Rep. Don Bacon on If There Should Be a Congressional Investigation into the USS Lincoln: ‘We Should Have Oversight’

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BACON: "I think so Ed It would have been a much better way of addressing this issue. It is hard on families to be willing to defend our country and doing these 10 month deployments if you’re on an aircraft carrier, I think that would have Been A Much more uh Better Way Of Addressing This Issue It Is Hard On Families To Be Willing To Defend Our Country We Should Acknowledge That But we’ve done it for previous wars and deployments And will have to do so in the future. I think that’s a better way To phrase It The USS George Washington is now headed In to that region as the Lincoln comes back or heads To port Do you Think there needs To be some kind of congressional investigation Or review Of The last nine months? What was going on aboard That carrier Now We should Have Oversight To have them serve as Chief of The Navy and have him explain to us Uh, the truth on That But I served On an aircraft carrier As An air force guy during my 30 years in The Air Force And we had some Of These Incidences When I was on the Carrier This is back In 1996 when Weren’t at War We were doing The north or southern no-fly Zone And we were doing The north or southern no-fly Zone We had to"