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Revelations of a suicide attempt by a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln—alongside accounts of other sailors being prevented from going overboard—have brought to light the mounting crisis of morale among service members in the nearly six-month US war debacle against Iran.

A sailor assigned to the carrier’s air wing went overboard on August 3 in turbulent seas and was recovered about an hour later by an air-wing search-and-rescue helicopter, according to US officials cited by CNN. The sailor, who was wearing a life vest, was medically evaluated on the ship and then evacuated for further care. An official described the episode as a mental health crisis.

In an August 13 MS NOW interview, the sailor’s wife, who requested anonymity, said she did not learn that the sailor who had gone overboard was her husband until four days later. She had heard on August 3 that “someone” from his squadron had jumped, she said, after a friend of her husband contacted her. She characterized the incident as an attempted suicide.

The four-day delay in notification is an indictment of the command’s treatment of military families. The wife told MS NOW that her husband had raised mental health concerns with the leadership throughout the extended deployment. He had gone to medical personnel on the ship to appeal for support, but his concerns were dismissed.