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He was responding on behalf of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to her questions about reports of crew members attempting to harm themselves.\nlist of 3 items\n\nlist 1 of 3Trump\u2019s war on Stars and Stripes: Why has military newspaper chief quit?\nlist 2 of 3Editor of US newspaper Stars and Stripes reportedly fired under Trump\nlist 3 of 3Fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Trump administration for censorship\n\nend of list\nWhile Cao said no service members had died by suicide during the deployment, there had been attempts to jump overboard.\n\u201cThis includes the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons,\u201d the letter read.\nHere\u2019s what we know:\nWhat is the USS Abraham Lincoln?\nIt is a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that the Navy has referred to as one of the \u201clargest warships in the world\u201d. Nimitz-class vessels include 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the US arsenal.\nThe carrier, which set off from California in November 2025 for a routine deployment to the South China Sea, was rerouted in January to the US Central Command (CENTCOM) region in the Middle East because of escalating tensions with Iran.\nSince the US-Israel war on Iran broke out at the end of February, the USS Abraham Lincoln has engaged in combat efforts and helped enforce the US naval blockade on Iranian ports.\nAdvertisement\nThe roughly 5,000-strong crew on board the Lincoln were at sea for 286 days before finally disembarking in Thailand on September 1, setting a record for the longest deployment. Besides one short port stop last December, the crew had no land breaks in that time.\nUS media reports have tied ship supply shortages to Iranian attacks on US military sites in the Middle East, notably the heavy damage inflicted on the naval base in Bahrain in the early days of the war. The navy was reportedly forced to use the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia instead as its main supply hub, some 3,540km (2,200 miles) from where the USS Lincoln was operating in the Gulf.\nAccording to its website, Naval Support Activity Bahrain provided \u201cservices and support to ships at sea, remote sites throughout the region, and military and civilian personnel living in Bahrain\u201d.\nLast month, experts told Al Jazeera that the lack of port stops during the ongoing conflict was a major issue for the carrier.\n\u201cShips need maintenance, particularly ships that are extremely complicated with very advanced weapon systems such as nuclear-powered carriers with very advanced systems, and there are things that you cannot do in terms of maintenance under way,\u201d Harlan Ullman, a retired senior naval officer and chairman of the strategic advisory firm Killowen Group,\u00a0said.\nExtended deployments \u201cerode the readiness and capability of that ship the longer it\u2019s at sea, and it lacks the ability to repair and extend maintenance\u201d, he added.\nFollowing media reports of poor levels of morale on board, the USS George Washington was diverted from the Pacific to replace the carrier last month.\n\nWhat does Cao\u2019s letter say?\n\u201cSince the beginning of Lincoln\u2019s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,\u201d Cao wrote.\nIn particular, he said one sailor assigned to the air wing jumped overboard in early August but was \u201cquickly recovered\u201d, treated by the medical department and \u201ctransferred off ship for follow-on care\u201d.\n\u201cAdditionally, one sailor attempted to go overboard in March and was stopped by his shipmates. That sailor was also provided with immediate medical care and subsequently returned to homeport,\u201d the letter added.\nCao said the carrier had been deployed with various mental health resources, including one psychologist, three behavioural health technicians, one clinical social worker, one embedded integrated prevention counsellor, one facility dog, and five chaplains.\nCao also acknowledged resupply limitations, however, as the vessel was participating in \u201cmajor combat operations\u201d, which meant that the number of main course options served during meal times was reduced from two to one.\nAdvertisement\nHe said the Navy prioritised the delivery of \u201chygiene products, fresh provisions and critical repair parts\u201d, adding that while the ship experienced plumbing issues earlier in its deployment, the shipboard engineering team had completed repairs and \u201cportable water supply remains safe and tested daily\u201d.\nThe Navy chief added that a biparitsan Congressional Delegation was in the \u201cplanning stages\u201d of an on-board visit to the carrier once it returns to the US.\nHave there been previous reports on the conditions on board the carrier?\nYes.\nBefore Cao\u2019s letter, a crew member on board the carrier told CNN that morale on the vessel was very low, with suicidal ideation repeatedly heard among crew members.\nLast month, the Navy Times, which covers US military news, spoke to the wife of a sailor who, she said, had attempted to jump off the vessel, saying he was \u201cburnt out\u201d.\nAccording to the US news outlet, MSNOW, families of sailors had also attended a meeting with Cao the same month to express their concerns over the sailors\u2019 mental health, exhaustion, and safety on board.\nIt also reported separately that families told it, on condition of anonymity, that their relatives and spouses on board had described mouldy showers and no hot water for showering for weeks.\nStars and Stripes, a US military news organisation, also reported last month that a spouse told the meeting with Cao that she had received a message from her husband saying \u201che hopes he doesn\u2019t wake up tomorrow.\u201d\nThe same month \u2013 and following that reporting \u2013 the Pentagon fired the Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief and its Middle East reporter.\nSince beginning his second term in January 2025, US President Donald Trump has accused news outlets of publishing and broadcasting \u201cfake news\u201d.\nLast week, he announced that CNN, Politico and MSNOW would be banned from reporting from the White House.\nOn Thursday, US federal judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration to reinstate press passes after finding that the revocation was done without \u201cconstitutionally adequate due process\u201d.\nWhat has been the response to reports on the situation of sailors on board?\nFollowing reports of burnout and struggling mental health on the USS Abraham Lincoln, CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper visited the sailors on the ship last month.\nCooper said in a statement afterwards that the team were \u201cstanding tall with immense, justified pride\u201d, adding that \u201chistory will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era.\u201d\nLast month, Hegseth said reports about low morale and poor conditions on the ship had been \u201ccompletely misrepresented\u201d.\n\u201cWe make sure every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and \u2060I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody,\u201d Hegseth told reporters during a visit to Panama.\nTrump also dismissed reports and said last month that the ship was \u201cbeautifully maintained\u201d, saying reports of poor conditions were a \u201cCNN fake news report\u201d.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday to CNN following the letter from Cao, Gillibrand said that what Trump and Hegseth had dismissed as \u201cfake news\u201d was in fact \u201cserious and deteriorating conditions for our service members\u201d.\n\u201cOur troops and their families make immense sacrifices every single day, yet the president dismissed them with open disrespect. 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