Outrage Over USS Lincoln, Navy Retreats After Bases Destroyed, Trump Unapologetic On Gas Prices

The USS Abraham Lincoln has set a record no Navy crew wants: 260 days deployed, 200 consecutive days without a port call, and sailors now scribbling messages like "Operation Epstein Fury" and "All this for the holy land" in the dust on aircraft flaps. Family members are publicly pleading with Navy leadership as their spouses send messages saying they hope they don't wake up tomorrow. And President Trump responded by saying the deployment hasn't been "nearly long enough."

The Carrier Crisis and What Caused It

The conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have become a national story because they reveal something deeper than a single bad deployment. Sailors are working around the clock in a combat zone—launching 10,000 sorties and dropping 1.5 million pounds of ordnance—while running out of basic supplies. Family members report that women aboard the USS Boxer have run out of feminine hygiene products because resupply packages aren't being delivered. One spouse tearfully told Navy officials at a town hall that her husband said he "hopes he does not wake up tomorrow." Officials did not directly respond but stressed that mental health workers and chaplains were available.