Cspan created by private industry, americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to you by our television provider. Pentagon officials announced they would be testing everyone on board the uss Theodore Roosevelt a after more sailors tested positive. And there are other steps they are taking to protect Service Members and their families. Giving us a forum to get information out. Good morning to all of you and good morning to the general and sergeant major. On tuesday, i spoke to you about our efforts on the navy side and we want to update you on the measures we are taking in the marine corps. Before i do thats correct let me give you our latest navy numbers some everyone is on the same page. Total of 133 positive covid19 in the United States navy. 104 active duty military, 23 civilians, 16 dependents and 19 contractors. I want to give a quick update on the teddy roosevelt. We found several more cases on board the ship. We are in the process now of testing 100 of the
Good morning to all of you and ood morning to the general and sergeant major. On tuesday, i spoke to you about our efforts on the navy side and we want to update you on the measures we are taking in the marine corps. Before i do thats correct let me give you our latest navy total of 133 positive covid19 in the United States navy. 104 active duty military, 23 civilians, 16 dependents and 19 contractors. I want to give a quick update on the teddy roosevelt. We found several more cases on board the ship. We are in the process now of testing 100 of the crew of that ship to ensure that we are able to contain whatever spread might have occurred there on the ship. But i want to emphasize that the ship is operationally capable and can do its mission sm the ship is pulling into guam and no one on the crew will be allowed to leave into guam and we are starting the process of testing 100 of the crew to ensure that we got that contained. The sailors who have been flown off the ship are currently d
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Welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually, but the book entitled seven pillars and the discussion is to look more broadly and deeply at the drivers of instability of the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil if we cant become a land of before and tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning intentions into the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts it was a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for the success or failure are the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so,