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The USS Abraham Lincoln arriving in Thailand showing signs of her long deployment
pics | by /u/nibber8 | 118 comments | 2026-09-02T13:40:47+00:00 Central
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| /u/wanttoseemycat https://preview.redd.it/7pnrenpl84nh1.png?width=400&form at=png&auto=webp&s=786c64317393d41e98cbafd5750ae853394ee dc5 |
| /u/spicyfishtacos Down Periscope! Such a funny movie. |
| /u/lustindarkness Best documentary about a Navy submarine ever. |
| /u/Duros2032 Yep. My dad was a Submariner. He used to say the same thing. This was one of his all time favorite sub films. |
| /u/GSturges I need to rewatch that. Is that the one with the grizzled veteran in the engine room with a piece of string? |
| /u/Jordan-Shred "The only thing holding it together is the bird droppings, sir." |
| /u/procrastablasta Wow so story time. I worked as a set PA for the San Francisco exterior shots of the submarine. I am literally 40 feet to the left of frame for the line in the meme. Very stoned. Schneider probably did 50 takes of the bird droppings line. All the rust and bird shit were meticulously hand painted on that antique sub by the art department. Took weeks of painting bird shit. |
| /u/MediocreTelephone973 I just don't think it's good policy for the Navy to hand over a billion dollar piece of equipment to somebody that has "Welcome Aboard" tattooed on his penis. |
| /u/Hilgy17 https://preview.redd.it/nlf360hmu4nh1.jpeg?width=690&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d65a1b2b89928b27d17ccea19b21fa86cb b74d4 Lol at the photo Fox used |
| /u/LordJebusVII Propaganda at work. It's so easy to see the agenda from the outside but if you are in the bubble, not so easy |
| /u/Klownicle My Dad spoke with me today candidly as a multiple time Trump supporter who I felt growing up was more Democrat vs Republican but perhaps that's my glossed over eyes. He's not a "Mega" dweller but thought "Trump's a good business man." He opened up to me yesterday and spoke about his financial difficulties due to an impending doom on his vehicle. Ultimately said he absolutely hated what Trump was doing this term around and the position of the country. He then iterated that his Wife who is known to ramble on and is likely more "out of touch" from the perspective of reality with politics is also off the deep end with not liking what Trump has done. I just simply told my Dad, once more, this isn't new news, I've tried to tell him before and although I appreciate his position today this isn't new. When it comes to if he wants change he needs to step back further and realize this isn't a "Trump" problem, it's a problem with everyone that supports Trump, is quiet towards Trump and remains complacent. If it means voting for the other side to shake things up and return to normal it's what you have to do to remove what Trump is and Trump himself. Not voting for Trump is not enough to stop this. |
| /u/TugMe4Cash If it means voting for the other side to shake things up and return to normal it's what you have to do to remove what Trump is and Trump himself. This might sound like I'm coming at you specifically, but I promise I'm not. And also, I will say I am British and I don't have to walk in your shoes, so take this comment with that in mind. Also, what I'm about to say ISN'T an issue unique to Americans: You/we have to stop talking about "the other side/your side/my side". The right wing especially follow their political party like a sports team - unquestionable and unwavering support. This isn't how politics and democracy are supposed to work. We have to start pointing this out to them more. Your allegiance is to your country, not a party. And the most important part we have to point out to them: if you go into a new election with your mind already made up about who you're gonna vote for, before you even know their policies - you have already failed and spat in the face of your democracy. Easier said than done I know. |
| /u/BlessedKurnoth And also, I will say I am British and I don't have to walk in your shoes, so take this comment with that in mind. The right wing especially follow their political party like a sports team - unquestionable and unwavering support. I know you mean well, but I think you're underestimating how much money and effort is spent on keeping these people in their culty propaganda bubble. It's incredibly difficult to break them out of it. Even before MAGA, rural republicans were quite tribal about abhorring even the idea of ever voting dem and it has gotten worse since then. We're ten years into MAGA now. In all that time, I know no one who has managed to break their MAGA family members out of the cult. And heavens they have tried, they've tried so hard, with so many different tactics. You can't have policy discussions with people who are detached from reality, it doesn't work. For example, if you talk about a policy that you like without mentioning what party supports it, they agree that they like that policy, and then you explain how that policy is supported by dems, they don't have a moment of enlightenment where they realize that their values align more with dems than they thought. They instead have a moment of cognitive dissonance, because the propaganda still has deep roots. Then they dismiss it for some wish-washy reason, or at best they'll sorta agree with you in the moment, but it doesn't stick and they'll be back on their full-throated propaganda points by next week. |
