Here’s another story showing what a clown show the United States military has become. Sailors on board the USS Nimitz were told that contaminated drinking water on the ship was safe to drink and were denied medical treatment after the water made them sick.
RT:
A US Navy whistleblower has reportedly accused his superiors on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier of lying to crew members about the severity of a fuel leak into their drinking water and denying them medical treatment when they were sickened by the contaminated fluid.
“We were exposed to an unhealthy amount of JP-5,” a sailor on the carrier told Business Insider, referring to a common type of kerosene-based jet fuel. The media outlet, which posted its article on Saturday, said it didn’t identify the sailor out of concern that he might face retribution from the Navy for speaking out.
The incident occurred in mid-September, when members of the nearly 3,000-person crew noticed discoloration and a foul smell in the water that they use for drinking and showering. After initially advising the crew to drink only bottled water, the ship’s commanding officer and executive officer later announced that the Nimitz’s normal water supply was safe to use.
“People believed the CO and the XO, and people were showering in this stuff,” the whistleblower said. The next day, the officers reversed course again, saying the water was unsafe. However, crew members who sought medical attention after suffering such symptoms as nausea and skin rashes were allegedly turned away.
Commanding officers of a major US Navy ship can’t even keep their drinking water from being contaminated by fuel and we are to believe that these same people can wage war on Russia and China?
Good luck with that.
The US military is in serious decline. It reached its peak somewhere around the 1990s or early 2000s and it has been downhill ever since.
There was also another story that came out recently about the US Army losing a war against mold.
Who the hell wants to join a force that treats their people like this? Where’s the accountability for the officers that told their sailors to drink contaminated water and later denied them treatment? Seems like the only people who get punished inside this system are the ones who expose the bad things that are going on. The whole system needs to collapse.
