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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

This is what is meant by being caught with your pants down.

Buggery, then, on both sides of 'the English speaking pond' as I 'astutely' pointed out in my 'post recently! http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2460041&postcount=1800

These defective parts, each probably valued on the order of $10,000 or less, have kept the $2.7 billion attack submarine Minnesota languishing in an overhaul for two years, while engineers attempt to cut out and replace a difficult to reach part near the nuclear reactor. Meanwhile, Navy engineers are scouring aircraft carriers and other submarines for problems and criminal investigators are gathering evidence.