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\n I stepped onto the USS Abraham Lincoln on July 7 at the Duqm port in Oman, just as the war with Iran was escalating again. I hadn\u2019t even finished my first walk-through on the aircraft carrier when I learned that Iran hit a third tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and that US Central Command, which is carrying out the Pentagon\u2019s war strategy, was gearing up to respond. I did my first live shot from the flight deck within an hour of boarding. \u201cYour timing is impeccable,\u201d one official messaged me.\n <\/p>

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\n What struck me was how little the crisis \u2014 which has led to the deaths of 18 US service members since it began in February \u2014 registered onboard. The next day was a \u201cno fly day,\u201d giving the crew downtime to reset after their short port visit. In the news while they did: US strikes on Iran from other naval assets, rising rhetoric on both sides as a tentative peace agreement between the US and Iran crumbled. At breakfast at 6 a.m. in the cafeteria (known as the mess deck), top enlisted crew members were remarkably calm. Most hadn\u2019t been following the news, even with Wi-Fi onboard. They\u2019d seen this cycle \u2014 escalation, then de-escalation \u2014 enough times that this felt routine, not alarming.\n <\/p>\n

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\n I\u2019m writing this because a lot of the recent coverage of the Lincoln has centered on poor conditions and mental health struggles \u2014 and those stories are real and they matter. I didn\u2019t get to see every nook and cranny of the ship, or talk to all of the roughly 5,000 crew members, though the Navy allowed us to roam freely for the most part with an escort and talk to whomever we wanted. We also pushed to see as much as we could in the short amount of time that we had.\n <\/p>\n

\n Three days onboard the Lincoln, and dozens of conversations with sailors \u2014 both officers and enlisted \u2014 showed me something messier than a single narrative: genuine hardship alongside genuine resilience, sometimes in the same person, sometimes in the same sentence.\n <\/p>\n

\nCNN recently reported that the Lincoln may break a record for a US carrier\u2019s longest trip away from its home port, a nearly nine-month deployment that has prompted concerns from family members amid reports of instances of suicide ideation and crew members being rescued from the water.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the conditions aboard have been \u201ccompletely misrepresented,\u201d while President Donald Trump said last week the deployment has been \u201cnot nearly long enough.\u201d That sentiment did not go over well with many of the sailors I\u2019m in touch with, and it\u2019s important to understand the reality is far more complicated than a soundbite.\n <\/p>\n

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\n At breakfast, our table had fresh fruit and vegetables \u2014 a recent development from the port visit. Iranian strikes had disrupted the supply chain through Bahrain early in the war, forcing a rationing period that sailors still talked about vividly and, then, a dearth of fresh food for many months. For a stretch, sailors told me, their meals were reduced to tuna mixed with noodles, or corn dogs. Several described losing significant weight.\n <\/p>\n

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\n By the time I arrived, that had eased. Food was plentiful, if not gourmet: 17,000 to 18,000 meals a day, largely from frozen stock, on a 14-day rotation sailors know by heart (\u201cpizza day,\u201d \u201cburger day\u201d), with morale-boosting events like ice cream socials. Young enlisted sailors still wait up to an hour in line for each meal \u2014 a grind that wears on people fast. Many told me they were dreaming of their first meal back home: Chinese food, Chipotle, a mother\u2019s homemade bolognese.\n <\/p>\n

\n One sailor, who messaged me after I left the ship, put it plainly: \u201cFood has slightly increased in edibility, if I was asked a few months ago I would say a lot of people were losing weight due to the food.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n That\u2019s not a five-star review. It\u2019s also not the crisis some coverage has implied \u2014 it\u2019s a supply chain that broke, then partially recovered, described honestly by the people living in a ship that has been out to sea in rough conditions.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLincoln is operating in a highly contested environment where traditional supply hubs in the Middle East were disrupted by combat actions,\u201d the Navy said in a statement. \u201cIn response, leadership prioritized mission-critical supplies: first food, then hygiene items, then mail.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n I shared quarters with my photographer and producer in the guest section, below near-constant jet launches. The communal officers\u2019 bathroom I used had hot water but needed a good scrub. Reports from elsewhere on board featured stories about backed-up toilets that, in some cases, were unusable.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The same sailor from above messaged me: \u201cWe\u2019ve had black mold around the ship for awhile. It\u2019s crazy to think that you can be just standing in line waiting for chow or even walking out of the shower and the ceiling drips mold onto your face, shoulders, arms, or head.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n I didn\u2019t notice widespread black mold, though I felt drops falling from the ceiling more than once in different parts of the ship. I can\u2019t speak to conditions in enlisted berthing and their bathrooms, which matters. There\u2019s a a real class divide on aircraft carriers, where facilities in the wardroom and officer spaces are different from what\u2019s in the communal enlisted berthing and \u201cracks\u201d below. The same applies to food accommodations.\n <\/p>\n

