February 28, 2025
Our crashing, rusty Navy
By Mike McDaniel
Normal Americans have noticed many of the inestimable benefits of the Harris/Biden DEI years. To be fair, Barack Obama gave Biden’s handlers a real leg up on DEI, but the handlers really ran with it. Among the most noticeable of those "benefits" has been a dramatic increase not only of US Navy ships that look like third world rust buckets, but an equally dramatic apparent increase in those rust buckets running into other ships and geographic features.
It's unusually difficult to find current data on ship collisions. There’s quite a bit of information on the 2017 collisions of the destroyers McCain and Fitzgerald which killed 17 sailors, but there’s little information from 2017 to 2025. The previous link contains interviews with several Admirals. Their primary message is Navy culture is bad, maintenance is equally bad, manpower is scarce and they’re poorly trained and the Navy is being asked to do too much with too few ships and inadequate manpower. All of which led to this:
Graphic: Specialist Jose Hernandez, Public Domain
"The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea," the Navy's Sixth Fleet Public Affairs said in a statement earlier this week.
"The collision did not endanger the Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as there are no reports of flooding or injuries. The propulsion plants are unaffected and in a safe and stable condition," it added.
The Navy said the incident is now "under investigation."
I’m no naval expert, but I do know when our warships are in congested waters, they put plenty of sailors with Mark I eyeballs, two each, on deck to watch for ships and other navigational hazards. That’s done pretty much constantly even though oceans are big. In that part of the world, the Navy also does it to keep any eye out for Islamist attacks, and of course, our warships constantly maintain electronic watch. Carriers also maintain combat air patrols, so it’s a bit hard to understand how a freighter was allowed to be close enough to collide with the Truman, one of the Navy’s rarest, most expensive and critical ships.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/our_crashing_rusty_navy.html
