Eight sailors in USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted suicide during extended deployment
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Eight U.S. Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its extended deployment, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
“Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Cao wrote in a letter sent Tuesday, according to The Guardian. The letter responded on behalf of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to questions from Gillibrand, a New York Democrat.
The figure covers personnel across the carrier strike group, including sailors serving aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and members of its carrier air wing. The deployment included U.S. military operations against Iran.
Al Jazeera reported that the Lincoln’s crew, numbering roughly 5,000, spent more than nine months at sea and made only one brief port stop. The reports did not provide details about the sailors involved or their conditions following the attempts.
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