Super MAGA! Not Chinese! US Navy's newest most Expensive Carrier TOILET CRISIS, 600Sailors Infected

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美国航母出怪事，海军男兵上百人尿道感染，原来是600女兵惹的祸

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https://gizmodo.com/5859717/toilet-...aves-5000-sailors-doing-the-pee-pee-dance/amp


Toilet Trouble on Navy Carrier Leaves 5000 Sailors Doing the Pee Pee Dance

Roberto Baldwin
11/15/11 4:20pm
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Remember when your dad would't pull the car over so you could go to the bathroom? Now imagine that your dad is the Navy and that the car is aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush (CVN-77).

Turns out the 423 toilets on the Navy's latest ship aren't ready to report for duty.

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The Navy Times reports that toilets have been malfunctioning since the ship's initial deployment. The toilet's vacuum system—which consists of 250 miles of tubing—has completely failed on several occasions leaving sailors to "anchors away" off catwalks and into bottles.

The Navy blames the sailors for clogging the system on the $6.2billion boat with feminine hygiene products and clothing. It states that the system boats a 94-percent availability rate. that sounds good until you realize that you're probably going to be the one that has to go during the other 6-percent of the time. there are currently 25 toilet related maintenance calls a week on the sip and that's led to over 1,000 man-hours spent fixing crappers. During one outrage, technicians worked 35 hours non-stop trying to fix the problem.

It sounds hilarious, but the outages have led to a rise in urinary tract infections from sailors holding it in. Fortunately, like the awesome Americans they are, the sailors are allowing those with the highest need to visit the "poop deck" to hop to the front of a bathroom line. Non sibi sed patriae! [translation: Not self, but country] [Navy Times via Geekosystem]

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https://www.themarysue.com/aircraft-carrier-toilets/amp/


Over 10,000 Man Hours Spent Trying to Fix Aircraft Carrier G.H.W. Bush's 423 Toilets

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According to the Navy Times, the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) has been struggling with some critical technical difficulties since it began its first deployment. Namely, that it has been extremely hard to keep all the $6.2 billion carrier’s toiletsfunctioning. According to sources onboard the ship, there have been times when none of the carrier’s 423 toilets have been available for use. The horror of this situation is brought into sharp focus when you remember that the ship carries some 5,000 sailors.






The sheer scale of the outages aboard the carrier are staggering. The toilet system itself is vacuum powered, with over 250 miles of piping throughout the ship. The Navy says that when properly used, the system swiftly disposes of human waste with nary a problem. They blame the sailors for disposing various non-waste materials in the toilets. The Navy Times confirms, saying:

Sailors onboard the ship said that everything from feminine hygiene products to clothes have been unclogged from the network of pipes.

For their part, the Navy has downplayed the issue saying that the ship boasts a 94% availability rate for toilets throughout the ship’s deployment, which began last May. That said, there have apparently been 25 toilet related maintenance calls per week, amounting to over 10,000 man hours spent working on toilets alone. During one ship-wide toilet breakdown, workers put in 35 nonstop hours to rectify the issue.


While not being able to find a toilet may sound like a middling (dare I say, piddling) issue, sailors claim it has affected their readiness. Sailors apparently have had to search high and low to find functioning toilets on the 1,094 foot long carrier. Some have resorted to relieving themselves from catwalks, or into empty bottles, and at least one sailor has been reprimanded for “urinating on a sponson.”

Others have opted to adjust their diets, and apparently urinary tract infections are starting to spring up as a result of “holding it” too long. But even when a working toilet can be found, it can still be a struggle to find relief. Some toilets have combination locks, and female sailors have begun posting “sentries” outside of men’s toilets while their fellow ladies take advantage of an open bathroom.

In an inspiring display of democracy in action, the sailors waiting in line have begun organizing themselves in order of urgency. From the Navy Times:

As they wait, sailors do a quick survey of who has reached their physical limit, and sailors who need to go the most get bumped to the front of the queue.“We all assess who is going to go in their pants first and set the lines according to that,” the second class said.



(Navy Times via NOSInt, image via Wikipedia)

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https://www.militarytimes.com/2013/03/21/carrier-bush-suffers-widespread-toilet-outages/


Carrier Bush suffers widespread toilet outages
March 20, 2013
Joshua Stewartabout how health and morale were affected.

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Carrier Bush's toilet troubles

The Navy's newest aircraft carrier has a messy problem. Since deploying in May, the Norfolk, Va.-based carrier George H.W. Bush has grappled with widespread toilet outages, at times rendering the entire ship without a single working head.

But it's no laughing matter. Sailors tell of combing the ship for up to an hour to find a place to do their business, if they can find one at all. Others have resorted to urinating in showers or into the industrial sinks in their work stations. Some men are using bottles and emptying the contents over the giant ship's side, while some women are holding it in for so long that they are developing health problems, according to sources on the ship.

