Fire onboard USS Bonhomme Richard

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VinnieVincenzo

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There is currently a fire onboard the USS Bonhomme Richard; it is pier-side in San Diego undergoing periodic maintenance. Fire apparently started in the well deck and 18 crew members have been transported to the hospital.

I was formerly stationed in San Diego and was in the Navy but never served onboard that ship.

Creating this thread for discussion about this topic. This has huge national security interests ramifications
 
Kona

Kona

Crow
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I was on that ship a whole lot. It's actually somehow named after Benjamin Franklin. People on this very forum made fun of me for it's name, which hurt my feelings may years ago.

We ran the initial "Shock and Awe" off the deck. Then we invaded Iraq and gave them democracy. Those are really incredible ships. Launch Harriers, helicopters and then a ton of Marines. I'm really happy (and proud) that I experienced that. Saddam Hussein, not so much.

I'm reading no one died in the explosion. That's because that ship has amazing medical facilities onboard. Great people too.

Aloha!
 
scotian

scotian

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My friend was on a Canadian navy ship that caught fire off of Hawaii en route to Japan, he helped fight the fire which was pretty intense, he told me that he thought he was going to die. Fortunately the Yanks were nice enough to tug it back to Pearl Harbor, my buddy quit the military shortly after and Canada is building new ships to replace those old shitty frigates.
 
Kona

Kona

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Fires on any size boat is a scary situation. There's so many explodable things you don't even realize.

It's been almost a year now since my favorite boat ever, my Seaswirl 3301 had a little fire, and I got rid of it. We were abt 30 miles out and it was still dark. My buddy put a ceramic water pot in the microwave on top of a plate that he couldn't see had a metal ring for decoration on it. He was just making us coffee. All hell broke loose real quick. A can of spray paint exploded when we were fire extinguishing. It was really scary because your only option is to grab radios, jump out, and hope for the best. We put it out but I had the shakes for like 3 days after.

Aloha!
 
Foolsgo1d

Foolsgo1d

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MichaelWitcoff said:
Is there something special about that ship that would make it a target of particular interest for bad guys?
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It has a large diversity crew that HRC visited few years back.

The USN has had some bad accidents in the past few years involving high tech ships getting close calls or being hit by cargo ships. My guess is incompetence or sabotage.
 
Papaya

Papaya

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I miss speculating as whether shit like this was muzzie fundamentalist terror or not....Ahhh the simpler good ol days
 
get2choppaaa

get2choppaaa

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I was literally on a sinking ship once whilst in the Marines deployed aboard a large naval ship. In that case it was gross negligence and an accident during one of the scheduled maintenance procedures that blew a hole in a purging pipe that flushes excess water out of the ship. At one point we were on the verge of abandoning the ship. We had over 1500 Marines and 1200 Sailors aboard and not a single abandon ship had been conducted up to that point in the deployment ( months in at that time)

My impression of the US Navy left me significantly wanting. I found the culture to be toxic, the lack of discipline to be appalling, and the gross incompetence to be astonishing. Most of the officers were technocrats that were in their one little world, meanwhile the sailors had outright disrespect toward superiors. While this could be the result of a bad command, I wondered "If this is the best Navy in the world, we are fucked whenever China catches up" Its really our overwhelming logistics power that keeps us afloat thankfully, but I could go on for days about the garbage (literally and figuratively) I saw while under way.
 
Kona

Kona

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get2choppaaa said:
I was literally on a sinking ship once whilst in the Marines deployed aboard a large naval ship. In that case it was gross negligence and an accident during one of the scheduled maintenance procedures that blew a hole in a purging pipe that flushes excess water out of the ship. At one point we were on the verge of abandoning the ship. We had over 1500 Marines and 1200 Sailors aboard and not a single abandon ship had been conducted up to that point in the deployment ( months in at that time)
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Which ship did this happen upon?

Aloha!
 
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