Sailor's video showing broken, clogged toilets on USS Abraham Lincoln sparks debate: ‘Try the infantry’

A sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln shared a video showing clogged and broken toilets inside the aircraft carrier.

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After an extended deployment, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is making its way home. While Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao minimized reports of sailor difficulties and supply deficiencies, the Navy contends that allegations regarding a mental health crisis aboard are overstated. This lengthy deployment highlig

Prolonged deployment is coupled with reports of water shortages, plumbing issues and attempts to jump overboard US navy veterans and military health experts are expressing concerns about the strain on sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has spent nearly nine months at sea supporting US operations in the Middl

Jefferson Kelly's 20-year-old son has been on board the ship which is at the center of a debate around US Navy conditions.

Sailors on carriers like the USS Abraham Lincoln feel the strain as Navy deployments stretch longer  CNN

Food shortages, plumbing issues, and the record for longest deployment at sea. Sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln face severe mental breaking points as some attempt to jump from ship.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has claimed that reports of Navy personnel being so mentally and physically exhausted that they’ve tried to harm themselves have “completely misrepresented” the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

The aircraft carrier has been deployed for 9 months with no confirmed return date.

After nine months at sea, some of the sailors on board the USS Abraham Lincoln have become so desperate they've reportedly been trying to jump overboard.

Morale on US aircraft carrier enforcing Iran blockade plummets, as sailor jumps overboard: Report MEE staff on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 17:02 The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier will be replaced by the USS George Washington amid deteriorating conditions This handout picture, released by the

Families are coming forward with reports about poor conditions their relatives are facing on U.S. military ships after the Trump administration tried to downplay initial reports from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. One mother told journalist Jim Acosta that her son, a sailor aboard the USS Tripoli, is dealin

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nine months, and sailors have maintained a grueling pace amid the war in Iran.

Daniel Heuer / Daniel Heuer/Reuters The families of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are not mincing their words when it comes to who they blame for the atrocious conditions aboard the ship. “I don’t think it’s the ship that’s the issue. I think it’s our president, it’s our government,” one family member of a sai

Some sailors have reportedly tried throwing themselves into the sea, basic supplies can run short and sanitation is going awry: life on America’s giant Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is increasingly difficult as the Iran war drags on. The ship – now in its ninth month of deployment – is expected to be replaced in the

Several Democratic lawmakers are calling for answers after concerns were raised by families of sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln about the deteriorating living conditions and worsening mental health during the ship’s record-breaking deployment amid the war with Iran.

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, as reports have circulated of mental health concerns aboard Lincoln. The carrier switch, according to a report published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal, is part of a scheduled rotation to relieve

Servicemember complains of rotten meat and a lack of supplies in messages home as life aboard aircraft carrier deployed to Middle East since November continues to provoke concern

The carrier has currently spent nearly 250 days consecutively at sea without making land since its departure from San Diego in November 2025.