“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite said.
The Navy has decided to scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard, the amphibious assault ship that caught fire over the summer in San Diego, officials announced Monday.
Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite said the decision was made after officials determined the damage was too extensive and the cost of repair too high to justify salvaging the vessel.
“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Braithwaite said.
"Following an extensive material assessment in which various courses of action were considered and evaluated, we came to the conclusion that it is not fiscally responsible to restore her.”
The fire broke out July 12 and took four days to extinguish. The ship, which works to deploy elements of Marine landing forces, was based at Naval Base San Diego after having spent six years in Japan.
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WNU Editor: This hurts. This is a major US Navy warship that will no longer be in the fleet.
More News On The U.S. Navy Scrapping The USS Bonhomme Richard
Navy will scrap fire-ravaged Bonhomme Richard -- Navy Times
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Navy will decommission, scrap USS Bonhomme Richard, the warship that burned for days off San Diego this summer -- USA Today
Navy says rebuilding USS Bonhomme Richard after fire would be too expensive -- Stars and Stripes
Navy Will Spend Around $30 Million To Scrap Fire-Damaged USS Bonhomme Richard -- Warzone/The Drive
Easier, probably quicker and maybe even cheaper to build a whole new one.
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notice nothing is still being said about the cause of the fire.
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ReplyDeleteThe USS Bonhomme Richard will be decommissioned after a fire suspected to be caused by arson tore through the ship in July while it was docked in San Diego, according to military officials.
“Although it saddens me that it is not cost-effective to bring her back,,” Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite said in a news release issued on Monday, “I know this ship’s legacy will continue to live on through the brave men and women who fought so hard to save her as well as the sailors and Marines who served aboard her during her 22-year history.”
Investigators looking into the cause of the July 12 fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, while the ship was undergoing repairs, suspect the fire may have been caused by arson and have identified a U.S. Navy sailor as a potential suspect, a Defense Department source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to NBC 7 in August.
Supposing NCIS has the right sailor. My next question did he do it because he was pissed of at the Navy, at America or at life in general? Was he a lone wolf? Or was he not?
ReplyDeleteEither one is just as bad.
If it was the former does the white or black guy haven BL or Antifa sympathies? Fewer people agitate in the military than in the general population, but it still happens.
Cut at paste jockey at 1 o'clock high.
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