Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran. ... Mike Levin, a Democratic member of Congress from California, has sounded the alarm over conditions onboard the warship, which is in its fifth month of combat operations against Iran. He described the lot of the crew on X as “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”
Steam is generated by the reactor plant and that steam is used to heat fresh water for "hotel use". How it can run out of hot water is beyond my understanding.
So is how the Lincoln can run out of personal care items. It's a fucking aircraft carrier, they can land cargo airplanes on it. It's beyond ridiculous that the conditions on warships in the Gulf theater are this bad.
It's a basic failure of leadership, but that's what you get when the SecDef is a former O-4 who was allegedly booted out of the Army for substance abuse and who qualified for his job by appearing on Fox News, and who has fired competent general and flag officers in favor of promoting sycophants.
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