The parents of Xavier Hunter Mitchell Sandor told brikeilarcnn that their son did not provide much detail about conditions on the carrier but said the experience was “awful.” “People shouldn’t have to live like this,” John Sandor said his son told him.
The parents of a sailor who died by suicide while on board the USS George Washington -- one of the seven crew members who have died in the past year, including four by suicide -- on Wednesday blasted the Navy's response to the crisis as"ridiculous."
John Sandor and Mary Graft, the parents of Master at Arms Seaman Recruit Xavier Hunter Mitchell Sandor, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on"New Day" that their son did not provide much detail about the conditions on the carrier but said the experience was"awful.""People shouldn't have to live like this," John Sandor said his son told him, adding that Xavier would call them from his car and that there was a lack of hot water with which to take a shower.
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