{"id":125319,"date":"2022-04-27T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125319"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:18:13","slug":"string-of-suicides-on-an-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125319","title":{"rendered":"String of Suicides on an Aircraft Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUSS George Washington (CVN-73)<\/em><\/p>\n

As sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier George Washington coped with three suicides among their shipmates in the recent past weeks, the ship continued a lengthy and extended maintenance overhaul in the depths of Newport News, Virginia. Times without power or working heads for those living onboard are a common occurrence. Commuting is dangerous, too. Downtown is a DMZ, and secure parking a fantasy. This overhaul is in its fifth year, long past scheduled.
\nMaster Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith, the Navy\u2019s top enlisted sailor, brought a blunt message during a visit Friday.<\/p>\n

“Things could be worse.”<\/p>\n

They could indeed.<\/p>\n

10 Deaths in 10 Months: String of Suicides on a Single Aircraft Carrier<\/h3>\n

Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin<\/p>\n

On the morning of April 11, Capt. Brent Gaut, the commander of the USS George Washington — an aircraft carrier undergoing major shipyard work at Newport News, Virginia — got on the ship’s intercom.<\/p>\n

Two sailors had died on April 9 and 10, and Gaut was alerting the crew that those deaths were the eighth and ninth suicides the ship had experienced in nine months, three sailors who heard the announcement told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation.<\/p>\n

One explained that Gaut, talking to the crew first thing in the morning, went on to tell sailors to reach out and talk to someone if they needed help and that resources were available to them. That sailor described it as what “they say after they have a suicide every time.”<\/p>\n

Four days after the announcement, another sailor was “found unresponsive on board the ship,” a Navy spokesperson confirmed to Military.com, and the sailor later died at a hospital in Newport News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

So, things are worse. It’s pretty telling when the MCPON can accurately access a situation and does nothing to correct it. This smacks of Jimmy Carter’s Hollow Military.<\/p>\n

David put me on this one a couple days ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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