Burnell told the BBC he's been watching on the brink of tears as concern mounts about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln - which has been deployed as part of the US-Iran war since 11 December, more than double his deployment aboard the Vinson.
Military on the Lincoln are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, according to two US publications that cover the military - the Military Times and Stars & Stripes.
Family members of sailors onboard have expressed concern about their mental health deteriorating due to the conditions, with some sailors having reportedly attempted to jump overboard.
19 Comments
eatCasserole@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 24d
A prison...where terrorists belong. I approve.
WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 24d
eatCasserole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
American propaganda is wild. It's so effective, people don't even realize it exists, they just call it "news" or "movies" or whatever, and it moulds their minds into good little servants of the ruling class, and they still think their opinions are their own.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 23d
Clearly America is the most advanced nation in the World - their terrorists already start in prison!
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 23d
Is that normal?
Later in article
I don't think so
trolololol@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 23d
Bombing the shit out of a land that was minding their own business make white people sad. More news at 9, when we'll show how to make water wet.
Seriously, first, get the fuck out of there and go harass your own civil population.
Second, how hard is it to get a ship to bring 10 pallets of food, water and a couple engineers to fix the plumbing and whatever is broken? Duh it's a war zone then get a freaking war logistics ship. You must have at least one right?
Third, stop acting like world police and go police yourself. Or no one, if that was even possible.
Iori_Yagami_Fighter@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 23d
Cheeto's lackeys cooking up law that forbids military to report on conditions in the army to general public without the Orange-utan's permission in 3, 2, 1...
flandish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 24d
awww. too bad. maybe next time don’t volunteer? tell your friends to stay away too?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 23d
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 23d
Suckers and losers.
Serve a rapist pedophile, reap the shit that flows.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 24d
BBC
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 24d
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 24d
kibblebits@quokk.au · 1 pts · 24d
Any military volunteer is trash
Waggles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
Or they genuinely have few options that afford them healthcare, college, and a retirement. There's a reason poor kids end up joining the military.
They have shit for options other than crime and poverty wages outside of the military. Sure many members join because they're violent bastards, but tons of them join because the capitalist system offers them no other obvious future.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 6 pts · 24d
“I wanted the spoils of war, so I joined the army”
skidicarus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 23d
More like they want what every other Western nation has: free healthcare, living wages, free education, etc. Only way to consistently get it is to sign up for the military.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 3 pts · 23d
So what they really want is to live in another country? But they can’t so they’re willing to kill to have more than the average American.
Screw them all
skidicarus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 23d
Not sure how you got that out of what I said. What they want (and what they're promised) is material wellbeing. Few people in the military directly kill anyone. As far as indirect killings go, the private sector isn't much better.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 2 pts · 23d
Not concerned with whataboutism.
Indirectly killing is still killing. Mopping the floor of a ship that launches missiles makes you a killer too.
You and I don’t have to agree, but please know my opinion is firm on this.
Jack@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 23d
Isn't it defensible when trying to protect your home from invaders, like Ukrainian volunteers fighting against Russia, or Vietnamese volunteers fighting against the USA? Tho I think the majorities in both those cases (on both sides) may have been forcibly drafted.
pedz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 23d
A lot of them chose to sign up with the US military industrial complex, so they get what they deserve.
belathus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 23d
Sure, it is a volunteer army, but it is also a path out of poverty, and a path to citizenship. As such, I disagree with the premise that they "deserve it." Stop punching down.