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Title: Navy’s newest aircraft carriers have clogged toilets that cost $400k to fix, report says
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URL Source: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/nav ... aft-carriers-toilets-clog-cost
Published: Apr 6, 2020
Author: Dan Lyman
Post Date: 2020-04-06 12:49:40 by Horse
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Views: 1115
Comments: 6

The Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers have a problem with their toilets getting clogged and it costs $400,000 to fix each time there’s an issue with their sewage systems, according to a Congressional watchdog report released Tuesday.

The Norfolk-based USS Gerald R. Ford and USS George H.W. Bush were both built with a new toilet and sewage system that’s similar to what is used on commercial aircraft, but increased in scale to accommodate more than 4,000 people, the report said.

But there’s been unexpected and frequent clogging of the system, causing the Navy to determine it needs to acid flush each aircraft carrier’s sewage system “on a regular basis.”

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#1. To: Horse (#0)

In days gone buy the ship builder would have to deliver a finished working ship, after sea trials then and only then would they get paid. The government would give them half of the costs up front, then final payment on delivery.

Darkwing  posted on  2020-04-06   13:54:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse (#0)

Well isn't that appropriate -- the George H.W. Bush. Since he was so full of bleep and all.

Ford was too if truth be known, but history will record him as an innocuous golfer who couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2020-04-06   14:35:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Horse, 4um (#0)

Navy’s newest aircraft carriers have clogged toilets that cost $400k to fix

No doubt EPA "certified-green."

Wouldn't wanna get pooie on your depleted uranium stuff. That'd be dangerous.

The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

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Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
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Esso  posted on  2020-04-06   15:00:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Esso (#3)

Navy’s newest aircraft carriers have clogged toilets that cost $400k to fix

No doubt EPA "certified-green."

Wouldn't wanna get pooie on your depleted uranium stuff. That'd be dangerous.

When John McCain was flying off an aircraft carrier off the coast of Vietnam, he decided to do a "wet start". This ignited some Zuni missiles that were stacked and ready to be loaded.

McCain went to the pilots lounge to watch the crew battle the fire on closed circuit TV. The first two fire lines were consumed by the fire.

The ship had to sail back to the U.S. for repairs. :-/

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-04-06   17:23:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

He was one perfect example of the old fraze 'a waste of protoplasm' :6

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2020-04-06   17:31:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Horse (#0)

flush each aircraft carrier’s sewage system

When I was in High School in Chicago, one kid took Sodium metal from the chemistry lab and threw it in the urinal in the boys room and blew it up.

I told that story where I work and one chick said, "It wasn't you that did that was it?"

I told her, "No way. I was a rock hound when I was a kid. I knew the periodic table. Chemistry was an ace class."

I wonder how he got that Sodium out of the chemistry lab? That stuff will react with the moisture on your skin and burn you. I bet he used gloves.

The kid that did that was expelled. It must have cost $1000 or more to fix it by the time you figured in the plumber and new fixture and the interior decorating.

One time I helped the maintenance men strip and wax the hall floors over Christmas vacation for some extra money. I have always been a hard worker. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-04-06   19:02:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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