{"id":79719,"date":"2026-10-08T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/thousands-turn-out-to-welcome-weary-uss-lincoln-sailors-after-fraught-stretch-at-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:55:54","slug":"thousands-turn-out-to-welcome-weary-uss-lincoln-sailors-after-fraught-stretch-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/thousands-turn-out-to-welcome-weary-uss-lincoln-sailors-after-fraught-stretch-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out to welcome weary USS Lincoln sailors after fraught stretch at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military families admit \u2018mixed emotions\u2019 as aircraft carrier finally returns to San Diego after grueling deployment that took severe toll<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/08\/uss-lincoln-san-diego-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-politics-latest-news\">USS Lincoln arrives at San Diego base \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By 4am on Thursday, the sky still pitch black, 19-year-old Pvt Grayden Monroe and his mom had arrived to the naval base in San Diego, California, the very first military family members huddled on a set of metal bleachers overlooking the dark water. They were waiting for Monroe\u2019s 21-year-old sister to step off the USS Abraham Lincoln, the embattled aircraft carrier that has been at sea for the better part of a year.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe, a soldier stationed at Fort Campbell, was wearing his army uniform for the occasion. \u201cI hope she\u2019s proud of me,\u201d he said of his sister, \u201cand I hope she knows damn well that I\u2019m just as proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/08\/uss-abraham-lincoln-return-san-diego\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military families admit \u2018mixed emotions\u2019 as aircraft carrier finally returns to San Diego after grueling deployment that took severe toll USS Lincoln arrives at San Diego base \u2013 live updates By 4am on Thursday, the sky still pitch black, 19-year-old Pvt Grayden Monroe and his mom had arrived to the naval base in San Diego, &#8230; <a title=\"Thousands turn out to welcome weary USS Lincoln sailors after fraught stretch at sea\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/thousands-turn-out-to-welcome-weary-uss-lincoln-sailors-after-fraught-stretch-at-sea\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thousands turn out to welcome weary USS Lincoln sailors after fraught stretch at sea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}