How a military jail failed to protect a suicidal sailor from himself
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Sep 30, 06:00 AM
For reasons that will remain unknown, something set Macoy Hicks off on Feb. 1, 2019.
In a passageway outside the legal office aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, shipmates startled as the junior sailor screamed and banged his head against the wall.
Whatever the cause, the breakdown signaled the grim crescendo to a hard couple of years in uniform for the 20-year-old Albany native.
Hicks’ first duty assignment working sailor funerals in the Navy Ceremonial Guard had haunted him.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/30/how-a-military-jail-failed-to-protect-a-suicidal-sailor-from-himself/
