A 19-year-old sailor with a wife the same age, along with a 7-month-old daughter and a 3-year-old son, is reported to have reached a limit on Aug. 3 aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

The aircraft carrier’s namesake had famously cited the nation’s obligation “to care for him who shall have borne the battle.”

A more recent president, George W. Bush, stood on the ship before a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” in 2003 and declared victory in his war of choice in Iraq eight years before the U.S. admitted failure and left.

Our current president, Donald Trump, had never himself borne battle, but he had heedlessly sent others to face it in his own war of choice, this time against Iran. He was cheered on by his self-proclaimed “warfighter,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

One result was that the teenage sailor and his 5,000 shipmates on the USS Abraham Lincoln were deployed long after they were initially scheduled to return. He was at sea when his second child was born and was still there after 255 days when he reportedly went overboard. The Navy suggested he may have........

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