Centcom commander visits USS Abraham Lincoln amid questions about conditions on ship
Cooper spent several hours aboard the carrier and the Navy is sending additional counselors and social workers as it prepares to return home.
- On Saturday, Admiral Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, addressing the crew and thanking them for their "tremendous dedication and courage" during his hours-long tour.
- Families of sailors and Marines report food shortages, water issues, and broken facilities, citing low morale and mental health strain after the carrier spent more than 250 days at sea this year.
- Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao called media reports "dishonest" on Friday while acknowledging a "small number of mental health cases were treated" and insisting the crew "crushed their deployment."
- The Navy is sending additional resiliency counselors and social workers to augment support services aboard the ship, which will rotate as the USS George Washington deploys to replace it.
- More than 50,000 United States service members are operating across West Asia, where tensions between the United States and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz persist during this operationally intense year.
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The Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces in the Middle East, Brad Cooper, flew aboard the USS Lincoln into the Oman Sea as part of a ten-day tour of the region that ended on Saturday, said the US Central Command.
Admiral Brad Cooper concluded a ten-day tour of six countries in the Middle East, in moments of strong tension with Iran and while the U.S. carrier maintains a prolonged deployment in the Arabian Sea
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander CENTCOM (Central Command of the United States, which is responsible for the Middle East), said after a visit to the American carrier Abraham Lincoln that the experience was "surprising," broadcasts the Reuters agency on Sunday.
(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Baek Na-ri = The commander of the U.S. Central Command, who oversees military responses against Iran, visited the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln deployed in the Middle East.
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