Carl Otis Schuster

“ignores the human element”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster said Trump's comment about deployment length ignored the human element, which he called everything.

“All of us have a breaking point.”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster warned that all crew members have limits, noting he never spent more than 90 days at sea during his own service.

“Every generation says that this generation is soft, but I would argue the guys serving on the Abraham Lincoln have undergone stresses and strains that my generation rarely faced, and certainly I never faced.”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster said today's sailors face stresses he never experienced during his 26 years of service.

“shown really strong resilience”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster praised the Lincoln's crew for their resilience during the extended deployment.

“Unfortunately, we’ve made a habit of placing the sacrifices on the crewmen,”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster said sacrifices from long deployments are typically placed on crewmen.

“until we do that, you’re going to have repeats”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster argued more attention should be paid to the human element of long deployments to avoid repeated problems.

“We have one carrier fulfilling the mission that would normally be done by two, so there’s nowhere to rotate them out, and so the tension and stress on the crew grows,”

Carl Otis Schuster · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Schuster explained that having only one carrier fulfilling a two-carrier mission increases tension and stress on the crew.