The aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush has moved to the Syrian coast amidst reports that a no fly zone is about to be imposed over the country as the U.S. Embassy in Damascus orders its citizens to leave “immediately,” while France has proposed a formal NATO military intervention.
The USS George H.W. Bush, built at a cost of $6.2 billion and deployed
on its first combat mission only last spring, has experienced chronic
plumbing problems for months, with the faltering of its vacuum-based
system repeatedly leading to toilet outages.
Now, what was ostensibly a comical issue has turned into a
quality-of-life issue, not to mention something of an Internet meme...
Sailors speaking with the Navy Times have made the situation sound
more dire, and, according to an article earlier this year in the
carrier’s internal newsletter (a profile of a maintenance technician
headlined “The King of the Throne”), there was at least one instance
when a clog caused all of the heads on the forward half of the ship,
and then the rear, to back up.
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