GOV/MIL (Unconfirmed) USS Abraham Lincoln Rocked By Deadly Clash Amid Iran: 7 US Navy Personnel "KILLED, SEVERAL HURT"

I am pretty good at noticing how various news reports or statements affect US (and other) elections, for the same reasons I used to be able to tell which rare TV commercial would win an award, back when I lived in the US. It doesn't have anything to do with right or wrong, but with public perceptions.

For example, I knew the Democrats would lose the next election when the photo of Elion Gonzales in the arms of his rescuer, with a gun in his face, held by an armed trooper. The context didn't matter; the photo did, and the photo did its "job" and backfired on the then-current administration.

When Hillary described Trump supporters as "Basket of Deplorables" with a number of other adjectives, I knew she would lose.

When I first saw the commercial: "Put on your Red Dress Momma, cause we are going out tonight" with the tiny little girl smearing Mom's makeup all over herself and her Mom's dress - I knew it would win awards, and it did, ditto the one about waffles and "Daddy's make them their own way."

I am not certain, because he can't legally run for reelection, but if he could, I am afraid that Trump has really shot himself in the foot with that quip about "Not nearly long enough," when it came to deploying that troubled aircraft carrier. It may affect the midterms or it may not, but it will likely affect Trump's support among serving military and their families.

He could easily have said something "Presidential," even something that really said nothing, along the lines of "Our fine sailors are some of the best in the world, and my Great Secretary of War is looking into the matter; I can assure you!" or words to that effect.

That wouldn't have taken a "side" in the debate, and it wouldn't have risked making things even worse.

Trump often seems to have a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease these days. I know he's busy, he's tired, and I'm not sure about his overall health, but someone in his orbit or close family needs to talk to him about this sort of thing, or the next two years will be even more difficult.

Again, this isn't about parties or sides, I was horrified at the way Biden's "handlers" were obviously running things and called the situation elder abuse almost from the start of his term.
 
I talked to my son last night. He just got home from leave on his ship. He is always deployed overseas and if he is lucky, he may get 45 days of leave a year taken at one time. Of course he is not married because of his work. He only has about 4 years to go until retirement. He works 7 days a week and because of his job can sometimes works 20 hours in a row. During covid he worked 2 1/2 years without a day off. All part of the job he signed up for. Yes, if the ship happens to be in port he can leave the ship for a short time. Most of the time it is a quick turnaround. He says these people knew what they signed up for and if they don't like it they should not reenlist.

My other son is a construction superintendent. The company has the same problem with people the hire now days. They don't want to work, just lazy. They want to spend the time looking at cell phones. When he got his job, he told them no phones and be on time. If they don't listen, they are out of a job. he won't put up with deadbeats. These people had good paying jobs and threw them away.
 
I joined and wasn't drafted. The main problem today is people don't think for themselves. Anyone with common sense would know not to believe what recruiters tell you. Their main job is to get as many people to sign up as possible. You should know the military will put you into a job that they need to fill.
 
doctor_fungcool said:
My opinion...

Meaning what? Know this..the political, military, and ideological schisms that are being revealed by the msm carry enough weight to split this forum.....I suggest that the membership get together and find the truth. The keyboard commandoes that have been spouting off PROPAGANDA( for years) spewed by the likes of Mark Levin and his ilk should take a long, hard look at themselves. A reckoning approaches. JMHO by the way.
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I think the core to this forum is rock solid, but there are some who seem hell bent on splitting this forum up, that's clear. Keep calling out the liberals who have infiltrated this forum......key board warriors, recon is in our blood.....

The goal of the schisms is to split MAGA via the propaganda posted across the board. That's all being exposed for what it is. It's a lot of what we do here, calling out the lies.
 
Ractivist said:
I think the core to this forum is rock solid, but there are some who seem hell bent on splitting this forum up, that's clear. Keep calling out the liberals who have infiltrated this forum......key board warriors, recon is in our blood.....

The goal of the schisms is to split MAGA via the propaganda posted across the board. That's all being exposed for what it is. It's a lot of what we do here, calling out the lies.
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The commie and Islam lovers, you mean!
 