The sailors blame the ship's vacuum system. But the Navy is blaming sailors for flushing "inappropriate material" down the toilets.

The ship, commissioned in January 2009, is wrapping up a deployment in the Persian Gulf. Three sailors who spoke to Navy Times on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media said the problem has been persistent at least since Bush began its first deployment in May. Throughout its deployment, there have been at least two times when all 423 commodes in the ship's 130 heads went offline, the sailors said. More often, they said, all heads either forward or aft of the middle of the ship have gone out of service, or clusters of heads scattered through different departments have been shut down.

The problems were first reported by Mary Brotherton, a blogger and mother of a Bush sailor.

The issue, according to sailors and the ship's internal newsletter, is the vacuum system that moves waste through the ship's pipes. The system breaks down with little warning, making it impossible to flush, they said. This forces toilets and urinals throughout the ship to go offline as crews examine the carrier's 250 miles of pipe to figure out what's wrong and restore vacuum pressure. One shipwide breakdown required one department to work a 35-hour stretch with no rest to fix, according to the January edition of the carrier's newsletter The Avenger.

Complicating the matter, some working heads are secured with a lock, letting only sailors who know the combination inside, the sailors said.

So far there's no backup plan for when the system goes offline, the sailors said. Sailors report the ship does not have portable toilets. Nor are wag bags — sealable plastic sacks designed to hold human waste — available for use until heads are fixed. Given the circumstances, whenever the heads on the ship break, the 5,000 sailors onboard must either ignore nature's call or find inventive ways to relieve themselves until they can find a proper bathroom.

The Navy, in a written statement, acknowledged problems with the system since the ship was delivered in May 2009. Sailors have spent more than 10,000 man hours addressing the toilets' vacuum system on this deployment, averaging roughly 25 calls per week for commode problems. Most problems were fixed within 24 hours, with some requiring just a few minutes of work, said a statement from Naval Air Force Atlantic, adding that the ship had a "94 percent availability of commodes" throughout the deployment.

AIRLANT said most issues occurred when inappropriate materials were flushed down the toilets. Sailors onboard the ship said that everything from feminine hygiene products to clothes have been unclogged from the network of pipes. When used as intended, the system works well and most problems can be fixed in minutes, AIRLANT said.

The statement also acknowledged that the system is different from older systems "in that disruption in one head can impact a broader area. A vacuum outage affects every commode in one half of the ship and is not department- or squadron-specific."

The contractor that supplied the system, Evac, did not make a representative available as of Monday afternoon after three queries from Navy Times over six days. According to the company's website, Evac also worked on the amphibious transport dock San Antonio's toilet system and systems for luxury cruise liners. The Navy statement said the system is also installed aboard Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and other San Antonio-class ships, but it was unclear if those systems were installed by Evac or whether any of those ships have had problems.

Sailors said the head issue is a major problem on the $6.2 billion carrier. While it has provided countless opportunities to make jokes related to bodily functions, they said, it has also hurt morale. Some sailors are limiting their food and fluid intake, risking dehydration. Others have ignored nature's call for so long that they've developed urinary tract infections. The problem has made it tougher for sailors to keep the ship combat-ready, they said.

The Navy statement did not address reports of sickness.

Some are taking extra showers when they need to urinate. Women are finding working men's heads and putting a sentry at the door. Or they'll use the industrial sinks in their workspaces. Men are sneaking onto catwalks to surreptitiously relieve themselves without getting busted by a master-at-arms on patrol, searching for sailors using anywhere but a head as a bathroom.

"If you violate a direct order, you go to mast. We had one seaman go thus far," one chief told Navy Times.

An AIRLANT spokesman confirmed that one sailor received non-judicial punishment for "urinating on a sponson."

Some men have taken to urinating into bottles and dumping the contents over the side — a potentially messy practice that can soil the side of the ship or the hangar deck, aircraft or fellow sailors, depending on how it catches the wind.

"It's certainly more risk-free than standing and peeing on the catwalks, but still it's ridiculous," a second class petty officer said.

If possible, sailors will use one of the operational heads, but it takes extra work to find one, the second class said. When the urge strikes, you have to get the gouge on the location of a working head — hopefully it won't be on the far side of the 1,094-foot-long carrier. When you find one that's working, there's often a line to get inside. As they wait, sailors do a quick survey of who has reached their physical limit, and sailors who need to go the most get bumped to the front of the queue.

"We all assess who is going to go in their pants first and set the lines according to that," the second class said.

