https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/top-admiral-praises-uss-lincoln-crew-reports-worsening-conditions-rcna592872
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Aug. 17, 2026, 1:14 AM PDT / Source: Reuters
By Reuters
The leader of U.S. Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, wrote Sunday that his recent visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln was “awe-inspiring” and hailed the crew’s “resilience”
From 6/27/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, the amateur-competitor number 878, I successfully completed the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) To 8/16/2026 ( ) is 8085 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/22/1987 ( ) is 8085 days
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/endeavour-info.html
NASA
Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Overview: Endeavour (OV-105)
Construction Milestones
February 15, 1982 Start structural assembly of Crew Module
July 31, 1987 Contract Award
September 28, 1987 Start structural assembly of aft-fuselage
December 22, 1987 Wings arrive at Palmdale, Calif. from Grumman
August 1, 1987 Start of Final Assembly
July 6, 1990 Completed final assembly
April 25, 1991 Rollout from Palmdale
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6032334-lincoln-crew-mental-health-concerns/
The Hill
Centcom commander addresses mental health concerns for troops on USS Abraham Lincoln
by Ryan Mancini - 08/16/26 5:54 PM ET
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper on Sunday addressed concerns about the mental health of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as the aircraft carrier returns home after being docked in the Middle East for more than 260 days.
From 5/7/1992 ( Intelsat successful repair mission EVA - first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 and for me after 05/10/2006: includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/16/2026 ( ) is 12519 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/2000 ( premiere USA film "The Beach" ) is 12519 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163978/releaseinfo/
IMDb
The Beach
United States February 2, 2000 (premiere)
United States February 11, 2000
IMDb
The Beach (2000)
Plot Summary
Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly leads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled.
From 12/7/1941 ( the US Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere USA film "The Final Countdown" ) is 14117 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 14117 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere USA film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 7289 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/17/1985 ( debut of the Intel 80386 microprocessor ) is 7289 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 6/27/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, the amateur-competitor number 878, I successfully completed the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) is 3286 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/1/1974 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Seven Million Dollar Man" ) is 3286 days
From 12/6/1979 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 8970 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/1990 ( premiere USA films "Back to the Future Part III" and "Fire Birds" ) is 8970 days
From 9/29/1913 ( biographical - Rudolph Diesel dead ) To 1/17/1991 ( date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 28234 days
28234 = 14117 + 14117
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 14117 days
From 11/24/1950 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Letter to Committee Chairmen on Aid to Yugoslavia ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and for me after 05/10/2006: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 14117 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 14117 days
From 9/6/1914 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: General Joseph Gallieni began a 3-day effort to gather about 600 taxicabs in central Paris to carry soldiers to the front fifty kilometers away. ) To 12/25/1991 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 28234 days
28234 = 14117 + 14117
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 14117 days
From 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 3477 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/11/1975 ( "The War is Over" concert and "peace rally" in Central Park in New York City ) is 3477 days
From 12/24/1934 ( Stipe Mesic ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 14117 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/27/2004 ( ) is 14117 days
by me, Kerry Burgess: February 19, 2012
Now, that might seem to be a normal dream. I have often written about how I dream about work. I have written several times about how my dreams sometimes are based on the work I do during my waking hours.
But the question I am asking myself now is about the triviality of the details that seems to be connected to what I have just watched on DVD and the details I saw in that recent dream when I was sleeping.
So why would I dream such a trivial detail as I write about here? The detail is that I saw a man in my dream and I was outrunning him in an Ironman triathlon.
I had completed the Ironman triathlon swim course of 2.4 miles and then I had completed the Ironman triathlon bicycle course of 112 miles and then there I was on the 26.2 mile running course and I had just overtaken the lead runner and I was winning the race.
I can still visualize the marathon course and it sort of reminds me of the marathon course that I completed in the year 2004 for the Ironman triathlon in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. But not quite. It also reminds me of the turn-around point on the marathon course of the Seattle Marathon that I finished back in 2003. I think it is the evergreen trees.
So anyway, I had reached the top of a hill. I am aware of crushed rock that is minimally the road surface. I am not aware of asphalt, but then it is a dream.