EasyMoney said:
I have a $100 bill that says she can kick the living shit out of you right now. Today. She didn't get that position by being soft.
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She got that position by being a dike in Obama and Biden's DEI military. I bet every man she calls her DI's would love to put a fist thru her jaw.... I was amazed none of them laughed as she acted tough. How can you defend this....pathetic as the day is long on the Lincoln.
 
gunwish said:
The military that we have now is an all volunteer force. Those people signed up on their free will. Why call them "Pukes?" Isn't that disrespectful?
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It is, generally engaging in such talk to related to compensating for something else in life.

It has been my experience, the more someone talks tough about their prior service - the less they actually “saw the elephant”.
 

Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War​

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/politics/uss-abraham-lincoln-trump-supplies-diego-garcia.html

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s supply problems began soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian missiles and attack drones fell on a Navy base in Bahrain.

The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base. And as it went up in smoke, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades.

The Navy needed a Plan B to continue feeding the sailors working around the clock to keep warplanes flying strike missions, and later to maintain a blockade of Iran’s ports.

With the threat of Iranian attacks at other ports in the region, the Pentagon looked to a base under British command on the island of Diego Garcia as its supply hub, which is south of the Maldives and roughly 2,200 miles from where two aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating in the Gulf of Oman.

The loss of the hub in Bahrain has contributed to a host of reported problems on carriers supporting operations against Iran, as Democratic senators raise concerns about the Lincoln’s 5,000 sailors and their nearly nine-month deployment.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the reported problems included shortages of basic supplies and the deteriorating mental health of its crew members.

On Friday at a military air base in Maryland, Mr. Trump dismissed those concerns. “That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another, very similar, ship,” he said.

The Lincoln’s replacement is the Japan-based carrier U.S.S. George Washington, which earlier this week was heading west through the Strait of Malacca in Indonesian waters en route to the Middle East.

Another carrier, the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, has been operating in the Middle East for months since deploying from Norfolk on March 31.
When asked if the carrier deployments were too long, the president said, “No, no, no, not nearly long enough.”

Mr. Hegseth had a similar response on Thursday when a reporter asked how long the United States could maintain its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

“We can hold it as long as we need to, indefinitely,” he replied.

At the war’s outset, Keir Starmer, then the British prime minister, denied the Pentagon access to Diego Garcia for use in the operation against Iran. That decision drew Mr. Trump’s ire, and Mr. Starmer ultimately relented on March 1, granting the U.S. military access to the island for what he described as a “specific and limited defensive purpose.”

A U.S. military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive logistics, said the Navy began using Diego Garcia as the main shipment point shortly after the Navy’s base in Bahrain was heavily damaged.

The use of Diego Garcia as the Navy’s new logistics hub may explain why Iran fired two medium-range ballistic missiles at the island on March 20.

One of the missiles fell into the Indian Ocean short of its target. A Navy warship shot down the other.

The San Diego-based Lincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months without what the Navy calls a “liberty port” — where sailors can get off the ship for a few days.

Bahrain is one of the two ports where U.S. aircraft carriers in the region have typically moored so their crews can get some downtime. The other, the Emirati port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, is also well within the range of Iranian missiles.

The Trump administration relied on yet another carrier, the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, in the Caribbean for its pressure campaign against Venezuela and later extended its deployment to the Middle East to launch airstrikes against Iran. So far the war has seen the commitment of a significant portion of the Navy’s fleet of aircraft carriers, which will go down to 10 with the expected retirement of U.S.S. Nimitz next year.

While six months is the typical length of a Navy deployment at sea in peacetime, some carriers have done far longer stretches following the Sept. 11 attacks. The Ford’s 326-day deployment, however, broke the record for the longest by a carrier since the Vietnam War.

But in that war, carriers assigned to Yankee Station, a section of the Pacific off the coast of Vietnam, would often head to the Navy base at Subic Bay, Philippines — a short two-day transit away — where sailors could take a break from running nonstop flight operations and the ship could load up on ordnance, food, fuel and other necessary supplies.

By tradition and Navy regulation, the commanding officer of a warship can request a “beer day” for their crews when they have been at sea for 45 straight days or longer. Given the Lincoln’s time at sea, the crew would have been eligible for five beer days already.

A spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which covers naval operations in region and would authorize beer days, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday about whether any of the ships participating in the Iran war had requested them.

In an interview, Representative Mike Levin, Democrat of California, said that his constituents included sailors aboard the Lincoln, and that their family members had reached out to express their concerns about the deployment.

“It gets back to that big picture, which is: What is the mission here?” Mr. Levin said. “That’s what the families want to know.”
 
Ractivist said:
I think the core to this forum is rock solid, but there are some who seem hell bent on splitting this forum up, that's clear. Keep calling out the liberals who have infiltrated this forum......key board warriors, recon is in our blood.....

The goal of the schisms is to split MAGA via the propaganda posted across the board. That's all being exposed for what it is. It's a lot of what we do here, calling out the lies.
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I'll stick with the :popcorn3:as I watch some of you continue to cannibalize your own until there's nothing left.
 
My daughter and son were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan for one year! I never heard them say the people they were with were as bad as the ones complaining today. They all knew it would be a year and that was that. When my daughter was a battalion commander in Afghanistan, she worked 12 hrs 7 days a week and was really on call 24 hrs a day for a year. She looked terrible when she came home but she did it!
 
dirtpig67 said:

Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War​

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/politics/uss-abraham-lincoln-trump-supplies-diego-garcia.html

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s supply problems began soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian missiles and attack drones fell on a Navy base in Bahrain.

The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base. And as it went up in smoke, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades.

The Navy needed a Plan B to continue feeding the sailors working around the clock to keep warplanes flying strike missions, and later to maintain a blockade of Iran’s ports.

With the threat of Iranian attacks at other ports in the region, the Pentagon looked to a base under British command on the island of Diego Garcia as its supply hub, which is south of the Maldives and roughly 2,200 miles from where two aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating in the Gulf of Oman.

The loss of the hub in Bahrain has contributed to a host of reported problems on carriers supporting operations against Iran, as Democratic senators raise concerns about the Lincoln’s 5,000 sailors and their nearly nine-month deployment.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the reported problems included shortages of basic supplies and the deteriorating mental health of its crew members.

On Friday at a military air base in Maryland, Mr. Trump dismissed those concerns. “That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another, very similar, ship,” he said.

The Lincoln’s replacement is the Japan-based carrier U.S.S. George Washington, which earlier this week was heading west through the Strait of Malacca in Indonesian waters en route to the Middle East.

Another carrier, the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, has been operating in the Middle East for months since deploying from Norfolk on March 31.
When asked if the carrier deployments were too long, the president said, “No, no, no, not nearly long enough.”

Mr. Hegseth had a similar response on Thursday when a reporter asked how long the United States could maintain its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

“We can hold it as long as we need to, indefinitely,” he replied.

At the war’s outset, Keir Starmer, then the British prime minister, denied the Pentagon access to Diego Garcia for use in the operation against Iran. That decision drew Mr. Trump’s ire, and Mr. Starmer ultimately relented on March 1, granting the U.S. military access to the island for what he described as a “specific and limited defensive purpose.”

A U.S. military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive logistics, said the Navy began using Diego Garcia as the main shipment point shortly after the Navy’s base in Bahrain was heavily damaged.

The use of Diego Garcia as the Navy’s new logistics hub may explain why Iran fired two medium-range ballistic missiles at the island on March 20.

One of the missiles fell into the Indian Ocean short of its target. A Navy warship shot down the other.

The San Diego-based Lincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months without what the Navy calls a “liberty port” — where sailors can get off the ship for a few days.

Bahrain is one of the two ports where U.S. aircraft carriers in the region have typically moored so their crews can get some downtime. The other, the Emirati port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, is also well within the range of Iranian missiles.

The Trump administration relied on yet another carrier, the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, in the Caribbean for its pressure campaign against Venezuela and later extended its deployment to the Middle East to launch airstrikes against Iran. So far the war has seen the commitment of a significant portion of the Navy’s fleet of aircraft carriers, which will go down to 10 with the expected retirement of U.S.S. Nimitz next year.

