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It wouldn’t surprise me
Feb 25, 2026 6:38 PM
ssumner13
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It wouldn’t surprise me
SciFiGuy2018
"The shitter's full!"
TheMoonBnuuy
actually yes
duktayp
Reminded me of the German U-Boat story https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/world-war-ii/poop-sank-wwii-german-u-boat
Eleshar24
Or, more likely, their toilets are shit. So to speak.
SisyphusRollin
Never forget the one shitter that just leaked sewage for a while on deployment, stepping over that little river to take a shower was so gross.
duktayp
ooooooooo I like it https://media.giphy.com/media/QUENDfi6DEMLzQ0CKt/giphy.gif?cid=bb5a1c3a3wuyowwh3nob9ezj5ygwto511i5qdt0yscr9hmog&ep=v1_gifs_trending&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
TylerD85
Beware. Bad guys could be in both team.
SisyphusRollin
Malicious compliance is a tool they can use.
bad1080
what connect am i missing here, they think the socks are stopping it from sinking?
thrael
the sewage problem has diverted the whole carrier to port, which I believe is the intention.
Roqinn
The ship is old and repairs and upgrades don't get done when they should. I watched a video that said that ship doesn't have enough toilets for everyone on board and there are lines to use them. This will also overwhelm the waste treatment facilities.
Tattooedpariah
Old? Hahahahahhaa, CVN's have a planned life of 50 years. I was stationed on Ford from 14-18.. we commissioned in 2017... it's NOT old.. just a POS..
FoxxoniusAugustus
The Ford is practically brand new. It's not even ten years old yet.
SisyphusRollin
Its a baby.
L0rdinquisit0r
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-navy-ford-raw-sewage-overflows
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uss-gerald-ford-us-iran-co">flows">https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-navy-ford-raw-sewage-overflows
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uss-gerald-ford-us-iran-conflict-iran-faces-us-wrath-but-5-000-sailors-on-uss-ford-face-650-failing-toilets-11130048
there are 650 toilets, all vacuum connected to each other and it only takes 1 to F the rest. seems the back of teh toilets are falling off.
thrael
oh jesus *any* of the toilets can be the single point of failure for the whole system? That's some dumb fuck engineering right there.
SisyphusRollin
It's not exactly like that, they can cut off pressure to certain areas. We had a shitter break on my deployment and the F"n marines training near it just kept shitting in it. About a foot above the line is where the poop stopped. Was fixed without cutting all other shitters etc, just had to charge it a bit and BOOM I had lower ranked sailors cleaning human shit off walls for a day.
L0rdinquisit0r
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-us-aircraft-carrier-uss-gerald-r-ford-battles-massive-toilet-failure-amid-iran-tensions/ The clogs are mainly caused by calcium build-up in the pipes and by improper items like t-shirts and mop heads being flushed.
"Improper items" perhaps the young crew dont want to go to war?
DwayneTheCrackJohnson
Just like it says on this post, you mean...?
L0rdinquisit0r
the post is about a flase flag operation to justify war with iran "think of all those young men lost" "join today" "down with iran" and the ususal propoganda the govt makes of a crisis.
I am suggesting its the young crew just dont plain want to go to war to suit a bunch of old suits playing golf and taking bets on the outcome. "shitter's fucked" or a ship with a history of it is an easier form of sabotage to get away with.
DwayneTheCrackJohnson
You are suggesting what this post is already saying.
throwawaygizmo
To start with the crew had their deployment extended by Trump. Golly, who knew a guy that called troops sucker and losers wouldn't give a shit about the people under his command. People have missed funerals, weddings, etc. Moral has to be a problem.
abmoraz
There have been reports of the US Ford having toilet issues going back at least 7 weeks. The earliest I found was from early January when it was deployed in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela. Most of the reports seem to originate from social media and blogs of dubious veracity all all seem to cite each other as the source... so... there was probably a clogged toilet at one point, but I doubt it's as severe as this post states.
GallusTadius
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela
abmoraz
That's the early article I mentioned (it's from January 17th). It also doesn't mention anything about the clogs being intentionally used as a false flag but instead speculates it's because the soldiers are college-aged kids on their own for the first time and don't understand that flushing things doesn't magically make it go away. All the articles about the Ford being used as a false target to start a war are from much more dubious sources.
Tattooedpariah
Sailors know better. Source: in my 21st year as a Sailor.
abmoraz
21yr veterans should know better. 1st year ensigns who are dumb-ass kids... maybe not
Tattooedpariah
The first time the system goes down, training is given to all hands.. by the 3rd or 4th time, you wind up having people standing watch in the heads...
raitchison
More likely the sewage system on the ship is just junk.
Tattooedpariah
It was when i was stationed on her from 2014-2018...
Bojovnik84
Which is probably one of the thoughts on why they picked it to be sacrificed as a tool to start the war. Don't want a brand new one being your false flag.
raitchison
This is literally the newest supercarrier in the fleet.
Bojovnik84
Well, then maybe due to the problems. Not sure who would be even considering this in the first place.
raitchison
They wouldn't, it's dumb AF as a concept
L0rdinquisit0r
$400K each time they flush the lines out with acid.
lackinglife
Yea I was reading about it just yesterday. Basically there was a miscommunication somewhere along the design phase and it has too few toilets to begin with, They tried a new system that was terrible in the long run, and pipes are calcified. Basically a perfect shit storm that needed to be dealt with at dock and instead they got shipped out.
Just another stunning action demanded by our leader
Gameshow
ONE tampon can stop a billion dollar boat