Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran.
In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”
Fun fact: “walking the plank” was a myth made up by Hollywood. And think about it, would you bother having the ship’s carpenter build a temporary diving board out of precious timber when you could just throw the person overboard instead? There was a punishment called “walking the yard” where they made a man walk off the end of one of the cross-members that held the sails; whether you survived or not depended on the weather and how high up the yard was. Not as cinematic as walking the plank, though.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie where they showed keelhauling or flogging around the fleet.
Black Sails showed keelhauling in a late episode.
I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the rec.
It’s actually a prequel to Treasure Island. It’s a pretty fun show, but historical accuracy isn’t a high priority. It’s also from Stars, so the first season has a lot of gratuitous nudity, but it gets scaled way back starting from the second season.
I want to see Blackbeard getting a cheesesteak in Philly.
Really should’ve been called “Killhulling” now that I think of it
They showed keelhauling in a pirate show I watched. I don’t remember the name of it though.
“Black Sails”, another person here just mentioned it to me.
Yeah that’s it. It was a pretty good show.
Keelhauling would be far more interesting and entertaining if done on an aircraft carrier.
and done to trump.