While six months is the typical length of a Navy deployment at sea in peacetime, some carriers have done far longer stretches following the Sept. 11 attacks. The Ford’s 326-day deployment, however, broke the record for the longest by a carrier since the Vietnam War.

But in that war, carriers assigned to Yankee Station, a section of the Pacific off the coast of Vietnam, would often head to the Navy base at Subic Bay, Philippines — a short two-day transit away — where sailors could take a break from running nonstop flight operations and the ship could load up on ordnance, food, fuel and other necessary supplies.

By tradition and Navy regulation, the commanding officer of a warship can request a “beer day” for their crews when they have been at sea for 45 straight days or longer. Given the Lincoln’s time at sea, the crew would have been eligible for five beer days already.

A spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which covers naval operations in region and would authorize beer days, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday about whether any of the ships participating in the Iran war had requested them.

In an interview, Representative Mike Levin, Democrat of California, said that his constituents included sailors aboard the Lincoln, and that their family members had reached out to express their concerns about the deployment.

“It gets back to that big picture, which is: What is the mission here?” Mr. Levin said. “That’s what the families want to know.”
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Armchair generals talk guns, bombs, troops and missiles, the real ones talk logistics. A long ponderous supply line is our achilles heel for conventional operations and the Iranians knew this. They failed in head to head operations but knew they could get to us with sustainment. Forward deployed forces need everything and it is a lot harder with a small sealift support fleet and having to move most by air, especially if your regional bases are under threat.
 
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Squids, Jarheads, Wingnuts and F'n Grunts have a different sense of humor.

It's dark.
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Hfcomms said:
I always thought ‘puke’ belonged to the aircrews. :jstr:
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The Submarine Service spreads the love around equally and unreservedly...

Different Navy communities use "puke" to label sailors outside their own specialized group, often implying they are less skilled or "dirty."

Skimmer Puke: A derogatory term used by submariners ("bubbleheads") to describe surface sailors.

Forward Puke: Used by submarine engineers ("Nukes") to describe non-engineering crew members (like Torpedomen) who work in the forward section of the boat.

Squadron Puke: Used by ship crews to describe personnel assigned to shore-based squadrons or non-crew members they have to deal with.
 
Hfcomms said:
Armchair generals talk guns, bombs, troops and missiles, the real ones talk logistics. A long ponderous supply line is our achilles heal for conventional operations and the Iranians knew this. They failed in head to head operations but knew they could get to us with sustainment. Forward deployed forces need everything and it is a lot harder with a small sealift support fleet and having to move most by air, especially if your regional bases are under threat.
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Sort of indicates that Iran was already thinking that this war was going to be a prolonged fight (or they were planning on making it one) when it kicked off.

On Day 1, many of the very first targets they went after in retaliation to US/Israeli strikes were the US military logistics hubs in the Gulf States.
 
dirtpig67 said:
Sort of indicates that Iran was already thinking that this war was going to be a prolonged fight (or they were planning on making it one) when it kicked off.

On Day 1, many of the very first targets they went after in retaliation to US/Israeli strikes were the US military logistics hubs in the Gulf States.
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Bingo!

All war is logistics.
 
FWIW

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USS George Washington headed to Middle East to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln is in the middle of an extended deployment with few port calls, prompting lawmakers to raise concerns about living conditions aboard the ship.
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USS George Washington headed to Middle East to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln

By GARY WARNER
STARS AND STRIPES

Published August 13, 2026

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington will be sent to the Arabian Sea to replace USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more than 250 days.

A Navy official confirmed the move to Stars and Stripes. It was first reported Thursday by The Wall Street Journal.

George Washington, the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, is based in Japan.

The decision to send Washington to the region was part of a regularly scheduled deployment. The change comes amid reports of sailors aboard Lincoln struggling with the strain of the lengthy deployment, including reports of attempts by some crew members to jump overboard.

Family members of Lincoln sailors have pressed the Pentagon to bring the carrier back to its San Diego homeport.

Washington has been operating in the South China Sea and recently finished a port call in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Lincoln deployed in November and was sent to the Middle East in January ahead of the U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran. The carrier took part in the bombing campaign and blockade of Iranian ports.

