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The USS Abraham Lincoln is supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran.

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-- Forbes (@forbes.com) 2:30 PM · Aug 12, 2026

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Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and the Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land " a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

Pedo 47 and Roofie Pete did that.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-12 12:47 PM | Reply

Broken showers full of mold, running out of food, soap and toothpaste.

On station for 8 full months despite being scheduled to rotate out back in May.

Enjoy your dinner:


#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-12 02:37 PM | Reply

...despite being scheduled to rotate out back in May.

They will have to wait. USS Photo Prop will be in the shop for another 6 months getting it's supply of crab and ribeyes replenished before its next VIP deployment.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-12 03:04 PM | Reply

Text messages from a service member aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln show horrific conditions.

They do not have any fresh food. One service member questioned if the government is doing this intentionally to see how far they can "push sailors' limits."

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#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-12 07:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's a tough life being no more than grease in a cog of a gear in the ever-expanding machinery of the military industrial complex.

#5 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-08-12 08:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's disgusting what Orange Adolf is doing to our military.

#6 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-08-13 06:42 AM | Reply

Maybe Trump could spare a food cart.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-13 06:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Iranian government offers to feed hungry US Servicemembers: Sadaka

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-13 06:59 AM | Reply

Civilians are freaking out with this little tidbit of news but in the grand scheme of Naval Operations, it's normal.

#9 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-13 11:54 AM | Reply

Parnas: I've spoken to numerous military families...

Our service members abroad are having moldy showers, are not getting detergent, not getting soap. Some haven't had a fresh meal in months.

Prisoners in America get better meal rations than these troops are getting right now in the Middle East.

bsky.app

It's hard to believe a demented serial rapist isn't doing right by his suckers and losers.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-13 12:19 PM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln to Be Replaced Amid Growing Concerns for Troops

www.newsweek.com

Pedo 47 and Roofie Pete are just crushing it this year.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-13 01:44 PM | Reply

Maybe Lincoln could borrow Photo Prop's emotional support therapy dog?

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-13 02:00 PM | Reply

Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth only cares about beards, praying to Jesus, DEI and Low T.

#13 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-08-13 04:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Pete Hegseth only cares about beards

Beards are heterosexual women who marry gay guys so they can pretend to be heterosexual men.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-13 04:46 PM | Reply

Pedo 47 Orders Navy to Restore Older Tech on Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions

www.wsj.com

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-13 06:56 PM | Reply

Stinky also ordered more of those missiles that go bing bing bing bing boom.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-13 07:04 PM | Reply

@#13 ... Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth only cares about beards, praying to Jesus, DEI and Low T. ...

Exactly.

The Trump admin seems to be most concerned about "how things look" and not about the ability of those things to act.

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-13 07:13 PM | Reply

The Trump admin seems to be most concerned about "how things look"

The buffoon who paints his face orange and combs his back hair over his head so it appears he still has hair on his head only cares about "how things look".

Same with Hegseth who installed a makeup room in the pentagon.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-13 07:35 PM | Reply

Wow, sailors complaining about being at sea I'm shocked .

#19 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-08-13 09:04 PM | Reply

Navy to Restore Older Tech on Aircraft Carriers

Lewzer sure does know how to flush money down the drain. Does anyone even make stream catapults anymore?

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-13 09:34 PM | Reply

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard

Why stop them?
--Republicans

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-13 09:38 PM | Reply

@#20 ... Lewzer sure does know how to flush money down the drain. ...

$900 million to destroy the East Wing of the White House.

But not enough money to assure that the toilets can flush properly for our sailors?

Where are Pres Trump's priorities?


#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-13 10:21 PM | Reply

Where are Pres Trump's priorities?

His bank account in Qatar?

#23 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-13 10:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sources tell me that the mental health crisis is embarrassment that the sailors are having to serve on a boat named after a sucker and loser of a president who actually died during an assassination attempt.

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-13 11:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#24

Troll much?

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-13 11:55 PM | Reply

More granularity on this maritime morale disaster: Black eye for the USN

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-14 12:31 AM | Reply

Assuming the group can maintain 20 knots, the rescue carrier should be there in about a week.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-14 12:45 AM | Reply

@#27 ... Assuming the group can maintain 20 knots, the rescue carrier should be there in about a week. ...

I hope that will be what happens.

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#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-14 12:54 AM | Reply

No supplies, a food shortage and dark thoughts: Families of sailors describe life on the USS Lincoln

Conditions on board are declining " and so is morale " after hundreds of days at sea, families say.

www.nbcnews.com

#29 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-08-14 01:05 AM | Reply

Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms

Thousands of US military members who have lived aboard an aircraft carrier for more than 250 days are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, leading lawmakers to demand answers from the Pentagon and pressuring the Trump administration over the Iran war.

Military news outlets reported that some USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have attempted to jump overboard, and families have raised concerns about mental health onboard the ship.

...

www.bbc.com

#30 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-08-14 01:07 AM | Reply

Of course the lying -------- did:

Pete Hegseth dismisses reports of deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

www.theguardian.com

#31 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-08-14 01:10 AM | Reply

@#31 ... Pete Hegseth dismisses reports of deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln ...

Do you really expect a member of the Trump admin to be honest about their contempt for the people who serve the Country?


imo, the Trump admin views those people as mere sacrificial pawns.

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-14 01:15 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

And this know-nothing -------- needlessly blows more billions:

Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers

President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers, according to a directive issued Thursday.

The new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy's most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.

apnews.com

#33 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-08-14 01:15 AM | Reply

#34 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-08-14 01:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

steam catapults that he has long said he prefers

Mostly because he thinks magnets don't work when they get wet. And yet he wants railguns on his golden battleships.

#35 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-14 01:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Civilians are freaking out with this little tidbit of news but in the grand scheme of Naval Operations, it's normal.

#9 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-13 11:54 AM | Reply | Flag: WOW

Maybe that is why we lose war after war... against malnourished people defending their homelands with inferior artillery.

#36 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-08-14 10:44 AM | Reply

Ironic that is is happening aboard the SS Abraham Lincoln... considering it's named after the first republiclown preznit.

How far that party has fallen... smh

#37 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-08-14 10:53 AM | Reply

"Ironic that is is happening aboard the SS Abraham Lincoln... considering it's named after the first republiclown preznit"

Actually the situation onboard the USSAL is just a microcosm of the sad decline of a country whose military has been mostly used over the past 25 years for propping up and fighting on behalf of an ethnosupremacist, fascist state half a world away. In the name of fighting "terrorism" of course.

#38 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-08-14 11:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Today, Lewzer said that Lincoln's eight and a half month deployment was "not nearly long enough".

#39 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-14 02:22 PM | Reply

REPORTER: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln.

TRUMP: No they're not ...

REPORTER: Has the deployment gone on too long?

TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.

politicalwire.com

Pedo 47's concern for the suckers and losers is touching.

#40 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-14 02:38 PM | Reply

What an a**hole that Republicans voted for on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024.

#41 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-14 02:40 PM | Reply

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