And yet here you are, filling my feed with his crap along with fifty thousand other bsky users so none of us can avoid it

We yanks will do our part and endeavor to rally through a few months of BBC dramas sans scenes of those charming long stretchy boats in the background (or in the case of last night: a young woman minding things at the bow doing her best to win “slowest to realize that’s a dead body in the water”)

I enjoyed it for a while and then couldn’t get past how pay to win it was….being able to buy consumable stats boosts for your ships…c’mon. It’s crazy how expensive the ships are, too. I bet for a naval nerd it probably has much more staying power!

Nuclear would be a poor choice given the USN can’t find (or retain) enough reactor operators to put their existing fleet to sea. Despite offering them 200k, 300k, or more per tour.

It should be noted that I’m recounting fourth-hand scuttlebutt. When it comes to a state agency, that is more likely to be accurate than whatever makes it into a public report. MSA’s progressive personnel management practices have not helped with “hitting stationary objects” issues.

Thankfully in this case, the unmentioned third part’s loose lips did not sink a ship. But irony has a name, and it is “debate about the merits of martial infidelity ended by sticking another thing somewhere it definitely doesn’t belong.”

Unless my sophisticated image analysis fails me, it appears the US Coast Guard are better equipped than their Dutch colleagues of seventy years ago.

How disappointing that side mirrors never caught on in the US Navy.

Surprisingly, the most incredible thing is not the fact that the incident was caused by the crew heating tanks nearby to “stuff that goes naughty if over 30c.”

This was the *second* time the Stolt Groenland had spectacularly failed to transport Styrene.

Out of curiosity, why couldn’t Grad Spree leave until 24h after a merchant vessel?

Half submerged ship? Somewhere Pete Hagueseth has a massive, but very confused boner.

“Kept mostly secret?” Swedish signal and radar intelligence watched it unfold live and found out via HUMINT within ~2 weeks more details when the ship arrived for repairs. Then Expressen published a lengthy article about the incident 2-3 mo later. Then Young wrote his thesis in ‘82.

The Storozhevoy incident is what HftRO was inspired by. Clancy was, if anything, very unimaginative when he was writing material for right wingers to wank off to. I can’t find anything to back your claim it’s specifically mentioned in the book, though.