Captain of aircraft carrier tells crew "we got to stick together" after three of its sailors died by suicide

The captain of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington told his crew on Monday "the suicides have got to stop" after another one of its sailor had apparently died by suicide over the weekend. It was the third such death in just nine days. 

"We got to stick together," Captain Brent Gaut said, according to a transcript provided to CBS News. "We got to get through this together."

Gaut called out the names of six George Washington sailors he said had died in the past nine months, indicating that five of them had died by suicide. That differs from the Navy's official count of four suicides, apparently because the cause of one death is still officially listed as "undetermined." Whether the number is four or five, the outbreak of suicides aboard the aircraft carrier is now under investigation, in an effort to uncover any underlying causes related to the way the ship is being run.