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When most people think about the military and the coronavirus, they think of stories such as the hospital ship, USNS Comfort, deploying to New York City, or the National Guard helping with test sites, or the Army Corps of Engineers erecting temporary hospitals this past spring to handle an overload of sick patients.
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Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, who represents the 2nd District, introduced last week the Sailor Standard of Care Act, what she calls a “bipartisan solution” to improve mental health care for sailors. She championed the legislation in response to the suicides of seven Hampton Roads-based sailors last year. The tally for 2023 is already at two.
It has been nearly three years since the catastrophic fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6). Lessons from that fire must be learned—not forgotten—to reinforce the Navy’s competitive advantage of firefighting and damage control.
A command investigation into a string of four back-to-back suicides at the U.S. Navy's Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) has identi...