Yankee Carriers in Trouble in the Middle East

Featured image: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducts US blockade operations related to the Strait of Hormuz. Source: US Navy/Getty Images

The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) aircraft carrier, which has been working to sustain continuous flight operations against Iran and support the US blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, is reportedly being pulled away after being kept in sea without a “liberty port” for nearly nine months.

The carrier has been in trouble since Iran’s retaliation strikes damaged the US naval base in Bahrain, forcing the US Navy to shift its logistics operation thousands of miles away to Diego Garcia–making it more difficult to keep its carriers engaged in military operations fully supplied.

The crew has raised multiple complaints of the conditions in the carrier, including food shortages, low supplies of hygiene items, water contamination and broken facilities, such as toilets and water fountains around the ship being frequently closed. In addition, The crew is fatigued, and there has been multiple suicide attempts aboard and suicidal ideation is common place. Overall, the morale of the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln is low and not helped by the declining general opinion on the Yankee imperialist war of aggression against Iran.

On top of the issues with logistics and crew fatigue, Iranian Army’s Major General Amir Hatami has stated that the USS Abraham Lincoln was also hit with Iranian projectiles, affecting it’s aircraft operations. Hatami announced this as the real, covered-up reason why the US Navy is replacing the carrier.

On the whole, the aggression against Iran has forced Yankee imperialism to commit a significant share of its aircraft carrier fleet to the Middle East. Besides the USS Abraham Lincoln, multiple aircraft carriers are being deployed longer and longer. The US Navy is stretched thin and the Navy as a whole faces issues with endurance.