| /u/Mysterious-Ad-1486 We're ten years into MAGA now. In all that time, I know no one who has managed to break their MAGA family members out of the cult. I believe you are 10years into hardcore MAGA but 18yrs in overrall. All that "Kenyan birth certificate/Hussein Obama" talk clearly was the draft, MAGA is the resulting team playing currently. |
| /u/drsoftware At least one Fox station used a recent photo; others used US Navy handout photos: https://preview.redd.it/8obx38jw05nh1.png?width=3446&fo rmat=png&auto=webp&s=e40d5725dc0628750ac66199e5842570601 2a424 |
| /u/AnOnlineHandle Still seems carefully cropped. |
| /u/Bonke_EB Local Fox stations are separate entities from "Fox News." |
| /u/DadOnHardDifficulty https://preview.redd.it/vz7d9rw774nh1.jpeg?width=914&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d41fbd2da48f5de8b880e4352bab932ff5e 620ff |
| /u/AMouthBreather "Please, Bender, have some malt liquor. If not for yourself, then for the people who love you." "I hate the people who love me and they hate me..." |
| /u/mitchmann13000 Vandals cut the paint with a knife and poured rust on it? |
| /u/seehorn_actual That tracks. He'd able to canoe right up next to it and do his antifa terrosim!!!!! |
| /u/RocketshipRoadtrip It was an ex Olympian antifa kayaker! |
| /u/MadMoose4 Obviously a trans athlete |
| /u/EachBananaWas19cents Definitely was a trans-Atlantic voyage |
| /u/mca1169 holy crap, I've never seen an active US carrier that rusted. poor thing needs some serious rust removal and a new paint job. |
| /u/Vegetable-Zone1353 Give them a break, taxpayers only paid $23 billion for it. |
| /u/TheWorclown That's a lot of lobster and steak purchased with that money. How do we budget for paint and rust upkeep, help my navy is sinking. |
| /u/fuvadoof The paint contractor will get around to it in a bit. They've been busy with the reflecting pool. |
| /u/idio242 A little flex seal will have that ship shape shortly. |
| /u/caeru1ean It's kind of crazy to me (not knowing anything about aircraft maintenance) that there are cargo ships all over the world with maintenance crews of 4 guys, that look better than this photo Source: Just watched this Joe Fanta video yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTIYdb7Pe0 |
| /u/Wloak I can give a little insight, brother in law was Navy and I live by a cargo shipping port. Naval deployments are typically a maximum of 6 months, but can be extended or shortened for various reasons but one is actually the water where they will be deployed. Seems like this was very brackish water and any competent (I know) government would have brought in another carrier months ago to take this back for maintenance. For super tankers they typically go from point A to B and are serviced at dock, they at most spend a week or two anchored waiting for their turn to be unloaded, serviced, loaded, and launch. |
| /u/Bredda_Gravalicious my buddy who was in the Navy said they painted the ship every time they entered port so it looked great. he also said the paint was like 50% thinner so it went on fast and came off fast. |
| /u/Wloak Absolutely correct, but that's why they aren't supposed to be out for almost a year. Salt water of any kind is very corrosive so they're constantly coming in, being serviced including new paint before the next deployment. If I remember right each boat spends more time at dock for service and upgrades than actual time at sea. |
| /u/imacmadman22 That ship never looked like that when I was on it, damn. |
| /u/Yetiius I was on the very aged Enterprise for 5 years, 2 deployments, and it never looked this bad. |
| /u/Znolk I was in the Nimitz and it also was never this bad. Hell I think the ghost fleet that we used for parts looked better than this. |
| /u/The_Best_Yak_Ever I was just thinking that... the ships of Bremerton don't look so rough. |
| /u/IWatchGifsForWayToo Google street maps going back to 2009 and they never looked this bad. I wonder what happened to the carrier that was always there though. |
| /u/doubtfurious I have to ask... what was your five-year mission on the Enterprise? |
| /u/Yetiius Cleaning/sweeping every square inch of the ship and standing in lines for chow mostly. With a random port call once and awhile. |
