#News about conditions on the #USA’s #USS-Lincoln in the #Iran war: “Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms: Thousands of US military members who have lived aboard an aircraft carrier for more than 250 days are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, leading lawmakers to demand answers from the Pentagon and pressure the #Trump administration over the Iran war.” The BBC quotes a letter from Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal to Secretary of Defense Hegseth: “Shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns and disruptions in the mail system, which have caused many care packages in route to the ship to be lost in transit for months.” And California Congressman Mike Levin: “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”
on 02026-08-18#News #video from today (from #MS-NOW, a “Versant Media LLC” brand, which turns out to be MSNBC renamed) about how #Iran left one of the #USA’s destroyers without power for four days, and the carrier #USS-Lincoln has run out of supplies, because Pete Hegseth hid (?!) the fact that Iran destroyed the US’s main resupply base “in the Gulf” (Persian, I suppose?).
on 02026-08-18