The following is the transcript from USNI News’ interview with outgoing Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson from earlier this month. It’s been lightly edited for clarity.
USNI News: Starting at the beginning, four years ago you were over at Naval Reactors thinking that you had some stability for eight years over there. I was just wondering if you could walk me through what happened, how much of a surprise it was to you, and how it came to be that you ended up being our next CNO.
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