USS Benfold lost power after ‘engineering casualty’ leaving sailors without galley services, toilets and air conditioning
  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
    50·
    17 days ago

    How many stupid fucking asshole veterans gleefully voted for this fascist cocksucker in 2024, let alone 2016 and 2020?

    2016 you may be able to claim ignorance, but countless veterans, mostly old fucks, came out in droves for Trump in 2020 and 2024, AND STILL FUCKING SUPPORT HIM AFTER AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN.

    Even now as active duty US soldiers are suffering and dying in for Israel and Epstein, these assholes are STILL supporting Trump.

    Any veteran who supported Trump after 2016 deserves to have their military honors and privledges permanently revoked. You don’t get to boast that you fought for our freedoms when you’re actively taking them away. You cannot claim to be a proud veteran or member of the armed forces while supporting the most hostile president to the armed forces in US history.

    All non-MAGA vets need to call out these asshole MAGA vets and stomp them. They are traitors in every sense of the word.

  • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
    43·
    17 days ago

    It’s gotta be HOT as a mf in there. I can remember the AC going out from time to time and being hot, but the whole ship? Damn…

    • AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works
      28·
      17 days ago

      Easily 90° in the berthing spaces, guaranteed. All that body heat in a metal box with the sun beating on it? No fucking thanks. It got up to 80° in the boat when I was in the Gulf, and I was in a submarine.

      • TrackShovel@lemmy.today
        9·
        17 days ago

        I’m glad you two chimed in, with actual experience. This was my first thought - imagine being adrift cooking inside a giant Dutch oven, with like 300 other people and zero space. FML

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          16 days ago

          …and when they all get home they’ll continue to vote Republican for the rest of their lives. It’s baffling.

  • StillAlive@piefed.worldEnglish
    12·
    16 days ago

    In the end, the overall budget requested by the US military department was $961.6 billion, which included $197.4 billion for the Department of the Army, $292.2 billion for the Department of the Navy, $301.1 billion for the Department of the Air Force and $170.9 billion for defence wide expenditure.

    Lol. Lmao. Absolute state of ‘the most powerful military on the planet’.

  • partiallycyber@ttrpg.network
    9·
    16 days ago

    Interesting to note that the only sailors actually quoted in the article are senior officers. Don’t need more meaningless chatter about grit and perseverance, I wanna hear what a bosun’s mate seaman thinks of the situation

      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
        4·
        16 days ago

        Not JUST your military. They’ve also destroyed every ounce of soft power the US had built up over the last century… Including the entire post WW2 international order that the US itself established to the immense benefit of the US.

        If Trump was a Manchurian candidate he couldn’t be doing a better job. The only reason I know this is self inflicted and not a foreign coup is because trump would be incapable of a) taking orders or b) remembering a plan

      • Domino@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        Honestly one of the few good things they’ve done. Seeing American military might so defeated is a good sign for the wellbeing of all countries.

        • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          I’m as happy as the next guy to see them eat shit with everything that’s happening, but let’s not pretend a weakened and exposed USA is going to be beneficial to global peace and order. The US shitting themselves has become Christmas for bad actors

        • Natanael@infosec.pub
          1·
          16 days ago

          Taiwan and a few others aren’t as happy about it. EU isn’t ready to fill the hole and few others can be trusted to try. Fast downturns are always worse than slow ones you can prepare for.