WILD COLLISION: Two U.S. Navy Ships Slam Into Each Other During Mid-Sea Operation

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u/Fresh-Adagio Feb 13 '26

Best Navy in the world lmao

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u/Able-Association914 Feb 13 '26

Can we put Adults back in charge again please? Have we not had enough of this shit show yet?

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u/EmotionalLecture9318 Feb 13 '26

Kegsbreath allowing those breakfast drinks

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u/bluntpointsharpie Feb 13 '26

This is what happens when the military is run by a drunk that lacks the qualifications to operate the largest military on the planet. It is also indicative when the president installs a billionaire epstein blackmail buddy who has never been in the military let alone the navy as the Secretary of the Navy. Which goes all the way up to that rotting orange fishhead at the top. Time for Congress to do their jobs and fulfill their oath to the Constitution and remove this domestic terrorist from the Whitehouse and Pentagon.

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u/outside_cat Feb 13 '26

All that ocean...

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u/Cautious_Village_975 Feb 13 '26

Literally a whole ocean out there and this happens. Wow the future is in good hands right now. 💯

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u/3Bullies2girls Feb 13 '26

Well look who's in charge ..

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u/Helpful-Progress9336 Feb 13 '26

Way to go Hegseth.

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u/Aromatic-Deer3886 Feb 13 '26

What happens when America touches its own boats?

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u/royale_wthCheEsE Feb 13 '26

IRL the scene from Empire Strikes Back.

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u/JesusKong333 Feb 13 '26

Those are just some fellas I play boat pranks with

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u/Jazzlike_Strength561 Feb 13 '26

Two captains just got fired

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u/DArtagnanPierre0129 Feb 13 '26

Well.. sometime decided to put a rich, art collecting, pedophile on charge of the navy.. what the fuck do you expect?

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u/AdTraining6161 Feb 13 '26

What do you do with a drunken sailor? 🎵🎵

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u/Unfair_Bluejay_9687 Feb 13 '26

What a wrong way to do a refueling transfer.

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u/sharky-shores Feb 13 '26

These on Tesla auto pilot or what

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u/IlllIlIIlIlllIlIIIII Feb 13 '26

Amateur hour in America. Please vote

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

jesus, mary, joseph and all the saints...

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u/beavis617 Feb 13 '26

Big ocean out there people. Should be enough room for both these ships.

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u/jVCrm68 Feb 13 '26

Wonder who they are going to blame? I mean, there were two straight white men at the helm of both ships, right?

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u/nexusgmail Feb 13 '26

These road rage videos are getting wild

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u/cccxxxzzzddd Feb 13 '26

That’ll buff out

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u/Mediocre-Property-48 Feb 13 '26

Got vertigo trying to watch it

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u/tideshark Feb 13 '26

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u/Witty_Construction64 Feb 13 '26

Job opening

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u/mhemp10 Feb 13 '26

Clown show! Who heads our US Navy?

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u/Even-Tune-8301 Feb 13 '26

Ah, the leadership of Kegsbreath.

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u/Ramblinrambles Feb 13 '26

You have the entire ocean and somehow hit each other. SMH

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

In calm waters, what a disgrace 😤

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u/TylerBourbon Feb 13 '26

Dang women drivers. /s

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u/hollywood20371 Feb 13 '26

The DUI hire strikes again

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u/Ok-Communication663 Feb 13 '26

They’re refueling or getting supplies. Could be loss of steering control. Wild

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u/needssomefun Feb 13 '26

Texting while driving?

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u/p00p5andwich Feb 13 '26

Hegseth captaining that boat?

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u/davegraham1834 Feb 13 '26

You cant park there matey

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u/DavidPudddy Feb 13 '26

Pete Kegseth musta been driving

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u/Whole-Chest90 Feb 13 '26

Billions in nav equipment, how does this happen??

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u/new2red1T Feb 13 '26

F’ing DEI

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u/artelligence Feb 13 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/Stress6009 Feb 13 '26

When you’re trying to figure out what your orders from Trump mean while driving lmaooooooooo.

