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Secretary Hegseth Delivers a Full Address Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, Oct. 9, 2026

October 9, 2026 · Department of War · 0:14:50

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What happened

The Department of War published Secretary Pete Hegseth’s full address aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on October 9, 2026. The address capped a series of the Secretary’s messages to the carrier’s crew that week on the department’s channel: a message to the warriors of USS Abraham Lincoln on October 7 and an address to the sailors aboard Lincoln on October 8, with the October 9 upload published as the full address, according to the department’s uploads.

Why it matters

A Secretary of War addressing a deployed carrier’s crew in full is the fleet-facing counterpart to his Pentagon program speeches: the same warrior-ethos message, delivered not to an industry or academy audience but to the sailors of one of the fleet’s capital ships. The three October uploads together are the department’s complete published record of the Lincoln engagement.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary Hegseth FULL ADDRESS Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln,” October 9, 2026 (official upload, embedded above), with the department’s companion uploads of October 7 and October 8, 2026. No transcript of the address is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.