{"id":2646779,"date":"2026-08-19T06:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-weak-are-you-watch-as-vet-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-shreds-sailors-whining-about-food-on-uss-abraham-lincoln\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:47:55","slug":"how-weak-are-you-watch-as-vet-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-shreds-sailors-whining-about-food-on-uss-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-weak-are-you-watch-as-vet-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-shreds-sailors-whining-about-food-on-uss-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;How Weak Are You?&#8217;: Watch as Vet Who Lost Both Legs in Afghanistan Shreds Sailors Whining About Food on USS Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-weak-are-you-watch-as-vet-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-shreds-sailors-whining-about-food-on-uss-abraham-lincoln%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2646779&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The passage discusses the controversy surrounding conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been at sea for over 250 days due to ongoing conflict in the Middle East.It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-press-cdc-on-conflicting-counts-of-child-covid-19-deaths\/\" title=\"House Republicans are urging the CDC to clarify ...ing child COVID-19 death counts.\">highlights concerns raised<\/a> over food supplies and morale, with social media images showing limited meals and low supplies earlier in the conflict. Despite some reports of improved conditions, critics argue that the situation remains dire. A veteran and Fox News analyst, Joey Jones, who lost both legs serving in Afghanistan, defends military life and criticizes media coverage of the alleged poor conditions, emphasizing that soldiers often endure much worse hardships, such as eating RAMEN noodles with tuna packets during deployments. Jones underscores the patriotism and resilience of service members, contrasting current complaints with the tougher realities faced by veterans of past wars, and criticizes the media and public for portraying the military negatively. The overall tone defends the dedication of service members and dismisses superficial complaints about food and living conditions as signs of weakness or misunderstanding of military sacrifices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the media is in an uproar over the fact that being aboard a Navy ship isn\u2019t a Carnival cruise. To which an Afghan vet who lost both legs has four words: \u201cHow weak are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The response was delivered on Fox News in response to a long-term to-do about conditions aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-u-s-shoots-iranian-drone-encounter-near-uss-abraham-lincoln\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, which has been at sea for over 250 days due to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>In April, photos of military meals began making the rounds on social media, first prompting concern:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Images of food being served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, published by USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>Supplies \u201care going to get really low\u201d and \u201cmorale is going to be at an all-time low,\u201d one sailor messaged his mother: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/di0KUEohvI\">https:\/\/t.co\/di0KUEohvI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZcuBNw1k8i\">pic.twitter.com\/ZcuBNw1k8i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Hill (@evanhill) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evanhill\/status\/2044874837919739922?\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They were still a matter of concern after several media outlets made visits to the ship, including <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/16\/politics\/uss-lincoln-iran-war-life-aboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, which acknowledged there had been some periods of gustatory malfunction, but that things had markedly improved.<\/p>\n<p>From a report published Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>At breakfast, our table had fresh fruit and vegetables \u2014 a recent development from the port visit. Iranian strikes had disrupted the supply chain through Bahrain early in the war, forcing a rationing period that sailors still talked about vividly and, then, a dearth of fresh food for many months. For a stretch, sailors told me, their meals were reduced to tuna mixed with noodles, or corn dogs. Several described losing significant weight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By the time I arrived, that had eased. Food was plentiful, if not gourmet: 17,000 to 18,000 meals a day, largely from frozen stock, on a 14-day rotation sailors know by heart (\u201cpizza day,\u201d \u201cburger day\u201d), with morale-boosting events like ice cream socials. Young enlisted sailors still wait up to an hour in line for each meal \u2014 a grind that wears on people fast. Many told me they were dreaming of their first meal back home: Chinese food, Chipotle, a mother\u2019s homemade bolognese.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One sailor, who messaged me after I left the ship, put it plainly: \u201cFood has slightly increased in edibility, if I was asked a few months ago I would say a lot of people were losing weight due to the food.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joey Jones, a Fox News analyst who lost both legs in Afghanistan, went off on the idea that this was somehow a new development in military life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months on a burner with using a little burner? I ate ramen noodles,\u201d the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-local-marines-lead-crowd-flag-carrying-civilians-run-central-park-working-restore-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marine<\/a> said in a viral clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to pull the seasoning packet out, because that\u2019s too much sodium in it, and I put tuna packets in it. That\u2019s what I ate. And you know what? I was happy to have it, because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun and they let him be the cook. And so if I wanted something spicy, test my fate a little bit, I\u2019d go get a bowl of whatever he made in that giant urn thing that he had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow weak are you on TV complaining about tuna and noodles? I\u2019m sorry, <em>you<\/em> volunteered to serve your country,\u201d Jones continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can come back and get out of the military and do like all of these Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to and come up with a new way of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not that it was any better under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flashback-chuck-norris-explains-switched-democrat-republican-rips-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrat presidents<\/a>, he was quick to point out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last Democrat president that I remember that was deploying troops, Barack Obama, had the Army going to Iraq on patrol bases for 15 months at a time, eating MREs,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but you\u2019re a sitting duck on a patrol base in Iraq, in Afghanistan, a heck of a lot more than you are on a fortified Navy ship sitting in the water. You might have got bored \u2014 and I\u2019m sorry. We did have more fun getting in firefights. I\u2019ll say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to sit there and say that it was terrible because you had a \u2018corn dog and a hot dog,\u2019 I would have traded a block of C4 [explosive] to the Taliban for a hot dog by about July 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 HOLY SMOKES. Marine Joey Jones, who deployed to Afghanistan and lost his legs there, just ERUPTED after the fake news amplified complaints about \u201cfood\u201d and \u201cconditions\u201d on the Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo SIT THERE and say that it was terrible because you had a \u2018corn dog and a hot\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v2iGvsyQq3\">pic.twitter.com\/v2iGvsyQq3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2088777142108647797?\">August 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I just do not understand the mentality \u2014 if this is a representation of who our military is now, and I\u2019m not saying it is, but there\u2019s at least enough for some of these trash rags to print about it \u2014 if this is who we are, we\u2019re just Rome sitting here waiting to burn,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got nothing left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the reason why this resonated: This isn\u2019t really who we are. This is who the media would like us to think we are, but who we definitely aren\u2019t as a fighting force.<\/p>\n<p>Consider, for instance, this father of a sailor on the USS Lincoln:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">USS Abraham Lincoln sailor dad:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs some you may know my son, Casey, is a yellow shirt on the \u201cABE.\u201d As such, he has one of the most dangerous and physically and mentally demanding jobs onboard the ship. The flight deck is non-stop. He has worked incredibly long shifts, with\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yk2WN8nxQn\">pic.twitter.com\/yk2WN8nxQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoVA_Campaigns\/status\/2089026508169920644?\">August 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then take publications like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/joey-jones-fox-uss-lincoln-conditions-b3033959.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. Independent<\/a>, who claimed Jones was now \u201cunder fire following a three-minute on<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-air outburst targeting service members deployed aboard<\/a> the USS Abraham Lincoln,\u201d and then quoting the usual leftist social media voices calling him the weak one. You know, the guy who lost both legs serving his country.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, we had men serving in battle in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fought-albania-wwii-memorial-day-beachgoers-fail-basic-us-history-questions-can-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a> who would have found this food haute cuisine. To complain about tuna and noodles \u2014 and for our media to countenance those complaints as valid when these men and women signed up for the solemn duty to protect their country and its interests \u2014 is a sign of creeping decay, even if the vast majority of these individuals don\u2019t whine to CNN and its ilk. 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