I am standing at that point on top of that hill, that had been climb that I had not been aware of, and I am lost. I don't know where to go from there. I have a map and I can still visualize the details to some degree as I look at the map and I can visualize how I looked at the small map and I can see the lines representing the swim course and the other lines from the other courses but I cannot figure it out. I am going to lose the race because I can't read the map. I was waiting for some other competitors to catch up with me and so I could find out from them where to go from there, and I can visualize one woman from a group of an unknown number and I think I was talking to them. The dream seemed to end there and I never did see that former lead runner again.
by me, Kerry Burgess: Journal June 9, 2006, Supplemental
I'm really wondering if the stuff I am thinking that happen, stuff happening to me as an aviator, really happened or if they are just random thoughts, it's confusing, some of it is rather dramatic. In this weird way that is so weird I can't think of a better word to use to describe it, some of it feels right, but then....it is confusing because how can imagination feel wrong?
What I have been thinking more of today is an experience when I was training for Ironman. I was eager to get out and swim in the open water the same way as I can go out and ride my bicycle for 50 miles. There are several lakes to swim in around here but my concern was about getting hit by a boat. I started thinking about constructing a buoy with a large flag on it to tow behind me so that boats would avoid me. Over the past week or two, I have had these imagination-memories about doing something similar, but that I was towing away an anti-ship mine in the Persian Gulf. I have no idea if I really did something like that, but I do find myself thinking about it.
I also wonder, if I really am Ronald Reagan's grandson and I really was a commissioned Navy officer
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/top-admiral-praises-uss-lincoln-crew-reports-worsening-conditions-rcna592872
NBC News
Top admiral praises USS Lincoln crew after reports of worsening conditions
The leader of U.S. Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, said his recent visit to the aircraft carrier was “awe-inspiring” and hailed the crew’s “resilience.”
Aug. 17, 2026, 1:14 AM PDT / Source: Reuters
By Reuters
The leader of U.S. Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, wrote Sunday that his recent visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln was “awe-inspiring” and hailed the crew’s “resilience” following rising concerns about mental health and deteriorating conditions aboard the aircraft carrier.
Loved ones of some of the thousands aboard the ship have described to NBC News and other news organizations a lack of supplies and food and an overall deteriorating mental health situation with multiple sailors having attempted to jump overboard.
The ship has not made a port call in more than 200 days, setting a modern-day record for consecutive days at sea, according to Democratic lawmakers who have called for answers.
Cooper wrote in a statement posted on social media on Sunday that the Lincoln had the lowest number of mental health cases of the Navy’s 11 active aircraft carriers. But he did seem to acknowledge the difficulty of the deployment.
“This doesn’t mean that all is perfect. Find any of the nearly 4 million Navy veterans in America today and they will likely tell you that service at sea for long periods isn’t for everyone. It is uniquely challenging and tough, and every single one of us, including me, reacts to stressors in different ways,” he said on X.
“I’ve long believed that mental health is another aspect of individual health and requires our attention just like physical health and spiritual [ superstition, corrected: in the context of the mass-hysteria that is any religion. Don't encourage it. ] health. I applaud Lincoln’s leadership — the senior enlisted leaders in the Chief Petty Officers Mess in particular — for stepping up and making mental health and crew resilience a leadership priority.”
The Lincoln left its home port of San Diego in November and was later redirected to the Middle East to support U.S. military operations in the war with Iran. The carrier has roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier this week that reports about conditions on the ship “completely misrepresented” the situation. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns about the length of the ship’s deployment, saying it was “not nearly long enough.”
The USS George Washington is expected to replace the Lincoln in the Middle East, a U.S. official told NBC News.
It could take several weeks for the replacement of the Lincoln by the George Washington to be complete. It will likely take at least two weeks for the Lincoln to return to its home base of San Diego.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6032334-lincoln-crew-mental-health-concerns/
The Hill
Centcom commander addresses mental health concerns for troops on USS Abraham Lincoln
by Ryan Mancini - 08/16/26 5:54 PM ET
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper on Sunday addressed concerns about the mental health of service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as the aircraft carrier returns home after being docked in the Middle East for more than 260 days.
Cooper called his visit to the ship on Saturday “awe-inspiring” in a statement, saying Americans would “beam with pride” over the work carried out while onboard.
From 6/27/2004 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, the amateur-competitor number 878, I successfully completed the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon ) To 8/15/2026 ( ) is 8084 days
8084 = 4042 + 4042
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/26/1976 ( desperate for oxygen replenishment from loss due to accident months earlier, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto - from his successful strike 145 days earlier in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening the existence by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth ) is 4042 days
IMDb
Red Planet (2000)
Quotes
[Gallagher asks the symptoms of hypoxia]
Dr. Quinn Burchenal: Hypoxia? Dizzy. Skin'll tingle. Vision narrows. Then anoxia. Shock, convulsions, acidosis.
Gallagher: Gonna hurt?
Dr. Quinn Burchenal: Yeah.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:56 AM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 08/18/2026
