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The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 250 days—over 200 without a port call—and its crew is reportedly paying the price for the Pentagon’s failures.Sailors and their families have described moldy showers, broken toilets, no hot water, contaminated water, missing hygiene supplies, and meals reduced to rice and tortillas. Reports also describe exhaustion, collapsing morale, suicidal thoughts, and attempts by sailors to go overboard. These are not “comfort” complaints. These are basic living conditions for more than 5,000 people the U.S. sent into an extended war zone.Now we know more about why fresh food and other supplies reportedly failed to arrive: Iranian strikes damaged a major U.S. Navy logistics hub in Bahrain early in the conflict, reportedly forcing the Navy to rely more heavily on Diego Garcia—roughly 2,200 miles away—for support. Reporting says Hegseth concealed the scale of that damage while publicly dismissing the crisis aboard the Lincoln as “completely misrepresented.”So let’s be clear about the hierarchy of this administration: send service members to sea indefinitely, fail to maintain the supply lines that keep them fed and safe, then call their families liars when they speak up.Pete Hegseth can spend all day playing tough guy for the cameras. But toughness is not leaving sailors without hot water, working plumbing, basic hygiene products, or decent food—then pretending it isn’t happening.