35thOVI  | 24 Sep 2024 12:27 p.m. PST |
Subject: US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel
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 Legion 4 | 24 Sep 2024 5:14 p.m. PST |
DOH !!!! Maybe the coxswain got his or her or(?) pronouns confused and before they/them knew it … bang !!! |
| 35thOVI | 24 Sep 2024 5:45 p.m. PST |
Legion I thought of DEI too. 😂 |
| Nine pound round | 24 Sep 2024 6:09 p.m. PST |
Hopefully the officers on the bridge and CIC weren't having another spat. |
| Zephyr1 | 24 Sep 2024 8:54 p.m. PST |
Lovely, a carrier group crippled because of incompetence at the higher levels of command. Only ONE oiler with AV gas available? No ready backups? No thoughts of "gosh, what if it gets sunk?"
True, you can send the aircraft to friendly land-based airfields, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a carrier… |
| SBminisguy | 24 Sep 2024 10:31 p.m. PST |
Lovely, a carrier group crippled because of incompetence at the higher levels of command. They are all too busy chasing their next star and promotion by playing DC politics to worry about silly distractions like warfighting! |
| OSCS74 | 25 Sep 2024 6:59 a.m. PST |
Nine pound round, it was an USNS ship crewed by civilians. There is no CIC. I served on the USNS Rigel as the Senior Enlisted Advisory with 8 radiomen, 4 signalmen and 4 electronic techs. The Navy removed all regular Navy personnel years later. |
| Dragon Gunner | 25 Sep 2024 8:18 a.m. PST |
This might not be the fault of the bridge crew. My second enlistment in the Navy I was on a destroyer tender that was just as old as this oiler. It frequently lost power at sea and started drifting becoming a nautical hazard. We were always able to eventually restart the engines. I was not on board my ship during Gulf War One when the ship lost power and drifted towards Iraq. From what I was told the engines were restarted mere minutes before the order to scuttle her and abandon ship was to be given. When people think of the Navy they think state of the art ships. Many older ships and especially support ships don't have cutting edge tech or maintenance. The Navy tries to operate them long past when they should be decommissioned. |
| 35thOVI | 25 Sep 2024 8:47 a.m. PST |
Or…. The systems could have been hacked. Today, always a possibility. |
| Nine pound round | 25 Sep 2024 1:00 p.m. PST |
That was a reference to the Fitzgerald collision- and the problem the whole world seems to have these days with making basic things happen reliably. |
| Legion 4 | 25 Sep 2024 5:47 p.m. PST |
I thought of DEI too. It is the most likely suspect today … it was an USNS ship crewed by civilians. There is no CIC. I served on the USNS Rigel as the Senior Enlisted Advisory with 8 radiomen, 4 signalmen and 4 electronic techs. The Navy removed all regular Navy personnel years later. That is very interesting information … From Military.com : link |