| /u/HaraldRedbeard I remember years (like probably decades) ago there was a documentary about the Enterprise and I'm pretty sure there was a sailor who was trying to quit because he'd joined the navy and all he ended up doing was scrubbing floors on the ship. So uh...you're famous I guess? |
| /u/Smartimess I mean, it's the fate of sailors for hundreds of years. Cleaning the ship is very time consuming and thanks to saltwater, it is a neverending process. |
| /u/Phyddlestyx I recently listened to a rerun episode of "this American life" where they spoke to someone who joined the Navy and her only job was restocking the vending machines. As a civilian, you kind of forget how it's a whole city and needs all the jobs of a city. |
| /u/gsfgf he'd joined the navy and all he ended up doing was scrubbing floors on the ship. That and painting is what most sailors do. And practice fighting fires for obvious reasons. It's not like they let random sailors anywhere near F-35s lol. |
| /u/divuthen One of my buddies from high school joined the navy and bragged he was going to see the world. We lived in Fresno California and he got stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore which is like a 45 minute drive from us and spent his whole time in the Navy there. He in fact didn't see the world |
| /u/mpdscb To seek out new life and new civilizations. |
| /u/Cornloaf To boldly go where no man has gone before? |
| /u/Advanced-Rich31 "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." Obviously. ;) |
| /u/RobotSpaceBear People didn't know the Roman Empire had fallen. They just noticed the roads and bridges stopped being maintained. |
| /u/Calvin--Hobbes That's a plot point in the Foundation series, how the empire slowly crumbles. Services just slowly disappear or get worse. Technological advances slow and stop developing. Corruption gains a foothold and becomes more and more ubiquitous. |
| /u/Rowenstin There's a passage in the first book IIRC when Seldon speaks with another character and point out that the elevator lights don't work as a sign of the empire's decay. "if the things you can see are not being repaired, the things you can't see were failing a long time ago." (paraphrasing) |
| /u/Naive_Freedom_5145 During the fall of the actual Roman Empire, there was a town in the Alps that had a garrison of Roman soldiers. If you lived in that town, life had probably been pretty consistent for centuries, barring the occasional plague or civil war, and those mostly happened down far away. At a certain point the soldiers hadn't been paid for a long time, and so en masse packed up and marched south to Rome to get their money. They never came back. No more Roman soldiers were ever sent to that town. And for that town, that was the end of the Roman Empire. (That incident was chronicled by monks, so it's likely substantively accurate) |
| /u/civildisobedient This is referring to Batavis in the province of Noricum, referenced in the Life of Saint Severinus. And for that town, that was the end of the Roman Empire. It was also pretty-much the end of the town. When the garrison realized there was no help coming they had to evacuate Germany and flee to Italy (coordinated by Severinus and other clergy). |
| /u/JBaecker Guess what Hari Seldon would predict happens in the next 50 years? |
| /u/NotASpanishSpeaker Are you saying the US should prepare their Foundation like, yesterday? |
| /u/_galile0 The rich have been building doomsday bunkers for 50+ years, no? A Foundation for me and not for thee |
| /u/IPerduMyUsername Huh, never thought of that. Trade collapse would've probably also been noticeable though |
| /u/Old-Set78 unless you were in the capital city it just looked like neglect |
| /u/Vegetable-Zone1353 Scheduled maintenance and basic competence is woke now, we're getting rid of it. |
| /u/Reticent_Fly Just give the boat some Testosterone |
| /u/Ill_Necessary3172 Electrolytes, it's what plants crave! |
| /u/JarpHabib Oddly enough, ships don't like electrolytes. |
| /u/ProfessionalHefty349 Shit, we are Russia now. God damn this sucks. |
| /u/HotDogOfNotreDame We're like if Russia and Israel had a baby and then dropped the baby on its head. |
| /u/Fluid_Anywhere_7015 I did a brief temp deployment as MARDET on the Enterprise and I agree. The ship in OP's post looks terrible. I don't think I've ever seen a ship, much less a frigging Carrier look as awful as the Lincoln does in those pictures. Shameful. |
| /u/jschutz93 That Russian carrier often looked like this. So yea, not great... |
| /u/crabbman We did a long in that cycle as well - when the USS Cole was bombed. We stayed at sea for about 90 days straight - I think we had a steel beach picnic at 45-50 days. Nothing like what these sailors are having to deal with. |
