The toilets on the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier keep failing

The Navy's USS Gerald R. Ford is deployed off the coast of Venezuela and is dealing with plumbing issues nearly every day.

The Toilets On The U.S. Navy's Newest Supercarrier Are Still Clogging

The Vacuum, Collection, Holding and Transfer sewage system on USS Gerald R. Ford was developed for cruise ships, but maybe ...
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Major plumbing headache haunts $13 billion U.S. carrier off the coast of Venezuela

A March 18, 2025 email from the engineering department sent out to all chiefs on the ship said there were 205 breakdowns in ...
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UPDATED: U.S. Destroyer, Survey Vessel Conduct First Taiwan Strait Transit of 2026

This post was updated with a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. A pair of U.S. naval vessels carried out Washington’s first ...
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Pope Leo XIV names Bishop Ronald Hicks as new archbishop of New York

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday announced a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, tapping Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois to lead one of the nation’s largest and most influential ...