The deck of this US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is in a terrible state of rust. In fact, almost all of the US Navy's ships are now like this.
A major reason for this situation is the US military's social security system, which involves outsourcing many tasks previously handled by the military to commercial companies. As a result, US Navy sailors no longer perform daily rust removal and maintenance on the ships. However, commercial companies do not send large numbers of personnel to follow the US Navy around all the time; they only go aboard the ships after they return to port. Therefore, rust has become the norm for US ships.
Rust poses great harm to ships and other equipment, but US military personnel don't care at all; they just let it be.
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