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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
World
Jim Manzon

Pentagon Faces Backlash Over Alleged Concealment of Iran Base Strikes as USS Lincoln Crew Suffers Severe Rationing

Families of the crew have raised mental health alarms as senators demand a return date for the record-breaking deployment (Credit: Tom Antonov/X)

About 5,000 US sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have spent more than 260 days at sea, rationing food and hygiene supplies after an Iranian strike wrecked their main resupply base in Bahrain in February.

Why One Base Strike Left a Carrier Stranded

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