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A federal search warrant unsealed Tuesday reveals for the first time the breadth of the early days of the investigation into the devastating fire on board the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard and how a 19-year-old SEAL dropout became the prime arson suspect.
The records, filed in San Diego federal court by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, also suggest someone sabotaged the ship’s firefighting equipment before the July 12, 2020, blaze and tampered with crime scene evidence in the days that followed.
Seaman Apprentice Ryan Mays, now 20, was charged Thursday by the Navy with aggravated arson and hazarding of a vessel in connection with the fire. Gary Barthel, a San Diego-based military lawyer who represents Mays, declined to comment on the information in the warrant late Tuesday, saying he hasn’t received any documents in the case yet from Navy prosecutors.
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which is how they launched aircraft since the beginning. i asked admiral john richardson, chief of naval operations about that. we took a tour of the hangar bay and talked about the need for the uss gerald ford in the world today. the world is a dangerous place, real world, what difference does this ship make for the navy to project power? when you were talking about something as huge as the uss gerald r ford and it straight crew and the air wing, that is a tremendous amount of united states sovereign power that is mobile to go around the world wherever we need it, adding a huge amount of our ability to defend america from attacks and protect our interests around the world. reporter: is it worth it? is it going to work? not a great track record, there were some problems. how do you prevent that here?
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an and to plan to be able to purchase some of these david: i don t know if our communication is established here. can you hear me talking now? he was talking about the aircraft carriers. david: okay. you are seeing now inside of the hangar bay there, all the dignitaries gathered, awaiting the president, the presidential seal there on the podium. and the president we have a little bit different view here on deck, looking at some of the internal monitors. the president looks like is just about to walk off marine one there on the flight deck and then make his way down. we can expect to hear from him and also secretary of defense mattis about this. talk to the chief of naval operations earlier about what it means to have the president of the united states here, and he says i can t tell you how much it does for the morale of sailors worldwide, many of whom who are in very dangerous places, to see the president and have him make this effort to come here and talk about the
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leland: it took years to build the gerald ford at $13 million. you see it done here in 15 seconds. the man who will take her to see, captain richard mccormick, joining us from inside the hangar bay of the uss gerald ford. what a proud moment for you and your men. give us a sense what it was like as the president was there and they ordered the ship to life and you watched your sailors man the decks for the first time. to commission your ship in person, there s a lot of energy on board. just to have the president here to do that, just to see that energy and spirit of the crew, not just today but the weeks and months and for some people the
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