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← Senate Democrats Demand a Navy Accounting for the USS Abraham Lincoln's Record 250-Day Deployment as Hegseth Calls Reports of Sailors Going Overboard "Completely Misrepresented"
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Pete Hegseth
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Secretary of Defense (MN)
Aug 13, 2026
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Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with fewer port calls — it's incredible.

🔗Washingtonexaminer
🔗The Hill
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