Investigators found that the ship had the highest number of suicide-related behaviors from 2017 to 2019 when compared to all aircraft carriers on the East Coast.
Since 2017, junior sailors assigned to aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) were subject to some of the toughest living conditions in the military, according to a new Navy investigation released on Thursday. Sailors assigned to the carrier over its almost six-year-long maintenance period at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding experienced poor living conditions, up to […]
The suicide aboard the George Washington comes a month after the Navy released its first report on the last three suicides the ship experienced in April.
The Navy found that three of the latest suicides among the crew of the USS George Washington carrier had no clear connection to living conditions on the ship.
This article originally appeared on NBCNEWS.com. The Navy has fired nearly a dozen officers in leadership positions in less than three months, including five in.