Family members of the aircraft carrier's sailors have told of appalling conditions, including overflowing toilets and food shortages after nearly nine months at sea.
A few of those onboard are said to have attempted to jump into the sea. DW Reporter Pablo Foley Elias asks Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel and former US diplomat, how this crisis reflects on the larger deployment of US personnel to the Middle East.
Jeff Merrick of Military Families Speak Out talks about how far beyond the Lincoln these conditions have been reported. The issue has also become a political liability for US President Donald Trump, who promised not to embroil Americans in more foreign wars, as his party faces an uphill battle to keep control of Congress in November.
