According to MySA.com (via Fark):

WASHINGTON — A Navy inspection report describes the USS San Antonio as having “great potential for future useful service to the fleet.”

Operative word: potential.

After years of work, the vessel billed as a stealth ship is infested with corrosion, badly wired, poorly built, and deemed so unsafe that Navy inspectors warned its crew shouldn’t take it to sea.

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Workers left a “snarled, over-packed, poorly assembled and virtually uncorrectable electrical/electronic cable plant.” Watertight integrity was compromised throughout the ship by multiple cable lines.

That hasn’t prevented the navy from using it as a recruiting tool. I found the following advertisement on Box Office Mojo (click for larger screenshot of the top two):

Well… they did put the word ’stealth’ in quotes…

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