RECORD DEPLOYMENT FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN ENDS/LIVESTREAM OF FIRING SQUAD MILITARY EXECUTION?

The Lincoln, 322 days with no days off, no port calls.

The sailors describing what the feeling is now to be returning on CNN.

It feels like Christmas.

It feels like Christmas as, like, a 11-year-old opening gifts.

You're just so ready to, like, get to it.

Just very eager.

There are 122 first-time dads who will meet their children for the first time.

First child, uh, she's been born, uh, December 31st, uh, Stateside.

She was born December 31st for me.

She was born, uh, January 1st, uh, when we were in the South China Sea.

T- absolutely terrifying because I've not so much as, uh, changed a diaper in my life.

But there were very, very, very tough times during the extended and extended and extended tour, the deployment the President called not long enough.

Supply shortages, including medical, food shortages.

It's been a rocky, rocky roads, going up and down.

I was in cargo for a while, uh, the people that bring the food up, and I was in there during the tough times.

Not a lot of food was being brung up.

We shall hear more and more of those stories as the days and weeks go by.

Democratic members of Congress have called for an investigation as well.

And then there were the reported suicide attempts, at first denied by the Pentagon, but now it is acknowledging eight, with thankfully no fatalities.

Defense Secretary Hegseth landed on the carrier the day before it came in.

He awarded the entire crew the Presidential Unit Citation.

For extraordinary heroism against enemy forces from 28 February 2026 through 22 August 2026.

Which is when they were relieved by the USS George Washington.

So they are home.

Glory be.

The Lincoln, 322 days with no days off, no port calls.

The sailors describing what the feeling is now to be returning on CNN.

It feels like Christmas.

It feels like Christmas as, like, a 11-year-old opening gifts.

You're just so ready to, like, get to it.

Just very eager.

There are 122 first-time dads who will meet their children for the first time.

First child, uh, she's been born, uh, December 31st, uh, Stateside.

She was born December 31st for me.

She was born, uh, January 1st, uh, when we were in the South China Sea.

T- absolutely terrifying because I've not so much as, uh, changed a diaper in my life.

But there were very, very, very tough times during the extended and extended and extended tour, the deployment the President called not long enough.

Supply shortages, including medical, food shortages.

It's been a rocky, rocky roads, going up and down.

I was in cargo for a while, uh, the people that bring the food up, and I was in there during the tough times.

Not a lot of food was being brung up.

We shall hear more and more of those stories as the days and weeks go by.

Democratic members of Congress have called for an investigation as well.

And then there were the reported suicide attempts, at first denied by the Pentagon, but now it is acknowledging eight, with thankfully no fatalities.

Defense Secretary Hegseth landed on the carrier the day before it came in.

He awarded the entire crew the Presidential Unit Citation.

For extraordinary heroism against enemy forces from 28 February 2026 through 22 August 2026.

Which is when they were relieved by the USS George Washington.

So they are home.

Glory be.