The ship has gone about 200 days without a port call. Aircraft carrier crew members normally get port visits every 30 to 45 days, though operational needs can disrupt those plans.

Families of crew members have publicly criticized the Navy, citing what they describe as shortages of food, inadequate air conditioning and other quality-of-life problems. Relatives have also reported widespread exhaustion and poor living conditions aboard the ship.

Some family members reported sailors had attempted to throw themselves overboard, and others told of sailors restraining one crew member who attempted to jump.

Stars and Stripes previously reported accounts from sailors and family members describing declining morale, suicidal thoughts and an incident in which a sailor was prevented from jumping overboard. Military Times subsequently reported additional overboard attempts.

“We have not observed an increase in suicidal ideations or attempts aboard the ship,” a U.S. official said in a statement. “We take every service member’s well-being seriously and have religious, medical and mental health professionals available to assess and address concerns as they arise.”

Lincoln has five chaplains, one clinical psychologist, one clinical social worker, three behavioral health technicians and an embedded integrated prevention coordination counselor, the official said.

The issue has drawn congressional attention.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., raised concerns in a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao.

“There have been widespread reports of shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns, and disruptions in the mail system, which have caused many care packages en route to the ship to be lost in transit for months,” Blumenthal wrote.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., said he plans to seek a report from the Pentagon and the Trump administration detailing conditions aboard the ship and plans to address them.

“At the end of the day, we know that those who are serving have to have comfort knowing that they’re getting properly taken care of,” Stutzman said in an interview with CNN on Thursday.

U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal that the plan to send Washington to replace Lincoln were already underway before reports the week emerged about morale and living conditions.

The USS George H.W. Bush is also deployed to the Arabian Sea as part of the campaign to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, where hundreds of ships are bottled up by the conflict.
 
WestPac '78-'79 USS Midway CV-41 our 6 month deployment was extended twice, turning it into an 8 month deployment. Missed out on two liberty ports in Australia because some stupid Raghead was stirring things up in the Middle East. Essentially spent two months sailing donuts around in the Indian Ocean. Despite all of that we were at flight ops practically every single day. I know, I was one of the Flight Deck Corpsman up there all hours of the day and night. So here's my thoughts on this issue.

If they're eating shitty food that's the Mess Cook's failure. If they are running out of food that's the Captain's FAILURE!! That's logistic's failure and that's SecNav's FAILURE. There's no excuse for bad chow on a navy ship. Fire the senior Mess Cook and get someone in there that knows what they are doing. If they're running our of food because of resupply....then some higher up arses need to be KICKED!
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I would also think the ability to resupply would be relatively easy due to some aircraft landing on their deck periodically....not all needs to be done ship to ship.
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The Lincoln is a BIG CARRIER....you can't resupply a 5,000 man ship via aircraft, and don't forget ALL the Lincoln's ESCORTS. Carriers don't sail alone....ever! As for air resupply, carrier launched birds simply can't carry enough cargo for that. It's totally unrealistic. There's absolutely no reason that the navy can't resupply the carrier and her battle group properly with everything they need unless there's some problem "THEY" are not talking about with our USNS cargo ships.
Melodi said:
If it was one meal, or even a few days without beans as a protein, then, well - sucks to be you; you signed up for this. But if it went on for several weeks, along with no milk, rotting meat (if any was served), contaminated water making people sick (and unfit for duty), and no sanitation supplies (which can also make people sick and unfit for duty). Dirty laundry- again, for how long? A week in the same underwear is annoying, but there are sinks where you can wash your undies and socks (if there is water; if there isn't, that's another issue), but it becomes a serious health issue if it goes on for more than a week, or even less if the work is dirty and sweaty.
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Aircaft Carriers are notorious for getting AVgas (aviation fuel) in their potable water system. We had to deal with this back in my day. Don't know why, but we did. As far as having enough potable (drinking) water on the ship that's B.S. US warships make their own fresh water out of the surrounding ocean water. Unless their De-sal systems are down or damaged there should be more than enough water for drinking, cleaning and "Navy Showers": i.e., you wet down quickly, turn off the water, soap up and scrub, then turn the water back on and rinse off and you're done. NO STANDING IN THE STEAMY HOT WATER like at home with mommy and daddy!!
Melodi said:
Other things, like the lack of mail- well, that can be expected during a potential combat situation- ditto for not being allowed to use cell phones. The lack of shore leave is unfortunate and doesn't help the situation, but as others have pointed out, in wartime this isn't that unusual.
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CELL PHONES on ships are an ABSOLUTE NO-NO. Nothing like telling your enemy where you're located. EVERY sailor knows that. The key to survival is nobody knowing where you are. DOH! As for mail, yeah it might take a weak or two between mail runs. That's the nature of being at sea. Toughen up buttercup!!

