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Sea troubles? Senator presses Hegseth for answers amid accounts of rough conditions aboard long-deployed USS Lincoln

By Deseret News · August 26, 2026 · 1 min read
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Travis Clark, right, watches as the USS Abraham Lincoln prepares to leave Naval Station Everett in Washington state, Friday, Oct. 15, 2004. 0x+KEY POINTSDemocratic Sen. Food rationing. Broken plumbing. Moldy showers. But relief is apparently on the way.

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