Sad news for the USS Miami

geetrue · 03-19-13, 10:46 PM

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/0...ertain-031813/

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PORTLAND, Maine — The Navy’s commitment to repairing a nuclear submarine severely damaged by an arsonist last spring is wavering under the realities of mandatory budget cuts, officials say.
The Navy announced last summer that it intended to repair the Miami at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard with a goal of returning it to service in 2015. The cost of repairing the vessel would be about $450 million, which the Navy said would be cost-effective because the 22-year-old submarine could serve another 10 years.

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“The Navy needs every submarine in our inventory. Restoring Miami remains a high priority. But it necessarily must compete with other high naval priorities during this period of restricted budgets,” said Navy Rear Adm. Rick Breckenridge, commander of Submarine Group 2 in Groton, Conn.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s 4,700 civilian workers will be forced to take 22 days off without pay between April and the end of the federal fiscal year Sept. 30 under forced federal budget cuts.

Workers plan to rally Wednesday against the mandatory budget cuts.
Adding insult to injury for shipyard workers was another fire Monday aboard the submarine just three days after former shipyard worker Casey James Fury, 25, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for setting the fire that ravaged the USS Miami in dry dock at the Kittery shipyard during a 20-month overhaul.

Red October1984 · 03-19-13, 10:51 PM

That's a darn shame.... I hate when this kind of thing happens.... Knock on wood...the USS Missouri SSN-780 based in Groton is still unharmed.

Wait a minute....

You are the one that I supposedly "Owe 500$"

Jimbuna · 03-20-13, 08:11 AM

Not looking good for her but on the plus side, if she'd been a Royal Navy boat she would have already been written off.

Platapus · 03-20-13, 06:15 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/justic...iref=allsearch

The guy that set the fire was sentenced to 17 years in the slam and ordered to pay restitution of $400,000,000

I wonder how much that would work out per week?

Jimbuna · 03-20-13, 07:09 PM

I'm wondering how much of that sum he'll actually pay?

ETR3(SS) · 03-31-13, 12:03 AM

I didn't hear about the $400 million part. Seems a little...impossible? What are they gonna do if he can't pay it? Take away his birthday?

03-19-13, 10:51 PM	#2
Red October1984 Airplane Nerd Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 6,243 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	That's a darn shame.... I hate when this kind of thing happens.... Knock on wood...the USS Missouri SSN-780 based in Groton is still unharmed. Wait a minute.... You are the one that I supposedly "Owe 500$" __________________

03-20-13, 08:11 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Not looking good for her but on the plus side, if she'd been a Royal Navy boat she would have already been written off. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-20-13, 06:15 PM	#4
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/justic...iref=allsearch The guy that set the fire was sentenced to 17 years in the slam and ordered to pay restitution of $400,000,000 I wonder how much that would work out per week? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

03-20-13, 07:09 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I'm wondering how much of that sum he'll actually pay? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-31-13, 12:03 AM	#6
ETR3(SS) Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between test depth and periscope depth Posts: 3,021 Downloads: 175 Uploads: 16	I didn't hear about the $400 million part. Seems a little...impossible? What are they gonna do if he can't pay it? Take away his birthday? __________________ USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G) Comms Div 2003-2006 Qualified 19 November 03 Yes I was really on a submarine.