周四，亚伯拉罕·林肯号航空母舰在破纪录地部署到伊朗战争后驶入其母港圣地亚哥时，亚利桑那州民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈，呼吁对国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯领导的五角大楼以及困扰这艘航空母舰的补给失败和心理健康挑战进行调查。
As the USS Abraham Lincoln pulls into its homeport of San Diego on Thursday after a record-breaking deployment to the Iran war, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., is calling for investigations of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon and the supply failures and mental health challenges that plagued the aircraft carrier.
根据一封日期为10月7日的信，加列戈援引MS NOW的报告，要求国防部监察长对“报告的食物和基本用品短缺、船员持续疲劳以及船上心理健康资源的获取有限”进行独立审查。MS NOW审查。
Citing MS NOW’s reporting Gallego requested the Department of Defense’s inspector general conduct an independent review of the “reported shortages of food and basic supplies, sustained crew fatigue, and limited access to mental-health resources aboard the ship,” according to a letter dated Oct. 7 and reviewed by MS NOW. Those shortages subsequently exposed the extent to which the Navy’s supply chain was disrupted by Iran’s bombing of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet logistical hub in Bahrain in March.
这些短缺随后暴露了三月份伊朗轰炸巴林海军第五舰队后勤中心后海军供应链受到的干扰程度。
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海军作战部长达里尔·考德尔上将在8月31日的一次市政厅会议上对水手们说，海军“短期内”不会回到巴林海军支援活动。上个月，他在一段视频中说，海军从林肯号的供应挑战中吸取了教训，并正在为未来的航母部署“将这些教训付诸行动”。
Daryl Caudle told sailors in a town hall meeting on Aug. 31 that the Navy isn’t going back to Naval Support Activity Bahrain “anytime soon.”Last month, he said in a video that the Navy learned from the Lincoln’s supply challenges and is “putting those lessons into action” for future carrier deployments.
参议院退伍军人事务委员会成员加列戈也要求监察长普拉特B。Moring III研究领导力如何应对“日益恶化的心理健康状况或自我伤害风险，包括水手寻求护理而没有得到护理的任何情况。“林肯号的船员满足了非凡的作战需求并执行了一项关键任务。这使得确定海军的系统是否足以维持水手并在这些条件下保持战备状态变得更加重要，”加莱戈写信给监察长。
Gallego, a member of the Senate Veterans’s Affairs Committee, also asked Inspector General Platte B. Moring III to examine how leadership responded to “worsening mental-health conditions or self-harm risk, including any instances in which a sailor sought care and did not receive it.”“The Lincoln’s crew met extraordinary operational demands and performed a critical mission. That makes it all the more important to determine whether the Navy’s systems were adequate to sustain sailors and maintain readiness under those conditions,” Gallego wrote to the inspector general.
在10月7日致美国政府问责办公室负责人的另一封信中，代理主计长奥里斯·W。布朗要求审查海军“安全有效地维持林肯号等扩展舰艇部署”的能力。
In a separate letter dated Oct. 7 to the head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, acting Comptroller Gen. Orice W. Brown, Gallego requested a review of the Navy’s ability to “safely and effectively sustain extended ship deployments” like the Lincoln’s. Gallego asked the GAO to review how extended deployments have an impact on the ship’s maintenance, equipment condition, and crew fatigue and retention and whether the Navy can uphold reasonable standards when it comes to food, communication and sanitation.
加勒格要求政府审计局(GAO)审查长时间部署如何影响舰船的维护工作、设备状况以及船员的疲劳和保留率，并审查海军在食品、通讯和卫生方面能否维持合理的标准。
The Lincoln broke the modern day record in the Navy for most continuous days at sea without a port call.
