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And if these deployment cycles keep getting extended, if sailors are kept at a high operational tempo for days or weeks or months at a time, people will start fucking up.

And some of those fuck-ups have a chance, as we've already seen, to remove the ship from being combat capable or to remove other ships from being combat capable.

If you're talking from the perspective of U.S.

Marines trying to hold onto an island surrounded by enemies...

This is a really scary thing.

The fact that your main source of air support might not be able to function because somebody fucks up or sabotages it.

There's a fire.

It gets hit.

These boats are not sinkable, but in certain ways, they're a lot more fragile than people are used to thinking of them as being.

Aircraft carriers have been gods of the sea for so long.

I think it really is something people ought to pay attention to.

The fact that this simple laundry fire took the Jerry Ford out of the theater matters.

The longer the U.S.

keeps fighting, the longer we keep our ships deployed chasing Donald Trump's dreams, the higher the odds that something else goes wrong.

Yet, whether it's just exhausted soldiers screwing up, angry sailors sabotaging things to protest an unpopular war, or a damned lucky shot, the Pentagon is continuing to roll those dice every day.

And I guess we'll see what happens next.

That's all I've got for you right now, everybody.

Hopefully we're not invading islands with ground troops by the time this episode comes out, but we might be.

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