To quote Clarkson from later on that episode, “If you’re the sort of person who can’t walk by a window without an uncontrollable urge to lick it; then this is the car for you!”

“The men will have to wear the missiles as hats!” My favorite line in my favorite defense procurement movie.

Hay balers are the worst.

During WWII on submarines they would take stale bread and re-vivify it by sprinkling it with condensed milk and lightly baking it... Not perfect, but grandpa told me it was edible...

She doesn’t even need remediation, they already stripped her. The main expense would come from needing to dredge a liner slip to get her in, and the EPA/DEEP headache that would be.

My old boat, the USS Hartford. Always good to see her hitting something she’s supposed to, vice Italy, or the USS New Orleans.

Going for that tie in with The Death of Stalin? Glorious idea Comrade Kristen, though I suppose the whole Fancy Kristen shtick is going to have you sent to Gulag...

Funeral? Hope it’s not your Opa. I enjoyed your article about his Jeep ride. My condolences.

You think thats old? The boat I was on all the motors were from 1975 or before, the Air compressors were made in 1954, and we were commissioned in 1996... And the “new” instrumentation used VME architecture, so totally state of the 80's...

Who gets 3 officers to drive him to work, lies on his stomach and passes gas all day? -Boom operator

Would you call them.... Hokey?

Already exists, between NAVSEA and Bechtel’s own specifications to NNS...

Now it actually is a total loss lube system...

Eee she’s champion!

My wonder is, Where was the Chief? Where was the QMC or OSC? Where was the SME on the radar? Where was the veteran of years of maneuvering through congested waters? It sounds like the watch team was Ensign Schmuckatelli and Seaman Timmy.

The hull is steel, the superstructure is Al.

I was on the USS Hartford for the collision on March 20 2009. We were run down, (we failed to give way), by the USS New Orleans in the Straits of Hormuz. The short reason why was complacency on the part of the crew in Control. They had made several dozen straits transits in the past 66 days at sea and had simply…

Ain’t no such thing as a “minor” ballast tank problem. I was on the Hartford for the collision, nearly put the Thresher and Scorpion 3 section...

Dammit I got dust in my eyes while reading this. I’m certainly not crying.