Increased suicide of George Washington Sailors; Congress is concerned
Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives warned of several suicides on the USS George Washington last Wednesday, IRNA reported. The head of the Pentagon, meanwhile, acknowledged shortcomings in the way sailors are housed on ships under repair.
The U.S. Navy announced on April 30, 1401, in less than a week, the bodies of three Navy sailors belonging to the aircraft carrier Yu. اس. S. George Washington was found.
The bodies of the American aircraft carrier were found on April 9 and 10 (April 20 and 21) while one of the dead was found inside the ship and two others were found outside the base belonging to the aircraft carrier.
The Pentagon is waiting for the results of two investigations into George Washington’s ship and how the sailors were housed after the deaths of three crew members, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee, the Legion website reported. The ship is in less than a week in April.
“Whether or not we made the right choices needs to be addressed,” Austin said. There are definitely some problems there. We need to understand a little more where the problem comes from and then we need to know what to do to avoid this kind of problem in the future.
Ohio State Representative Marcie Captor said she was “extremely concerned” that the slow pace of ship repairs would create a “disappointing situation” for the crew. The George Washington Ship has been moored since 2017 at Newport News, Virginia, for major repairs and the nuclear refueling process.
“Hundreds of sailors do not have access to housing or cars and get stuck in wrestling,” Captor said. This is really demoralizing.
The Democrat MP said work on George Washington was expected to be completed by the end of 2021, but will now continue until 2023. Austin attributed the delay to the Corona epidemic, saying repairing a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier like George Washington required “very, very complicated work.”
He added: “It was certainly not expected that the ship would be in the repair cycle for a long time, but nevertheless I expect the leadership to make the right decisions and I look forward to seeing where the inspections will go.”
The aircraft carrier’s crew told George Washington in an interview with CNN that living conditions on the ship, which is being repaired, were non-standard and that naval commanders and officials were paying attention to complaints being made to improve the situation. they do not.
The George Washington aircraft carrier is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with a nuclear engine that is expected to be ready to return to sea and complete its mission by 2023.