The U.S. Navy is in crisis, and Pete Hegseth doesn't care.

August 13, 2026 by Larry C. Johnsonsonar21/the-us-navy-is-in-crisis-and-pete-hegseth-does-not-give-damn

Wednesday "The Guardian" published an article reporting attempts to jump overboard many sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, whose mission is already underway 9 months and Over 260 consecutive days at sea . According to the article:

Military families and members of legislature are on alert in connection with the expanding intellectual wellness crisis aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln ship, at a time erstwhile 5,000 sailors and Marines execute evidence service at sea in connection with the war with Iran.

Two leading specialist military newspapers,"Navy Times" and‘Stars and Stripes’, they study many attempts to jump overboard by sailors due to the fact that bad conditions and intellectual stress on board Lincoln scope zenith. The crew has been at sea for 9 months and spent 250 days without landing – this is simply a evidence for a modern carrier.

Pete Hegseth, a clown acting as Secretary of War, has underestimated the complaints of the families of sailors, calling them "fake news". The only liar in this case is Hegseth.

The article in “Guardian” sparked a consequence from a good friend who had late retired from the army. Here's what he sent me:

And yet true. It's going around. If Lincoln has 5,000 men on board and hasn't seen land in 38 weeks... they're starving, no packages, rationing coffee, waiting to die from a bloody Iranian hypersonic missile. They say there were six attempts. Almost a year at sea, without land, etc., the actual number of trials is most likely 5 or 10 times.

More suicide attempts happen during a average airport operation. It's just a average statistical factor. And this is before being sent to death with a purely political mission from individual who openly hates soldiers and considers them weak due to the fact that they were injured or died.

Six attempts sound like a lot, but this number is simply a lot besides small. As an officer, like them, I had to conduct a series of investigations of Army Command 15-6 on soldiers committing suicide. All officers do it, it's a average function. Suicide is simply a very real and unchangeable number. And while you're inactive in prison. They have no thought what awaits them the first night after they return home (or anywhere) and have the time to spend alone reasoning about it Alone without anything to distract you from your only friends JIM and JACK (i.e. Jim Beam and Jack Daniels whisky). Did you know that all ships of the Navy have mobile patrols called 'fire-guard'? This word became a common word for all types of services. This means a rotational circuit monitoring agenda to guarantee that there are no "fires". A mistake... the guards are to prevent suicide attempts on the scene. "Fire Value" continues to take place in the military, in basic training, in the field, in exercises or missions, etc. It has nothing to do with fire. Suicide is part of everyday military life.

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Here is another example: in large units specified as 82. Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division... if the unit lasts 82 or 101 days without DUI, everyone gets a 4-day weekend. Well, they never regularly lasted more than 3 weeks without DUI. So they had to increase the denominator to... suicide. Everyone gets a long weekend if we last 82 days without suicide in OUR OWN ONE. Guess how many days were off? None. We had to change the denominator again... honestly. I think the fresh denominator was actually drugs. We could have lasted 82 days without individual who was caught and accused of utilizing drugs in barracks or anywhere. However, we failed to last 82 days without DUI or suicide.

I participated in the first invasion of Iraq on March 26, 2003. I just turned 44, and over a year ago, I finished active service. 44-20=24.

44 years minus 20 is 24 years of PTSD (from killing people... chaotic West in those days), divorces, respective failed suicide attempts, mostly surfing on large waves in Hawaii, where you don't truly anticipate to come back. I was a private during the invasion of Iraq, but then I attended West Point and I started a successful officer's career, including further combat missions.

As I mentioned, I've been president of the West Point class for 20 years, or possibly more, so I know the number of dead since day 1 at West Point until now. Suicides at West Point are very common. The preferred method, as everyone is in good form and moving a lot, is to run to the Bear Mountain Bridge and then jump. I think at least 5 people committed suicide while I was there. And remember, they could just quit and go home. We besides lost a fewer in battles, especially between 2009 and 2012, erstwhile the situation got worse again after breaking the attack, etc., but we lost much more due to suicides, as officers. With families.

Do you know what 1 of the “cool” decisions I gotta make as class president? Where their names go and how they are placed on the class list. We have 3 demographic groups of deceased classmates: combat, suicide or non-precision injuries (a chopper crash during exercises, etc.).

I can perceive and talk to anyone in the household of my deceased classmates who is arguing about whether his name should be on the list of “dead in battle” if most of them committed suicide in the field, shortly after returning from the field or many years later. You can imagine how emotional these conversations are.

Only six suicide attempts at 5,000 on an aircraft carrier that is simply a spark of inflamed rage, frustration and waiting to die? Multiply by 5, minimum. Eventually, they'll just tell their superiors that if your sailor or soldier commits suicide, you're responsible.

I besides heard from the parent of a sailor who served on the USS Tripoli. She wrote:

I think I already mentioned that I'm worried about the intellectual wellness of these sailors and marines on naval ships during the war. Why? due to the fact that They removed all the chaplains from the ship. My son, USS TRIPOLI. They kicked them out of Diego Garcia just before their final journey to CENTCOM. It pisses me off. I've called so many politicians and raised an alarm about their removal. I said, How many another chaplains have been removed from another ships???? Again, no 1 called me back or sent me these answers by e-mail. And here we are, sailors trying to commit suicide in war.

God, Hegseth should be released! I warrant many military families do not know that their close chaplains were removed before going to war. It is simply a key asset to have a chaplain during the war!!! They see so many gruesome things (victims, children, and friends blown up) that are hard to cope with. It pisses me off!!! Who the hell can make this news go public? Hegseth had no right to cancel those chaplains. Politicians should request his release and immediately return chaplains to all naval ship, especially during the war.

This crisis is real, and Donald Trump and his pathetic Secretary of War are doing nothing to solve the problem.

Here's my conversation with Stanislav Krapivnik on Tuesday:

Pepe and I are discussing the state of the alleged negotiations between the US and Iran, in which Pakistan acts as mediator:

I spoke to Danny Haiphong about the suicide of the USS Lincoln crew:

I explained to Nim why Trump's plan to bankrupt Iran would not work:

I questioned the communicative that Iran was planning to fire on Trump's plane with an anti-aircraft missile:

Review of the day news with Sulaiman:

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