Posted on 08/21/2026 5:11:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEOS AT LINK...............
This is how a narrative is built. As Twitchy reported, the wife of a U.S. Navy sailor who allegedly tried to jump overboard somehow came into contact with Natalie Oliverio, a reporter with The Military Times (which is not officially affiliated with the U.S. military). Oliverio published a piece that made it sound like sailors were jumping from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, port and starboard. The ship's deployment was supposed to end in May, and The Military Times made it sound like the extra three months had many sailors attempting suicide.
CNN's Erin Burnett picked up the story and amplified it, interviewing a sailor's wife. "Multiple U.S. sailors have reportedly tried to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid poor conditions as the Iran war extends their deployment," Burnett posted to X along with the video clip. How many is "multiple"? The Military Times story gave two anecdotes.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao put out a statement indicating that "a small number of mental health cases were treated with no loss of life" during the ship's 266-day deployment. Sounds pretty standard among a crew of 5,000.
The New York Times is reporting on Thursday that the Abraham Lincoln headed home to California.
A day earlier, The New York Times had put together a video of a conversation with a family member of a sailor stationed on the Abraham Lincoln.
To be fair, she follows that up with "no port calls, no feet on the ground." You'll never believe that, in the full video, The Times reports that Erika Vandermeer second-guessed her support for President Trump when the Iran War kicked off.
Understandably, family members of any U.S. service member deployed would be concerned about them. But for one or two attempted suicides to have blown up into a weeks-long media narrative involving CNN and The New York Times is ridiculous. It's a transparent attempt to reduce morale among the public.
‘They Didn’t Sign Up to Be on a Ship in the Middle of the Ocean’
I sure did. I enjoyed sitting on the catwalks at night listening to my walkman. In the six years I served, I saw no shore duty. The closest thing was being TAD to Portsmouth Naval Hospital to fix my shattered right arm. Then it was on to my next ship.
Cindy Sheehan made me very angry with her Leftist antics. I often wondered what her son would have felt. Sure, there was a chance he might have supported her actions, but I didn’t get that impression from the comments from those who served with him.
But nobody knows what is in a person’s heart for certain.
Her “campaign” came to a fitting end when she had an event and only a handful of reporters showed up, and there was a famous picture of her sitting disconsolately outside the tent all by herself.
In the end, I felt more pity for her than anger at her. That was her own little prison she made for herself, and she was determined to live in it for ideological purposes.
“My son didn't sign up to be attacked by land sharks!”
It’s obvious no one has ever told that broad to sftu and go sit down...
It’s obvious no one has ever told that broad to sftu and go sit down...
“I always wanted to ask someone who had tug duty if that was true or not!”
All of that and 9 section liberty!
The Pussification of the Western Male
By Kim Du Toit
Nine months before my discharge, my orders came in for Viet Nam. Since I had already lost two of my fellow boatswain mates that got the same billet (river patrol), I took advantage of not having enough time left to refuse the transfer. This really pissed off the personnel dept. so they put me in charge of the transient barracks for the rest of my enlistment. All of the scrounges that should have gotten weeded out in boot ended up in those barracks. LOL
The headline, if true, is absolutely absurd.
Excellent! Some things do come true...:)
Hahahahahahaha
ROTFL! Some mothers are smarter than others. Hee.
Exactly. I don’t think the Navy has any new Party Aircraft Carriers yet. Love Boats are hard to find around the Navy docks.
They didn't complain.
Where should that ship be ???
Where Away: A Modern Odyssey is a 1944 non-fiction book written by George Sessions Perry and Isabel Leighton.
It tells the true story of the U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Marblehead and its epic 16,000-mile journey back to safety after a brutal Japanese air attack in World War II.
Book OverviewAuthors: George Sessions Perry and Isabel Leighton
First Published: 1944 by Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill)Length: Roughly 249 pages
Subject: The survival and return voyage of the USS Marblehead
You join the Navy you should expect to be on a ship out in the Ocean far from home—You should expect to eat a lot of white Navy Beans too.
“”””As a matter of hindsight, he should have asked “will there be water” before he joined the navy.””””
Maybe a law can be passed forcing the Navy to include a ship somewhere within the recruiting posters.
Once we had a guy lose it and tried to open a hatch when submerged. Not possible of course bit that earned him a straitjacket and immediate extraction, lucky he did not suffer crew justice for such idiocy.
At Induction, the U.S. Navy performs a Mental Health Evaluation on every prospective sailor. The Navy scores the mental health of each prospective sailor as either:
1) Outstanding
2) Excellent
3) Above Average
4) Average
5) Below Average
6) Significantly Below Average, or
7) Recommended For Submarines.
Guess what I scored?
“..Iceland, it was!..” been there done that... a few times. I loved the long walks in the woods.... IFYKYK
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