First, Navy officials said they had "not identified an increase" in suicide attempts. Now the Acting Secretary of the Navy has confirmed eight. In a letter to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Acting SECNAV Hung Cao disclosed eight suicide attempts across the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group since the deployment began in November 2025. The count covers the carrier, the air wing, the escorting destroyers and the embarked squadrons. No one died, and every attempt was stopped by someone: a watchstander, a shipmate, a corpsman.

The deployment kept going, through the Iran war, a naval blockade and months without a real liberty port. When families first raised the alarm, the reports were called "fake news." Now the Navy's own letter tells a different story. Retired US Navy Commander Bobby Jones breaks it down.

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On this episode of Meidas Defense, Joe Plenzler is joined by retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tony Carr to discuss the growing culture of fear inside the Pentagon under Pete Hegseth, the escalating war with Iran, and the consequences of silencing dissent within the military. Carr also breaks down the dangers of concentrating power and why protecting constitutional checks and balances matters now more than ever.

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Episode Description: Ken Harbaugh answers Trump's dismissive Epstein question, "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?", with a firm yes, arguing that the administration, from Kash Patel's FBI to Todd Blanche's DOJ, has met the survivors with contempt. Ken then speaks with survivor Dani Bensky about her fight for justice and the national tour of the Trump-Epstein Reading Room, an exhibition and bookmobile that puts all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files in front of the public.

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Her husband deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines and came home with PTSD and a TBI. She became his caregiver, then became a lawyer who helps veterans get free legal help. Now Callie Barr is running for Congress in Michigan's 1st, because Northern Michigan families are done waiting. As a retired Navy Commander, Bobby Jones can tell you that Military families serve too. He interviews Callie to find out her motivations and what she plans to do in Congress.

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Ken Harbaugh traces the line from Trump family drone deals, defense stock trades, and oil market manipulation back to General Smedley Butler's 1935 book War Is a Racket, which warned that war too often profits the few at the cost of the many. He sits down with Army combat veteran Kris Goldsmith to discuss the book's re-release, featuring Goldsmith's introduction.

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Ken Harbaugh breaks down how Trump's bungled Iran war has left both the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb under threat, shut down a critical Saudi pipeline, and somehow left Ukraine taking the blame for rising diesel prices — all while new revelations tie a Putin-linked oligarch to Don Jr.'s wedding. Then he sits down with PBS NewsHour's Simon Ostrovsky, who's covered Russia's war since 2014, to unpack Russia's way of war and why ceding territory will never actually buy Ukraine peace.

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