All I can say is we're not getting the whole picture or even truthful story about this issue. Also it sounds like some piss poor upper leadership from the CO on up to the Flag Level of management and higher of the situation over there. As for liberty call, the only liberty port in that immediate arm pit of the world that I know of would be Mombasa, Kenya, BTDT, and I wouldn't call that a liberty port fit for a mangy flea ridden dog. I don't know of any liberty ports in India. We're sure as hell not going to Pakistan. The next possible ports are on the far eastern side of the Indian Ocean would be Thailand, or maybe Singapore, or Austraila. That's a long way to go for some time off. PLUS for a carrier it has to be a DEEP WATER port, or you have to anchor out and shuttle troops back and forth. That also makes resupply and repair much more difficult.

If it were up to me....and it's not....I'd be rotating two carriers out of Austraila. Better accommodations, better resupply, better repair facilities and safer for the ships and the crews. But then I'm just a retired old Blue Jacket, so what do I know?
 
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As bad as that might be, this b**** takes it….
And it ain’t just painful, it can kill…..
You can tell I’m kinda partial…. :lkick:

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What a fat serpent. What type of snake?

Drifting the thread back to ‘Service at Sea’

Mine was with the 1st wife 1991 Summer Honeymoon deployment.

I once had the opportunity of A wife swapping thingy at sea. NCL had great and really hot clients.

A small town professional couple from KY wanted to swinG. His wife was Julia Robert’s 2.0-but more.

I declined. After all this time I finally came to terms with woulda-could’ve-should’ve! Damn it BUTTHEAD! I never scored!

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Eric Daugherty:

HOLY SMOKES. Marine Joey Jones, who deployed to Afghanistan and lost his legs there, just ERUPTED after the fake news amplified complaints about "food" and "conditions" on the Abraham Lincoln

"To SIT THERE and say that it was terrible because you had a 'corn dog and a hot dog,' I would have traded a BLOCK OF C4 to the TALIBAN for a hot dog about July 2010!"

"To that little kid and whoever raised him, Lord HELP YOU if you ever go into a hot war on the ground like MILLIONS of Americans! That I can only THINK what a World War II veteran sitting there who's lucid enough today to see that and think about the six-month journey home from fighting the toughest war we've EVER fought after being there for four years was thinking, listening to him COMPLAIN like that."

"You know what I ate in Afghanistan for 6 months on a burner with using a little burner? I ate ramen noodles. I had to pull the seasoning packet out because that's too much sodium in it and I put tuna packets in it. That's what I ate!"

"How WEAK are you on TV complaining about tuna and noodles? I'm sorry! YOU volunteered to serve your country."

"You can come back and get out of the military and do what all of these Democrat veterans and COMPLAIN about it and make commercials and be a SELLOUT if you want to and come up with a new way of doing things!"

"The last Democrat president that I remember that was deploying troops, Barack Obama had me going to Iraq on patrol bases for 15 months at a time, eating MREs!"

"I'm sorry, but you're a sitting DUCK on a patrol base in Iraq, in Afghanistan, a heck of a lot more than you are on a fortified Navy ship sitting in the water!"

"it makes me fume. If he sat there and said we didn't have any clean water to drink, we couldn't take a shower. I mean, well, I didn't get to take a shower for about six months, but still, you know, something that has something to do with hygiene?!"

"You know, like getting sick, there was a scurvy outbreak and, the guys that were missing legs were only giving wooden pegs instead of metal ones? Then maybe I might have some sympathy!"

The fake news is COMPLICIT!

