Yup. The same navy that was supposedly going to "show 'em why we don't have healthcare"

haha you made your characters all misty and foggy like it's 4 am haha

That one cool astronaut that uses Hexbear and .ml woke up this morning feeling groggy, having the previous night raided the emergency medicine cabinent for fun drugs while waiting for mission control to come up with a fix. They slept like shit, their still tired, still dissociating about the thought of whether or not this worsening incident will be the worst disaster in spaceflight history. Whether this is the thing that ends their lives.

They saw this thread, and clicked on it, their eyes wide and awash with hope that Boeing figured it out while they were asleep. That somehow the news got to them through Hexbear first. The ship is coming home! We're getting off this piece of shit station. We get to say goodbye to breathing this shitty recycled air that smells like a mixture of all the worst smells you associate with your some of your coworkers.

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Oh, I'm still in a life threatening ongoing emergency alongside all my astronaut and cosmonaut friends. We may still die yet! It's actually just the genocide ship going home, the genocide sailors are getting a bit tired of doing genocide, so they're taking a break from all this helping to do a genocide stuff.

Yankee go ~~home~~ to hell

US carriers are only supposed to be deployed for six months at a time. This one was 43 days less than the post-Cold War record of ~290 days.

That's just the port side elevator between the flight deck and the hangar deck.

i’m not a boat expert, but i think it’s a boarding dock. i remember getting one of those time for kids magazines during the iraq war showing marines launching amphibious tanks and trucks out of the side of an aircraft carrier in a space that looked a lot like that one. like, if you zoom in, it looks like the bottom half (ish) has a big lip keeping the water out

this is a PR photo issued by the navy that they have taken for all their ships, it isn't contemporary of it literally turning around

The enemy is both weak and strong

Another article I read mentioned that the navy said it was the most intense deployment since WW2. Reading between the lines, my hypothesis is that the ship, the planes, the pilots, and sailors are all tired. Equipment is breaking, systems are inoperative for too long, and the crew is getting more injury and mistake prone.

If Answer Allah actually managed to score a hit, that would be an amazing accomplishment by them. But until I see evidence, I think it has just reached the limit of what it can accomplish without rest for the crew and repairs/maintenance/restocking back at home.