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Roll Call: Costs rise more than $100B to maintain Navy ships with clogging toilets and other issues
The Navy’s estimated cost of lifetime maintenance for six classes of surface ships and submarines soars beyond original estimates
The Navy recently decided to use a different sewage system on its two newest aircraft carriers, one that is modeled on the toilets in commercial aircraft.
But flushing for more than 4,000 people living aboard a carrier turned out to be a harder job than it is on a jetliner. Now the massive ships require regular acid flushes — at $400,000 each — just to keep things flowing.
The current and future price for that particular failure of foresight is not yet known. But the wider cost of addressing unexpected operating and support issues for Navy warships is now coming into clearer view, thanks to a Government Accountability Office audit made public Tuesday.
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WNU Editor: It is bad enough that these maintenance costs are out of control, what is even worse is that they have no idea on what to do to solve it ....
.... “Pretty much across the board, they didn’t give us any details on what they plan to do,” Oakley said.
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