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Iran War Commander Visits the USS Abraham Lincoln​

Aug. 15, 2026 7:02 pm ET

The U.S. admiral overseeing the war with Iran visited the USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday as the aircraft carrier prepares to return home following an extended wartime deployment, according to U.S. Central Command.

The visit by Centcom commander Adm. Brad Cooper capped a 10-day trip that also included visits to Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, the command said. The stop on the Lincoln comes amid reports of poor living conditions and some crew members struggling with their mental health following a nine-month deployment without port visits.

The Lincoln played a key role in the U.S. bombing against Iran and has participated in President Trump’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports. It has spent more than 200 days in a combat zone and has launched more than 10,000 sorties, said acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao.

“The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is a strong team of high-achieving Americans standing tall with immense, justified pride in everything they accomplished,” Cooper said in a statement. “History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era.”

Lawmakers have expressed concern in recent days about reports detailing a lack of fresh food and personal supplies aboard the carrier, as well as plumbing backups and mental-health problems. A U.S. official confirmed that a person went overboard the Lincoln in early August but was quickly rescued.

Senate Democrats demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter released Saturday, saying there was “mounting evidence that conditions aboard the carrier have deteriorated to the point that the safety and wellbeing of its crew could be compromised.”

Hegseth has lashed out at the reports of poor conditions, calling the issue “completely misrepresented.” Trump also has played down concerns about the ship, suggesting that the lengthy naval deployment in the Middle East was “not nearly long enough.”

U.S. officials say the conditions aboard the Lincoln aren’t unusual for a wartime deployment but acknowledge that months without a port call can weigh on sailors and Marines. Typically, aircraft carriers pull into port to resupply and give the crew a chance to rest and regroup for several days—something the Lincoln has been unable to do since the Iran war kicked off.

The Navy has said that the ship isn’t experiencing an uptick in mental-health issues, and Cao acknowledged “a small number of mental-health cases were treated with no loss of life.” Cao also said that phone calls by sailors aboard the Lincoln were limited when the operational threat was too high, and that meal plans were adjusted when a resupply was unavailable but that no meals were missed.

Cooper, a four-star commander who is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. military, is a career Navy Surface Warfare Officer who has served in every military theater of operations. He has spent the past several years in leadership roles in Centcom, including serving as commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.

Cooper has advocated for a more forceful response to Iran’s attacks in recent weeks, pushing to go beyond the smaller retaliatory airstrikes that have done little to deter Tehran from threatening ships in the Strait of Hormuz and lobbing missiles at American forces in the region, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Reluctant to resume all-out war, however, Trump has shifted back to economic pressure, adopting a wait-and-see approach that would give financial sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports more time to inflict economic harm, the Journal has reported.

Hegseth said this week that the blockade could be held “indefinitely” and that the U.S. would rotate ships in and out as needed. “We’ll hold it as long as we need to,” he told reporters.

A prolonged blockade is likely to put more strain on naval ships and the sailors aboard them who are operating at a high tempo with little rest, according to some U.S. officials.

 
TheHippie said:
Senate Democrats demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter released Saturday, saying there was “mounting evidence that conditions aboard the carrier have deteriorated to the point that the safety and wellbeing of its crew could be compromised.”
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Man, the Democrats and Liberal media, having been beating this dead horse, over and over and over and over...

The poor little snowflakes onboard haven't been able to get their care packages from mommy and daddy, for a few days... because they're IN COMBAT... and the Liberal media has been more that happy, to broadcast, day and night, the poor conditions that Little Johnny has had to endure....

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Ractivist said:
She got that position by being a dike in Obama and Biden's DEI military. I bet every man she calls her DI's would love to put a fist thru her jaw.... I was amazed none of them laughed as she acted tough. How can you defend this....pathetic as the day is long on the Lincoln.
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Watched her several times. First reaction was AI fake. Second time was it's real and laughable. Third time, I think she's ridiculous, screechy, trying too hard and not to be taken seriously. Nope - not at all.
That her rank superiors, rank equals and recruits didn't just burst out laughing and told her to just give it up and go away just implies they're in on the joke and enjoy the humor.
The Marines of today seem to have gone the way of today's The Michigan Man.
 
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