| /u/brealio I was aboard with you shipmate! 88 days at sea straight USED to be the longest stretch without port..... And the beer day was non alcoholic, fuck that ( I worked mostly night shift so a beach day had nothing to do with me lol). ETA: what most people dont understand and why this is so bad, you dont get weekends aboard while at sea, its regular ops all day every day, ports are your "weekends" so when we say 88 days straight, we mean fucking STRAIGHT (edit 12 hour shifts, we didn't "not sleep" for 88 days ffs)!!! For the Lincoln in its current stint I have no idea if they got to pull in or not, but for 88 days, WE worked 12 hr shifts 7 days a week. |
| /u/Crafty-Help-4633 USS Abraham Lincoln's last Port call was December 11-12th of 2025. 286 days at sea before their most recent port call in Laem Chabang, Thailand on Sept. 2, 2026. 286 days. Round the clock OPs. Can get ordinance delivered and refilled on-time but can't get soap, deodorant, food, or letters from home delivered at all. sorry I'm repeating it but that number is huge and horrible |
| /u/sonnytron You forgot to mention the thousands of disgusting piece of shit veterans online berating these sailors because they're complaining about being at sea that long. All this "in my day" shitting on what the current generation is going through, never mind the fact that NONE of them went 286 days without mail, without a port... |
| /u/Kagedgoddess Yeah my ex was doing that. He started with "those pussies! Remember how long I was deployed?" Yeah, I do! And every couple months you came HOME! His longest was like 8mos, and they hit like four ports. Apparently the Maga circles arent making it clear its Without Port calls. Just straight sea time, and from what I heard, no beer day either. He's changed his tune, for now... |
| /u/IceTech59 Oh damn... On Vinson we got real beer, but 2 beer limit. Sucked to be an LPO trying to enforce that one (was the LPO). |
| /u/Weary-Butterscotch20 Same here, I was on the USS Fletcher when this happened! We were in Singapore, had a personal recall (papa?), and actually had to leave about 10 people because they couldn't get in contact with them (it was a liberty port). Had the beer day and everything. That was the best RAS (horrible circumstances), getting those pallets of beer. |
| /u/JesusAndMaryKate ETA: what most people dont understand and why this is so bad, you dont get weekends aboard while at sea, its regular ops all day every day, ports are your "weekends" so when we say 88 days straight, we mean fucking STRAIGHT!!! I didn't know this. Please excuse my ignorance but how is that legal? Aren't there minimum rest and leave requirements for American military personnel? |
| /u/holy_cal To be fair, you probably weren't on it for 200 days straight because there were likely competent people around. |
| /u/setibeings Nor was there a cover-up at the time around a base being out of commission. |
| /u/seansy5000 https://preview.redd.it/uxw4xex264nh1.jpeg?width=2048&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d9c859b598413bbe7aff815e1cdf8feb1 8bb0e3 This guy has a point |
| /u/Opposite-Program8490 He makes a great point. https://preview.redd.it/en8igebab4nh1.jpeg?width=2048&f ormat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbfe08b2d008203195e82cc062a2fccc7 c90990c |
| /u/HoosierRed Thought you meant the child sex ring cover up that needed a war to keep the Right in check. |
| /u/drewdaddy213 Oooo I'm out of the loop on that one, which base is this related to? |
| /u/nanomolar Naval Support Activity Bahrain It's one of the largest US naval bases outside the US, and is designed specifically to support naval operations in the Mideast. It was very heavily damaged in the early days of the war with Iran, a fact which was covered up by the administration, but it's why logistics has been such a huge issue for the assets deployed there now; they need to be resupplied now by Diego Garcia, 2000 miles away. |
| /u/Evil_Mini_Cake You can't expect warfighters to care about nerd stuff like logistics and maintenance while they're doing pushups. |
| /u/holy_cal Removing barnacles is known Low-T shit. |
| /u/peace2calm Amateurs talk about tactics and fighting. Professional talk about logistics. |
| /u/Spartan2470 That ship never looked like that when I was on it, damn. To compare, here is what it looked like last April. |
| /u/R-Maxwell This the most concerning supply chain issue I have seen yet! We never ran out of paint when I served. We painted inside and out on the ride home. Gotta love painting a space with little quart cans, "we don't need a paint chit, we only have 2 quarts open... I mean there are 15 empty quarts in the fan room right there". |
| /u/lidsville76 God fucking dam dude. I was a part of my ships RAS division, and one of our duties was painting. In port, out of port, rough waters, calm waters, it didn't fucking matter. That ship looks like something Dennis Hopper used after the apocalypse. https://giphy.com/gifs/l3978UuqFwu7IizaU |
| /u/Heavensward To this day I can always find a reason to scream out, "Smokerssss!" |
