Like Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, I am no stranger to plumbing problems (opens in new tab)

It's Only a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier, Why Would We Expect the Toilets to Work? The 600 toilets aboard the USS Gerald Ford, the "most advanced" and most recent aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet, have represented a near incalculable headache for the Navy during its just finished, nearly unprecedented 11-month deployment, and their constant breakdowns have already become the stuff of ...