Navy allowing many USS George Washington sailors to move off ship after deaths and suicides

After a series of deaths and suicides among the crew of the USS George Washington, the Navy will begin allowing hundreds of sailors to live off ship.

After a series of deaths and suicides among the crew of the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier dry-docked in Virginia for maintenance since 2017, the Navy will begin allowing hundreds of sailors to live off ship this week.

Within the last year, seven sailors assigned to the ship have died, four of them likely suicides.

"The 7 deaths are for the following reasons: 2 health-related death, 1 undetermined, 1 confirmed suicide, and 3 apparent suicides that remain under investigation," a Naval Air Force Atlantic official told ABC News in a statement.

Four of the deaths were in 2021, and the last three occurred within one week this April.