Navy probes whether exhausted sailors set fire to $13B warship to go home

When the best theory is that sailors tried to burn their way off the mission, maybe the problem isn’t the sailors.

After nearly a year at sea, being shuffled around the globe to serve an unfocused and overly aggressive Trump administration, and deployment extensions stacked on top of extensions, the U.S. Navy is now investigating whether sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford deliberately set the ship ablaze.

This is reminiscent of troops defecating in Humvees during …