth waiting for🤣

That definitely happens. It is why we use a crappy 57mm POS pop gun, while every other Navy uses the 76mm. BAE politics. Ridiculous. We offered the 76 for the same price and it fit in the same space. It has a guided munition that has a 26 mile range. Politics.
The HED decision was a douche 2-star trying to make a point. He did, and cost the navy $100M's and capability. His douche name is VADM (later) McCoy. He is an arrogant puke, and should have his retirement forfeit.

Thanks. I hope it does improve.

Actually, All Complex Machinery/Systems are at risk. People here Crude and think "Diesel, Gasoline, Oil". Not Kerosene, Plastics, Solvents, etc.
Next as fuel increases in cost, so does everything that requires shipping.
Tires will become more expensive, etc. etc.

And Kudos to Trump.
If I had to choose between BOOTS or EXPENSIVE BARRELS ($10/gal gas). No Boots!

And I think Trump should make an address to that effect:

Dear Fellow Americans,
I had a choice. Boots on the ground, or blockading Iran and starving them of the cash they need to run the IRCG. I choose the later. Gas prices will rise, and I apologize to all of the working men/women who will pay that price. But I believe the lives of our soldiers are worth saving by exploring this. Besides, the LEFTISTS believe Fossil Fuels are killing us, so here is there chance to GIVE THEM UP completely. Stop using the, because they are too expensive. Stop FLYING out to protests, stop buying new signs.

I would rather all Americans share the cost of this, than forcing a few to die for it.
If we have to, we will. But right now, this is a temporary pain at the pump.

I will consider bombing whatever wells Iran is still pulling oil from, so we don't have to suffer as long.

Your Favorite President!

I have to tell you, being close to the Navy, the changes coming from the administration are gothic, and just awesome! The next step we hear is taking the NAVSEA workforce from 10,000 to 1,000! FANTASTIC! They have totally changed the decision ownership to the people responsible to get things done. NAVSEA 05 (Technical "no"-sayers) are being spread to the wind,. Absolutely fantastic changes.
The system will be turn back into a mess again. It always does, but not right away.

Great changes.

👍 "The Navy are idiots, but are completely eclipsed by the Army in utter stupidity."
As long as they aren't audited, punished, and corrected for stupidity/corruption the situation will only continue and get worse.
Government has never been competitive in anything except, perhaps, when competing against other incompetent governments.

It's been my experience that decisions like this that are made in the military can be traced back to politics. A recent example would be when they picked the F-22 instead of the F-23 during the runoff was that even though the F-23 was the better plane, the F-22 was picked because of having more political support for the manufacturer.

More Jamie Daimon narcissism.

I don't know about this.

The fire could certainly have been managed better, but this implied that Ozone laundry eliminates/significantly reduces water usage, and it does not.

This may be a "green thing". However, I would NOT want steam from the engine room going to the laundry at all. This water is chemically controlled for corrosion et al, not just water, and has no business being cross connected to a stupid use like laundry. In a submarine, such piping would have to go through both reactor compartment bullheads. Those penetrations would cost more than the whole stupid laundry.

Maybe the ozone thing sucks and is wasteful, but this article does not defend it well. Fundamentally the ozone eliminates soap, not water.

Idiocy on the part of the Navy is wide and deep. If anyone cared about cost, green or warfighting, they would have deployed the hybrid electric drive system we developed and tested almost 20 years ago on DDG51. It saved ~$3M/yr fuel cost (depot not delivered), increased time on station considerable, and offered ~3MW of additional electrical power to the ship, that is needed for the AMDR and laser weapons. We had to sell it all over the navy, and because the part that buys equipment doesn't buy fuel, no one cared. So, we went to Congress and got $ to fund it. (today, we'd just do it ourselves) Then after we teamed with our competitor, pooled $, designed, built and tested it, the Navy put it out to competition, and selected a cheap commercial system. That system was too big to fit both shafts, had massive EMI issues, and when tested at sea, it failed miserably, not able to control in any sea state, just tripping offline over and over. Seven (7) were built, and they sit in the Philadelphia shipyard gathering dust. Our system was ~$10M/ship, saved $3M/yr, paying itself off in three years, and resolved power issues. We have ours back and use it for testing various stuff. The Navy are idiots, but are completely eclipsed by the Army in utter stupidity.

"If it moves, salute it. If it don't move paint it."

That old bromide is part of Navy culture. One would think that every sailor knows the inherent danger of spontaneous combustion caused by drying paint and piles of fabrics.

The absolute absurdity of infusing garments & fabrics with Ozone should be a court martial offense, and the imbecile that approved it should be charges with willful destruction of Navy property as well as interfering with ship movement.

Basically, anything and everything until some Green idiot gets the death penalty. How else are they going to learn the lesson and not attempt something that stupid ever again!

Sneaky commies. ;^)

Who would have thought dirty laundry would supplant missiles as the means to take out a US carrier?

Here's to ya...

WOW, Dobrien! Huge and great collection kicked off by Rod Serling and closed with winners shaking hands. Tony Soprano has it nailed. Gosh, so many memes and so little time! Thank you for posting!!!

Very much so, DOB!

Yeah, that turd has floated right to the top of the news again.

Kakistocrats = Congressmen Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales announced they will resign from their seats in the House of Representatives, following high profile allegations of sexual misconduct. The House ethics committee announced earlier in the day that it has launched an investigation into Democratic congressman Swalwell, after reported allegations of inappropriate behavior, sexual assault and rape. Over the weekend, Swalwell ended his bid for California governor amid the accusations against him. Later in the day, Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, announced he will file paperwork to retire tomorrow, amid growing calls for his expulsion after he acknowledged having an extramarital affair with a staffer who later died by suicide.

Timely

Things don’t look so good for the traitor.

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