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“The Big Stick” departs Apra Harbor at Naval Base Guam on Thursday, May 21, 2020, following an extended visit to Guam in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n …And Ships Belong At Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n USS Theodore Roosevelt, CVN-71, is the fourth Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Her keel was laid down<\/a>\u00a0on 31 October 1981, with Secretary of Defense\u00a0Caspar Weinberger<\/a>\u00a0initiating the first weld.\u00a0 \u00a0Her maiden deployment<\/a>\u00a0on 30 December 1988 with\u00a0Carrier Air Wing Eight<\/a>\u00a0(CVW-8) embarked. The ship patrolled the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea<\/a>\u00a0prior to returning on 30 June 1989.<\/p>\n She has been docked at Guam<\/a> since 27 March 2020 due to an on-board outbreak of the coronavirus.\u00a0<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n Boomer sends.<\/p>\n WASHINGTON – The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is back at sea for the first time in nearly two months after a coronavirus outbreak onboard infected more than 1,100 sailors.<\/p>\n The U.S. Navy said the ship entered the Philippine Sea Thursday \u201cto conduct carrier qualification flights for the embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11.\u201d<\/p>\n The ship arrived in Guam on March 27 after an outbreak of the coronavirus. All of the nearly 5,000 sailors onboard were tested for COVID-19 in the following weeks.<\/p>\n One Roosevelt sailor died from the virus on April 13 and nine others were hospitalized. The Navy said most of the approximately 1,140 crewmembers who tested positive for COVID-19 were asymptomatic.<\/p>\n More than 1,500 crewmembers remain at Naval Base Guam, including about 700 who had tested positive during the outbreak, a Navy official told VOA on Thursday. Fourteen of those sailors had recovered from the virus but then tested positive again according to the official.<\/p>\n A Navy press release said there were enough crewmembers onboard to complete the current mission requirement.<\/p>\n \u201cCarrier qualification requires fewer personnel than other missions and bringing fewer sailors on board will enable enhanced social distancing while underway,\u201d said Captain Carlos Sardiello, Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer.<\/p>\n The carrier is the focus of an ongoing investigation into how the coronavirus outbreak was handled onboard. At the center of the review lies the fate of Brett Crozier, the Roosevelt\u2019s Captain during the outbreak who was removed from his post for raising COVID-19 concerns in an email to superiors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the entire article here: VOA News<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks, Boomer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USS Theodore Roosevelt Deploys to Philippine Sea After COVID-19 Outbreak<\/h3>\n