Sailor charged in massive blaze
that destroyed U.S. Navy warship
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/29/2021 7:54:04 PM
The Navy has filed criminal charges against a sailor in connection with the July 12, 2020 fire aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, which raged for several days in San Diego and forced the Navy to scrap the ship. The sailor, who has not been identified, was a member of the crew at the time and is accused of starting the fire, said Commander Sean Robertson, a spokesman for the Navy‘s 3rd Fleet.(Snip)The Navy ultimately decided that repairing the Bonhomme Richard and getting it back out to sea was simply an insurmountable obstacle. More than half of the ship would
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It will cost $30 million to decommission the ship (that stimulates the economy!), versus the $3 billion cost to repair the massive damage. Do americans deserve to know the name of the arsonist? Maybe it's the same person who murdered Ashli Babbitt, or Seth Rich for that matter. There are things we simply do not deserve to know.