For the last few days the media has been running with pearl clutching stories about the poor starving sailors aboard the USS Lincoln. According to the various media outlets, sailors are jumping overboard, they haven’t enough food, and life is hell.

The media and some politicians even ginned up commentary from helicopter Moms who just cannot believe their baby is having to endure such harsh conditions with no port calls, no mid-tour leave, and such crappy food like … hot dogs. 

I spoke to a grandmother today worried about her 21-year-old grandson who's aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. He’s lost 20-25 pounds and is struggling with depression. And so-called leaders like Pete Hegseth aren’t doing a thing about it. pic.twitter.com/sueDJajmPV

— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) August 14, 2026

As you can read here, Kelly is getting dragged for this. No one ever stops to think that deployments do mean people lose weight. Why? Oh gee, I don’t know. Perhaps because those on board don’t have time for a beer nor do they have fat-inducing snacks available.. 

200+ days at sea is just horrible and President Trump is using our sailors as “toys” according to AZ Senator Ruben Gallego.  

“His… lackadaisical attitude about men and women and their deployments… just kind of reflects what he actually thinks about them,” added Gallego, who served in the Marines. “He thinks about them more as toys and as ways to basically show off or show his strength, but not the fact that they truly, at the end of the day, are humans.

“They’re Americans. And they have families, and these things, these deployments, these wars have consequences.”

Ruben, who is a longtime pal of Eric Swalwell, has absolutely ZERO room to talk. He wouldn’t even make it through basic training, he’d quit because he couldn’t handle getting yelled at or being expected to WORK. He knows it. We all know it. 

The media and Democrats are framing this as that the USS Lincoln sailors and the rest of that carrier group have been left floundering in the ocean without support. And they’ve managed to find liberal veterans to amplify this. 

Jonathan Simkins may be a Marine vet, but he’s an absolute disgrace for peddling the ‘200 days is just too long and just too tough for our troops’ line. He needs to be leveled just as hard as SharrellAnne did with Jim Acosta. 

I’m not sure who these families think they are at this point, but declaring that “military families have spoken,” demanding resignations, and issuing ultimatums makes it painfully obvious they don’t understand how any of this works.

We do not command warships. We don’t determine… https://t.co/BuFf9RasXW

— SharrellAnne (@SharrellAnne2) August 15, 2026

Yes. THIS. 

The military moms and grandmas clutching pearls need to put a very large SOCK in it. They have NO say in deployments, the length of such, what kind of food their babies receive or don’t, their living quarters, or anything else regarding the military. They have NO say and absolutely ZERO command authority. 

As for the sailors themselves, many veterans lobbed some serious reality checks. None more so than Johnny Joey Jones. He took the sailors to the figurative woodshed. 

I cannot imagine what a living World War 2 veteran reading the trash about this deployment thinks. If we’ve gotten this soft, we truly are Rome waiting to burn.

Good job SECNAV. https://t.co/3hMtLvibzU

— Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) August 15, 2026

Oh, but he was just getting started here. Especially after some anonymous troop from the carrier bitched to CNN about hot dogs. 

“I would say morale’s pretty low, and not just in the division, like in the ship entirely,” the troop told CNN. “We’re running pretty low on rations, I mean at some points in the day it would just be about noodles and tuna mixed in together, and that was it… sometimes you get a corndog, sometimes you get a hot dog.”

Johnny had had ENOUGH. 

Jones could be heard letting out an irritated sigh as the clip wrapped up. He then went off.

“That little… you know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months using a little burner? I ate Ramen noodles… that’s what I ate, and I was happy to have it, because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun and they let him be the cook,” Jones started off by saying.

He then turned it up a notch or three.

“How weak are you?! On TV, complaining about tuna and noodles?” Jones continued. “I’m sorry, you volunteered to serve your country. You can come back, get out of the military, and do like all these Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to.”

Jones is a Marine Corps veteran who served eight years in the military and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was severely wounded in 2010 when an IED exploded while he was serving in Afghanistan, with Jones suffering major injuries to his arms and wrists and having both of his legs amputated above the knee.

Tuna and noodles, along with hot dogs are basic food groups. Just saying. 

Here’s the deal. The sailors whining and crying about the food choices on board need to man up. Yes, they are on a long deployment. Yes, they don’t have a mid-tour leave right now. And yes, sometimes you can look at the meal choices that the culinary crew is putting out and not be a fan. 

What EVERY member of today’s military needs to fully understand is that our soldiers who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, during WWI and WWII or during the American Revolution actually dealt with HARSHER conditions and little to no food on numerous occasions. 

During the American Revolution, WWI and WWII, our soldiers were away from home for YEARS. 2-3, even four years at a stretch. 

Did they bitch and moan among themselves? I’m sure they did. We even saw some of it in Band of Brothers. 

Did they write whining crying letters to mom or grandma with the expectation that the Mom Brigade will swoop in and fix things for their baby? Not a chance. 

Kudos to Johnny for leveling the whiners and complainers with a brutal reality check. 

To the few whiners and complainers on board the USS Lincoln, I say MAN THE ‘EFF UP! 

To the rest of those with the USS Lincoln Carrier Group, I say thank you sincerely for all you are doing. 

Feature Photo Credit: USS Lincoln via Navy.mil, cropped and modified