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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 13/08/2026

1/10 The reporting from USS Abraham Lincoln deserves attention. Its sailors are in their ninth month away, with families describing exhaustion, poor conditions and serious mental-health concerns. But the coverage also reveals a wider maritime imbalance.

theguardian.com

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

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malmesbury38.bsky.social @malmesbury38.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And part of the tragedy is the fact that this suffering (military and merchant) could have been avoided had it not been for the base instincts and impulses of a few key players. Isn’t this just always the case? The politicians make the mess and the non politicians have to scrape it up.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 13/08/2026

2/10 When sailors aboard a major warship suffer, there is a visible state, chain of command and political authority to question. When merchant seafarers suffer in the same crisis, their experience is more often reduced to freight rates, insurance costs and delayed cargo.

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