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Sailors on a US aircraft carrier operating near Iran attempted to jump overboard amid exhaustion and low morale caused by extended operations, several news outlets have reported, citing crew members’ families.
Families have expressed concern over living conditions and mental health on the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose deployment began in late November and was expected to end in May but has since been extended indefinitely. The ship reportedly went long periods without regular port visits for replenishment, maintenance and rest.
Annabelle Loma told Military Times on Tuesday that the ship’s ombudsman had informed her that her husband had tried to jump off the carrier. “He thinks he’ll get a dishonorable discharge, and just because he was burnt out,” she said.
Maria Rodriguez, the wife of another sailor, said her husband had intervened in a separate incident, preventing a shipmate from going overboard.
Based and based
Draft dodger - based
Using the military like the pieces of trash they are - also based
But as real life is stranger than fiction, it’s paradoxically being done by a genuinely lousy human being
there’s a correct position that he just slipped right by, and that’s being a chickenhawk is bad in some unique ways but if you find a chill boomer they’ll have some fun stories about things they did or young men around them did to try to get out of the draft.
one of my favorites is the hippie who popularized “earthship” houses made out of old tires and bottles says he got into dirtbike racing with the intent of injuring himself enough to become undraftable.