 

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/09/29/carrier-tackles-clog-prone-toilets.html


Carrier Tackles Clog-Prone Toilets
Daily Press, Newport News, Va. By Michael Welles Shapiro
PORTSMOUTH -- Clog-prone toilets on the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, a source of consternation for its crew, are being modified with a clog-preventing device as part of the ship's scheduled maintenance.

The USS George H.W. Bush is about halfway through a four-month maintenance period at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, and both clogs and the sewage treatment system are getting attention.

An Aug. 2 news release announcing the maintenance stop didn't mention problems with the Bush's 493 "heads" first raised last year by sailors and their families. It noted that workers are completing 84 ship modifications, including several software improvements.

A spokesman for the naval shipyard said toilets are also on the repair agenda. The ship's crew is "installing anti-snag devices in the toilet drainage lines to help prevent system clogs," the spokesman, Jeff Cunningham, said by email on Friday.

He said the waste system is being reconfigured to increase its capacity.

The Bush commodes became a national issue in November 2011 after the mother of a sailor stationed on the Newport News-built carrier complained publicly about them in an email to reporters. Several sailors told the Navy Times that there were enough out-of-service toilets on the ship that they'd been forced at times to seek other ways to relieve themselves, including urinating in bottles, sinks and showers.

The Bush's commanding officer, Capt. Brian "Lex" Luther, said in an interview with the Daily Press at the time that the clogs were caused by a few disgruntled sailors "acting out" by flushing innappropriate items down the ship's toilets.

He said hull technicians -- who spent 10,000 hours fixing the wastewater system in the ship's first six months since deploying in May 2011 -- found shirts, underwear, socks, hard-boiled eggs, nuts, bolts, feminine hygiene products, towels, eating utensils and mop heads jamming up pipes.

An engineer with the company that built the waste management system on the Bush, EVAC North America Inc. of Cherry Valley, Ill., said Friday that his company is providing the clog-busting device for the toilets, which have a vacuum flush as opposed to a more water-intensive gravity-powered flush. Vacuum flush toilets are common on ships and planes.

"The device is designed to be installed in the outlet of the toilet with a hook pointing inward towards the bowl," said Tom Obermann, the EVAC engineer. "The hook hangs into the center of the piping and will snag rags and other debris, preventing them from further travel downstream where they could block piping serving multiple toilets."

"You'd be amazed what gets flushed down the toilet of a ship," Obermann said. "Anything that can fall out of a pocket or off of a person, like sunglasses."

Vacuum piping has a smaller diameter than gravity piping, he said, so the systems are more vulnerable to clogging.

So far, the anti-snag device seems to be working, he said.

"Reports from the ship," Obermann said, "indicate that blockages have been greatly reduced."

He said EVAC has not charged the Navy for the work.

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The Revolt Against Gender-Neutral Aircraft Carriers
A spirited debate is spilling out onto U.S. military websites and forums following the Navy's decision to scrap urinals on aircraft carriers so as to accommodate female sailors.

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A spirited debate is spilling out onto U.S. military websites and forums following the Navy's decision to scrap urinals on aircraft carriers so as to accommodate female sailors. In a push toward "gender-neutral" ships, the Navy's new class of carriers will go without urinals for the first time, the Navy announced last week.

The Navy listed plenty of sensible reasons for the change, which will materialize on all future Gerald R. Ford class carriers beginning in late 2015. But given the length of time sailors are cooped up on carriers (often 6- to 9-month deployments), even slight changes can cause a stir.

"Navy is getting way too politically correct," wrote Steve Mcgaha in a thread on The Navy Times, an independent news source for sailors and their families. "Let's get back to projecting sea power ... and get rid of the NANNY NAVY." Others were worried about the logistical implications. "Great. As if there weren't enough pissed-on toilet seats on Aircraft Carriers," wrote Matt Metz on the same Navy Times thread. "I guess actual warfighting is pretty low on the list in today's big bucks, PC, diversity is our strength ... Navy," wrote Orville Seybert. In perhaps the most novel argument, Navy vet Timothy Ritchie argued that urinals aren't actually gender-specific. "In Europe all gender-neutral bathrooms have urinals. It is a matter of sanitation. And believe it or not even a female can use a properly placed urinal with a bit of practice."

The urinal policy also gained traction on Military News, an aggregator of defense news, and Military.com, a website devoted to the military community. But it wasn't all negative. Joey McGuire, a nuclear machinist in the Navy, shrugged off the decision. "We didn't have any urinals on the Nimitz," he said, referring to the Navy's nuclear-powered supercarriers. "I don't see what the big deal is." At Military.com, a few commenters noted the maintenance benefits of not having urinals. Shylano wrote: "That is good news. Less things to clean." Jagges added, "On my deployment on the Whidbey Island, they had most of the urinals removed because they are a pain to maintain. We had one in our head but it broke all the time. Too many people put dip or something in it and it would clog and make a mess." Commenter SGTRJB took the new policy as a challenge. "I have toilets at home and have no problem. I can still stand and practice my marksmanship. Anything floating in the water instantly becomes the battleship Yamato or a new Chinese Aircraft Carrier."

