All posts tagged "Navy"

A Black war hero's family denounced President Donald Trump's reported move to rename the USS Doris Miller.

On Thursday, CNN revealed that the Navy is taking steps to rename the USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier that's still being built, and has already stopped referring to it by the name meant to honor the Pearl Harbor hero.

Doris Miller is known for his response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was portrayed in the 2001 movie "Pearl Harbor" by Cuba Gooding Jr. The reported renaming comes as Trump has dismissed the dismal conditions of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and ordered the USS Doris Miller to rip out its electromagnetic catapults in favor of steam-powered systems....

The Navy is weighing whether to put President Donald Trump's name on an aircraft carrier currently named after Doris Miller.

CNN reported the possible switch on Thursday, noting that the Navy has effectively stopped internally referring to the ship as the USS Doris Miller. The effort to rename the USS Doris Miller has been underway since earlier this year, an anonymous source told CNN.

"Who could possibly be surprised that Donald Trump thinks that he's more befitting an honor like this than a World War II and American war hero?" Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said during a CNN interview on Thursday. "Doris Miller, this is a man. Donald Trump is a five-time draft dodger. He's called veterans suckers and losers. He refused to go to an American military cemetery in Europe because it was raining."...

Another fiasco has struck a Navy warship as a guided-missile destroyer lost power for four days in the middle of one of the most tense maritime zones on Earth while President Donald Trump has downplayed worrisome conditions for sailors serving at sea, according to reports on Monday.

Military service members aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold spent four grueling days without working toilets, potable water, hot meals and air conditioning as the ship baked in the brutal South China Sea heat after a total power failure, The Daily Beast reported.

The warship, which was built 30 years ago to shoot down enemy aircraft, sink enemy ships and hit targets on land, was in the middle of standard patrols in the Indo-Pacific when its generators gave out, Navy Cdr. Matthew Comer, a spokesperson for the 7th Fleet, told CNN....

The Navy is looking at a "major redesign" of its new aircraft carriers because President Donald Trump disagrees with their "looks."

According to a Saturday report by the Washington Post, the Navy is considering the feasibility of moving a multistory tower that acts as a command center for aircraft carriers.

The report comes after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Trump ordered future aircraft carriers to move from electromagnetic catapults to steam-powered ones and amid the nine-month deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln, where sailors have jumped overboard and attempted suicide as conditions continue to deteriorate....

President Donald Trump is making matters worse for already embattled Navy sailors with his latest demand for steam catapults, per Politico.

According to reporting on Friday, Trump's costly order for aircraft carriers to ditch their electromagnetic catapults for steam-powered systems is "compounding" pressures as the Navy deals with poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

"The Navy is really coming under the gun now," a U.S. official told Politico. "We have ships pushing their limits in the Middle East and the Caribbean with no end in sight."...

CNN anchor Erin Burnett called the conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln "shocking" during a live broadcast on Thursday as new details emerged about dire troop morale.

Burnett spoke with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who sits on the Armed Services Committee. The lawmaker wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asking for information about the troops on naval ships and pushed back on Hegseth's claims.

"Hegseth trying to characterize these powerful, credible reports as fake news is really a disservice and profoundly disrespectful to the sailors who are on the USS Abraham Lincoln and enduring these hardships," Blumenthal said. ...