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A sailor reportedly had to be rescued after going overboard off of the USS Abraham Lincoln last month amid an apparent ongoing mental health crisis brought on by the lengthy, Iran war-related deployment for the aircraft carrier.

The Navy Times and Stars and Stripes reported this week that at least three sailors have tried to jump overboard the ship recently, but were stopped. Sailors have contacted their families with pleas for help, reporting higher rates of suicidal ideation; one person said that her husband told her he “hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow,” and another says she has barely heard from her husband since he tried to jump overboard and is now in medical hold.

“Our mental health and physical health is in danger,” one sailor reportedly recently wrote to family. “We need help.”

On Thursday, CNN revealed that one sailor did indeed go overboard last month. The circumstances surrounding the incident are unclear, and the soldier has reportedly been medically evaluated.

The toll on the sailors highlights the costs to the U.S. in the futile war, which had reportedly cost nearly $100 billion as of last month, and which has cost American households billions of dollars in higher gas, grocery, and housing prices thus far. The costs to Iran’s civilian population have been dire as U.S.-Israeli strikes slaughter civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure.

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Last week, 200 family members of sailors onboard angrily........

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