I mean they can literally shit in the biggest toilet in the world. Just watch your step.

Would love to see the news of marines falling out that ship while taking a shit

An Army marches on its stomach.

The Navy marches to the Poop Deck.

I have a difficult time understanding how soldiers are able to shit in New Jersey when they're stationed in the Mediterranean on a warship.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela

The most common problem is a valve at the back of the toilets that can be knocked loose and cause all of the toilets (which the Navy calls heads) in one of 10 zones to lose suction.

Wow, you can't even say the system sucks.

Looks like a decently far fall. Into a bunch of turds.

(It's not just the Navy --- they're called "heads" on recreational vessels, too.)

So, civilian naval vessels use the same nomenclature as the military?

A series of pipes and tubes mostly

theres is a poop deck , is there not?

hope they dont slip on the poop.

This thing uses a newer plumbing system compared to the older Nimitz class. It's not brand new technology, it's the same as on most civilian ship nowadays but from what I read, navy personnel are struggling with maintenance.

And also sailor have always been morons who will flush anything that should or shouldn't down the toilets. This is more personal experience, but I expect it's the same in the US Navy.

At times the emails almost evoke a floating dorm room, revealing that everything from t-shirts to a four-foot piece of rope have been removed from the system. The vacuum pipes are narrow.

They have outages every day and sailors still choose to flush down stuff thats not supposed to go in there. No wonder

Indeed. The quoted passage made it sound like this was unique naval terminology, as opposed to standard nautical terminology. It's not wrong, I just thought it was worded peculiarly.

now i'm not trying to make fun, but in a pinch can't you just shit off the edge? they have thought of perhaps building a little elevated deck at the rear of the ship to extend over the water off of which to, and i can't believe i am saying this, poop?

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A poopdeck?

Well, nobody is turning back to rescue them these days, so they better be careful.

(i'm trying to let them figure it out on their own!)

Plumbing should be the first thing they teach everyone in the military, tbh. But sanitation is woke so... better to shit on the floor.

Well instead of "Port" and "Starboard" they use "Pooter" and "Scooter"

And, the risk of a double strike. If anyone else is pooping, I mean.

“Pooter” and “Scooter”

Kate's a goddamned national treasure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE

they won't let them do that, but they'll dump all sorts of garbage into the ocean

I'd say it would be a MARPOP violation, but I dunno if military vessels have exceptions or something wild like that.

The poop deck wasn't used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.

"That's just the nature of VCHT. It's a closed system and thousands of components ship-wide that fail daily. With one commode control valve failure, depending on the location brings down the entire zone"

The engineers looked at an old string of Christmas lights and thought "Yes. Yes this design will be perfect for the bathrooms of a multi billion dollar military craft that all of the crew members rely on wile out at sea. There's no possible way it could go wrong."

They are being recommended to do that, go off the side