Diogenes Club | E27 - A System Meant To Harm
Diogenes In Review
Nick and Eric open on the USS Abraham Lincoln, where the crew has passed 250 consecutive days at sea against a normal carrier rotation of 180 days, with two days ashore in Oman and reporting from the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes describing half-cup rice rations, broken plumbing, no hot water, no soap or toothpaste, and thwarted suicide attempts. Nick, a veteran, refuses the “logistics failure” framing outright: “There is a difference between operational management and just cruelty, and what’s going on on the Abraham Lincoln, and probably other vessels too, is cruelty.”…
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