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Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letterEight US navy personnel assigned to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">USS Abraham Lincoln</a> carrier strike group have attempted suicide since the start of their lengthy deployment as part of the US war on Iran, Hung Cao, the acting US navy secretary, revealed in a letter to the US senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday.“Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Cao wrote, responding on behalf of US defense secretary Pete Hegseth to Gillibrand’s inquiry about the quality of life aboard the fleet. “This number includes the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons.” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/23/uss-lincoln-suicide-attempts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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