Gerald Ford

Ugh.

It's like Chevy Chase falling down and everyone going, Gerald Ford.

Doesn't look or sound a thing like him, but you just know who it is.

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And by the way, for the leftist press that tries to make a big deal out of the Abraham Lincoln, uh, being out for 321 days, that is a big deal, but I want you to know our, our sailors and officers and Marines expect that.

USS Jerry Ford was out 341 days, '20 to '21.

USS, excuse me, the Nimitz was out for 341 days, and Jerry Ford was out for about 330 days.

This is what is expected of our Navy.

Our sailors expect to do this.

Hell, they're getting thrown out of the White House these days, right? So all those things are being denied today, and it really, uh, is just simply wrong, and it does a disservice to the American people and to those service members because it provides that check and balance, uh, that's so fundamental to our Constitution.

So I wanna say that, um, we saw also the USS Gerald Ford return from a record-breaking 326 days at sea.

The Chief of Naval Operations warned that long deployments could just become more common.

And from where you're sitting, Secretary Del Toro, I, I c- we have someone in the chat saying this, and I, and I agree.

We will have tens of thousands of Marines and sailors heading there, joining the two aircraft carriers, the George H.W. Bush and the George Washington.

You'll recall the USS Gerald Ford and the USS Abraham Lincoln have already been relieved from their participation in the civilian blockade, where the Trump regime is blocking civil tankers, supplies, food, gas, uh, medicines into Iran.

The Trump regime believes if it starves the people of Iran or makes the people suffer in Iran, that will make the people say, "We want Trump and Netanyahu to run Iran." Methinks that's not going to happen.

[laughs] Um, you have the Trump regime doing a similar blockade of Cuba, making the people of Cuba-- We're not talking about the government.

No service member died by suicide, but one official called eight attempted suicides on the USS Abraham Lincoln alone incredibly high.

I wonder what the stats are on the Gerald Ford.

I wonder what the stats are on the George H.W. Bush supercarrier, which has been in the Arabian Sea for quite some time.

i wonder what it's going to be for the george washington you know what doesn't get enough attention and i hear from families on the navy destroyers and the other ships that accompany the aircraft carriers all the time i wonder what's going on in those ships i hear it's very grim on those other ships we often pay attention to the aircraft carriers the big flashy ships themselves, which are basically sitting magnet targets at this point to Iran.

We returned to the road.

We soon spotted the USS Gerald R. Ford dominating Souda Bay.

America's newest and most breathtakingly expensive aircraft carrier had been laid up in port for a month.

A multi-billion dollar asset equipped with a nuclear reactor and an entire air crew was sitting completely idle in the Mediterranean sun because of a laundry fire.

The repetition of baseless claims and threats, given the aging of the US military, is not a sign of strength, but rather a sign of their strategic desperation." And when he says the aging of the US military, he means that, you know, every day those aircraft carriers are there on the blockade with the damaged logistics that exist because Iran was able to successfully strike US military bases in the region and destroy most of them, including Bahrain.

It puts more and more strain on the aircraft carriers, the same issue we were seeing with the USS Abraham Lincoln, and before that, the USS Gerald Ford and other troops in the region also.

The US doesn't have all that many troops in the region right now.

Not a little bit, but I mean about 50,000 troops in the region or so, and the US has run out of a lot of its weapons, a lot of interceptors, the Patriots and the THADs.