SanDiegoCJ
Non-Lemming
When I was stationed on the U.S.S. Ranger out of N.A.S. Alameda the reduction gear was sabotaged. It took months in the shipyard at Hunter's Point to fix it. They had to cut a huge hole from the hanger deck all the way down to get at the gear. This involved rerouting electrical, water, fuel, hydraulic, etc. They then had to use a crane to replace the gears. Those things are MASSIVE.I remember when I worked on the USS Fife; I was surprised they had armed MPs at the entrances to the reduction gear when they were working on it.
I asked a chief why that was.
He said in case a sailor didn't want to go to sea, he/she couldn't sabotage said reduction gear.
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On 27 May 1972, she returned to West Coast operation until 16 November, when she embarked upon her seventh WestPac deployment. This had been delayed four months when one of the engines was disabled after Navy fireman E-3 Patrick Chenoweth dropped a heavy paint scraper into a main reduction gear, one of around two dozen acts of sabotage Ranger suffered between 7 June 1972 and 16 October 1972.[9] Chenoweth was charged with "sabotage in time of war", and faced 30 years imprisonment, but was acquitted by a general court-martial.[10
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USS Ranger (CV-61) - Wikipedia
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