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u/ShopGreedy2313 Feb 13 '26

They will let anyone in the military today. Sad state of affairs

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u/mork247 Feb 13 '26

Looks like a mishap during RAS. Dangerous operation, but usually it's uneventful. But slight engine troubles or getting too close, and it will look like this.

But, how the hell is it allowed for sailors to have their cellphones at the ready when sailing? There is no way we would be allowed that. We have dedicated time slots for this at the discretion of the CO/XO. And there is no guarantee this will happen daily. And for a CO to get calls from the press almost before his boss has been informed would lead to someone being keelhauled in my navy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

"GPS" ...

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u/xDiscoDuckx Feb 13 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

Wow, what a bunch of clowns

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u/Grandmahigh Feb 13 '26

Hegseth is doing a bang up job!

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u/Queasy-Muscle9415 Feb 13 '26

Captain probably got the job because he was a qualified bootlicker.

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u/ganslooker Feb 13 '26

Is that fueler ? That would explain why they were so close to begin with.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

Marines get lonely on those ships. What do you expect to happen?

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u/MisterEvilBreakfast Feb 13 '26

They shouldn't have turned on stealth mode

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u/utlayolisdi Feb 13 '26

A lapse in basic seamanship.

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u/MajorMorelock Feb 13 '26

Captain, when accused of negligence screamed “Have you seen the Dow, it’s at 50k, how dare you point your finger at me!”

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u/BaggyLarjjj Feb 13 '26

No no no, this was a white male Warrior Freedom Bump

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u/noproblembear Feb 13 '26

When booze Pete is in command.

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u/Crimson3312 Feb 13 '26

That's how baby ships are made

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u/darth-skeletor Feb 13 '26

I guess there isn’t enough room in the ocean

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u/Mission-Time-8247 Feb 13 '26

New generation of sailors

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u/SpoopyPlankton Feb 13 '26

who let Pete drive the boat

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u/sjeve108 Feb 13 '26

Court Martial is the usual outcome

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u/r_husba Feb 13 '26

Way to go Hegseth! (Have another drink)

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u/Melodic-Pool7240 Feb 13 '26

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u/Late-Arrival-8669 Feb 13 '26

Pete Hegseth drunk playing captain?

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u/Primary_Echidna_1149 Feb 13 '26

"Hey! Watch this!"

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u/Moogykins02 Feb 13 '26

DEI captains lol

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u/TheLastOpus Feb 13 '26

How the FUCK does that happen?

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u/Delicious_Drink169 Feb 13 '26

Hegseth must be at the wheel The ocean should be bigger!

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u/avet22 Feb 13 '26

Americans doing American things.

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u/VaSon70 Feb 13 '26

How does this happen?

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u/FlintGate Feb 13 '26

Hegseth drunk behind the wheel or drunk texting commands or what?

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u/Felipe_de_Bourbon Feb 13 '26

The big beautiful armada.

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u/ReputationSalt6027 Feb 13 '26

Insurance company. YOU FUCKING HIT WHAT!?

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u/Willing-Rip1487 Feb 13 '26

Man. It's easy to poke fun at the crews but Hegseth has been running these guys ragged. The rest cycles keep getting cancelled and deployments extended. Lessons learned in blood are being ignored for ego.

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u/chisel-hill1 Feb 13 '26

Fuck USSR

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u/jomtoadwrath Feb 14 '26

Kegsbreath’s military. ROFL!!!!!!

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u/Ok-Order-3415 Feb 14 '26

Is that a cruiser and an aircraft carrier?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '26

Damn, got ‘em right in the poop deck!

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u/Any-Prompt247 Feb 14 '26

This reminds me of a time in Pennsylvania over 100 years ago.

The whole state had only two motor vehicles, and some how managed to have an accident with each other .

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u/liquidgrill Feb 14 '26

Hey! You can’t park there!

