Jakebrake wrote:
On second thought, I would just re-name the boat for a real hero~
There is something very fishy about this report. First, there is no verification or confirmation that this order came directly from the president, rather it came from the WH Military Office. Any attempt to put this directly on president Trump is just another political ploy, it is disingenuous at best and a flat out lie at worst.
The WHMO employs 2000 people, units include the: White House Communications Agency, P**********l Airlift Group, White House Medical Unit, Camp David, Marine Helicopter Squadron One, P**********l Food Service, White House T***sportation Agency, White House Social Aides, and Military Aides to the President. The Social Aides, of whom there are 40-45 at a time, are uniformed officers of the rank of 1st Lieutenant / Lieutenant, junior grade to Major / Lieutenant Commander, and have a purely social role, taking care of visitors to the White House. They are volunteers, serving perhaps 2 to 4 afternoons a month. The (permanent) Military Aides are Majors / Lieutenant Commanders and Lieutenant Colonels / Commanders, one from each of the five armed forces, and have the task of carrying the President's emergency satchel, the so-called nuclear football.
The White House Military Office also includes staff dedicated to Operations, Information and Technology Management Financial Management and Comptroller, WHMO Counsel, and Security.
In August 2017, the USS McCain (DDG-56) was involved in a collision at sea that k**led 10 sailors. She sailed to Changi Naval Base in Singapore under her own power. On 6 September 2017, Military Sealift Command awarded a contract to Dockwise, a marine t***sport company, to move the damaged John S. McCain in late September from Singapore to a US repair facility in Yokosuka, Japan where a damage assessment was completed. Repairs were expected to take up to a year at an estimated cost of US$230 million. She left Singapore on 11 October 2017 aboard the heavy t***sport ship MV Treasure, bound for Yokosuka. For most of 2018, John S. McCain was in drydock for repairs at Fleet Activities Yokosuka.
In November 2018, the ship left drydock and was t***sferred to a pier to continue her repairs, that are expected to be finished in late 2019.Repairs to the USS John McCain are still underway.
Lemme guess, the swamp is not fully drained.