Trump's War Creates Horrifying Crisis Among Sailors Who Remain Trapped On Aircraft Carrier
Sailors are suffering mental health breakdowns as the USS Abraham Lincoln enters its 9th month of deployment.
A crew of 5,000 United States sailors and Marines has been trapped on the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a 9-month-and-counting deployment that was only supposed to last 7 months, thanks to President Donald Trump’s ill-conceived chosen war with Iran that he can’t seem to find a way out of.
As the harrowing deployment stretched further and further amid Trump’s failure to find a solution to the war he never should have started, family members of troops trapped aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier began to sound the alarm, warning that their deployed loved ones were teetering on the brink of insanity as the ship’s supplies rapidly dwindled. Recent reports have confirmed that sailors are facing a critical lack of basic necessities, such as toothpaste, soap, and deodorant, while their showers and toilets fall into disgusting disrepair as they work excruciating, torturously long shifts with little to no reprieve.
It’s enough to break even the strongest soul.
And the souls aboard the USS Lincoln are beginning to break.
Harrowing reporting from Military Times has confirmed that multiple sailors have attempted to throw themselves overboard as a result of the seemingly never-ending deployment at sea.
While the Navy has failed to publicize a formal number of service members who have attempted to end their lives or harm themselves aboard the USS Lincoln, the partners and family members of troops on the ship spoke with Military Times and confirmed that the incidents are abundant and rapidly increasing.
Annabelle Loma described a call she received from the ombudsman, informing her that her husband had attempted to jump overboard. Since then, she has only spoken to her husband a handful of times, and he now remains on a medical hold.
“He’s scared,” Loma says of her husband. “He thinks he’ll get a dishonorable discharge, and just because he was burnt out, his 13-year career is ruined, just like that. That’s not fair, that’s not right. That’s not what he should be worrying about right now.”
Maria Rodriguez told the publication that she spoke with her husband, who told her he had spotted a different sailor perched on the edge, preparing to permanently end his suffering. She said her husband called out to his fellow sailor, grabbed their arms, and pulled them away from the edge. While the sailor was “safe,” he was merely pulled back down into the very thing that sent him to both the figurative and literal edge in the first place.
Rodriguez said, “He said he hadn’t felt adrenaline like that in his life, and he was just so thankful he was able to get to [the sailor] in time, to stop them from going overboard.”
Yet another incident was reported by Stars and Stripes, pertaining to a sailor who was stopped from going overboard by a group of watchstanders.
MS Now reported on one sailor who did go overboard, spending an hour in the water before he was finally rescued and eventually medically evacuated.
Speaking with the publication on the condition of anonymity, the sailor’s wife described her husband’s fragile mental state, just before he went overboard on the USS Lincoln, recounting a text message he sent her, admitting that the poor conditions and exceedingly long deployment were wearing him down.
“I think the boat is finally getting to me and I really don’t think I can keep up my peace act anymore,” he wrote in the heartbreaking text message to his wife. “You are right about it all not being OK. We were supposed to leave 5th Fleet on July 15th, but then something had to come up, and my last hope of being home soon was gone.”
“I’m really trying to not feel negative or hopeless, but between the wifi and not knowing when I will come home and not knowing what is happening back at home, it’s really getting me. I don’t think I can do another deployment after this, and I don’t even know if I can finish this deployment.”
The sailor’s wife said he went to his chain of command, as well as the ship’s medical team, in search of answers and help with his mental state. She says he was promptly brushed off.
As families and loved ones back home have grown increasingly terrified, pressure has mounted against the US government, culminating in a meeting in San Diego with Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao and 200 people with family and loved ones aboard the USS Lincoln.
One spouse stood before officials and tearfully spoke of the message she received from her husband that same day, saying, “he hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow.”
Despite story after story after story, officials presiding over the meeting failed to directly respond to a single one of them, instead telling terrified families that sailors on the aircraft carrier have access to mental health workers, chaplains, and doctors — all of which makes little difference when you don’t have access to a clean shower, a working toilet, or adequate, safe food.
Cao claimed that the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group is currently being prepared to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln. Unsurprisingly, he failed to give any semblance of a timeline as to when that is expected to happen.
The USS Lincoln’s deployment began in November 2025 and was originally slated to end in May 2026. It is now mid-August 2026, making its ongoing service the longest US carrier deployment in modern history, and the troops onboard the aircraft carrier have no idea when they’ll see land again. The Lincoln’s deployment has now been twice extended by President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and no formal return date has been made public.
At the beginning of his war with Iran, Donald Trump repeatedly boasted of his ability to have this conflict settled within a “few weeks,” if not days. It has now been nearly half a year, and the president is rapidly coming to realize that he has officially bitten off more than he can chew, as multiple attempts at a peace deal have failed. Iran has only grown increasingly vicious, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and Trump’s inner circle has deteriorated into exasperated in-fighting, as absolutely no one can get on the same page as to how to bring this thing to an end.
Instead, they simply continue to sacrifice our soldiers to the sea in the name of Donald Trump’s vanity, ego, and desperate desire for all-encompassing power.
I never again want to hear that support for US troops lies with the side of the political fence that is allowing 5,000 American troops to rot in the ocean.
And what is the response of our, draft dodging, cowardice, fat fuck of a commander and chief, when asked about the extended tour being too long. He said it’s not nearly long enough.