\n Navy officials said in a statement that mold on the ship is addressed: \u201cLincoln does not have chronic problems with mold in showers,\u201d the statement said. \u201cSailors routinely clean their own bathrooms and showers and replace shower curtains when needed. If mold or grime is noticed, it is addressed very quickly.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n I asked out CNN photojournalist, John Torigoe, what he thought about the conditions during our short stay. He said: \u201cI showered with hot water on demand \u2014 it was great with no restrictions on time usage. Yes, I saw mold and old pipes. Was it expected? Absolutely, with the amount of time at sea. I was amazed at how professional these sailors were.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cBoth things are true,\u201d Torigoe said. \u201cThe ship shows real wear after months at sea. The sailors running it impressed nearly everyone who spent time with them.\u201d He added he took quick showers, knowing it took nuclear energy to produce hot water.\n <\/p>\n

\n Our producer, Mick Krever, said there were some plumbing issues that were quickly resolved, and we both agreed it felt claustrophobic at times even on a large ship. The passageways are narrow and I was surprised to learn the younger enlisted sailors typically don\u2019t go out on the flight deck unless it is part of their duties.\n <\/p>\n

\n One sailor told me in a text message: \u201cit\u2019s hard to explain the loneliness you have on a deployment that\u2019s 9 plus months. Of course you can create new friendships and grow a closer bond with people you work with or get use to being around, but you still somehow feel alone. The best example I can think of to relate to the feeling would be, imagining you are locked in a small room with a bunch of space to walk around in somehow but at the same time, you have zero privacy.\u201d\n <\/p>

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\n Morale and uncertainty\n<\/h2>\n

\n Nearly half the crew is in their mid-20s or younger, many on their first or second deployment. Some described low morale, repetitive work and 12-to-16-hour days with almost no time off \u2014 \u201cGroundhog Day,\u201d several called it. Others said this deployment felt better than their last simply because they had Wi-Fi. Others talked about the camaraderie, describing the crew as a second family.\n <\/p>\n

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\n What came up again and again wasn\u2019t food, low supplies, mold or slow mail \u2014 it was the open-ended extension. Another sailor explained it this way in a message to me:\n <\/p>\n

\n Leadership told me they\u2019d deliberately avoided setting a firm return date after giving sailors false hope before. That caution is understandable \u2014 and it\u2019s also, by their own account, the biggest source of anxiety on the ship.\n <\/p>\n

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\n One sailor reflected the grin-and-bear-it attitude that is common during long military conflicts.\n <\/p>\n

\n Retired Adm. James Stavridis, who oversaw military operations in Afghanistan, Libya and the Balkans before leaving the Navy in 2013, said certainty of mission helps with morale.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cDuring the forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2026 our Army soldiers deployed into combat, ground combat for 12 months, but they had an end game and they knew that was coming,\u201d he told CNN. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t this sense of it just goes on and on like Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the mountain.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Other military experts said the access to Wi-Fi makes it easier for sailorsto send their complaints home, in real time, which heightens accountability.\n <\/p>\n

\n Sailors are indeed using social media in real time to register their complaints directly to Hegseth and reporters like me.\n <\/p>\n

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\n After I left, a sailor jumped overboard wearing a life jacket, then removed it, and his boots,in the water, according to eyewitnesses. He was rescued by helicopter. The Military Times has reported other attempted jumps, based on accounts from family members. Man-overboard incidents aren\u2019t unique to the Lincoln, and mental health struggles have many causes \u2014 but this one reads as what it almost certainly was: a sailor in serious distress.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Navy says there\u2019s no widespread mental health crisis onboard. That may be technically true and still miss the point. In a floating city of 5,000 people, experiences vary enormously by job, age and rank \u2014 but some sailors are clearly struggling.\n <\/p>\n

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\n A Navy official told me suicidal ideations typically go up shortly after boarding the ship and then go down as sailors adjust. The official said that trend has been the case on the Lincoln as well. However, I do wonder how many don\u2019t seek help because they may fear repercussions or feel ashamed.\n <\/p>\n

\n For instance, I reviewed messages from one sailor to another about having to seek suicide counseling after he was found in a room crying, saying he wanted to kill himself.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Navy does have a variety of mental health resources onboard I saw firsthand, including counselors, a therapy dog named Captain Fathom and chaplains who give a nightly prayer.\n <\/p>\n

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\n We live in a moment in which stories flatten fast \u2014 either the ship is a disaster or the coverage is overblown. Neither is accurate. Conditions were bad, then better. Morale is low for some, fine for others, and driven less by mold than by not knowing for so long when they\u2019re coming home.\n <\/p>\n

\n Now with the USS George Washington on the way to provide relief, I\u2019m told there\u2019s a sense of cautious hope and optimism.\n <\/p>\n

\n A father I spoke with said his child had positive feedback aboard the ship, but he also had pointed questions about why relief wasn\u2019t faster and how military assets are being used. Isthis generation of sailors being adequately prepared for deployments like this one? Why wasn\u2019t there better planning for supply chain disruptions? Why has relief taken this long?\n <\/p>\n

\n What isn\u2019t in dispute is what these sailors have sacrificed. They deserve answers to those questions. They also deserve better than being reduced to a single storyline.\n <\/p>\n

\nEDITOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/span>\u00a0 Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally: The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world.\n<\/p>

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