US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

The news regarding the USS Gerald Ford just keeps getting worse.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/03/u-s-navy-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-uss-gerald-r-ford-might-be-out-of-action-for-14-months/

Not just forced to withdraw from combat ops due that laundry fire...
But now looking like a significant amount of damage to add to the compounded maintenance issues.
Now, What's odd is that the USS Nimitz's decommissioning was cancelled and return to service announced almost immediately with news of the fire breaking.

The notion that a simple laundry fire burned for 30hrs and caused enough damage to necessitate a minimum 1yr in repair and overhaul for an essentially brand new ship?
Is IMHO absolutely ludicrous.
Far more to this than is being reported, I'd lean towards deliberate sabotage rather than an Iranian missile, but either way?
Very telling of broader USN morale and readiness.

Iraqi resistance getting more active.

https://thecradle.co/articles/eight-iraqi-resistance-attacks-hit-us-victoria-base-near-baghdad-airport

They don't as far as i know need ministeral approval if they are classed as refueling- only stops. This caused a bit of controversy when the plane carrying shackled Palestinians that were being deported by Ice landed at Shannon.

Yes, I think you are the only poster who understood my point.

You cannot criticise Israel and excuse Iran, as many of the anti-US and anti-Israeli posters are doing. That is logically incoherent and hypocritical.

They are not Iraqi resistance, they are Iranian proxies.

Cyprus did not allow US troops use their territory, nor did UK for their base in Cyprus nor did France for their base in Abu Dhabi, they went way out of their way to not get involved

Still got attacked

Same for Azerbaijan whom also got attacked despite not having foreign bases, disliking Trump due to his support of their enemies in Armenia, and being mostly same Shia religion and ethnicity as good chunk of Iran is

Also got attacked

I for one don’t want this country getting attacked by a bunch of Middle Eastern nutcases because we have US companies here and have deep ties to both Europe and US which our whole economy depends on, you have fallen so far down the self hating rabbit hole you are not able to see just how bizarre your stance is

Sailors on board whose 6 month deployment has been extended twice and who will likely be 11 months on board before they get home.
The same sailors who have reportedly being disrupting and blocking the toilets aboard.

The ship is on its 1st full deployment, yes there are issues reported with the ordnance lifts and EMALS that were primary reasons it's workup period since 2023 to its 1st operational deployment in June 2025 have been so long.
That said, those were reported as dealt with and the ship declared fully operational.
Maintenance corners being cut on a nominally brand new ship that still had the builders aboard as late as 2025?
Doesn't ring true, whilst it is a new class of ship, with new systems.
The US has 85yrs+ experience of high tempo carrier operations, something far more insidious than delayed maintenance is at play here.

Micheal Martin seems to have a hard on for getting tight with some kind of hard military alignment. I thought his overlooking of party colleagues for the presidency race in favour of topgun was very much to have a president who'd bang the miliatary adventurism drum.

Any way before this current fiasco Trump was doing an excellent job alienating NATO allies, first with his leakage to Putin over Ukraine, and then full frontal with his personal desire to "have Greenland".

All this war with Iran will do is drive more renewables.

Thanks, I don't follow naval matters so that's interesting.

I would expect long periods without land leave would cause problems. Wasn't it naval personal disruption that was a major impetus for the Soviet revolution?

The 1905 and 1917 Russian revolutions aswell as the German Reich revolutions towards late 1918 all had a significant naval component.
Similarly in Brazil in the 19th Century and in other febrile situations the navy often became a hotbed of revolution as the control of a navy offered revolutionary leaders a means of controlling a nations most powerful weapons.
Naval vessels of the Gun era in particular, must be seen as powerful weapons that could fall under the sway of a charismatic leader with relatively few people needed for control, versus say taking the Bastille, or the GPO.

Often labelled as mutiny rather than revolution.
Indeed the US Navy has dealt with fairly charged racial/civil rights confrontation aboard a Carrier during the Vietnam War that's now known as the Kitty Hawk riot.

iran now threatening to mine the entire gulf coast if attacked