在美国历史上最长的一次航母部署任务结束后，“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航母终于准备返回其位于圣地亚哥的母港。这次为期322天的部署引发了全国范围内的重大争议，原因包括严重的物资短缺、恶劣的生活条件，以及船员在心理健康方面面临困境的相关证据。
Following one of the longest carrier deployments in American history, the USS Abraham Lincoln is finally poised to return to its home port in San Diego. Its 322-day deployment generated an important national controversy, fueled by dramatic supply shortages, poor conditions and evidence of crew members struggling with mental health challenges.
在MS NOW独家报道了该航母上的状况后，海军改变了计划，让“林肯”号比原定时间提前数月返航。
After MS NOW’s exclusive reporting on the conditions on board the carrier, the Navy changed its plans and brought the Lincoln home months earlier than planned.
周三，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯飞往“林肯”号，并向船员授予了总统单位嘉奖。但在这场活动中，这位前福克斯新闻主持人也借机抱怨媒体对这一丑闻的报道。
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew to the Lincoln and awarded the crew the Presidential Unit Citation. But at the same event, the former Fox News host also took the opportunity to whine about press coverage of the underlying scandal.
五角大楼负责人说：“媒体中有少数人试图将‘亚伯拉罕·林肯’号变成某种象征——要么是功能失调的象征，要么是士气低落的象征，要么就是任务失败的象征。但当我站在这里，与各位领导交流时——我也有机会与你们中的许多人交谈过——我知道事实恰恰相反。”
“There were a few folks in the media who tried to turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of a symbol — a symbol of dysfunction or a symbol of low morale or a symbol of a failed mission,” the Pentagon chief said. “And when I look out right here and when I talk to your leadership — and I’ve had a chance to talk to a number of you — I know it is the exact opposite.”
赫格塞斯接着表示，他认为记者们故意贬低“成功”和“卓越”。无论这位部长是否意识到这一点，媒体对“林肯”号事件的报道并不存在什么秘密阴谋。事实上，正是水手们和他们的家人最初帮助揭露了这艘航母上令人震惊的恶劣条件。
Hegseth went on to say that he believes journalists deliberately deride “success” and “excellence.”Whether the secretary understands this or not, there was no secret media plot around the coverage of the Lincoln. Indeed, it was sailors and their loved ones who helped to expose the scandalous conditions on board on the carrier in the first place.
同时，海军代理部长洪·曹也承认，“林肯”号上有八名水手曾试图自杀。他还向国会成员坦言，该航母在管道系统和反渗透海水淡化设备方面都存在问题。
It was also the Navy’s acting secretary, Hung Cao, who acknowledged that eight sailors from the Lincoln tried to take their own lives At the same time, he conceded to members of Congress that the carrier had confronted issues with both its plumbing and reverse osmosis desalination units.
如果赫格塞斯审视“林肯”号上发生的一切，却认为真正的问题出在“媒体中的少数人”身上，那么他与现实的关系显然已经严重脱节。至于近期发展，MS NOW本周报道：随着“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰在创纪录的伊朗战争部署任务结束后，于周四返回其母港圣地亚哥，亚利桑那州民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈正呼吁对国防部长皮特·赫格塞思领导的五角大楼展开调查，并关注该航母所遭遇的物资短缺和心理健康问题。
If Hegseth looks at what transpired aboard the Lincoln and thinks the real problem is with “a few folks in the media,” his relationship with reality is badly broken. As for the near future, MS NOW reported this week: 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MS NOW的报道，加列戈在一份日期为10月7日且经MS NOW审阅的信函中要求国防部监察长对“船上报告的食物和基本物资短缺、船员长期疲劳以及心理健康资源获取受限等问题”进行独立审查。
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.
这位亚利桑那州的民主党参议员同时也是参议院退伍军人事务委员会成员，他还要求国防部监察长普拉特·B·莫灵三世调查领导层如何应对“日益恶化的心理健康状况或自残风险，包括任何水手曾寻求帮助却未获得援助的情况”。五角大楼尚未回应加列戈的请求。请持续关注后续进展。
The Arizona Democrat, a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, also asked DOD 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 Pentagon has not yet responded to Gallego’s requests. Watch this space.
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