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One of the youngest Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines will be inactivated after waiting more than a decade for an overhaul, the Navy announced on Friday.

USS Boise (SSN-764), currently in a drydock at HII Newport News Shipbuilding, Va., has been scheduled for a regular overhaul since Fiscal Year 2016 but has spent years pierside waiting for repairs. While waiting for a slot at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Va., the 34-year-old submarine lost its dive certification in 2017. After years at the pier, the Navy decided to enlist HII to repair the submarine at Newport News. The boat was towed to Newport News in 2018, back to Naval Station Norfolk and back again to Newport News in 2020. From then, Bosie waited until the service awarded a $1.2 billion contract to HII for the work in 2024. Combined, the Navy has invested about $1.6 billion Boise, based on Pentagon contract announcements.

Now, after 11 years, the Navy intends to inactivate the attack boat and focus the resources on other new construction and repair projects. Faced with a ship that has been idle for more than a decade, the cost for the repair versus other efforts wasn’t with it, the sea service said.

“This strategic move allows us to reallocate America’s highly-skilled workforce to our highest priorities: delivering new Virginia and Columbia-class submarines and improving the readiness of the current fleet,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said in a Friday statement.
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A decade pierside with at least a skeleton crew, amorphous plans and scattered funding, followed by an unceremonious retirement. It all sounds very Russian.

USN will receive at least two Virginia-class SSNs this year, so it's probably a good opportunity to balance the inventory books.
 
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US and Israel can barely intercept supersonic missiles a quarter of the time and we're supposed to believe they'll be able to intercept hypersonic missiles?
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When did anyone say Israel was getting this? First foreign users will probably be Japan and AEGIS ashore host countries, and then maybe Australia.
Ignoring Israel since their MIC is just an offshoot of the Americans, do you really think that all the decades of research and hundreds of billions of dollars poured into missile defense resulted in crappy AD that can't match 1% of the mighty S-400? I advise you to try not to formulate your entire perception of missile defenses from instagram reels. Missile interception "rates" are a very nuanced topic. There are many ways people will count them to give the impression that they catastrophically failed or performed excellently, and differences in how certain countries approach intercepting a single missile.
 
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There was a small fire onboard the carrier Tuesday, a Navy spokesperson confirmed to USNI News. The ship’s force and Norfolk Naval Shipyard personnel immediately contained and extinguished the fire, the spokesperson said.
Three sailors were injured as a result of the fire. The sailors were treated by the ship’s medical team and returned to full duty, according to the spokesperson.
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Dan F. was alarmed when his daughter, a Marine aboard the USS Tripoli, a warship deployed to fight the Iran war, sent him a photo of a meal served on the ship. A lunch tray, two-thirds empty, carried one small scoop of shredded meat and a single folded tortilla.

A picture of a mid-April dinner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, shared by a service member with his family, was similarly unappetizing – a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.
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What happened to the lobsters???

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That was a disguised recruitment ad. Get interested cus you think working for Hegseth means all you'll be doing is partying with champagne, lobster tails and wagyu. Sign up and end up in a warship ship with a quarter of it off limits due to fire damage headed to Iran while being fed half a ghetto public school lunch. Gotcha, dumbass!
 
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As many of you may know already, the sitting US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is a
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of Jesus Christ.

To this end, Secretary Hegseth frequently attends and leads prayer gatherings at the Pentagon and across Capitol Hill to spread the Gospel and share his faith in God.

On Wednesday, April 15 — during one such gathering in honor of the Lord — the good secretary recited a prayer titled CSAR 25:17 which he believed was derived from the Bible in general, and Ezekiel 25:17 in particular.


However — upon further review — it became clear that Pete's prayer was in fact
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written by legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for his 1994 classic
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.

Interestingly, aside from filmmaking, Mr. Tarantino — who is an American by birth, but now a resident of Israel by choice — is also an avid supporter of the IDF:

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To their credit, the Department of War has since acknowledged Mr. Tarantino's incredible influence on its holy warriors and their pious prayers:

 
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