Posted: 3/25/2010 8:46:06 AM EDT
Did they cut the painting budget? I've never seen pics of a US warship look this bad in my life.
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Good grief.... Unless, of course, they have been underway for a very extended period (i.e. - months without entering port, which DOES happen). Still, that's more than I ever saw during my fleet days. I bet the Deck Apes will be BUSY next time they pull in. It will SUCK being in the first duty section. 
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Did they cut the painting budget? I've never seen pics of a US warship look this bad in my life. http://i39.tinypic.com/2qitk7b.jpg Wow...is that normal? Don't the hulls have some sort of anti-rust coating applied due to being in seawater? |
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Did they cut the painting budget? I've never seen pics of a US warship look this bad in my life. http://i39.tinypic.com/2qitk7b.jpg Wow...is that normal? Don't the hulls have some sort of anti-rust coating applied due to being in seawater? They refer to that as paint... |
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I spent several years on the USS Eisenhower (CVN-69)
It was not uncommon to see that look after being in the med for 6 months... There were even times that we contracted locals to do "touch-up" painting on the hull while we were in port over seas. This looks like a dependants cruise (one day cruise where you can bring the family) which means it was state side |
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That is not uncommon at all. Most ships returning from a deployment look like that.
Better to look like that coming in, then to spend a day or two off shore in sight of home just to paint the fucking ship. The crew hated our capt for pulling that crap. Out to sea for months and then park off of VA Beach to make the ship look nice when we tied up 
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Quoted: That is not uncommon at all. Most ships returning from a deployment look like that. Better to look like that coming in, then to spend a day or two off shore in sight of home just to paint the fucking ship. The crew hated our capt for pulling that crap. Out to sea for months and then park off of VA Beach to make the ship look nice when we tied up He's lucky they didn't leave him out there. What an ass.  Regarding the OP picture, it also looks as if she sailed through some oily water. I don't remember seeing the boot top (term?) looking like that... |
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Did they cut the painting budget? I've never seen pics of a US warship look this bad in my life. http://i39.tinypic.com/2qitk7b.jpg Wow...is that normal? Don't the hulls have some sort of anti-rust coating applied due to being in seawater? They refer to that as paint... Or sacrificial anode. |
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Did they cut the painting budget? I've never seen pics of a US warship look this bad in my life. http://i39.tinypic.com/2qitk7b.jpg eta found caption: "Sailors and more than 1,000 friends and family members aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz depart Bremerton, Wash., for a Tiger Cruise to the ship's homeport in San Diego. Tiger Cruise 2010 is the last evolution in the ship's eight-month-long deployment to the Arabian Sea supporting Operation Enduring Freedom." |
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Did they cut the painting budget? I've never seen pics of a US warship look this bad in my life. http://i39.tinypic.com/2qitk7b.jpg Wow...is that normal? Don't the hulls have some sort of anti-rust coating applied due to being in seawater? They refer to that as paint... Or sacrificial anode. Not above the waterline. |
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According to the guy in the next office, who spent a number of years on that ship, that is normal, it is a tiger cruise, and the steam is because they always have a ready cat. This. All ships look rough after deployment, they go into a maintenance and training cycle immediately upon returning to homeport. Depending on the cycle, this may include a planned Drydock availabilty, where the hull gets blasted, primed, and painted, probably with the new uberpaint the small boy world is now in love with, Intersleek. |
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According to the guy in the next office, who spent a number of years on that ship, that is normal, it is a tiger cruise, and the steam is because they always have a ready cat. This. All ships look rough after deployment, they go into a maintenance and training cycle immediately upon returning to homeport. Depending on the cycle, this may include a planned Drydock availabilty, where the hull gets blasted, primed, and painted, probably with the new uberpaint the small boy world is now in love with, Intersleek. WTH? |
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Hmmmm.....when I saw the Nimitz during a Fleet Week it looked like it had just been commissioned. Hell, maybe it WAS, since I think it was back in somewhere between 93-95.
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Hmmmm.....when I saw the Nimitz during a Fleet Week it looked like it had just been commissioned. Hell, maybe it WAS, since I think it was back in somewhere between 93-95. As long as it can still kick ass and take detailed names, I don't care what it looks like. She spent over a year in drydock '93-ish. I believe she was laid down in '68 and commissioned in '75. |
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Where the hell is DPort when we need him? 
