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Senator presses Navy for answers on USS Abraham Lincoln deployment (militarytimes.com)

Sen. Richard Blumenthal distributed a letter on Wednesday requesting that the U.S. Navy account for conditions aboard the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

Question: If the govt isn’t providing basics & food 4 our military, where is the money going they are granted by Congress? #RedCrew #BlueCrew #Democrats #Resisters www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

#bluecrew #democrats #redcrew #resisters

2 comments — live from bluesky

Tim · 0 · 19h ago

They want to sacrifice the USS Abraham Lincoln and her crew for some dastardly decrepit ploy. Opinions are my own.

Jane · 1 · 20h ago

????? Into someone else’s deep nasty pockets.

Tyler Bender (She/Her) 💙🦋💙🦋 · 0 · 20h ago

I thought if that. Hegseth spoke to reporters in Panama & was hocked up on some type of stimulate, but the thing that got me thinking, he told reporters that reports regarding food conditions & shortages aboard the deployed aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln were (1)

Tyler Bender (She/Her) 💙🦋💙🦋 · 0 · 20h ago

"completely misrepresented". He stated, "We make sure every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment". Now 1/2 my family were US Marines, while the other 1/2 were Navy. For what he said to be true, they would (2)

Tyler Bender (She/Her) 💙🦋💙🦋 · 0 · 20h ago

Have had to dock at port to restock precisions for at least 24 hours. According to the Military Times article, the USS Abraham Lincoln has been out to sea without a port dock for 280 days. So, if he’s lying of about port docks then what else is he lying about & how bad is it? (3)

Jane · 1 · 19h ago

Probably lying about everything, like pretty much everyone else in this demented regime. There’s no way servicepeople on this ship or their families would be making this up.