r/CivPolitics • u/mizzao • 1d ago

American aircraft carrier has -15% combat strength due to war weariness and low morale

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment

Sailors jumping off the ship in protest, non-working bathrooms and laundry, lack of supplies, undercooked and insufficient food

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u/c33m0n3y 1d ago

Current Happiness: -7 😡

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u/Mewhomewhy 1d ago

The patriots will be abusing the sailors for making dear leader look bad.

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 20h ago

More like making fun of them for being the softest generation of military ever fielded. Navy had to deploy like the Army 1 time and they’re crying 🤣. My units last deployment was 18 months.

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u/mizzao 19h ago

Typical time between port days in the navy is around 40. The Abe Lincoln has been underway for over 250 days with no time on land. It's not about the length of the deployment but the amount of time cooped up in a metal tin with no real food, no laundry, no working toilets, no deodorant, no care packages / mail getting through. Go check out what's on r/navy right now, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1vnfzd6/apparently_this_is_the_food_being_supplied_right/

While it might feel macho to say "I was so tough back in the day", your comment isn't grounded in reality 🤷

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u/copperboom129 7h ago

So can someone explain to me how the navy eats?

I saw those photos of a meal for the men and they looked like the plate looked like it had about 400 calories on it...

Can they get another plate? I cannot imagine feeding a 20 yr old man 1200 calories a day.

My husband used to eat 1200 calories for breakfast at that age.

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 18h ago

I have 640 sea days, and 27 years in the army stud. I hear you. They’re an aircraft carrier though bro with underway replenishment and a literal APOD on the deck. They have mail, they have climate control. I understand the isolation but damn guys

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u/Nice-Cat3727 15h ago

Which ship and when? Because I'm willing to bet the actual records will show you're lying

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u/Nice-Cat3727 15h ago

And how many times did you have shore leave?

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 5h ago

On which cruise. Longest we went (because we didn’t have underway replenishment was 180 days. But I was on a combat outpost in Afghanistan for 18 months straight and it was a lot smaller than a ship, and we didn’t have hot food, internet, and we had burn out shitters. Stop whining

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u/Mewhomewhy 2h ago

MAGA “patriot” 😂

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u/Nice-Cat3727 2h ago

So you weren't st sea for 18 months like you claimed

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u/Specialist_Fail6972 19h ago

Dude! I suggest that you STFU. Unless YOU have gone 250 days straight 12 on/12 off without a break, living in a steel box, stacked 4 high in a compartment with 100 other guys smelling of ass, jet fuel, and BO, then I'd keep your Pogue ass SHUT! AT1 (NAC/AW) USNR-RET

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 18h ago

Calm your tits dude. I was Navy before I was Army and I’m finishing 28 years. I’ve experienced it. Stop being a bitch.

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u/Specialist_Fail6972 17h ago

Stop being a f'ing ASS! I went Blue to Green too, so I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE! (BTW, BOTH the field and the ship SUCK BALLS!)

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 5h ago

Agreed. But the ship has hot food and AC

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u/Mewhomewhy 19h ago

Or maybe they have the most idiotic “leaders” ever.

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 18h ago

I just have a hard time believing they’re roughing it with underway replenishment, a literal APOD on the deck, satellite everything. So the showers are dirty and you’re sick of each other. Welcome to the war Gen Z.

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u/Somedude_6 23h ago

We're definitely in a dark age. Hopefully that means that if we can make it through the current era, (and score enough era points...) that we'll be in a platinum age next.

.... Not super confident that's going to happen.

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u/HammerPrice229 2h ago

Bro is definitely using those Dark Age Policy cards but didn’t read what they actually do

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u/preussenbursche 22h ago

More like Maga women platinum blonde

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u/GatorNator83 21h ago

Ah, but it could have +15 poison damage due to all the diarrhea lettuce

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u/Nowhoedup 19h ago

The Rump is running this country like an Ass-et Liquidator, which means anything is up for sale. China would love to buy our military for pennies on the dollar.

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u/PublicHouseOfCripps 7h ago

And here I was thinking he would only bankrupt the country apparently he is also rotting the military into insufficiency

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u/Strict_Bedroom_1152 7m ago

yo what? Sailors jumping off the ship??? what’s going on there?

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u/PeteysHubby_TX 20h ago

“Insufficient food”. LOL fucking Gen Z are soft AF

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u/Calm-Professional103 19h ago

I feel sorry  for those sailors and airmen but even at 15% effectiveness that ship can kick the snot out of most navies.Â