Never having served on a carrier, I gotta wonder.... Why would they have steam feeding into the catapults with all those civilians standing around? Sir, catapult trough heating steam to maintain catapult cylinder elongation is a normal underway condition, it maintains cat readiness by diminishing warm up time to be ready to shoot. FWIW, I don't believe there is anything dangerous to flight deck personnel nor quests to have steam to the cats, just as long as catapult accumulators are not charged. I've been on the flight deck of more than a few carriers conducting launch and recovery from the waist cats during dependents cruises. There is really nothing unusual about it. As far as the running rust on the side of the ship, it is not unusual throughout a deployment when there are very limited times when the ship is not underway. The old Navy where sailors do hull preservation is long past. It has been my experience in the Med that very seldom do the ships want to have foreign nationals aboard doing that type of preservation anymore. Yes it was common in the eighties and prior but it really is a thing of the past. AFAIK the same is true in West Pac. When our ships are in the Gulf they don't let local national small boys get anywhere near them, guess why? The official Navy policy has to do with trying to diminish the menial labor type chores sailors used to do. Now days the policy is to have that type work contracted out "to the maximum extent practical", and they try to make sure it goes to american minority small businesses. JMHO, 7zero1. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: According to the guy in the next office, who spent a number of years on that ship, that is normal, it is a tiger cruise, and the steam is because they always have a ready cat. This. All ships look rough after deployment, they go into a maintenance and training cycle immediately upon returning to homeport. Depending on the cycle, this may include a planned Drydock availabilty, where the hull gets blasted, primed, and painted, probably with the new uberpaint the small boy world is now in love with, Intersleek. WTH? There's a new paint they're putting on the hulls od DDGs and CGs. Evidently it prevents marine growth, makes the hull smoother, saves on gas, etc. It's blue. |
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Hmmmm.....when I saw the Nimitz during a Fleet Week it looked like it had just been commissioned. Hell, maybe it WAS, since I think it was back in somewhere between 93-95. As long as it can still kick ass and take detailed names, I don't care what it looks like. She spent over a year in drydock '93-ish. I believe she was laid down in '68 and commissioned in '75. Sir, Nimitz was commissioned 5/3/75 and received an extended SRA in '76. She has received regular maintainence availabilities after every deployment until the beginning of her refueling in '98. Her first complex overhaul ended in '84. After her refueling complex overhaul completed in 2001 she transferred to the left coast and has been home ported in SD ever since. FWIW, when our ship's participate is events such as "Fleet Week", areas of the ship that will be open to the visiting public receive extensive cosmetic preparation just for the show. HTH, 7zero1. |
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Where the hell is DPort when we need him?
Never having served on a carrier, I gotta wonder.... Why would they have steam feeding into the catapults with all those civilians standing around? Sir, catapult trough heating steam to maintain catapult cylinder elongation is a normal underway condition, it maintains cat readiness by diminishing warm up time to be ready to shoot. FWIW, I don't believe there is anything dangerous to flight deck personnel nor quests to have steam to the cats, just as long as catapult accumulators are not charged. I've been on the flight deck of more than a few carriers conducting launch and recovery from the waist cats during dependents cruises. There is really nothing unusual about it. As far as the running rust on the side of the ship, it is not unusual throughout a deployment when there are very limited times when the ship is not underway. The old Navy where sailors do hull preservation is long past. It has been my experience in the Med that very seldom do the ships want to have foreign nationals aboard doing that type of preservation anymore. Yes it was common in the eighties and prior but it really is a thing of the past. AFAIK the same is true in West Pac. When our ships are in the Gulf they don't let local national small boys get anywhere near them, guess why? The official Navy policy has to do with trying to diminish the menial labor type chores sailors used to do. Now days the policy is to have that type work contracted out "to the maximum extent practical", and they try to make sure it goes to american minority small businesses. JMHO, 7zero1. I know there is a ship's rigger joke in here somewhere. TRG |
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Quoted: Looks like that is an image of a Tiger Cruise at the end of a deployment - lots of civilians on board and they are underway. Concur. They've probably been underway for many months without a yard availability. When they return, the deck apes will start scrubbing, sanding and painting the sides...along with all of the other exposed parts of the ship. Tiger cruise for sure. |