While many of the naysayers dominated the threads, the Navy explained to CNN's Jason Hanna a range of reasons justifying the decision, not least of which includes fostering a more equality-focused environment. "Omitting urinals lets the Navy easily switch the designation of any restroom—or head, in naval parlance—from male to female, or vice versa, helping the ship adapt to changing crew compositions over time," Hanna wrote. "The Navy could designate a urinal-fitted area to women, of course, but the urinals would be a waste of space." Additionally, as alluded to in the comments above, urinals are more difficult to maintain because the drain pipes get clogged more than toilets, leading to unpleasant odors. Suffice it to say these are new considerations for the 21st-century Navy, given that women only began being deployed on combat ships in 1994—a time that came after the date most of the Navy's current fleet of carriers were commissioned.

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New U.S. Navy Carriers Opt for Gender-Neutral, Urinal-Free Bathrooms


By Camille Beredjick
July 11 2012 8:01 PM EDT
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For the first time ever, a new class of U.S. Navy carriers will set off with no urinals on board, reports the Navy Times.

Urinals are omitted from the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers, due to hit the fleet in 2015, as both a cost-saving measure and an attempt to make bathrooms more gender-neutral. Urinal-free ships allow the Navy to easily switch a bathroom's designation between male and female, helping the ship adapt to changing crews. The U.S. Navy has deployed women on ships since 1994, but every carrier built since then has included urinals.

In addition, urinals clog more than toilets and can cost more to maintain, Capt. Chris Meyer, manager of the Future Aircraft Carriers Program for the Naval Sea Systems Command, told CNN. Several sailors speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Navy Times that urinals were hard to clean and easily broken, and they were glad to see them go.

"There's a lot more at play in the design objectives than (making the toilet areas) gender-neutral," Meyer told CNN. "We're saving money in maintenance costs, and we’re improving quality of life."

Other quality-of-life updates to the carrier's design include sleeping quarters — known as berthing areas — directly connected to a toilet and shower, so sailors who wake in the middle of the night won't have to get dressed and cross a passageway to reach the nearest restroom.

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The USA is really going down The dumps when they have decades of experience in building carriers and this problem can occur. No wonder ah tiong land has already caught up with them.

 

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The USA is really going down The dumps when they have decades of experience in building carriers and this problem can occur. No wonder ah tiong land has already caught up with them.

Can not Pang Sai still try to fight PLA? Sure to get killed.

 

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When PLA's DF-ZF hypersonic ICBM slam down on US carriers, it will be an explosion of shits from their jammed toilet, erupted towards sky like volcano. Then sink to pollute ocean, all crap & fish die.

 

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Shitskin has a new meaning....

Does Ivanka Trump give a damn?

 

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No ah neh soldiers no BE and AE. Period.

When u hv fat beer belly army you get shit...

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Captain, I cannot shit!

Sailor, wear diapers!

 

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Super Rocket-Man Putin showed some Love for Dotard-Land:
4 Bulava SLBMs = 24 cities in Dotard-Land nuked = 100 million casualties = 30% of USA population level. Which is NOT MUCH to Borei-Class nuke subs, because they have 16 (20 for upgraded new model) of these SLBMs, and Putin has 8 of these nuke subs. Sufficient to completely clean up every NATO cities without leaving out any.

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The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of a Borei-class submarine firing a barrage of four Bulava missiles – the first such test for this type of submarine. The test was conducted on Tuesday in the White Sea.
The video published on Wednesday shows some pre-launch activities on board the Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the lead of the project. Then the submarine is shown firing four Bulava missiles at a test range in Kamchatka in quick succession.


Previous tests of the weapon were conducted solo or in barrages of two on two occasions. Firing missiles in a barrage is more challenging for the crew and ship, but reduces the time the submarine stays close to the surface exposed to detection and possible attack.

Russia currently has three Borei-class nuclear submarines in active service and a fourth upgraded ship – the Knyaz Vladimir, undergoing trial. Four more are being built. Each can carry 16 Bulava SLBMs, which have a reported range of up to 11,000km and can carry up to six nuclear warheads.


RSM-56 Bulava
Specifications
Weight 36.8 t (36.2 long tons; 40.6 short tons)
Length 11.5 m (38 ft) (without warhead)
12.1 m (40 ft) (launch container)
Diameter 2 m (6 ft 7 in) (missile)
2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) (launch container)
Warhead 6[2](can carry 10 to 40 decoys) re-entry vehicles with a yield of 150 kt each.[3]