With a military entourage, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, boarded and toured the USS Ramage in port at Naval Station Norfolk Friday, Feb. 9.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff took some time Friday to thank sailors in Hampton Roads for their service.
He also toured the USS Gerald R. Ford.
Both ships returned home in January after a more-than-eight-month deployment, part of which was spent supporting the U.S. response to the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
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“We’ve got to stay focused. At the same time, we’ve got to be thoughtful about the approaches we take,” Brown said when asked about his thoughts on the fighting in the Middle East. “We do not want to have a miscalculation and have something spread much broader than it already is.”
The fighting is one of the topics he spoke to reporters about after his tours.
He also offered condolences for the U.S. service members who recently died in Jordan and California and spoke about the lack of Navy housing.