林肯号创下了现代美国海军史上最久无港口停靠的纪录。连续七个月，船员未曾踏上干地，这促使家属们直接向海军领导层表达对所属亲人可能面临的身体疲劳和心理危机的担忧。
For seven straight months, the crew did not set foot on dry land, which prompted family members to confront Navy leaders about their loved ones’ potential for physical exhaustion and mental health crises. “The Lincoln’s deployment raises a question that extends well beyond a single ship: whether those conditions were an isolated failure or an early indication of what the Navy’s current operational tempo will routinely demand, and whether the force is built to absorb it,” Gallego wrote.
“林肯号的部署引发了一个问题，这一问题远远超出了单艘舰船：这些状况是孤立的失败，还是海军当前作战节奏日常要求的早期信号，以及部队是否能够承受这一节奏？”加勒格写道。
Typically aircraft carriers deploy for six to seven months and stop every 30 to 45 days to resupply, address larger maintenance issues that cannot be adequately managed at sea, and to give the crew an opportunity for rest.
通常情况下，航空母舰部署六到七个月，并每30至45天停靠一次港口，以补给、处理无法在海上妥善处理的大型维护问题，以及让船员休息。
The Lincoln’s deployment, however, was 10 1/2 months in total, and seven of those months were spent continuously at sea with no opportunity for a port call because Navy leaders said there was nowhere safe for the ship to stop.
然而，林肯号的部署总长为10.5个月，其中有七个月连续在海上作战，完全没有港口停靠的机会，因为海军领导表示没有安全的停靠地点。
A combat Marines Corps veteran of the Iraq War, Gallego said he knows what “forever wars” look like.
一位伊拉克战争退役海兵队战士，加勒格表示他了解“永远战争”是什么样子。
“Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have dragged our country into yet another one with no clear objective or exit strategy. And, unfortunately, that decision has had grave consequences,” Gallego said.
“唐纳德特朗普和彼得赫格塞斯已将我们的国家拖入另一场毫无明确目标或退出策略的战争。不幸的是，这一决定带来了严重的后果，”加勒格说道，“我们的军人及其所属亲人应得到答案，我将为此努力。”自今年8月初以来，包括康涅狄格州参议员理查德布伦瑟尔在内的众多立法者一直要求五角大楼就林肯号上的状况以及整体海军状况作出解释。
“Our servicemembers and their loved ones deserve answers. I intend to get them.”Lawmakers, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-Conn., have been demanding answers about the conditions on the Lincoln and the state of the Navy as a whole from the Pentagon since early August.
纽约州民主党参议员基尔斯滕·吉利布兰德，参议院军事和情报委员会的成员，以及伊利诺伊州民主党众议员布拉德·施耐德，在海军上个月披露林肯号航母战斗群有八次自杀企图后，众议院外交事务委员会的一名成员要求国会举行听证会。
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., on the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, and Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called for congressional hearings after the Navy disclosed last month there had been eight suicide attempts in the Lincoln’s carrier strike group.
九月27日，众议院军事委员会的一个两党议员小组与代理海军部长洪曹一起访问了林肯号进行监督访问。
On Sept. 27, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House Armed Services Committee visited the Lincoln for an oversight visit along with acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao.
在参观了林肯，众议员萨拉雅各布斯，加利福尼亚州，她说，她与水手和海军陆战队员交谈，他们描述了在长期部署期间洗衣服，获得药品和足够食物的挑战。
After visiting the Lincoln, Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., said she spoke with sailors and Marines who described challenges washing clothes, getting medicine and enough food to eat during their long deployment.
雅各布斯说：“亚伯拉罕·林肯号航空母舰很快就会回到圣地亚哥，我很欣慰，我期待着欢迎他们回家。”“但当他们靠岸时，我们对问责的要求不会结束。”该帖子亚伯拉罕·林肯号驱逐舰即将回家。现在民主党希望进行调查。MS NOW
“I’m relieved that the USS Abraham Lincoln will soon be back in San Diego, and I’m looking forward to welcoming them home,” Jacobs said. “But our demand for accountability won’t end when they make port.”The post The USS Abraham Lincoln is almost home. Now Democrats want investigations. MS NOW