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cm0002 ( cm0002@literature.cafe )  to World News@quokk.au · 3 months ago

US Navy destroyer adrift in South China Sea for four days after losing power

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US Navy destroyer adrift in South China Sea for four days after losing power

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cm0002 ( cm0002@literature.cafe )  to World News@quokk.au · 3 months ago
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USS Benfold lost power after ‘engineering casualty’ leaving sailors without galley services, toilets and air conditioning
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  • TheJesusaurus ( TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ) 
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    4 fucking days?

  • StillAlive ( StillAlive@piefed.world ) 
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    In the end, the overall budget requested by the US military department was $961.6 billion, which included $197.4 billion for the Department of the Army, $292.2 billion for the Department of the Navy, $301.1 billion for the Department of the Air Force and $170.9 billion for defence wide expenditure.

    Lol. Lmao. Absolute state of ‘the most powerful military on the planet’.

  • partiallycyber ( partiallycyber@ttrpg.network ) 
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    Interesting to note that the only sailors actually quoted in the article are senior officers. Don’t need more meaningless chatter about grit and perseverance, I wanna hear what a bosun’s mate seaman thinks of the situation

    • M0oP0o ( M0oP0o@mander.xyz ) 
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      Likely at this point just smelly screaming.

  • Tollana1234567 ( Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ) 
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    its not like petey and trump would notice, these “poor suckers and losers”-trump

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    What I want to know is where the ships counterparts are?

    Where are the Benfold’s 5???

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    Iran could do something hilarious right now

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      If the us sailors would not shoot at them it would be funny for Iran to go there with aid. It would not happen but it would be dang near the best thing this year.

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    Fuckers messing up the one place where they’re doing something useful.

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