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  2. The goods are on the truck   3. The Naval pilot toilets work Toilet issues on USS Gerald R. Ford are âhighly exaggerated,â says CNO By Riley Ceder May 19, 2026, 02:25 PMChief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Navyâs fiscal 2027 budget request in Washington on May 19, 2026. (Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elliott Fabrizio/U.S. Navy) Navy officials told senators in Washington on Tuesday that reports about plumbing issues aboard the worldâs largest aircraft carrier were embellished and not entirely true. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said that challenges with the USS Gerald R. Fordâs toilets were the result of misuse by sailors and the natural wear and tear of a historically long deployment. âIf that system is operated in accordance with procedure, then it does not clog,â Caudle said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing regarding the Navyâs fiscal 2027 budget request. Military Times reported in January that the Ford, which contains approximately 650 toilets, experienced issues during its most recent deployment with its vacuum collection, holding and transfer system, which uses pressure to suck out and transport wastewater from the toilets. A spokesperson from U.S. Fleet Forces Command confirmed the problem to Military Times at the time but said the plumbing failures had no bearing on the operational readiness of the ship and that most incidents were isolated events that didnât affect the entire sewage system. Repairs took between 30 minutes and two hours, the spokesperson said, and problems with the plumbing decreased as the nearly 11-month deployment continued. In January, NPR published a report that said the Ford had called for assistance with the lackluster toilets 42 times since 2023, with 32 calls coming in 2025 alone. Caudle told senators that when a toilet did clog after a sailor flushed a t-shirt or a rag down the toilet, it only took a few hours for the toilet to be up and running again. Navy officials did not clarify whether the disposal of fabric in the toilets was intentional or accidental, or what the circumstances around such instances were. Fatigue from overuse was to be expected as well, the CNO said. âFive thousand sailors a day flush the commode at least four times a day at least over a ten-month deployment,â Caudle said. âThatâs six million flushes.â It was less than a 1% problem, according to the CNO. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao called reports of toilet issues âfake news,â while the CNO said the plumbing system on Ford-class ships was a good design and that reports of clogged toilets were âhighly exaggerated.â A 2020 Government Accountability Office report found that the shipâs sewage pipes were too small to accommodate the flushes of the more than 4,000 crew members aboard. Clogs have forced the Navy to spend $400,000 per flush on an acidic chemical that flushes out the pipes when necessary. The USS Gerald R. Ford returned from a 326-day deployment Saturday, during which it recorded the longest post-Vietnam deployment. Upon their arrival, the Ford Carrier Strike Group received the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest unit-level military decoration for extraordinary acts of heroism during its support of Operation Epic Fury, among other achievements. In addition to supporting combat operations for Operation Epic Fury, the vessel supported Operation Absolute Resolve, sailed over 57,713 nautical miles and endured a non-combat-related fire that sidelined the ship for over a wee
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