Posted on 06/02/2009 5:35:50 AM PDT by pabianice
Possible faulty welds on submarines is not a good thing to have.
Now this guy is a beheading/crucifixion candidate.
Unbelievable.
The death penalty IS an option for this, rigth?
They ought to make him go on the shakedown cruise for one of the boats.
The only thing I can say, and the first thing that comes to mind is “Cr#@!”....
I’d love to know the details on this creep.
I’m sure they will include a review of the indiviual welder’s “cert welds”.
This can help, because even welds “passing cert” can indicate potential for requiring closer inspection.
These guys are making quite good money; I don’t understand why it would be so hard to just do your $!(($_@ job.
Hopefully the magnitude and scale of what he (didn’t) do is enough to get the guy 10-20 years in prison, at least.
What a evil/lazy a-hole. I bet that is a damn good paying job too. It stinks of entitlement based sabotage.
Hopefully the welders were more inspired to keep our Navy safe.
The inspector admitted to OK-ing welds without ever having done any inspection. This makes no sense. Did he become insane after being given his job? Or was he a slob all along, but they gave him the job anyway? I have a hard time believing that any sane person would decide to jeopardize his job, the safety of potentially thousands of people, and billions of dollars just so he could sit back and relax on the job. Makes no sense.
Apparently, as the boats were being build, the contractor had gone to a 'piece-work' pay system on the welds. Paid by the inch. One or more of the welders was just laying welding rod in the joints and then covering them up with real welds.
I consider such acts treason. Those found guilty should be keel-hauled.
Well, there is a shortage of workers at these yards, and an immense amount of pressure to speed up construction and reduce costs.
This is not a new phenomenon. When our boat went into the shipyards in Bremerton back in 1970, there was talk of x-rays finding defective hull welds throughout the ship. Where the manufacturer, Electric Boat, had been in a hurry to get this ship to sea and committed all kinds of shortcuts, the most egregious being on the two-inch hull. The evidence showed that welders would lay down a bead or two of weld, fill the cavity with slag, then weld it over with another bead or two.
Needless to say everyone was pissed but it never made the press because it would have been too embarrassing for everyone involved, including JFK who had pushed the delivery date.
They wanted me to and I politely declined saying, "I don't want to be on a ship that is designed to sink."
They told me, "But it's designed to come back up again too."
I said, "What happens if the sink part works but the come back up part doesn't."
A bad weld is something I would NEVER want on a submarine.
Git a rope.
Another Northrop Grumman screw up.
Look for the Union Label!
Thank god there was a union welder that did his job correctly as the NON UNION INSPECTOR was busy doing nothing.
Apparently you have no idea that the QA department is considered management. As such no union. Luckily the union welders were good enough craftsman that some goofy “inspector” was not really needed. I really wonder whose kid this idiot belongs to, as most of these gravy jobs are filled by friends and family and not welders from the shops. I am not a fan of unions but talking smack does not impress me.
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