Navy

Mr. Wiggins is currently serving as a senior chief operations specialist in the United States Navy.

Mr. Wiggins is testifying in his personal capacity today and not on behalf of the United States Navy.

I am an active duty U.S. Navy Operations Specialist Senior Chief Petty Officer.

The views I share are my own, and I do not represent the official positions of the Department of the Navy or any subordinate organization.

So I was treated fair and I appreciate the Navy itself with assisting me with coming here to being able to testify.

Okay. Chief Wiggins, you're currently in the Navy, is that correct?

Once I got the okay from the Navy from top down, that gave me a level of relief.

Prior to that, I didn't have any thought left or right of that, but I thank the Navy to give me the go ahead and that gave me the relief that I would not have any level of reprisal or anything happen to me.

Thank you, sir. As an active duty Navy member, our mission is to carry out the ship's mission or the command's mission. And we, on a general basis, don't have knowledge of what to do when we see things like this. We just don't. We're there to do our mission and do what's told of us, right?

And ensuring that we have a standard level of understanding that there wouldn't be any level of reprisal or anything happening. Because, you know, I've been in the Navy for almost 24 years. But what about the sailors that have been in for two years that experience things like this?

I don't know what the – I imagine the Navy has something similar to determine your weaknesses, your successes.

The Navy calls it after action reports, and not to my knowledge was there an after action report of this incident, sir.

Was it hard for you to get permission from the Navy to bring that video?

I've talked to Navy folks that some of the deep sea areas, they think there might be something there that they're here, and I don't know when they got here.

So they have Marines, they have Navy, Air Force, and an Army.

And so you have people coming from different bases, Army bases, Navy bases.

and this is this idea that actually this navy whistleblower came out on my show that's described

a multi-service air force navy marines everybody was there in the same building um so it was a big room