Laundry is dangerous.

According to Centcom of the US some lost socks started a fire on its most advanced aircraft carrier. How many socks you ask? Quantity unknown but it took all the fire fighting equipment on the ship 30 hours to extinguish. How big was the sock fire? Unknown but it did so much structural damage the ship will be out of service for a year or more. Remember folks count your socks. They may be setting fire in your home.

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Nick1 · 61-69, M

May be at that rate, all sailers on ship may have lost all socks!
Hope all marines deployed recently took extra socks so when they land they still have enough socks to wear in field!
Let us implement what all correction facilities do for their cutlery. All sailers on ship should account for their socks.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Nick1 Socks, USN-issue. NSN 66-777-890-4444, White, Issue as Pairs 2. Fireproofed to ISO EN-7777.

Navy issues a general order: "Socks shall not be dried on the main engine exhaust ducts."

Indian shipbreakers are puzzled to find so many lone socks in the oddest recesses of the vessels they cut up, but find ready buyers for them in the local markets.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@Nick1 According to sources close to the marines being shipped out they weren't looking for socks. They were looking for priests who would be there to administer last rites. That is not a good sign at all.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 No, it isn't. Grim realism, perhaps.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

A further update the ship is in a repair dock owned by Greece and reports have it that the flight deck and the island sustained structural damage and the ship may be out of action for up to 5 years. What this shows me is that the US wanted to fight like it was 1944 and not 2026. Most ships and aircraft are now obsolete with the leap in technology being used by missiles.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 With damage that serious, and the strategic obsolescence point you make, I am suprised the US government has not declared the ship a total loss and brought it home for scrapping.

The USA has tried WW2 style fighting in many wars since WW2, and it's not really been very successful.

Quimliqer · 70-79, MVIP

“Good Morning Vietnam” all over again!!

Quimliqer · 70-79, MVIP

One would think they could have devised a better story than this!!

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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@ArishMell I don't pretend to be a ship engineer but when I think of the number of aircraft they have landing and taking off of the flight deck every day and those aircraft aren't light and they don't gently touch down which means everything under the flight deck has to have some beef to it as well. A thirty hour fire from burning laundry? I might have been born at night but it wasn't last night. That thing was hit by a missile. I heard from someone who had inside information about the missile 'shot down' over Cyprus as well. Not only did the missile hit the base it was aimed at it hit the hanger it was aimed at. Why that hanger? Because that hanger was the base of a U 2 spy plane. Both hanger and aircraft inside it were destroyed.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 Well, there is the old saw that war's first casualty is the truth. I suppose here the Americans were trying not to corroborate the Iranian forces' own successes.

A fire that long suggests a lot of burning aircraft fuel.

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