Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Special： Sea Power And Freedom Celebrating Navy 250

00:00:00.240 We'll be right back with more Navy 250, sea power, and freedom. 0.61

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00:00:18.040 Okay, there's a live shot right there.

00:00:19.760 The Commander-in-Chief will be coming off Air Force One.

00:00:22.240 He's landed in Norfolk.

00:00:24.080 We're about to get rolling on all the activities.

00:00:26.180 I think Ambassador Monica Crowley, great friend of the show, will be giving an address, I think, on the Truman here momentarily.

00:00:32.780 A couple of Navy SEALs will also join her to give their real-life experiences.

00:00:37.600 Let's bring in another Navy SEAL, our own Eric Prince.

00:00:43.180 Eric, I asked, you had Lieutenant Jason Redman, one of the real heroes of the Afghan war, was on a moment ago, a Navy SEAL.

00:00:50.820 The question I asked him or had Steve Ruber ask, I want to ask you, we're going through naval history today.

00:00:56.180 The operations war of 1812, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, World War II, all of it.

00:01:05.400 The question I've got to ask you is why Afghanistan's a long way from the water, as is Iraq.

00:01:12.480 Why were the Navy SEALs so prominent in the great war against terror in those two countries for so many years, sir?

00:01:18.820 You know, the great thing about the SEAL teams, as our great president descends the stairway carefully, the great thing about the SEAL teams is they've always been adaptive.

00:01:29.120 It started out of necessity when a bunch of Marines got killed in Tarawa, in Basio Atoll, and they started doing UDTs, underwater demolition teams.

00:01:39.840 And then in Korea is when they really first started going ashore, blowing up bridges, blowing up key enemy objectives right off the beach. 0.73

00:01:48.380 And then Vietnam really got them feet dry into the rice paddies, into the Mekong Delta, becoming indispensable, true special operators. 0.93

00:02:01.520 And, you know, a great compliment to John F. Kennedy for creating an unconventional warfare capability between U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL teams

00:02:12.600 to give the U.S. that kind of unconventional capability to fight unusual problems.

00:02:18.700 The SEAL teams have always, since then, maintained the ability to fight in snow, mountains, desert conditions, to be adaptive.

00:02:30.920 And, you know, the word SEAL comes from sea, air, and land, meaning whatever means you've got to move through to get to your objective,

00:02:38.900 they're going to figure out how to do it.

00:02:40.260 And so it doesn't surprise me that they did so well so far from the sea in a landlocked country like Afghanistan,

00:02:48.360 because they're going to adapt to make it happen.

00:02:51.720 Now, since then, they've really done a focus on returning to water, a lot more diving, a lot more submarine operations,

00:02:59.400 a lot more maritime operations, back to that tradition of one foot on the inbound or the outbound is going to involve water.

00:03:07.100 Eric, we have, and by the way, the president just got on the helicopter, so momentarily I think we're going to get things rolling.

00:03:15.920 We're going to cut to the live broadcast of this.

00:03:18.860 Like I said, the ambassador, Monica Crowley, I think is going to start things off with a talk at about 12, 20, 12, 30, pretty much on schedule as it rolls.

00:03:27.040 Eric, we have an amphibious ready group off the coast of Venezuela now with 4,000 fleet marines and sailors and really in the amphib area,

00:03:39.100 what would be equivalent of a Navy battle group or strike group around an aircraft carrier.

00:03:45.820 Talk to us about that, the capabilities that has.

00:03:48.160 And I know you've been very involved in thinking through hemispheric defense, particularly the problems we have in Latin America.

00:03:54.080 Is this really going to be against non-state actors?

00:03:57.300 Do you think we're revving up to actually go and take airports, ports, and railroad nose in Venezuela, sir?

00:04:05.920 Certainly, they think they've taken four shots at drug boats, which are obviously carrying fentanyl or other toxic chemicals on the way to poison America with.

00:04:22.540 There's a lot more network to be taken out through Mexico and, of course, coming by sea.

