Capt. Rome Ruiz, USN, commodore of the US Navy’s Amphibious Squadron 3 (also known as COMPHIBRON THREE) discusses the distributed nature of the USS America Amphibious Ready Group’s operation, ARG-Marine Expeditionary Unit team and amphibious task force capabilities, forward-operating risks, and lessons learned from the deployment and Navy accidents during a Feb. 2, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian, taped after the ARG’s ships — America, San Diego and Pearl Harbor — and 4,500 sailors and Marines returned to San Diego.