| /u/Anomuumi They haven't yet figured out a way to bring in some Trump cronie to paint it for 1000x the price and steal tax dollars. |
| /u/Muldino Maybe we can take the loose paint slabs from the pool and glue them to the hull? |
| /u/TunaFishtoo No one is allowed off until this ship is SPOTLESS! /s |
| /u/automated_bot "FILTH! FILTH, MR. CHRISTIAN!" |
| /u/WilliamTee If the ship looks like that, imagine the toll it's taken on the crew. |
| /u/-Cubie- Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abra ham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment, ~2 weeks ago. Lots of details about the state of it, e.g. "moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste." |
| /u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 A few weeks ago I read reports from sailors on board beginning to think that the deployment was a secret research experiment being conducted on the sailors to see how long a naval deployment like that could last before sailors start mutinying. edit: Sailors not soldiers. edit2: also now that I have 3k upvotes nearly and karma farmed, anyone who things this is the case has a few screw looses. Just like if you were trapped on a metal box in the ocean for 10 months. |
| /u/skippy_smooth USN, brought to you by VaultTec |
| /u/IncomingAxofKindness Which carrier is the one loaded with drugs. |
| /u/ohgawditshim All. They Just call it go pill |
| /u/PH0QUR https://giphy.com/gifs/uq1QEVIXxMh4k |
| /u/TheEverydayDad When I was on a record breaking SSBN patrol, we started asking the same questions. Rationing food, running low on supplies and moral, extension messages rolling in constantly. Everyone lost 10-20 lbs with poor sleep and limited food. |
| /u/driftinj And that is on a vessel meant for that type of deployment with crewmen who at least in part have been selected for it. |
| /u/TheEverydayDad Yes, its a volunteer only vessel. But with the SSBNs, they have 2 crews (blue/gold) and average 60-90 days out to sea to keep the crew and sub in good shape. This patrol we did was 140 days, not planned to be that long, it just happened due to coverage of mission requirements and no other submarines in Pacific or Atlantic which could "relieve" us. |
| /u/Triplebizzle87 140 days on a boomer? Yeah I'd give the TMOW a log of Grizzly to shoot me out of a torpedo tube. Yes I know that would kill me. |
| /u/tokeallday I know some of these words |
| /u/TrailMomKat He'd give the dude that runs the torpedoes a ton of tobacco to use him as a torpedo. |
| /u/cryptolyme my dad was on those for 20 years. idk how he did it. visited the sub once or twice and finally realized my dad and his office still smell like submarine...even though he's been out for over a couple decades |
| /u/KarmaCollect Maybe the submarine actually smelled like him still after 20 years. |
| /u/Xin_shill More submarine than man now |
| /u/Eating_sweet_ass Part of the crew, part of the ship |
| /u/20eyesinmyhead78 Glad the brass is taking the war "excursion" seriously. |
| /u/Jack0Trade Lets be for real, even if buffoonery at the top caused this, someone within the DOD is debriefing and conducting that research. |
| /u/mk9e There has been a long chain of independent agencies with "civil servant" classifications that has kept a view point of long term strategic thinking that have emphasized non-political stances "for the good of America". Since Trump, and reclassifying civil servants and firing so many people with institutional knowledge, I'm curious as to how these clandestine, research, and informative warfare departments have been effected and if they're still operating at a sophisticated level. Based on the conversations I've had with people working in public health and medical research: they're probably not good. |
| /u/bobsacamano04 https://giphy.com/gifs/KtTk9YjQ1MIes |
| /u/oh_stv What I don't get... You have that incredible powerful country, spending hundreds of billions on its military, and they cannot just send one supply ship with proper food, and mechanics to their most valuable military assets? What's keeping them from resupplying or changing the crew? |
| /u/worldspawn00 One of the major supply bases near where they were patrolling was hit by Iran (then the fact that Trump's idiocy here is also the cause of that, and the extent of the damage was covered up) |
| /u/Superbead The carrier got out from wherever it had been, though, so couldn't something else get in from a different base? |
| /u/worldspawn00 You'd think so, but considering most of the people who know what they're doing seem to have been removed from the defense department, I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't think about it being a problem and didn't have any contingency for the loss of the supply bases. Hegseth not even smart enough to learn the basics from Sun Tzu, FAFO 500BC edition... |
| /u/GDevl So since logistics win wars... You're saying the US would've lost the war against Greenland without anyone showing up? 🤣 |