US aircraft carrier moves away from Iran war for repairs after fire

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2. Laundry room fires are the most common shipboard fire.

For those who think it’s just a cover story:

1) most shipboard fires start in the laundry room.
2) It’s not the clothes that catch fire, but the lint in the lint filters.
3) These are not like the dryers you have in your utility room. These are industrial machines that generate a large amount of heat.

That being said, for a fire large enough to send a carrier sized ship back to port must have involved several screw-ups. There are (or were, back when I was serving) rules that if the dryer was in use, someone had to be there monitoring it. There were also rules that the lint trap had to be vacuumed after every use.

Now? I wouldn’t put it past this administration (or military in charge) to lie to cover up an attack or sabotage, but I believe (for the moment) this time they are telling the truth. The go-to story for covering something up is to say it’s an engineering problem involving classified systems. Everyone on board is going to know whether or not a laundry fire happened. There are going to be Tik-Toks and Instagram posts. Out of the several thousand people on board, there would be several sailors dumb (or disgruntled) enough to spill the beans about a coverup.

I wonder, though, about sabotage… either a purposefully set fire or something else that the fire is a cover story for*…

*yes, yes, I know I just used up a bunch of electrons saying why that was unlikely, but Kegseth et al are not the brightest crayons in the box, and might have ordered the story over the military’s objections…