Sailor’s Desperate Call Revealed Before Overboard Attempt

Handout / Getty Images The wife of a sailor who went overboard last month aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln is now speaking out about disturbing details.

Navy sailors on the ship have described deteriorating conditions, as their deployment has been twice extended with no end in sight as it relates to the president’s Iran war.

Many family members of sailors on board have voiced concerns about potential exhaustion and increasingly low morale on board.

Tensions onboard came to a climax last month as several sailors went or attempted to go overboard in an attempt to take their own lives.

One sailor who went overboard was in the water for an hour before he was rescued and eventually medically evaluated.

His wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to MS NOW , described her husband’s mental state just before he went overboard, as he divulged in a text message to her that the poor conditions were finally getting to him.

“I think the boat is finally getting to me and I really don’t think I can keep up my peace act anymore,” the message read.

He continued, saying, “You are right about it all not being OK.

We were supposed to leave 5th Fleet on July 15th, but then something had to come up, and my last hope of being home soon was gone.” “I’m really trying to not feel negative or hopeless, but between the wifi and not knowing when I will come home and not knowing what is happening back at home, it’s really getting me.

I don’t think I can do another deployment after this, and I don’t even know if I can finish this deployment,” he continued.

The wife told MS NOW that her husband went to his chain of command and the ship’s medical team to express his concerns about his mental health.

She says they brushed him off.

She also noted that her husband’s contact prescription had expired, and that he was having trouble seeing and doing his job well.

“Every single time he would make a mistake, they would yell at him, and he would get into a lot of trouble,” she said.