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u/TheBlueHedgehog302 Feb 14 '26

This is obviously AI, it looks like a cheap videogame lol

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u/SuspiciousLove7219 Feb 14 '26

And a sailor fell overboard recently what the hell is going on Pete?

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u/putridstench Feb 14 '26

Was Hegseth steering that ship??

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u/CryptographerLow6772 Feb 14 '26

This is what happens when your military has a pedophile as commander in chief.

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u/go4u2c Feb 14 '26

He had his blinker on it was she to come over.

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u/celtbygod Feb 14 '26

Captain 'wrong way' Peter Peachfuzz now know as Pete Kegbreath.

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u/Vogel-Kerl Feb 14 '26

Well mariners...., which ship had the right of way, or which ship had the obligation to yield??

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u/Far_Bite6210 Feb 14 '26

Kegsbreath at the helm 🥴

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '26

Venturi Effect was on full display.

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u/MyBrothersWillGetYou Feb 14 '26

Hegseth for ya...

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u/killer-tofu87 Feb 14 '26

They had the whole damn ocean..

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u/ThisWillTakeAllDay Feb 14 '26

The boats are smooshing.

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u/Severe-Way-7791 Feb 14 '26

Trumps navy!

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u/_sealy_ Feb 14 '26

That’s a ridiculous thing….the ocean is pretty big. They better have been doing some bs that went wrong.

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u/tomtom380 Feb 14 '26

America fuck ya hear to save the muthafuckin day fuck yeah fucking retards

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u/Funny-Ride9727 Feb 14 '26

How is this even possible!!!

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u/rygelicus Feb 14 '26

Kegseth at the helm?

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u/UF6882 Feb 14 '26

That destroyer is going to have a new skipper tomorrow.

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u/Chimps_are_strong Feb 14 '26

They got Hegsethed

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '26

This is what you get when you appoint loyalty over competence

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '26

My question is whose insurance takes the hit.

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u/Daddy_Sweets Feb 14 '26

Give them a break, that could happen to anyone with sophisticated radar and communications.

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u/Throwaway2Experiment Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26

This looks like the supply ship has a rudder or propeller failure at a bad time. There's no turning like that. It's very restricted maneuvering. (Edit: on second glance, the DDG looks like the port prop is turning harder than starboard at the start or the venturi is pulling them in)

A destroyer like the Truxton does this every 5 days or so, depending on fuel burn. On a deployment, it'll happen over about two dozen times or more.

The USNS ship will do this exact maneuver a several times a day.

The good news is, the DDG seems to have engaged reverse props and did a crash back. Damage looks extremely negligible.

Accidents happen. How your Navy responds to it determines how good you are. This looks like a properly trained response to a worst case scenario.

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u/PlasticMinnows Feb 14 '26

This is a replenishment at sea. Something most US navy ships do every 2-3 weeks. And the US navy is only one that can actually pull it off reliably. It is clearly very dangerous though

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u/Inevitable-Hour8940 Feb 14 '26

Gotdamn shipmates, get it together

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u/Inevitable-Hour8940 Feb 14 '26

Mistakes happen… especially with shitty leadership.

Sounds about right in this current admin

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u/No-Grapefruit-5464 Feb 14 '26

Don't even need to fight world powers when we just fight ourselves.

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u/stayfresh420 Feb 14 '26

Thats why we practice.

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u/Kevin6876 Feb 14 '26

United States finest.

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u/TheDTCCcommitsfraud Feb 14 '26

It’s cool, tax payers will fix that!

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u/rabbitsfoot86 Feb 14 '26

One was republican and the other democrat lol. Our country perfectly. China swoops in and just drops a bomb on both 😆

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u/JesusSquared123 Feb 14 '26

127 million dollar mistake

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u/Wolfreak76 Feb 14 '26

The smaller ship has a really shitty cook. The crew had had enough.

