The Navy needs to do more to support sailors on USS George Washington after a series of suicides, Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Norfolk, and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Newport News, said.
“It appears that immediate action is required to ensure the safety and well-being of the ship’s crew,” Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Norfolk, and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Newport News, wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday.
The Navy has two investigations underway. One is looking at the three April deaths and the circumstances immediately preceding them. The other seeks answers to more extensive questions about what sailors experience while their ship is in the yard and what sorts of changes might help.