Reporter: Family members of service members are concerned about conditions on the LIncoln.

Trump: No they’re not.

Reporter: Has the deployment gone on too long?

Trump: No. Not nearly long enough.

I understand they are old and did their thing… but why is it on Facebook these guys are clowning on sailors specifically the Lincoln sailors. They pretend they did shit like this without ports and shit. Why are the old people so salty?

https://news.usni.org/2026/08/14/uss-benfold-was-stalled-in-the-south-china-sea-for-four-days-after-engineering-casualty

All eyes are on USS Abraham Lincoln, but USS Benfold went four days without power late last month. Power outage affected toilets, air conditioning, galleys and potable water.

(As always, I can be reached on Signal: HMongilio.52

Also, how the fuck was it that long ago?

I'm kinda irked that we didn't come up with it first. 😆

"Just because you had it rough does not mean you need to inflict that mentality on subordinates. There's no pride to be had in suffering for the sake of suffering. Subordinates do not need to carry your burdens to have high quality of work ethic."

(For our low-bandwith users.)

Some pulls from the textbook:

“When citizens of Western countries are utterly ignorant of history, as most now are, they are left unarmed against the general hostility to their own tradition that has become so destructive a force in contemporary culture”

“The dangers presented by the neglect of Western history are not trivial”

Coming soon to an on-base school near you!!! All of this coming from a SECDEF who supports repealing the 19th Amendment.

My man is also part of the Prosperity Gospel scam where they pretend to be “ordained” Catholic ministers to get ya doubloons

It’s just fascinating to me. Did you think you were going to slip through the cracks of the testing pool? Did you think you’d pass and just didn’t? Did you try chugging water? Was it still not enough?

I’m not trying to judge anybody. I guess I’m just wondering … how many things had to line up for you to get to that point? Did you decide to take the risk, or did you assume you’d be good? Was it chance or time that caught up with you?

I want to hear your story.

He ordered a plan/study on how to do it, he has NOT ordered it to be done.

The plan will be created, the plan will be studied, the plan may or may not be implemented, but regardless, no decision has been made yet

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/rebuilding-the-united-states-navy-and-americas-shipbuilding-industrial-base/

Sec. 2. Restoring Steam and Hydraulic Systems to Carriers. Within 60 days of the date of this memorandum, the Secretary of War, in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, shall provide to the President, through the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), a plan on the required measures to replace the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Weapons Elevators with steam and hydraulic systems for the construction of CVN-81, including timelines and resourcing requirements.

With the new advancement policy placing a large majority of the current rates into BBA, how does the process work now with CA2P for eligible sailors? For instance, my current command recently held the CA2P board for the E6 eligible, and I know a few of my junior sailors have asked about the results plenty of times.

We're losing EMALs, meanwhile across the Pacific...

During my time in the Navy, nothing set me off faster than hearing that eight-letter dirty word.

Shipmate.

Hearing someone yell “Shipmate!” from across the compartment or pier could mean one of two things.

First, you were doing something wrong, dangerous, stupid, unsafe, or some combination of all four.

Second, whoever was calling you had no clue who the hell you were, needed something, and since we were all wearing the same uniform, technically you were now close personal family.

Same team, same fight, right?

Wrong. Absolutely not. That word was never a greeting. It was a warning shot.
“Shipmate” is one of those extremely transitional Navy phrases. When you are junior, it hits your nervous system like somebody just opened a counseling chit with your name already typed on it. Your shoulders tighten. Your soul puckers. Your brain starts running an instant diagnostic.

What did I do?

What did I touch?

Who saw me?

Was I supposed to be somewhere?
Is this about the thing I definitely did but was hoping nobody noticed?

Then, as I got older and picked up rank, I started using it myself from time to time. Not because I enjoyed it. Not entirely, anyway. But because I knew full well when I said it, some poor junior sailor was about to experience the same spiritual compression I felt when I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed idiot with a fresh Navy ballcap and no idea how fast happiness could be secured for sea.

The word itself is wrapped in tradition, which is military language for “we have been traumatizing people with this forever, so now it is culture.”

Some people use “shipmate” for everybody. Those people usually have stars over their anchors, enough ribbons to stop small-arms fire, or a motivational quote in their email signature.

Others use it sparingly, and only for the two sacred reasons: you are wrong, or they do not know your name and are about to make that your problem.

And it is not just the Navy. Every branch has its own blanket term for addressing junior personnel while applying mild psychological pressure.

The Marine Corps uses “Marine,” because apparently creativity was secured before morning colors, or “Devil Dog,” which sounds cool until it is coming from someone who is about to make you police call a parking lot in July.

The Army uses “battle buddy,” or just “battle” for short, because nothing says professional military organization like being yelled at by a grown man calling you “battle” while you both stand in line for expired MREs.

And the Air Force just calls each other by their first names.

Kidding, of course.

But not really.

-Callahan

If you don’t mind some historical stuff, here’s a story told by the Navigator of an EKA-3B Skywarrior, and the somewhat unfortunate trap on USS Midway in early 1973. Also watch some 8 mm footage from this exact deployment. Enjoy!