--- title: "The Navy is investigating a video that purportedly shows a brawl at the USS Eisenhower holiday party" description: "The Navy is investigating a video that surfaced on Friday which allegedly show sailors from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower fighting during a holiday party" date: "2019-12-23" modified: "2019-12-23" authors: - name: "David Roza" job_title: "YouTube Writer/Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/david-roza/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/eisenhower-holiday-party-fight-video/" categories: - "Around the World" - "Carriers" - "Military Branches" - "Navy" - "News" - "Ships" - "Tech & Tactics" - "United States" tags: - "video" --- # The Navy is investigating a video that purportedly shows a brawl at the USS Eisenhower holiday party ![]() The Navy is investigating a video that surfaced on Friday which allegedly show sailors from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower fighting during a holiday party. The two-and-a-half minute video, which appears to have been shot on a cell phone in a hotel lobby, shows two women shouting at and striking each other. Police and bystanders step in to break up the fight, and one of the women is pushed away by another women who can be heard saying "it's not worth it" before someone else throws a chair across the room. The footage was first uploaded to YouTube by the Hampton Roads, Virginia-based ABC News affiliate 13News Now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1OYOEU1K9A Brawl Breaks Out at Christmas Party [www.youtube.com]() The Navy has expressed disapproval of the behavior on display in the video. "While this incident is currently being investigated, the United States Navy does not condone this type of behavior," Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg, force public affairs officer for Naval Air Force Atlantic, said in a statement sent to Task & Purpose. "These alleged actions are not indicative of the greater Navy community or the thousands of men and women currently serving on board the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)." ## Author David Roza writes scripts about military news for the Task & Purpose YouTube channel, and he also writes articles about military pay, benefits, health care, child care, culture, and other personnel topics on a freelance basis. Roza previously covered the Air Force and Space Force for Task & Purpose from 2019 to 2023 and for Air & Space Forces Magazine from 2023 to 2025. In the course of that reporting, he has set off a ‘Hollywood explosion’ with Air Force bomb techs, turned the (unarmed) keys of a nuclear missile bunker, hovered over the Nevada desert on an Air Force rescue helicopter, and got the best sleep of his life on the floor of a C-17 over the central Pacific. Share tips and story ideas with David at [david.roza@teamrecurrent.io]()