Family Members of Sailors & Marines Sound Alarm About Deteriorating Conditions Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln

Sailors making suicide attempts due to exhaustion and poor living conditions on the ship. Deployment extended repeatedly, denying crew much-needed rest and time on land. Navy leadership promises more mental health resources, but families demand the sailors be brought home. Handout / U.S.S. Abraham LincolnIf you take the word of Donald Trump and his DEI hire of a Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the military is the strongest it has ever been, but according to families and some active sailors, that is far from the truth. Spotted on Stars and Stripes, family members of the approximately 5,000 sailors and Marines currently on the USS Abraham Lincoln are sounding the alarm about the deteriorating mental health of their loved ones as they are currently being pushed to their limits due to their extremely long and record-breaking deployment due to Trump’s war with Iran, which there seems to be no end in sight for.According to the website, sailors have made multiple attempts to jump overboard due to deteriorating conditions aboard the Lincoln.The US Lincoln and its crew are currently in their ninth month at sea and have spent 250 consecutive days at sea without making land, a record for a...