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Ouch. Best I can offer is, the old adage that a combat ready unit is rarely inspection ready and vice versa. https://www.cpf.navy.mil/News/Article/2825105/uss-frank-cable-begins-regional-indo-pacific-patrol/

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Sorry Mark, that is bullshit.

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Yeah it is. The ship should look better. I'm being uncharacteristically positve. Hopefully things will turn around a bit with the new congress.

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Even in the middle of fully supporting the WESTPAC fleet as well as the San Diego REFTRA ships, the good ship Niagara Falls (AFS 3) still managed to stay looking good as well as having a high morale. We were inspection ready because we did our jobs well, not in spite of it.

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Damn, crew is paid for & paint is cheap,

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The Frank Cable was submarine Squadron 4 tender when I left the Navy in 1983. It wasn't new then. It certainly looks dreadful now.

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I know that when I was a DivO, many, many years ago, my CO’s would have never allowed this to happen, even on a deployment that had only one port visit. I have come to the decision to blame it on the lack of paint due to the auto industry using Haze Gray on their vehicles!

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This is a vivid visual image of the priorities of the Navy. They care about something, but it’s not their ships. This is an image of moral rot. Ernest J. King, thou should’st be with us at this hour.

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Yes, she looks rough. But she still gets the job done and if we are measuring the paint job as a measure of the whole ship I think we are missing the big picture. She is there for many reasons, mostly in support of AUKUS initiatives.

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