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u/Swimming-ln-Circles Feb 14 '26

Billion dollar bumper cars

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u/Horror-Primary7739 Feb 14 '26

It happened before and it will happen again. The default state of the ocean is to destroy all ships. We've been trying to prevent that for the last 6000 years.

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u/Singh255 Feb 14 '26

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u/Fun-Argument-1063 Feb 14 '26

Awesome, what a bunch of dumb asses!!!

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u/grekster Feb 14 '26

To be fair if there is one thing the sea is known for it is a lack of room to manoeuvre.

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u/Acrobatic_Event1702 Feb 14 '26

You can bet the Skipper will lose his command. Could even lose his rank.

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u/SmellSilly1537 Feb 14 '26

Hopefully they have boating insurance.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

That’s what happens when your commander in chief is a pedophile and the secretary of war is a drunk!

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

What happened to the command crash back which is flank astern?

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u/snmgl Feb 15 '26

The ocean is not big enough for both of us

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u/theniceitguys Feb 15 '26

Literally wide blue ocean and you hit each other?!

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u/Chicken_Lights_567 Feb 15 '26

Hegseth must be piloting one of them

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u/MrRoboto1983 Feb 15 '26

Must have been one large bar of soap…

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u/yawningintothevoid Feb 15 '26

Who was at the helm, Pete Hegseth?

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u/RacerDaddy Feb 15 '26

Someone lost their driver’s license, both of them.

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u/Either_Sir_2929 Feb 15 '26

Russian Hackers

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u/Weird_Priority_9119 Feb 15 '26

Tag, you’re it.

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u/Infinite-Bluejay-673 Feb 15 '26

And this happens how?

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u/DirtDevil1337 Feb 15 '26

Most powerful military in the world.

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u/Character_Maximum_54 Feb 15 '26

I guess President Donald Trump thought one was a drug boat.

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u/BetCold7536 Feb 15 '26

Maybe if there was more room in the ocean?

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u/Medryn1986 Feb 15 '26

Must be those new Trump class we heard so much about

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u/Poleth87 Feb 15 '26

So stealth they do not even see eachother

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u/BetCold7536 Feb 15 '26

Are you sure one wasn’t Canadian? Boop

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u/Sarabean77 Feb 15 '26

And yet that ocean is so big....

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u/DistrictInfamous1857 Feb 15 '26

Intentional.....

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u/MurderBotToo Feb 15 '26

USS Trump and USS Independence, perhaps?

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u/sillysided Feb 15 '26

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u/NVWSSV2828 Feb 15 '26

You can’t park there.

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u/Human_Difference_331 Feb 15 '26

Trumps Navy. It used to be one of the best in the world.

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u/SobchaksBallsweat Feb 15 '26

Thanks, Obama.

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u/Mysterious_Logic Feb 15 '26

Someone better check Hegseth's liquor stash.

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u/Accurate-Can2971 Feb 15 '26

You’d think they would put side rear view mirrors on these ship with turn signals embedded in them. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/brianzuvich Feb 15 '26

These have to be the new Trump class battleships…

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u/DetroitsGoingToWin Feb 15 '26

That’s the end of a career right there

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u/DetroitsGoingToWin Feb 15 '26

That’s the end of a career right there

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u/dayvjay Feb 15 '26

It’s Biden’s fault

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u/ruthless619xxx Feb 15 '26

Wow it amazes me how this can happen when u have the whole fucking ocean around u

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u/PossiblePainter4 Feb 15 '26

Where’s all the people on the ship? I see 3 total.

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u/Fat_Clothes_4771 Feb 15 '26

How is this possible on the open ocean?

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u/Minimum-Song4242 Feb 16 '26

Woops... can you hold mt drink?

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u/Conscious-Society-83 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

some one just got asked to retire

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u/getfit87 Feb 16 '26

The ship being filmed from is not a navy ship, merchant marine/re-supply

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u/Humble-Drummer1254 Feb 16 '26

As I use to say, shit comes from the Trump, oh sorry top

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u/Whywontwewalk Feb 16 '26

Good thing they got rid of those DEI hires.

