“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号于周四停靠圣地亚哥，结束了漫长而艰苦的中东部署任务。此次部署期间，这艘巨型舰艇面临着紧张的食品供应问题，船员心理健康状况也持续恶化。
The USS Abraham Lincoln docked in San Diego on Thursday, completing a lengthy and grueling deployment to the Middle East, which was mired in tight food supply and degrading mental health onboard the massive ship.
这艘尼米兹级航空母舰完成了为期322天的部署任务，原计划于今年夏天结束。由于美国对伊朗的战争行动，此次部署被延长，期间该航母协助执行了阿拉伯海的美国海军封锁行动。
The Lincoln, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, completed the 322-day deployment, which was expected to end this summer. It was extended as part of the U.S. war against Iran, in which the aircraft carrier helped enforce the U.S. naval blockade in the Arabian Sea.
国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯周三称赞了船员们对美国军事行动的支持，并表示“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号打击群“展现了决定性的作战能力，确立了海上优势”，有助于实现特朗普总统的战略目标。
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised the crew on Wednesday for supporting the U.S. military’s operations against Iran, arguing the Abraham Lincoln strike group “projected decisive combat power and established maritime advantage” to help achieve President Trump’s strategic objectives.
“你们成功执行的任务给了我极大的鼓舞，”这位五角大楼负责人在该舰上发表了16分钟的讲话。“你们改变了历史的走向，确保那些疯狂的神权主义者永远无法获得核武器，这彻底改变了历史的轨迹。”
“I draw inspiration from the mission that you executed so successfully,” the Pentagon chief said in a 16-minute speech aboard the vessel. “You have changed the arc of history, ensuring that crazy people, theocrats, never get a nuclear weapon, changes the arc of history.”
国防部长表示，“林肯”号船员展现了顽强的韧性，并承认他们在极其艰难的环境中执行任务。他还指责新闻媒体试图将“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号“塑造成某种功能失调、士气低落或任务失败的象征”。“当我与你们的领导层交流时——我也有机会与你们中的许多人交谈——我知道事实恰恰相反。而这正是媒体经常做的事情：他们看到成功、卓越以及需要克服的困难与挑战，看到任务的延长和环境的严峻，却试图将其描绘成某种失误或错误的象征，”赫格塞斯说道。
The Defense secretary said Lincoln’s crew members showed resilience, conceding they operated in a tough environment, and he accused the news media of attempting to “turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of a symbol of dysfunction or a symbol of low morale, or a symbol of a failed mission.”“When I talk to your leadership, and I have had a chance to talk to a number of you, I know it’s the exact opposite, which is actually what the media does so often. They see success, and they see excellence, and they see difficulty and challenge that needs to be overcome, an extension, a challenging environment, and they want to point to it as a symbol of something that was missed or wrong,” Hegseth said.
为表彰他们的成就，国防部长向“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航母打击群授予了最高级别部队荣誉——总统单位嘉奖。
For their achievements, the Defense secretary presented the highest unit award, the Presidential Unit Citation, to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.
据赫格塞斯称，该打击群共执行了3693次战斗出动任务，投掷了137万磅弹药，发射了450枚“战斧”陆攻巡航导弹，击落了77架伊朗单向攻击无人机，击沉了64艘伊朗军舰，摧毁了21枚反舰巡航导弹，并成功抵御了四艘快速攻击艇和多艘传统木帆船的袭击。
The strike group executed 3,693 combat sorties, delivered 1.37 million pounds of ordnance, launched 450 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, shot down 77 Iranian one-way attack drones, sunk 64 Iranian warships, destroyed 21 anti-ship cruise missiles and defended against four fast-attack craft and dhows, according to Hegseth.
“林肯”号航母搭载约5000名水手，其部署行动因有关生活条件恶劣、食品供应困难以及心理健康状况恶化的报道而成为新闻焦点。
The deployment of the Lincoln, with about 5,000 sailors onboard, was thrust in the news cycle following news reports of poor living conditions, food supply challenges and degrading mental health.
