Issues With the USS Theodore Roosevelt Investigation
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By Michael Junge
June 24, 2020
On June 19th, 2020, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Mike Gilday, and Secretary of the Navy, Kenneth Braithwaite, briefed reporters on the investigation's findings into actions surrounding the March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Admiral Gilday and Secretary Braithwaite read prepared statements and spent half an hour responding to questions. Gilday was exceptionally well prepared and spoke without notes or need to refer to them as he fielded the questions and routinely cited many facts and statistics to support his conclusions, decisions, and actions.
Despite the impressive performance at the press conference, the investigation report has some troubling inconsistencies in how information was gathered, presented, which in turn leads to questioning those same strongly held conclusions; not because those conclusions may not be accurate or warranted, but because the investigation does a poor job of supporting those conclusions.
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