BREAKING: A security company run by a Navy SEAL and EOD was fired from a BAE Systems shipyard after refusing to use untested EV patrol boats to guard U.S. warships.
The replacement? A mall cop company.
Their electric boat sank two days ago. They pulled it out. It smoked all day. Then it exploded into a major conflagration.
And as I've been screaming about for five years, there's STILL no proper fireboat in San Diego. 🧵👇
After the USS Bonhomme Richard burned for FOUR DAYS in San Diego — destroying a $1.2 billion warship I wrote directly to Vice Admiral Kitchener demanding the Navy buy fireboats.
They ignored me. They ignored Congress. They ignored Dr. @mercoglianos . They ignored every maritime professional who told them the obvious.
San Diego, homeport to hundreds of billions in warships STILL doesn't have a proper fireboat. gcaptain.com/us-navy-lied-c…
@mercoglianos Now a lithium-ion battery boat has exploded at a shipyard where Navy warships sit in repair.
And the question isn't whether fireboats could have helped, it's why we keep having fires at shipyards that aren't equipped to fight them.
But this story goes deeper than fireboats.
A specialized, veteran-owned maritime security company @SixMaritimeInc lead by a Navy SEAL and an EOD was fired from this BAE shipyard after refusing to deploy these untested electric patrol boats to protect Navy warships.
Their crime? Saying it was dangerous and irresponsible to guard Navy warships and critical drydocks with electric patrol boars.
After they were fired, BAE handed the waterborne security mission to Allied Universal, a company whose core business is guarding shopping malls and celaning office parks.
Since Allied took over: a warship in the yard was struck because their guards couldn't respond effectively. Their electric boat sank. Then it blew up.
@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc A whistleblower filed an IG complaint. It was buried.
They put concerns in writing to BAE leadership. They were threatened with legal action.
People almost died.
@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc But the BAE Director in charge of the contract is more worried about violence from her own employees than violence from the marine environemnt or enemy sabatague..
The kicker: BAE Systems gave Allied Universal its "Subcontractor of the Year" award in 2024. That's not quality assurance, that's institutional capture.
The company that raised safety concerns got fired. The company that said "yes" to every green new deal and DEI initiative gets an award. The company run by a Navy SEAL with a Silver Star who says no to greenwashing gets fired.
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@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc I watched tiny 36-foot San Diego Harbor Police boats designed to put out trash fires at a marina try to fight the Bonhomme Richard fire in 2020. It was like watching someone fight a forest fire with a garden hose.
It was ridiculous.
@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc I watched tiny 36-foot San Diego Harbor Police boats designed to put out trash fires at a marina try to fight the Bonhomme Richard fire in 2020. It was like watching someone fight a forest fire with a garden hose.
It was ridiculous.
@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc Sand Diego has hundreds of billions in federal assets and NOT ONE proper fireboat.
And the Navy doesn’t care as long as they get the tiny patrol boats contractors us are greed certified by the United Nations @IMOHQ
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@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc @IMOHQ In the opening days of war, the most valuable Navy asset isn’t a carrier it’s a repair yard. Ships that can’t be fixed can’t fight.
Our naval readiness, like the Green New Deal electric boats Biden mandated, is literally sinking at the dock.
@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc @IMOHQ And the admirals in charge of readiness would rather point fingers at a enlisted kid than take responsibility for the billions they have wasted greenwashing the Navy.
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@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc @IMOHQ Or should I say redwashing the Navy because nothing burns with the fire and fury of lithium ion batteries at sea.
But they already know that. @gCaptain has written dozen of articles about massive ship fires caused by EV batteries at sea.
They just don't care.
@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc @IMOHQ @gCaptain Not even a massive EV explosion in Miami shook them out of their UN @IMOHQ induced green new deal stupor
But wait, there's more. And if you think that's dangerous companies like Maersk which provide a significant amount of sealift capacity for the Department of War are pushing for "green hydrogen" ships to meet UN mandates.
Hydrogen.
Literally the same explosive gas used in the Hindenburg.
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@mercoglianos @SixMaritimeInc @IMOHQ @gCaptain When will this dangerous greenwashing nonsense end?
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