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Posted on 08/12/2026 10:56:29 AM PDT by Mariner
Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran.
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and the Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.
Worried families vented their anxieties about loved ones onboard the Lincoln at an emotional town hall meeting with navy leaders in San Diego last Thursday, Stars and Stripes reported. One spouse among the 200 or so family members said that her husband had texted her that day saying "he hopes he doesn't wake up tomorrow".
The families' worries were expressed directly to navy leadership, represented at the town hall by the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, and other top officials.
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If you jump, recovery is 50-50 at best.
We also know the reports of insufficient supplies and moldy showers are BS. Anyone who has been at sea knows cleanliness is stridently enforced.
Still, 250 days without a port call is too much.
Cry me a river.
what is with you cg
There was a time before our time,
It will not come again,
When the best ships still were wooden ships
But the men were iron men.
Objectively, this is probably why Trump disengaged several times.
To give crews a rest.
Tired people make mistakes.
12 hours on 12 hours off 24/7 when underway.
That would be Port and Starboard.
When at sea for extended periods, we mix it up.
8 - 8, 12 - 8, 16 - 8, 12 - 12 etc.
Don’t want to get into a rut lol
Guardian post for Yahoos.
After that long, I am surprised that any fertile females have not made special arrangements to get some “extended shore leave”
The best part of a year without standing on land is brutal.
Yes. **The best-documented candidate is Magellan’s Pacific crossing in 1520–1521: about 98–99 days without making landfall.**
After Magellan’s fleet emerged from the Strait of Magellan on **November 28, 1520**, the ships sailed west across the Pacific. They did not reach land again until **March 6, 1521**, when they sighted and landed at the Mariana Islands (probably Guam). That’s roughly **98 days**—about **3¼ months** continuously at sea. ([history.com][1])
What’s remarkable is that they weren’t merely out of sight of a continent. They crossed **more than 15,000 km (about 9,300 miles)** of Pacific Ocean without sighting land, despite the enormous number of islands scattered across the Pacific. A scholarly study of the crossing specifically describes the fleet as sailing that distance without sighting any of those islands. ([Taylor & Francis Online][2])
### The really brutal part
By the time they reached Guam, the crews were in terrible condition:
* food supplies were essentially exhausted;
* the biscuits were rotten and worm-infested;
* water was badly deteriorated;
* **scurvy and starvation were rampant**;
* sailors resorted to eating things such as leather from their equipment.
Contemporary accounts describe the men as being in desperate condition. ([history.com][3])
And there’s an important qualification to my answer: **98–99 days is the best-known documented Age-of-Discovery example, not a mathematically proven absolute record for every ship that ever sailed during the period.** Sixteenth-century records aren’t complete enough to establish an absolute worldwide record with certainty.
But if you’re asking **“What is the famous, extraordinarily long uninterrupted ocean passage that a specific Age-of-Discovery vessel actually accomplished?”**, **Magellan’s Pacific crossing is the obvious answer.**
And it gets even crazier when you consider **what they thought the Pacific’s size was going to be before they entered it.** They dramatically underestimated it. That miscalculation is a major reason the 98 days became such a nightmare. ([Taylor & Francis Online][2])
[1]: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-28/magellan-reaches-the-pacific?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific | November 28, 1520 | HISTORY”
[2]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223340802303611?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Magellan’s Crossing of the Pacific:: The Journal of Pacific History: Vol 43, No 2”
[3]: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-20/magellan-sets-out?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Magellan sets sail from Spain | September 20, 1519 | HISTORY”
Bad Conduct Discharge.
comfort women would be a good idea
Why join the navy if you are scared of fighting?
Well, this is the drag queen, low-T Biden Navy.
I would prefer 12-12 to the 4-8s we had to stand on a destroyer.
I would prefer 12-12 to the 4-8s we had to stand on a destroyer.
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