00:04:27.560 I think the Trump administration is trying to send a message to Maduro that it is time for him to leave, making him very wary, very aware that they can provide very deep strike precision bombing into whatever bunker or cave complex he is hiding in, that it's time for him to leave.

00:04:48.960 I think, you know, 13, 14 months ago, he flat out stole election that he lost by 40, 45 points, and he's maintained himself in power as a true dictator now.

00:05:01.440 I think the Trump administration wants him to leave.

00:05:04.300 I don't know if they're going to go full kinetic and actually strike targets in Venezuela.

00:05:09.820 I think it's very important for the Maduro crowd to remember that nobody that was at the $25 million bounty level is still alive.

00:05:18.960 Or didn't stay alive for long.

00:05:23.360 And that now that he's at 50, I hope that the Trump administration, instead of just saying up to 50 million leading to the arrest, for information leading to the arrest of XYZ, they just go old school and say $50 million, dead or alive.

00:05:41.400 And then you'll see some tickets getting pulled.

00:05:45.220 Is $50 million, is that where it gets the attention that Eric Prince even gets, no, no, it strikes your interest?

00:05:52.740 Eric, they went to Capitol Hill the other day to basically brief, I guess, around the War Powers Act to say, we're at a state of war.

00:05:59.840 They told guys in Capitol Hill, we're at a state of war with these non-state actors as cartels from northern Mexico all the way down through Latin America.

00:06:08.880 How important are naval assets going to be to kind of block?

00:06:11.760 You've already seen them take out a couple of these boats, but also in the Pacific because the fentanyl ain't coming up from Venezuela.

00:06:17.340 It's still the Chinese Communist Party, a second opium war against us with their partners in the cartels in northern Mexico. 0.97

00:06:24.980 How lethal could Navy SEALs and Navy assets be in actually going kinetic?

00:06:30.700 Because they told Capitol Hill, we're going kinetic in a war against the cartels, sir.

00:06:35.440 I think they're right in saying we are at war with them.

00:06:40.600 There is hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by fentanyl last year.

00:06:45.960 That's far more than what we lost in World War II.

00:06:49.220 We lost 250,000 in the European theater and 150,000 in the Pacific theater.

00:06:56.480 During World War II, you're losing almost that number every year just from fentanyl.

00:07:01.020 So it is right to push back and it is right to go kinetic.

00:07:04.500 That's the only, I mean, a two by four between the eyes is all that they're going to understand.

00:07:09.680 I know that there was the Mexican cartels reached out quietly looking to make a deal to back away,

00:07:18.700 to allow themselves to preserve their life and their, I guess, their existing fortune.

00:07:26.080 I don't know where they stand in that negotiation.

00:07:28.540 That's not my business, but the fact is-

00:07:32.020 Hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:07:33.040 We are, hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:07:34.540 We are breaking some news here because this is, talk to about at least what you can talk about that,

00:07:39.460 about the Mexican cartels kind of said when they saw the army down there and realized they could have Navy SEALs

00:07:44.600 and direct interdiction and President Trump was prepared to do it, right?

00:07:50.920 Doesn't care what the Mexican government's got to say about it.

00:07:52.960 All of a sudden, they're a lot more open to some sort of lay down their arms and stop this.

00:07:59.460 Is that what I'm hearing?

00:08:01.580 Yes.

00:08:02.460 Look, the fact is the cartels are, have unbelievable brutality against any of their opponents or against any Mexican citizen or even a Mexican policeman that tries to stand up against them.

00:08:14.600 But they've never felt JSOC level energy directed at them.

00:08:19.360 And I think they realize just how many of them would get annihilated quickly, whether through precision strikes on the hacienda, precision strikes on any of the factory infrastructure they have.

00:08:30.980 And you would stack a lot of Sicarios if they decided to get in a fight with JSOC level expertise. 0.92

00:08:38.200 Look, the fact is the cartels, they nibble around the edges with some expensive drones or some other expensive capability that they like to show off.

00:08:46.620 It's largely parade, parade level efforts.

