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“These men and women signed up to serve their country. The least their country owes them is hot water, a working toilet and a real meal. Hegseth cannot even manage that, and he has the nerve to look their families in the eye and call them liars.”

theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

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These men and women signed up to serve their country of ISRAEL Those cowards haven't respected their own oath and have let themselves lead astray by lies and manipulation. r MURDERESTS don't represent the US, Constitution. I will not I have no admiration or respect for MURDERESTS

These men and women signed up to defend their country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. NOT to be used as pawns in an illegal war that was started BY a domestic enemy of the US Constitution, against a country that was NOT our enemy before.

Gentle sir - I don’t know the protocols and customs of the military, but what is the response … the reaction from members of the armed forces… when 47 and Def Sec’y deny the existence of the problem. I would be demoralized to no end. Can they really keep a stiff upper lip while others eat lobster?🦞

I would imagine that on the ship, they have NO IDEA why they’re stuck out there, and they’re probably being told that it’s for a noble cause. Noble cause or not, if it was me, I would be angry at the world all day, every day. I’m sure that morale is at an all-time low for EVERY crew member.

If it was one of my family members on that ship, I would be incandescent with anger. It seems like words that would come across as betrayal. Simply put. Thanks for sharing.

It’s the ultimate irony of the modern efficiency expert: optimizing the budget so aggressively that you accidentally delete the concept of plumbing. We've reached "Peak Lean" where the infrastructure is now just a suggestion.

Hard-won American freedoms are being thrown overboard in just over a year. According to the administration, anyone who does not support this is not a true American. Wake up, Republicans and MAGA idiots. You no longer live in the land of the free. Are you brave enough to admit that?

America should be flying their flags upside down. This country is truly in distress. How dare Trump and Hegseth outright deny this!! What is pathetic is that a third of this country doesn’t even pay attention to it.

My dad served on an attack transport in the South Pacific during WWII. He never once mentioned they ran low on food and supplies. A 1940's logistics network thousands of miles long and thousand miles wide worked. The fact we can't get that done today is a choice, not an unavoidable outcome.

I met a few unhoused soldiers in my day. It can actually get worse from here. And I tell you, damn near every single one of them regretted signing up. The military extracts value from soldiers and spits them out for a batch of fresh recruits. There’s no loyalty to the troops, at all. Look at the VA

One thing that has really been missing from coverage of the Iran War is any info on the troops, before this story there has been almost no coverage of what they are experiencing. We can only imagine the nefarious reasons the administration is preventing them from talking to anyone, not even family.

I don’t see how this drunk can survive this. Someone has to take the fall for starting and losing a war as Nov. 3 approaches. Once this ship docks, the horror stories from the 5000 on board — who will talk to family and friends — will start escaping into social media. And cable news will eat it up.

Pete Hegseth is just someone who likes to hang out with “the guys” & show off - not a good choice to head the military. (Trump thinks he looks good on tv.) Hegseth called his troops liars. Can’t wait til he’s gone! I believe Rep. Jason Crow.

Not if they supported trump , everyone on the planet knows trump is an ally of Russia, China and both give Iran intell where to strike American military, trump is running this war and as everything else he's clueless, if your enlistment is up , don't do it ,this regime doesn't care about you

The Secretary of the Navy should be kicking doors in to get these sailors home. Unfortunately, this position is vacant. John Phelan, was a financier and political donor who did not have prior military service; he left the post in April 2026, and Hung Cao stepped in as acting secretary).

Liars call other people liars. Lying is mandatory for most of the Trump administration, starting with denying 2020 election fairness as entry criteria.

The mental health of these people must be just over the top, like I don’t think I could hold it together for 240+ days at sea, living in those horrible conditions, no end in sight. And no one listening to them. That is too much. And the people being taken to detention centers. No end in sight.

I think people in the US will find that the world has a lot more sympathy for the innocent victims of the US military's atrocities, including a school full of young girls, than for members of that military currently roughing it on a ship somewhere

So many of our military voted for this shit. They voted for a pedophile. They voted for a man who raped tortured murdered and cannibalized children. Convicted of 34 Felonies. MONSTER. Our military overwhelming voted for a monster and he did this to them. Getting EXACTLY what they voted for and more

This is exactly another attempt to weaken our country. Trump hates America. He wants to see us fail. He is in the pockets of foreign dictators. You can’t have a strong military with mistrust, division, low morale. It’s clear that he is a traitor to our country !!

There were rumors that Iranians managed to hit this carrier. there were definitely reports of the fire. One may wonder if these issues are related.

He’s secretary of “word salad.” He never make any sense when he speaks. He puts on a one man show to impress his boss. He makes a fool of himself when he speaks. How much humiliation can he takes?

Yep, you’ve got it…the ceremonies, and scheming all the time to steal, and to shake down every business, large or small, which does business with the government.

It's way more than his personal stupidity 🙄. Trump is a Russian Asset with orders from his handler Putin to destroy the USA from within, as said by Premier Khrushchev in the 1960s...

Sounds more like conditions in a ICE detention center The elites like trump have seen those they deem beneath them as sub human for thousands of years He sees our service members as another trump property not humans

i confess i know nothing on what they are allowed to speak about in normal day to day stuff, but i bet there will be orders to keep quiet or else of punishingly forced to sign nda's as they dock. pathetic me thinks

I wasn't ruling that out. After all, that had been the assessment of many who worked for him when there still were restraints, during the first term. The first term taught him that he needed some input from others, but that he could be balked by some, SO he sought pliable ones for those jobs.

Sadly this HAS NOT been the case for at least 50 years. Short of some visionary ‘New Deal Legislation ’ we will continue to circle the drain :(

Even in Vietnam, when we needed support, we received it. When we had to leave they supported us. Looks like here Trump and useless Hegseth say 'suckers and losers' so bad.

Human beings are commodities to psychopaths, not entities with feelings, needs, wants, thoughts, opinions. Psychopaths don’t give a shit about any of that! Psychopaths use/abuse people, use them up & discard them. He doesn’t want our military to serve the nation. He demands that it serve him!

Hegseth deserves to spend the rest of his life in a cell with a broken toilet. He’s a war criminal, and an unfit, incompetent loser who is in the process of breaking the United States military, because Trump appointed him to do just that. He’s just too dumb to know that’s why he’s there.

I expect Hegshit's time is almost up since he'll be Trump's scapegoat for Iran. It's like Trump is running a reality tv show by putting people in place who look the part, kiss his ass. make him money & are incompetent enough to destroy the department they're put in charge of.

When I was stationed in the ex-Yugoslavia, we lost mail service for a few weeks due to a contract problem with Air Macedonia. Togo West (Army Sec) visited, and that was ALL he heard about. The next day a C-130 arrived with every piece of mail. And it's the Dems who don't care about the troops?