Current and former Navy fighter-crew members have shared that years of catapult launches and high-speed maneuvers can inflict significant cumulative damage, leading to mental health symptoms.
Some pilots feel severe anxiety and depression at the end of their careers, yet their symptoms are often dismissed as unrelated mental health issues, forcing them to conceal their struggles.
Despite the Navy's assertion of no proven link between concussive injuries and flight operations, evidence suggests a troubling correlation as three Super Hornet pilots died by suicide lately.
The Navy has initiated Project Odin's Eye to collect extensive data on the brain health of TOPGUN pilots, aiming to uncover the impacts of extreme flying on their wellbeing.
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