“There have been no suicides on board during this deployment. Since the beginning of LINCOLN'S deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group. [Letter to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, which also listed the carrier's mental-health staff and said there was "good order and discipline" and "adequate food supplies."]
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Hung Cao
Republican
Acting Secretary of the Navy • Virginia
Acting Secretary of the Navy and former U.S. Navy captain; 2024 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia.
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“[Iranian forces] blew the hell out of Bahrain. … [There was] no place for them to pull in.
“Sailors and Marines are expected to dig deep — and they always do. There is no question our young men and women have been pushed to their limits — but they have never broken.
“The USS Abraham Lincoln crushed their deployment and will return home soon as part of a planned rotation. Details will come but let me be clear: the safety and security of our Sailors and Marines always comes first.