这艘航空母舰连续286天未靠港，直到上个月才在泰国停靠了数日。
The aircraft carrier did not have a port call for 286 days; it finally docked in Thailand for several days last month.
“林肯”号遭遇后勤困难的部分原因在于，伊朗的袭击严重破坏了位于巴林的美国海军支援活动基地——该基地既是美国第五舰队的驻地，也是美国海军在该地区的后勤中心。
Part of the reason the Lincoln ran into logistical challenges is that Iranian strikes devastated the Naval Support Activity in Bahrain, the home of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and the Navy’s logistics hub in the region.
民主党议员及部分前五角大楼官员批评了此次长期部署，认为政府应当向军人家属作出解释。
Democratic lawmakers and some former Pentagon officials criticized the lengthy deployment, arguing the administration owes answers to military families.
众议员迈克·莱文（民主党，加利福尼亚州）的选区包括圣迭戈的部分地区。他称赞这些水手是“英雄”，称他们理应荣归故里，但同时指出，特朗普政府应当向军人家属作出解释。
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), whose district includes parts of San Diego, praised the sailors as “heroes,” saying they earned their homecoming, but argued the Trump administration owes answers to military families.
“几个月来，海军陆战队员和水手们一直在发出警报，反映舰上的恶劣条件、支持不足，以及这次部署对船上人员心理健康造成的影响，”莱文周四在社交媒体上表示。“他们的家人不断求助，却屡次被忽视。”
“For months, Marines and Sailors sounded the alarm about conditions aboard the ship, inadequate support, and the mental health toll this deployment was taking on those serving onboard,” Levin said Thursday on social media. “Their families begged for help and were repeatedly ignored.”
“而当这些家人被迫求助媒体才终于有人倾听时，皮特·赫格塞斯却回应说，这些报道是假新闻，”莱文写道。“这完全不可接受。这是对为国家付出一切的男女战士的背叛。”代理海军部长洪·曹告诉参议院武装部队委员会成员、纽约州民主党参议员柯尔斯滕·吉利布兰德称，在部署期间，林肯号航母打击群中有八名水手试图自杀。
“And when those families were forced to turn to the press just to be heard, Pete Hegseth responded by telling the world the reports were fake news,” Levin wrote. “That is beyond unacceptable. It’s a betrayal of the men and women who put everything on the line for this country.”Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a Senate Armed Services Committee member, that eight sailors assigned to the Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during the deployment.
对于部分身处海外的人员来说，这次部署的结束意味着他们将能首次与家人团聚。
The end of the deployment for some abroad will mean they can see their family members for the first time.
“我只是想抱抱他，陪他玩，”空军交通管制中心军官布伦特·莱德贝特在接受NBC新闻采访时，谈及他刚出生的儿子内森时说道。
“I just want to hold him, play with him,” Brent Ledbetter, an air traffic control center officer, said in an interview with NBC News when speaking about his baby boy, Nathan.
“他现在会爬来爬去了，所以我很期待能在家门口追着他跑，给他满满的爱——你知道的，过去10个月里，这种爱多少有些缺失，”他说。“我真的太激动了。”
“He’s crawling around now, so I’m excited to chase him around the house and give him all the love that, that, you know —have been kind of withheld for the last 10 months,” he said. “I’m so excited.”
周三，赫格塞斯告诉水手们，要转达特朗普总统和本人对家人们的感谢，感谢他们在漫长等待中的付出，“我们相信，这一切都是为了一个正义而具有历史意义的使命。”
Hegseth told sailors on Wednesday to pass on gratitude from President Trump and himself to family members for the long wait “we believe, was in service of a righteous and historic mission.”
“请感谢他们的耐心、他们的爱国精神、他们的爱，以及他们在后方家园所给予的支持——这从来都不容易。”
“Thank them for their patience, for their patriotism, for their love, and for their support for pitching in on the homeland, which is never easy.”