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A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It
« on: September 13, 2025, 06:22:01 am »
A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It

USS Bonhomme Richard burned for four days… while docked at its own home base. But it wasn’t enemy fire that destroyed it—it was a perfect storm of complacency, offline systems, and a text message instead of a phone call. Just like USS Miami years before, the Navy ignored every warning sign. And this is how you lose a ship without ever leaving port.

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Re: A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2025, 06:23:34 am »
The fact the USS Arizona still leaks oil today, tells you how much flammable material is on war ships. :pondering:
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Re: A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2025, 07:57:39 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on September 13, 2025, 06:23:34 am
The fact the USS Arizona still leaks oil today, tells you how much flammable material is on war ships. :pondering:
Every bulkhead, deck, and overhead is coated with it, and that's just the beginning.
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Re: A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2025, 08:04:32 am »
The Navy has also forgotten basic damage control, and the ship was littered with flammable debris and substances during its maintenance.  And, oh yeah, the local fire departments had trouble responding because of Navy bureaucracy.
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Re: A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2025, 04:41:11 am »
I watched the video in the OP.  Two hours to get the first suppression agents on the fire? Unfriggingbelievable.

(Seems they could have run a 3" supply line from the pier into the ship and used a Y to split it into a couple of 1 1/2" attack lines and got water on it much faster.)

The Navy used to have some great firefighters, and after the USS Forrestal fire, I thought fire training was practically part of boot camp. (Explosions on deck had incapacitated many of the dedicated firefighting crew, and the Navy's answer going forward was to train all hands in basic firefighting techniques so they didn't get caught in that bind again).

What happened?
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Re: A $4 Billion Warship Burned at the Pier Here’s: Why Nobody Stopped It
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2025, 05:19:32 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 30, 2025, 04:41:11 am
I watched the video in the OP.  Two hours to get the first suppression agents on the fire? Unfriggingbelievable.

(Seems they could have run a 3" supply line from the pier into the ship and used a Y to split it into a couple of 1 1/2" attack lines and got water on it much faster.)

The Navy used to have some great firefighters, and after the USS Forrestal fire, I thought fire training was practically part of boot camp. (Explosions on deck had incapacitated many of the dedicated firefighting crew, and the Navy's answer going forward was to train all hands in basic firefighting techniques so they didn't get caught in that bind again).

What happened?


Like with the other services...they got away from the basics.
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