Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao sent a letter to the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group addressing the ship’s extended deployment, according to a Navy statement and the letter cited by CNN and other outlets [1][2][3]. The letter was delivered to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York on Tuesday in response to questions from the Democrat about the well-being of sailors aboard, the BBC reported [3].
The letter disclosed that eight Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a ten-month deployment that included combat operations against Iran [1][2]. “Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Cao wrote, according to the text of the letter cited by Middle East Eye [2].
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