Toilet troubles add to sailors' deployment stress on carrier (G.H.W. Bush)

[unhappycamper]

Toilet troubles add to sailors' deployment stress on carrier
By Corinne Reilly
The Virginian-Pilot
© November 15, 2011

It may seem like a trivial inconvenience in the scheme of things, but it's become routine enough that some sailors aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush say it's affecting their morale, their health and their job performance: Since the ship left for its maiden combat deployment in May, its toilet system has suffered outages so frequently that crew members sometimes can't find a single working commode.

Over the weekend, the mother of one Bush sailor became so upset by her son's repeated reports of widespread toilet outages that she blasted a news release about it to reporters across the country.

"The sailors aboard the USS George H.W. Bush have already endured nearly six months with an unhealthy 'inconvenience' that most civilians would not tolerate for six hours," Mary Brotherton wrote. "The taxpayers are outraged over the living conditions of the men and women onboard."

Brotherton's son, Petty Officer 1st Richard Frakes, said in an email interview that on some occasions he's searched almost an hour to find a working head, the Navy's term for a toilet.



unhappycamper comment: $6.8 billion dollars for this POS and the toilets don't work? Thank you, Northrop Grumman for your 'excellent' work :(


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_H.W._Bush_%28CVN-77%29

[originalpckelly]

1. Read my lips: no new toilets!

[daleanime]

2. Thank you....

if you hadn't gone there, I might have.:blush:

[xchrom]

3. Wow.

How humiliating - they can't even buy a working toilet system.

[monmouth]

4. Typical of most things with the Bush name attached to it...n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. So it's fair to say...

G.H.W. Bush is full of shit?

[formercia]

6. Just like Poppy; full of shit.

:rofl:

USS Poopy Bush.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. What would it cost to construct a poop deck?

I bet those non-working heads cost a small fortune.

[SpiralHawk]

8. "Please poop prudently on the S.S. Stinkpot." - Poopy Bush (R - Skull & Boner)

"Shut up and keep flushing, you Smelly Proletarian Swabbies. Only 1%er eelete Republicon Cronies get working crappers. Sneer."

- Poopy H.W. Bush (R - Skull & Boner)

[HopeHoops]

9. Well at least the men can wizz over the side of the boat. I feel sorry for the women.

And yes, I have seen "Full Monty" and remember the "I always wanted to naughty in the mens' toilet" seen.

[Fla Dem]

15. They just have to make sure it's with the wind, not against it. LOL n/t

[HopeHoops]

16. At least there isn't any dust in the middle of the ocean.

[Bosso 63]

10. The problem is all in their heads.

Seriously, WTF? For $6.8 billion I think executives from Northrop Grumman should be schlepping chamber pots until the problem is fixed.

[Javaman]

11. They don't call it the head, in the navy, for no reason...

perhaps they should reinstitute that policy. ;) When you gotta go, you gotta go!

[Frustratedlady]

12. Man, even the things named after them are poopy...or, not!

When they get the heads fixed, will Poppy stand on deck with a "Mission Accomplished" banner flying in the wind?

[unhappycamper]

13. Perhaps they coiuld reuse this one:

[tosh]

14. What an aptly named vessel!

Poor sailors.

[hunter]

17. Has anyone blamed it on environmental regulations yet?

Things used to be so much better when we could dump all that shit directly in the ocean...

:sarcasm:

Some defense contractor is going to make a ton of money refitting the ship with a toilet system that works, adding a few more $$$ to the cost of this ship, and fattening the campaign chests of politicians beholden to these giant turkey "defense" projects.

And I really do hope the nuclear propulsion system wasn't subject to similar engineering innovations.