Shipyard reports another fire near USS Miami
By Joey Cresta
I wonder what the sound silencing new technique was they were going to apply on this boat in this availability...was it a highly flammable sprayed on foam to the inside hull or other areas?
There is just about no doubt this is intention intelligent foreign terrorism.
It is at least sailor or shipyard worker sabotage. Navy Times
"The May 23 fire that gutted the fore end of the attack submarine Miami started in a vacuum cleaner used by drydock workers to clean their worksites and stored in an unoccupied space, the Navy said Wednesday."
Submitted June 5, 2012
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June 04, 2012 6:38 PM
"Workers began an assessment and cleanup last week, and Pingree became the first member of Congress to get a look inside when she toured the sub Monday, observing the fire-damaged control room as well as the nuclear propulsion area in the rear of the sub, which was not affected by the fire."
Kittery Rep Chellie Pingree, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, climbed down inside the U.S.S. Miami today, observing the damage caused by last month's fire on the nuclear submarine.
Translated below: Maneuvering (where they operate the reactor) was out of communications with the outside for a indeterminate amount of time. The worst, finding every one dead in the nuclear spaces after 10 hours and nobody manning Maneuvering or the naval reactor. You could have had everyone asphyxiated in the nuclear spaces. Like I said, there is only one ventilation system in the sub and it serves both forward and back aft. They were minutes away, and luck, from all of the nuclear operators being dead.
I could make a case the breathing apparatus and the ships ventilation is mostly designed for at sea and underwater operation.
This was submitted last week to the NCIS tip line...
Do you think this is a coincidence coming yesterday and the tip to NCIS...this is simmering on such a huge scandal and there is so much special economic interest involved. Do you rebuild a fatally damaged and obsolete submarine to save a shipyard...accommodate too many national security operations for submarines and not enough subs?
Honestly, this kind of immediate damage control from the Navy Department and the fruits of a NCIS tip indicates there is a huge conscious cover-up on going. Or it could be a terrorism investigation...when is it going to go criminal? The navy department and the shipyard, with a host of political cronies have been telling half truths and story shaping. I'll bet you they have been telling half truths to the puppet politicians themselves, so the politicians can show their best foot forward.
And how demoralizing is this to the submarine fleet of sailors, the expense of the high turnover of sailors and lack of skills caused by the high turnover? This poor planning and critical shortage of submarines for a far as the eye can see. It is driven by our 10 years of wars and our political dysfunction with defense budgets and our national budget priories. This is going to have huge consequence to the lives and families of these sailors. It is going to terribly hobble and weaken the submarine force for a decade. It highlights how fragile the fleet is.
One thing I learned over the years, a dysfunction in one section of a system indicates a dysfunction in the whole system.
And the most vulnerable and heroic volunteer sailors always pays the terrible price with shadowy self interested big careers driving the show.
The horror of it all, Iran knew how fragile the nuclear fleet of submarines was...how breaking the weak link would damage us for a decade.
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