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ngl, it would be pretty hilarious if the US's Navy fleet just kinda disappeared over night. Like with enough planning, I don't doubt that it would be possible. I did some time in the USN many years ago, when I was much younger and slightly dumber, and I shit you not there was a fire on my ship AT LEAST every other day. These ships are not well maintained, all that MIC money isn't going to the crew or equipment maintenance. In many ways the military itself is run like a business, which means your infrastructure divisions are worried about balancing budgets and cutting costs as much as any private company.
Plus, back when 911 happened it always struck me how little came afterwards. My friends and I were expecting the weeks following to be filled with car bombs and attacks of the power infrastructure. Crickets. We're wholly unprepared for an enemy that would be willing to take the fight to us.
A really good example of how much mayhem can be caused with minimal resources and just a little bit of effort are the DC Sniper attacks that happened early 2002.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Columbia_Eagle_incident
Speaking of minimal resources for maximum gains, I always liked this one. Two sailors successfully mutiny and divert a ship full of napalm away from the us war effort
Oh, I know about them! Had this saved for future sharing.
Oh no way, that's wild! I had no idea he was still around to get interviewed like that
Hell of a story
Unlimited laundry ventilation fires upon the us navy
That's an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing that. That made me think of the fire that broke out on the Bonhomme Richard about five years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)
Another thing on my mind is just how blissfully unaware the average member of the US public is about actual US Navy history. For instance, many people say, "The US has NEVER lost a carrier!" In reality, the Imperial Japanese Navy actually sank quite a few US carriers (of various types) during World War II...
Oh I missed that one. Too much going on in 2020.
That x Every Ship and Base out there.
Fires every day lmao the US navy is Barotrauma
Did you also have people in clown suits randomly re-wiring your engines
It's so funny to me that the neoliberal idea that "government is like a business, it should be run as such" has also infected the military. Lol, lmao, even.