They spoke of insufficient nourishment that has led to close relatives losing 20-30lbs in weight since they were sent to the Middle East five months ago, leaving one sailor “emaciated”, according to his mother.
They spoke also of low-quality drinking water and scarce mental health counseling and support despite the intense burden of being at sea for months on end without making land.
The USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier with more than 5,000 sailors and marines onboard, has been at sea for nearly nine months, having begun its deployment in November. There have been reports of multiple suicide attempts including jumping overboard.
When Trump was asked on Friday whether naval families were worried about conditions on board, he replied: “No, they’re not.” He said that the Lincoln’s deployment, now in its ninth month, was “not nearly long enough”.
First off, fuck that fascist legless bastard to hell and fuck every dumb fuck who watches Fux News. They voted for and are responsible for all this shit.
As far as treatment of US soldiers, no sympathy from me. The system is corrupt to the core, most of them and their families voted for this too.
This is what we deserve as a nation in throes of collapse amid the most corrupt government our country has yet to see.
We deserve worse. Likely coming soon to a theatre of war near you.
Our weakness has been exposed for world to witness.
Imagine being so shit at everything to do with being a government, and you cant even be a proper fascist dictatorship because you cant keep the military on your side.
In 2026 Republican trump’s Department of “War” starves our deploy troops.
In 1943 Democratic President FDR during WWII had an entire ship that just made ice cream for sailors and deployed soldiers/Marines. This would circulate around the fleet of deployed troops to give them comfort and calories during their wartime deployment. This was in addition to larger warships that had ice cream creation facilities onboard.
“This one ship was capable of 1500 gallons, five tons, a day. The American navy provided ice cream as a morale boost. In addition, all ships larger than a destroyer had ice cream facilities. It is reported that after the USS Lexington issued the order to abandon ship during the Battle of Midway in 1942, sailors on their way off, rushed by the ice cream bar and scooped some using their helmets. In another instance, in 1944 aboard the battleship USS New Jersey, two newly minted junior grade lieutenants pulled rank to cut into the ice cream line. Unfortunately for them, they tried cutting ahead of none other than Admiral Bull Halsey. Despite his rank, he was waiting in line with everyone else. The two officers got reprimanded in a way only Halsey could. Ice cream had become the great equalizer.”
That’s awesome, did the ships play the ice cream music?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-joey-jones-uss-lincoln_n_6a811d8ae4b0b3bc96f6cc45
Fox News anchor Joey Jones unloaded on sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for complaining about the ever-deteriorating conditions aboard the aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East since late last year.
Jones on “The Big Weekend Show” Saturday night was specifically responding to a recent CNN segment featuring an unnamed service member aboard the Lincoln that aired on Thursday.
“I would say morale’s pretty low, and not just in the division, like in the ship entirely,” the service member told CNN. “We’re running pretty low on rations, I mean at some points in the day it would just be about noodles and tuna mixed in together, and that was it … sometimes you get a corndog, sometimes you get a hot dog.”
Jones let out an audible sigh as the segment ended before ranting for nearly three minutes, comparing the sailor’s experiences to his deployment with the Marines to Iraq and Afghanistan.
“That little … you know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months using a little burner? I ate Ramen noodles … that’s what I ate, and I was happy to have it, because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun and they let him be the cook,” Jones said.
Jones went on to ask the soldiers, “How weak are you?” before continuing his rant.
“On TV, complaining about tuna and noodles?” Jones said. “I’m sorry, you volunteered to serve your country. You can come back, get out of the military, and do like all of these Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to.”
Jones served the Marine Corps for eight years, eventually reaching the rank of staff sergeant, and was wounded in 2010 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was deployed to Afghanistan. He suffered major injuries that led to him having both legs amputated.
Joey’s got a big angry.
These sailors are starving and trying to jump from the ship? Trump says they should be there longer? This is absolute rage bait for me. Fuck you Guardian for soft-balling that headline. They lost 30 lbs in 6 months, this is starving them. Plus, they’re dirty because nothing is working. Fucking fix this.
I feel sympathy for these sailors, at the same time I’m not really enthusiastic about the mission they’re on.
Is my political goal supposed to be to feed these sailors better so they can more efficiently service the machinery that kills children who did not sign up to be killed the way these sailors signed up to be killers?
They did nothing to deserve being starved by our own government. This is the most likely scenario:
- Person joins military to pay for college or stay in and have a life so they can have a family.
- Gets sent on this mission by a dementia ridden narcissist because he thinks he’s the king
- Instead of basic human treatment, they’re being starved and left with no supplies.
- Some are trying to commit suicide.
They are not the problem.
You kind of do need soldiers to fight wars, so their existence as volunteers is sort of a problem [edit: if wars of aggression are a problem for you; maybe they’re not].
But tell me, if you live in reality, your options are either:
a) to feed these soldiers well and thereby by making them more able to kill other people
b) do nothing and allow these soldiers to starve, thereby making the war machine less effective and saving lives of other people.I mean, if you want to be morally serious, it’s either:
- these soldiers–who voluntarily signed up to enlist in a military that has been at constant war since before all of them were born
or
- innocent civilians who have done nothing but be born in the wrong country
and, you know what? fuck it. I’ll go there:
along with
- the soldiers in a military that are defending themselves against an unjustified and unprovoked attack by a country that isn´t even pursuing its own best interests in a vain attempt to prop up the military might of an allied state bent on genociding their way to lebensraum.
You can feel sorry for them all you want, but you can´t feed them without supporting a war that will probably ultimately cause a lot more starvation than on a few ships.
