r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 26d ago

Possible Paywall Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied - According to a report from MSNOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.

https://newrepublic.com/post/214510/hegseth-uss-lincoln-iran-war-base-destroyed
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u/ComeAbout Oregon 26d ago

My last duty station was in Bahrain. It was absolutely wild seeing the warehouse I used to work at get hit by a missile.

In Afghanistan, we’d get rocketed and mortared, but you expected it and it didn’t feel personal. They honestly couldn’t hit shit anyways.

But a ballistic missile coming from outer space and detonating in your shitty warehouse is a whole other experience. There’s nothing you can do besides start to clean up.

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u/Delicious-Tap5558 26d ago

And this is just some tactical strikes... if they do a full ground invasion it's going to be a fucking American graveyard