Shipbuilder: Bad Welds on Navy Ships May Be Intentional

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 17:50:22 | Updated at 2024-09-30 17:30:00 2 days ago

Shipbuilder: Bad Welds on Navy Ships May Be Intentional
Newsmax ^ | 9/27/2024 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 09/27/2024 10:33:16 AM PDT by antidemoncrat

A Virginia shipbuilder has informed the Department of Justice that faulty welds may have been intentionally made on noncritical parts of in-service U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.

Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding this week reported that the welds that were made on in-service submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers were not made by following welding procedure, reports USNI News Friday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: shipbuilder; usnavy; welding

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Another failure due to DEI or Sabotage?

To: antidemoncrat

2 posted on 09/27/2024 10:34:12 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. -- Psalm 106)

To: antidemoncrat

About 31 people need to “walk the plank” this afternoon.

3 posted on 09/27/2024 10:35:27 AM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)

To: antidemoncrat

Tough call - if the government dictated I had to hire Didn't Earn It (DEI) employees in order to stay in business, I'd make sure the DEI hires were all working on the government projects. Send in the clowns.

If the government employees found fault with the deliverables, well they could go complain in the mirror.

4 posted on 09/27/2024 10:36:34 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits

To: antidemoncrat

From the article: A U.S. Navy spokesperson, in a statement to Newsmax on Friday, commented that... "The safety of our Sailors and our ships is of paramount importance..."

No. Just no. If the safety of sailors was of paramount importance, there wouldn't be a DEI hire cleaning the parking lot, much less welding the ship together.

5 posted on 09/27/2024 10:39:08 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits

To: antidemoncrat

When a nation rejects a common culture, rejects a common religious world view, treats citizens equally (or worse) than illegal foreigners, allows government-crony thievery and a vast scale, and generally devalues real citizenship to zero - you will find such problems everywhere

6 posted on 09/27/2024 10:41:48 AM PDT by PGR88

To: antidemoncrat

Another failure due to DEI or Sabotage?

In this context, DEI is a method of sabotage.

7 posted on 09/27/2024 10:42:12 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )

To: antidemoncrat

8 posted on 09/27/2024 10:42:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

To: antidemoncrat

It’s true that sometimes people fail to follow approved procedures. That’s incompetence.
But there are people who inspect the welds. Maybe they are also incompetent.
And there are people who inspect the inspections. Maybe they are also incompetent.

I can see layers of incompetence. Wouldn’t actually surprise me at all.

But to say it’s “intentional” implies, I think, that someone like China is sabotaging our shipbuilding. I find that harder to believe.

9 posted on 09/27/2024 10:43:59 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: antidemoncrat

10 posted on 09/27/2024 10:47:45 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)

To: PGR88

When a nation rejects a common culture...

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

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