This is 100% BIDENS FAULT and has NOTHING to do With Trump CUTTING NAVY PERSONNEL!
Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier
Submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea
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BigMacHole@lemm.ee 1 month ago
blakenong@lemmings.world 1 month ago
It’s because of Hillary Clinton’s emails!
death@infosec.pub 1 month ago
The buttery males greased the flight deck!
whostosay@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This reality is almost as terrifying as drowning.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
At this rate there won’t be any left for the birthday parade!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Trump said he wanted submarines for the parade. I don’t think he knows the concept of a submarine, dragging one on the streets probably makes it not surfacable anymore.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think he thinks the Navy has those little dinky two man subs that the Japanese used for Pearl Harbor. I don’t think he realizes that even if you could find a trailer to put one of our nuclear subs on, it would destroy every single street it touches just from sheer mass alone.
MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So in 6 months time, the Truman has shot one of their own down, and lost two more overboard.
sxan@midwest.social 1 month ago
The Gettysburg shot down the Truman F-18; the Truman didn’t do the shooting.
It has dropped two F18s into the sea though.
LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 1 month ago
To lose one expensive fighter jet is an accident…
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
A quick search prices them at about $50 to $70 million each
And I’m sure it would cost a lot more to replace them with something newer
frunch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Isn’t that convenient, seeing how all the money DOGE has acquired will be wasted on military equipment
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this a tax thing?
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This wouldn’t be happening if they weren’t running sorties to attack Houthis for the crime of fighting back against Israel’s genocide of Gaza.
ModestCrab@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Devils advocate: propublica was warning for a few years that the navy wasn’t putting enough into maintenance/training, vs contracts for shiny new boats.
kbotc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The guy in charge was promoted to rear admiral late last year, was put in command in late February.
The real issue, though, is what the fuck is a CVN doing that close to the launchers.
You have a ship full of planes. Keep it away from shore and have the planes drop bombs and cruise missiles from far away, or better yet, use the B2s on Diego Garcia, or just the airfield at Al Udeid is right there if we could just ask Saudi Arabia nicely to use their airspace, but no the Fox News Drunk needs his “show of force” to be scary so it has to be visible from shore.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
And that idiot thinks scary is a bunch of ships off your shore like it’s WWII, and not unseen death from above by an enemy you cannot attack or anticipate, all brought to you by a partnership of your neighbor countries.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
God damn, if you wanted to give away some F18’s I am right here. 🤷🏻♂️
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Greatest military in the world, folks
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
At this rate, Ariel will have her own fighter squadron before the month is over
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
from Ariel to Aerial
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What if that’s the plan and the US is now arming up Atlantica‽‽
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The wouldn’t have happened if Trump’s finger’s weren’t so short.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I see the US is secretly arming the Atlanteans, concerning…
peteyestee@feddit.org 1 month ago
This is going to keep happening if we don’t get Ai atc.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please walk me through your logic on this, I am so curious.
peteyestee@feddit.org 1 month ago
/s
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why is this in the news. This happens more often than you think.
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s like saying “why are measles news? It happens more often than you think”
The point is: it shouldn’t be happening. We’re starting to see outward signs of a decaying system. If their personnel were correctly trained, with following proper procedures (for example, securing all equipment and vehicles to the deck) this wouldn’t happen.
It’s news because “it’s happening” period.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve served in the navy for 15 years. Never have I ever seen any navy more incompetent than the US navy. Once I even singlehandedly prevented them from shooting down their own helicopter which returned from Germany back to their ship from a medevac. The helicopter forgot to turn on their IFF transponder and the ship was shouting warnings on the wrong channel. Once I met a navigation officer who didn’t know port was red and starboard was green. How can you be a navigation officer, the standard buoys are red and green. It’s like a baker who has no clue what yeast is. During one of my deployments there was bad weather and a US carrier in the vicinity lost 3 aircraft and had 2 badly damaged because they forgot to tell the deck crew there would be bad weather so the aircraft weren’t properly locked to the deck. Oopsie. Once on the Mediterranean there was an Arleigh Burke demanding all other shipping to stay clear 10 nmi to avoid collision. This was nearly impossible and would disrupt all traffic, because ships were sailing through shipping channels. 10 nmi is ~18.5 km. Once during an exercise they accidentally shot a Turkish ship pretending to be the enemy with real ammo, destroying the bridge and killing everyone on it including their captain and commander. That’s why Turkey now has 4 OHP frigates.
I can go on and on about how stupid the US navy is. I have loads of stories, can’t even count them.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know, right? It just happened last week!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It happens often. It’s like school shootings. When it’s a regular thing, is not in the news anymore.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like it would be easy to find a citation for your claim, then.
fubarx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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