The first war prevented because the belligerent army didnt eat enough fiber.

This sounds like liberal "support the troops, hate the cheeto" wishful thinking/propaganda. Thousands of 18-20 year old, genocidal, dumb ass gross men probably flush all kinds of things all the time (bored, cum rags, ran out of toilet paper so used a shirt, had diarrhea and shit themselves, pranks and bullying etc)

Idk, if I'd joined the navy under the impression that it'd just be a well paying secure job with a good pension that earns me society-wide respect forever and pays for my degree and all i had to do is clean the decks, do a few military demonstrations and jerk off or whatever, I'd also be mad that theyre making me actually go to war and risk my life for Netanyahu regardless of my politics

There are plenty of shore-based jobs in the Navy. The USS Ford is based in Sasaebo which means Japanese girls. You have to specially sign up and compete for a job on a ship like this. They knew what they were getting into.

im not claiming theyre doing this because of any morality, i just think they dont want to get shot at and would much rather be getting paid bucketloads to fuck around in japan

Hell there's even jobs for the navy in the middle of fucking nowheresville, USA, if you're a part of naval Aviation. The u.s military is pretty fucking messy in terms of how everything's set up and where people go. Like why are there sailors stationed in the middle of a desert? Why are there army jagoffs on random fucking islands in the Pacific? Why are marines anywhere other than on boats? Why does the air force need mechanized infantry brigades? Why does the space force not actually operate in space? Why is the coast guard going to foreign countries instead of staying at the fucking coast?

It's all a convoluted mess.

there's a little bit of history of SOS. you'd see it more if there was conscription.

C'mon, Pootemkin was right there!

I wish the US had a military that would mutiny, I'd love to see it.

I only seeing it becoming a possiblity if/when the US takes heavy casualties. In short, the troops are fine killing whoever as long as they don't think they personally are that likely to die

Trying to think of a job worse than "aircraft carrier toilet technician" and coming up empty

Submarine toilet technician. Not only do you have to fish out the dude's shirt, but then you have to sleep in his bunk during his shift.

20 years ago, i guy i worked with was out of the Navy after doing his 4 years. he said aircraft carriers were the worst posting in the navy, that carriers were basically floating dysfunctional cities with stupid high crime (with routine attempts to downplay or cover up how bad it was & how involved the officer corps was), gang violence to control criminal enterprises ranging from drugs to coordinated, industrial theft, and just generally violent areas one should avoid to not get robbed or assaulted.

it seems like it had the culture of a densely populated island-based prison work camp with a complex system of trustees and furloughs. where the object was to do your job, stick to safe common areas, and stare directly forward/seeing nothing.

This is the same thing I have been told by someone who has been out for 4 years, like three weeks ago. Apparently the only thing that has gotten slightly better is that you have abit less of a chance of being outright battered.

But they literally had a secret pee hole on the side of the ship, because they weren't allowed to leave their guard posts for any reason for like 6 straight hours.

That was the post-Vietnam US Navy. It was war-weary and out of control. There were spaces that officers did not dare to go. They were putting bricks of heroin in body bags of KIAs to smuggle it back to the States. The military got rid of conscription for a reason.

oops

Trump did say he would send the criminals out of the country lmao!

There's no evidence I'm aware of that this is any kind of intentional sabotage. apparently the ship is, what a surprise, poorly maintained:

8 months at sea takes a toll on the ship itself. The equipment breaks because maintenance and upgrades get postponed. NPR reported in January that the plumbing system on the carrier was getting worse. The carrier that cost $13 billion to build has toilets that are not functional, with sailors working round the clock to fix leaks. "Since it's a vacuum system, a problem with one head can cause all of the toilets in that part of the ship to lose suction, making it difficult for the maintenance crews to isolate a problem. The crews find everything from T-shirts to a four-foot piece of rope clogging the system. But the most common problem seems to be a part of the back of the toilet that comes loose," NPR reported.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uss-gerald-ford-us-iran-conflict-iran-faces-us-wrath-but-5-000-sailors-on-uss-ford-face-650-failing-toilets-11130048

do you think people are shitting out t shirts and 4 foot long ropes?

Have you seen some of the shit people throw in porta-potties at music festivals and shit?

We are talking about a bunch of bored 20 year old guys stuck on a boat here.

eat this t-shirt sounds like a haze. 4 foot rope might want to get checked for polyps

I think people fuck around and get bored and do stupid nonsense when they're at sea for long stretches.

This didn't happen on any other ship. Mutinies are like on that one destroyer whose captain drove it full speed into a busy shipping lane and got rammed by a cargo ship. The investigation afterwards revealed that they were rarely on the bridge and did not train their sailors properly. The crew tried filing complaints up the chain of command like they were supposed to but got ignored. The captain had been to Annapolis, see? They all stick together. Class consciousness, but in the wrong kind of way.

Doubly so for the military where it's all 20-somethings who barely graduated high school doing weird hazing shit to one another.

Source: sister's ex-husband barely graduated high school and joined the Navy where they did weird hazing shit to one another.

I once worked with a guy who was on a submarine in the Navy, and apparently the antics they get up to were pretty fucking wild. They love shoving shit up each others asses for some reason

I imagine submarines are more strict about toilet related antics though, but this is a carrier so way bigger with more and less disciplined people.

sometimes my dog would tear apart and eat clothing and then the next day (or maybe two days later if it's bad) you have to pull a long poop-laden thing out of them during their walk

Some people are.

8 months at sea takes a toll on the ship itself. The equipment breaks because maintenance and upgrades get postponed.

That's genuinely kind of pathetic

This floating piece of shit is only a decade old. The Nimitz-class which makes up the remainder of the USN's aircraft carriers are up to 50 years old.

So the American navy is the same as the boats in their parking lots

Is that true, or did you hear it on NPR? If NPR said shit tastes good you'd eat a mouthful?

I'll believe any of this is about Gaza when someone on the ship says so and not before.

Yeah, mil chuds haven't starting grown a conscience

Where does it say otherwise? Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes are the biggest voices for young US right-wingers and they are both anti-Israel. Chuds under 30 don't like the zionist entity either, albeit for mostly antisemitic or other chuddy reasons. A decent portion of the people on that ship probably think Israel killed Charlie Kirk.

EVERSHITTEN

but imperialist and poopy

Lol

on a giant bathtub in the middle of the ocean that is probably going to be sunk in the first few hours of conflict I would not want to die for the zionists either

I started reading this in a sing-songy voice like

Oooooooh, who lives on a giant bathtub in the middle of the ocean that is probably going to be to be sunk in the first few hours of conflict

But then I realized it stops having any chance of sounding like the spongebob song after a while

Oh shit the soldiers all got Havana Syndrome from Iranian 5g satellites

battleshit

poo-tiny

haha haha, but not really, because these fuckwits seem like just the guys to re-learn why you need good toilets if you wanna make war. so no, chances are they'll do it and then there'll be an outbreak of typheboleprosycovid and then decades of very intellingent people writing papers on how that was maybe not the best idea because toilets are important

Oh bullshit, this was pulled out of my wetdreams

yeah was probably just dumb seamen using the toilet as a trash disposal

Dumb seamen

I had an elaborate bit where iran flies in a drone with a t-shirt cannon and plugs all the shitters leading to catastrophic failure and sinking the ship. But it turns out it's simply improvised officer fragging by the sailors!

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