Conflict in Close Quarters: When Work is Also Home
Extended U.S. Navy deployments have periodically drawn public attention to what accumulated months at sea can do to a crew. Reporting on one recent deployment — an aircraft carrier at sea for more than eight months with no announced return date — described sailors reaching a breaking point under the sustained strain of the assignment, and a family member who received a single call from the ship's family-support liaison after a serious incident, then heard nothing further from the Navy in the weeks that followed. The sailor involved, described as repeatedly overextended and burned out, worried the incident might end a career built over more than a decade.
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Extended U.S. Navy deployments have periodically drawn public attention to what accumulated months at sea can do to a crew. Reporting on one recent deployment — an aircraft carrier at sea for more than eight months with no announced return date — described sailors reaching a breaking point under the sustained strain of the assignment, and a family member who received a single call from the ship's family-support liaison after a serious incident, then heard nothing further from the Navy in the weeks that followed. The sailor involved, described as repeatedly overextended and burned out, worried the incident might end a career built over more than a decade.
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