Did he read/hear about gut flora somewhere, and get his eggs scrambled?

The oil crisis isn’t quite that bad yet.

Rocks don’t tend to destroy the air, only naughty children’s Christmas mornings.

It’s none too good for their lungs, either. Black Lung and all of that excitement.

Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.

On a ship where the toilets don’t work properly. Little wonder that people are half-arsing it if they’re stuck on a small metal box for months longer than expected, the toilets don’t work properly, and now part of the ship has also caught fire.

They wouldn’t need to do that much either. The sewerage system was a new vacuum-based system that was supposed to be more efficient, but ended up being very finicky/fragile, and on top of that, was undersized for the demands of the crew, since it was designed around the average usage on a ship, rather than the peak usage.

So when everyone decides they want to go to the WC and have a shower after a shift, the thing would back up because it couldn’t keep up.