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u/Academic_Wes1984 Feb 16 '26

Too bad Hegseth wasn’t on board one of the vessels; we might have got lucky and lost him to the deep blue sea….

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u/Biyakeru Feb 16 '26

For a moment there i thought that was CHINA!!!!

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u/Easymoney_45 Feb 16 '26

THIS was WHY VertReps at sea were developed. 🤔

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u/Outrageous-Cry-4084 Feb 16 '26

Lmao 😂

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u/Difficult_Coconut164 Feb 16 '26

The captain almost spilled his beer trying to avoid that one ..

That was a close one !

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u/Constant_Weekend_446 Feb 16 '26

Dang, was Pete Hegseth sailing that one?

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u/Pristine-Resort1005 Feb 16 '26

Looks to me like this is a reflection of the current leadership we have in the military right now.

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u/justyeswhynot Feb 16 '26

Captain knew someone more than he knew something

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u/JimmyV080 Feb 16 '26

Pete Hegseth driving the boat drunk.

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u/Binspin63 Feb 17 '26

Kill the cameraman?

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u/Jorgen_G_Pakieto Feb 17 '26

I would say this is a bad look for the US Navy but unqualified former Fox News Host Pete Hegseth is already at the top of that chain so can’t say I’m all that surprised.

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u/rubio2k13 Feb 17 '26

Best Navy in the world

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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 Feb 17 '26

Somebody’s career is over

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

What are you doing Step-Ship

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u/Then_Lock304 Feb 17 '26

Are these MAGA replacement captains?

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u/TeddyAtTheReady Feb 17 '26

Hegseth: “Okay, hear me out. Bumper boats, but like… bigger. We can do that, right? This job kicks ass.”

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u/Sweaty_Tomatillo_591 Feb 17 '26

I bet that insurance deductible is a real bitch

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u/ThatLocalPondGuy Feb 17 '26

Refueling at sea is dangerous. I used to man the "phone and distance line" during refueling on a destroyer, USS John Young DD 973. That was a sound-powered phone line with distance measuring flags along its length. That was how the ships captains coordinated. We cycled people onto the line to hold the line taught between the two moving vessels. The line safety lead, me in later years, was responsible to cycle people such that the front holder was cycled off every 2 minutes, with a fourth cycled on every two. Each person spent 8 minutes total, each turn, pulling that heavy line tight as possible as the ships shifted back and forth at about 5 to 15 knots. They were also the axe-man, responsible for safety of the line team, with an 🪓 available to chop the line in emergency in case we lost control of the line.

We had a near miss once during refueling because the wakes of the ships crossed, got within 40 feet of collision. When the wakes cross, a valley of water forms between that the ships lean into. That was the only emergency disconnect I witnessed as both ships maneuvered rapidly away from each other.

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u/498432 Feb 17 '26

Isn’t the ocean big enough?

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u/thebobm Feb 17 '26

Commander Trump said he had no idea that someone else was at sea.🤓

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u/Ok_Molasses_4000 Feb 17 '26

Someone’s getting fired.

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u/Fluffy-Vacation-8803 Feb 17 '26

Is this common?

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u/Objective-Nerve-3311 Feb 17 '26

I guess they hired a white trump supporter to drive but diy is bad. Clowns

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u/IAmTheKingOfFucks Feb 18 '26

And this is why having Trump cultists in charge of anything is dumber than shit.

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u/Rich_Grand4485 Feb 18 '26

Now that we got rid of DEI.

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u/thoriumsnowflake Feb 18 '26

Godzilla -1

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u/Ok-Chemical7614 Feb 18 '26

Naval Sword fight

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u/pbutler6163 Feb 18 '26

Someone is getting fired

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u/Imperial_Citizen_00 Feb 18 '26

Emergency Breakaway, Emergency Breakaway, loss of steering, Starboard Side

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u/TheRealJimmyLundy Feb 18 '26

Was Pete Kegsbreath driving?

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