We were ready to take this story seriously until we saw that it had been picked up and run with by CNN's Kaitlan Collins. Now we're not so sure. According to a piece published earlier this week in The Military Times, sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have been trying to commit suicide by jumping overboard. The carrier has been deployed for more than eight months while supporting U.S. military operations in the Middle East against Iran, and the deployment, which was expected to end in May, has reportedly been extended.
NEW: The USS Abraham Lincoln was supposed to come home in May — instead, under Trump's Navy, its sailors are grinding through a ninth month at sea with no end date, and the crew is so broken that multiple have attempted suicide. This should be a national scandal.
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) August 13, 2026
Natalie Oliverio reports:
Annabelle Loma has spoken with her husband only a few times since he attempted to jump overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during his current deployment.
Communication has been difficult to come by, and he is now on medical hold.
Loma, who lives in San Diego, said her husband had been repeatedly overextended before he tried to jump from the carrier.
“He’s scared,” Loma said. “He thinks he’ll get a dishonorable discharge, and just because he was burnt out, his 13-year career is ruined, just like that. That’s not fair, that’s not right. That’s not what he should be worrying about right now.”
Loma said she initially received a call from the ship’s ombudsman after the incident but has not heard from anyone with the Navy in recent weeks.
CNN is doing what it can to make it a national scandal.
Multiple U.S. sailors have reportedly tried to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid poor conditions as the Iran war extends their deployment. Natalie Oliverio from The Military Times spoke with one of the sailor’s wives: “She is extremely worried and concerned about how… pic.twitter.com/cNy5qQ6sgO
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) August 13, 2026
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"… her husband is actually doing.”
First, how many is multiple? "The Navy did not provide a precise number of sailors who have attempted to go overboard or engaged in self-harm aboard Lincoln during the current deployment," Oliverio reports.
My dad spent four years of hell in the South Pacific. He watched his tent mates get wiped out by a crash landing bomber. He was drafted. He had no choice. These sailors VOLUNTEERED. But since it’s CNN, I’ll reserve judgment because odds are it’s completely fabricated. CNN=BS
— Wanye Kest (@skeeminarmenian) August 13, 2026
My dad was on this ship for 6 years. 13 Battle Stars.
— Buck (@Eska1957) August 13, 2026
USS Louisville CA28
I think the Sailors on the Abraham Lincoln will survive. pic.twitter.com/P6NuvZHjK6
I’m an Iranian and let me tell you that the Iranian state media and CNN sound exactly the same. I feel sorry for Americans who actually buy this bs.
— Delaram-tehrani (@BredRuffian) August 13, 2026
These people just like the occupying Islamic regime in my country have a mission to ruin the country and nothing else
@CNN is really going to have to re evaluate its psyop department. They’re becoming increasingly desperate 🤷♂️
— Roman Shiloh Graves (@GravesRShi) August 13, 2026
“Multiple”? Meaning 2? 3?@Grok, on an average percentage basis, how many suicide attempts will occur in a group of 5,000 people over a period of one year anywhere in America? Give me a number.
— Joseph Gelman (@JosephGelman) August 13, 2026
The original story gives three examples of attempted suicides.
“Have reportedly”. Well did they or not. You are just making shit up!
— Mr. Ed (@Mapache155893) August 13, 2026
So you confirmed the correlation of jumpers to ship conditions?
— John Bigbooté (@JnBigbootay) August 13, 2026
"Multiple sailors have attempted..."
— Kel Varnson (@kelvarnson) August 13, 2026
"Attempted"? How hard is it to actually jump off the side? This sounds like fake news. I would think that if multiple sailors had attempted, multiple sailors would have succeeded.
Tokyo Rose has a rival.
— BJane1182 (@FrancesJaneB) August 13, 2026
This is a terrible post Erin. Trying to demoralize the public? I don’t believe you, based on your track record.
Some guy tried to jump from the ship and CNN is reporting that "sailors" are trying to jump. How irresponsible this reporting is.
— Tayler (@Tayler_Maddison) August 13, 2026
She need not be worried about her husband. He is safe in the brig where his personal issues can be contained while someone else more competent man's his position.
— Fredric (@fredric_parsons) August 13, 2026
These women need to shut the fuck up and let the men do their fucking job and stop causing problems for the command. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
— Murica First 🇺🇸 (@MAGAMANIA2025) August 13, 2026
Source: Trust me, bro
— Wes Mantooth M.CJ (@WestonMantooth) August 13, 2026
-@CNN
So, what do we actually know? The Military Times talked to the wife of a sailor who attempted suicide and the wife of a man who allegedly stopped another sailor from going overboard. They've been deployed since November. Deployment was supposed to end in May. It's August now. Is it the extra three months that are driving "multiple" sailors to attempt to jump overboard?
Remember, this is the same CNN that just reported that police are investigating after a black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, without bothering to mention that her black boyfriend was arrested. We need more information than CNN is giving us.
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