The USS Abraham Lincoln was supposed to be heading home months ago. Instead, roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines remain trapped in a gruelling deployment that has stretched into its ninth month, with reports of broken toilets, scarce fresh food, disrupted mail and severe exhaustion now raising fears that the crew is being pushed beyond its limits.
Families say the situation has become so alarming that some sailors have reportedly attempted to go overboard, turning an already extraordinary deployment into a growing crisis.
