USS aircraft carrier steam system weld failure during Grenada invasion

Digression illustrating military urgency. The Atlantic carrier defending against Soviet preemptive attack develops steam leaks mid-invasion (October 1983); emergency repair at Jacksonville Naval Shipyard; technicians flown in by helicopter from their homes at 3 a.m.

If you want to see an admiral or a general in the military really upset, ground the whole system for the entire world — because now that part of your whole defense scheme is not operational. I had a situation once where an aircraft carrier got pulled back into port because of some bad welds they'd just made on the steam system. This was right as they were starting the invasion of Grenada — we invaded Grenada like 25 or 30 years ago. They had waited for that aircraft carrier to get out of Philadelphia Naval Yard before they started the invasion, because at that point they were going to use the other aircraft carrier in the Atlantic for the invasion, and they had to have one to protect against the Soviet preemptive attack.