Major plumbing headache haunts $13 billion U.S. carrier
New documents show the crew on board the United States' newest aircraft carrier are growing increasingly frustrated by design flaws that lead to regular failures in the ship's toilet system.
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... The USS Gerald R. Ford has been deployed for seven months since it left Norfolk in June. The carrier is currently at the center of the Trump administration's flotilla of Navy ships in the Caribbean. Since the raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the carrier continues to work with the Coast Guard as the U.S. interdicts oil tankers tied to Venezuela. On board the carrier, the crew is battling a toilet system that the General Accountability Office reported in 2020 was undersized and poorly designed. The system continues to fail during deployment, forcing the crew of 4,600 sailors to live with a system that randomly breaks down during their months at sea. ...
Since the raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the carrier continues to work with the Coast Guard as the U.S. interdicts oil tankers tied to Venezuela.
On board the carrier, the crew is battling a toilet system that the General Accountability Office reported in 2020 was undersized and poorly designed.
The system continues to fail during deployment, forcing the crew of 4,600 sailors to live with a system that randomly breaks down during their months at sea. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-17 02:51 PM | Reply
Hahahahaha. One of PEDO DONNIE's hydraulic shitters?
#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-17 02:56 PM | Reply
Good thing they got that poop deck as backup.
#3 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-17 03:35 PM | Reply
Its becoming clearer, and clearer the US can't build anything these days.
#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-17 04:06 PM | Reply
We could but all the CEOs and Billionaires outsourced our manufacturing centers overseas to save money. It's sad.
#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-17 04:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
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