Lincoln sailor returning from deployment already broke
Financial counselors unable to determine where approximately 10 months of pay went
SAN DIEGO — Seaman John Rattan was already broke less than 48 hours after returning from nearly 10 months aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, despite spending almost no money during the deployment, sources confirmed.
“I saw him wearing white socks this morning and asked him why,” said Boatswain’s Mate Chief Amanda Marla. “He said he couldn’t afford black ones.”
Marla initially assumed Rattan had celebrated his return by purchasing a new car at 24% APR, placing a down payment on a house, or spending several thousand dollars at a San Diego strip club.
“He said no,” Marla said. “Apparently he just doesn’t have any money.”
Rattan returned to San Diego with $21 in his checking account.
By the following afternoon, he was overdrawn.
This confused his chain of command because Rattan is single, has no children, owns no vehicle, carries no known debt and spent just $243 during the deployment.
“Two hundred of that was on snacks,” Rattan said.
Asked where the rest of his paychecks went, he shrugged.
“I don't know. Stuff?”
Navy financial counselors immediately began an investigation.
They checked
