The United States Navy’s brand new combat ship, the Milwaukee, broke down on Friday and had to be towed for emergency repair. This happened just three weeks after commissioning and several days of propulsion system problems. While they haven’t specified exactly what those problems are, many are blaming it on haste, an overblown budget and concerns over the warship’s ability to survive actual combat.
According to the Navy Times, The USS Milwaukee was heading towards its homeport in San Diego when it suffered the engineering failure. It was traveling from Halifax, and planned to stop at Mayport, FL, before making the final trek home.
It was towed more than 40 nautical miles by a salvage ship called Grapple to the joint Expeditionary Base in Little Creek, VA, where it now waits to find out the cause of the failure so that repairs can be carried out. The question on everybody’s mind now, is what exactly happened?
105 retired admirals have already warned us of this.
See the initial indications on the next page.
Trump would have had some heads rolling. He hates corruption and incompetence.
I.S.I.S. Obama!
Was it made in China?
Don’t tell me it was built with common core math.
This is no surprise to us the ones who used to be supervisors at Marinette Marine. Marinette Marine used to be known for it’s quality of it’s work. Look at LCS 3 The USS Fort Worth. After that ship they had a very bad change in management bringing in a man from a southern ship yard who’s gates were closed to run Marinette Marine. He does not believe in quality he pushes get the job done we will fix it later. This is evident in many disasters that have occurred at Marinette Marine since his arrival. Such as the NOAH ship where it was placed in a shipyard in Virginia for many months to fix all the problems that he created. He did not listen to supervisors or anyone who knew what was happening. He laid off most of the supervisors at Marinette Marine and replaced them with supervisors he once worked with at the failed ship yard. We had daily meetings where our jobs were threatened every day. We had pictures on our computers of how they did work at the failed yard down south as examples of what not to do. But shortly after his arrival we saw this kind of work occurring with his new supervisors. Marinette needs to go back to the pride it once had and he needs to be removed from power. It once was a great shipyard and can be again.
what would you expect obama had it built and everything he does is bad.
We have ships way way WAY past this one. We have US war ships that stay above the atmosphere ready to fire hell down upon whatever continent wants to pick a fight with us. The military technology the public sees now days is cavemanish compared to our classified weapons.
china steel…
Our country been sold down the river,
The Republicans being the giver.
Ryan’s back against the wall,
looks like you’re the downfall.
The votes were cast and we regret,
our government is our biggest threat.
“Thanks for making government work ”
Obama said with a smirk.
We had to play the cards we were dealt.
smiling and loosening the money belt.
Obama’s dreams just came true
Do you think they even had a clue?
be glad this bigger will not be in office for to much longer thank god