VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-15
“I deployed for 485 days in Afghanistan with an 80 percent-plus casualty rate. We came under fire nearly every day,”
Sean Parnell · said 2026-08-15 · reported 2026-08-15
Parnell wrote on X about his 485-day deployment in Afghanistan to push back on media coverage of the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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