Personal Digest: Military mental-health crisis on a record deployment

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Personal Digest: Military mental-health crisis on a record deployment
Digest Newsletter · Aug 15, 2026
Personal Digest: Military mental-health crisis on a record deployment

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Multiple suicide attempts aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln — A spate of alarming incidents during a record 250-day deployment has prompted Congress to grill the Pentagon and exposed deep strains in military mental-health and workplace conditions.

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