I was on a destroyer. That thing was breaking down all the time.
When my son served in the Navy, he served on several 688 Los Angeles class submarines. Several times he would tell us that their deployment was delayed or interrupted because “something broke.” On one occassion, they were stuck on Gibralter, so the crews’ wives and girlfriends took a plane over and they toured the Rock.
When he was on shore duty, he was assigned to do a study on the readiness of the submarines. In one of his reports he showed that if 3 parts broke, it could cripple the entire 688 fleet.
See #14