After the first two deaths, the Navy ordered a mental health stand down and brought in Kayla Arestivo, the president of a non-profit counseling service."I had definitely made them aware of how inundated our clinical team was with the hopelessness that was happening at that command, and how many people stepped forward and expressed that they also had suicidal ideation with the past year from being at that command," Arestivo said in an interview.While it's in the shipyard at Newport News, Va., the George Washington is essentially a construction zone, where it can be cramped, hot and loud for the crew on board.Top Navy commanders have acknowledged the difficulties faced by the carrier's sailors.Service members and veterans who are in crisis or having thoughts of suicide, and those who know a service member or veteran in crisis, can call the Military Crisis Line/Veterans Crisis Line for confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year."