{"id":63263,"date":"2015-12-13T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63263"},"modified":"2015-12-12T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T00:39:36","slug":"uss-milwaukee-breaks-down-right-off-the-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63263","title":{"rendered":"USS Milwaukee breaks down right off the lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63264\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PCU_Milwaukee_LCS_5_christening-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"131218-N-EW716-001\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PCU_Milwaukee_LCS_5_christening-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PCU_Milwaukee_LCS_5_christening-500x321.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PCU_Milwaukee_LCS_5_christening.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/navy-s-newest-ship-uss-milwaukee-breaks-down-at-sea-1.383637\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the newest ship in the Navy, the USS Milwaukee, broke down just 20 days after the Navy drove it off the lot and had to be towed 40 miles to Little Creek, VA to be repaired;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Initial indications are that fine metal debris that collected in the lube oil filter caused the system to shut down, but the cause is not known, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reporting of a complete loss of propulsion on USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) is deeply alarming, particularly given this ship was commissioned just 20 days ago,&#8221; Sen. John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee who has voiced serious reservations about the [littoral combat ship (LCS)] program in the past, said in a statement to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. Navy ships are built with redundant systems to enable continued operation in the event of an engineering casualty, which makes this incident very concerning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its commissioning critics said the $437 million ship still hadn&#8217;t met expectations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the newest ship in the Navy, the USS Milwaukee, broke down &hellip; <a title=\"USS Milwaukee breaks down right off the lot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63263\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Milwaukee breaks down right off the lot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}