Concerned with preventing the growing number of suicides, the U.S. Navy plans to make chaplains regular members of the crew on ships with more than 300 sailors.
On Navy ships docked at this vast base, hundreds of sailors in below-deck mazes of windowless passageways perform intense, often monotonous manual labor. It’s necessary work before a ship deploys but hard to adjust to for many already challenged by the stresses plaguing young adults nationwide.in the ranks carries such grave implications that the U.S. chief of naval operations, Adm.
Mental health problems, especially among enlisted men younger than 29, mirror concerns in schools and colleges that were exacerbated by the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sailors can carry the routine angst of young adults, from political polarization to breakups to broken homes, which some enlist to escape. Onboard, disconnected from their real and virtual networks — most communications are off-limits at sea for security — they lack the usual coping mechanisms, said Jochebed Swilley, a civilian social worker on the USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship, which when underway carries 1,000 sailors, 1,600 Marines and three other chaplains.
Even docked, ships are far from stress-free, as sailors constantly navigate steep ladderwells and pressurized, hulking doors under the glare of fluorescent lights and the constant hum of machinery. Clergy members need to engage with people of different faiths, or none at all, who might be initially turned off by the cross or other religious symbols on their uniforms.
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