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Your Son Doesn’t Want You To Complain About His Deployment

‘They didn’t sign up to be on a ship in the middle of the ocean with no port calls, no feet on the ground.’

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Families do this. It’s normal. Also, it’s usually unnecessary and misguided.

A video on the New York Times website features the family members of a sailor at sea on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, and the story frequently descends into the realm of parody. Note the captioning on this screenshot from the paused video:

People who enlisted in the U.S. Navy didn’t sign up to be on a ship in the ocean, one family member complained, especially if they don’t get plenty of breaks and port calls and have to be there for a long time. Bless your heart.

People who serve in the military are proud of their endurance in bad conditions. They’re proud that they do hard work for an unreasonable period of time. They complain about those conditions, but (to a point) they like it while they hate it. They know they’re doing something that other people couldn’t handle, and the complaining is just a thing everybody does to pass the very long days. Most of them don’t want you to make it a thing, and the ones who do mostly don’t belong in the military. A few weeks on a limited menu is most certainly not outside the normal limits of military experience.

If you think anyone on the Abraham Lincoln is suffering a lot right now, I recommend reading With the Old Breed, E.B. Sledge’s war memoir about island hopping with the Marine Corps in World War II. We’re grading our deprivation........

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