00:08:50.320 And if if you decided to get very hard and kinetic against them, you would not to say you wouldn't lose some friendlies, but you would you would you would definitely decimate the cartels.

00:09:01.800 And I think they they realize that Trump is serious enough.

00:09:06.160 He's a serious enough person that he could deliver that kind of energy on their heads.

00:09:09.540 Eric, clearly, the Chinese Communist Party in the PLA, which considers the Caribbean their lake, they're going to watch this intensively today.

00:09:21.220 Give us just the idea of the kinds of things that you anticipate we'll see during the the live fire, the naval gunfire and missile and naval air exercise that the commander chief is about to view from the bridge of the USS Bush.

00:09:35.520 Well, the super important thing to think about is how do you project power in the Pacific in an era where you have thousands of enemy Chinese missiles that are stacked and you have a lot of cheap precision that they can just throw quantities of stuff at our ships. 0.53

00:09:57.520 And there is, you know, rolling airframe missiles and SM2 missiles to shoot down incoming threats.

00:10:06.100 Hey, Eric, the fact is we've got we've got air.

00:10:08.620 We've got the Navy SEAL that's the Navy SEALs about to take the station. 0.94

00:10:11.860 Hang on for a second. Let's go live.

00:10:13.200 I will definitely yield to him.

00:10:16.960 Welcome.

00:10:18.100 It's truly an honor to be here for the Navy 250th honoring the greatest naval force the world has ever seen.

00:10:25.500 Now, you have to understand there's a lot of history packed into the last 250 years, but make no mistake, the history of the United States Navy from its beginning to today was built on a foundation of choice and sacrifice.

00:10:40.960 We chose to raise our hands and swore an oath to the Constitution, a choice to sacrifice our freedom, our earning potential, and even worst case, our very lives to fight against all enemies, foreign and domestic, who presented a threat against the sovereignty and people of the United States of America.

00:11:00.700 So it was in the beginning all the way to today.

00:11:05.420 In order to understand the full context of what you are a part of, I think it is important to remember our history.

00:11:12.220 So let's go back to the beginning.

00:11:15.180 In 1779, when John Paul Jones captured the Serapis off the coast of England, to the Battle of Lake Erie, the Battle of Manila Bay, the Battle of Midway, to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, from D-Day to the Battle of the Philippine Sea, America's Navy has aided our allies, crushed our enemies, and stood resolute again and again.

00:11:37.280 226 years from the day the father of the American Navy engaged the might of the British Empire, on September 11, 1992, while still attending a small high school in Lumberton, North Carolina, a young, skinny runt joined the ranks of the world's greatest Navy.

00:11:57.280 Despite his small size, he had big dreams.

00:12:00.860 His name was Jason Redman.

00:12:02.980 I wanted to join the ranks of the U.S. Navy SEALs, and like all of you here, I chose to sacrifice my future to serve our great nation.

00:12:12.620 I would attend ISA school right here in Virginia Beach, and on December 15, 1995, I achieved my dream and Seaman Apprentice Redman graduated from Navy SEAL training, BUDS class, 202.

00:12:26.720 Stop making fun of me, all of you who weren't born. 1.00

00:12:30.100 FNGs. 0.99

00:12:30.740 I would go on to have an amazing career, three deployments to South America.

00:12:35.740 I would be shot at for the first time conducting counter-drug operations in Columbia.

00:12:40.320 We broke into NASA, and I remember surfacing from a four-hour dive through the mangrove swamps off Cape Canaveral, only to find ourselves surrounded by alligators.

00:12:50.620 I won't lie, I had to wash out my wetsuit after that one.

00:12:53.740 I became a SEAL training instructor and made it to Petty Officer First Class before I was recommended to earn a commission.

00:13:00.780 I would attend Old Dominion University, ROTC, right down the street here.

00:13:05.340 I am sure, just like many of you sitting in this audience, while at school, 9-11 happened.

00:13:10.640 I remember watching the towers fall, standing next to my best friend and fellow SEAL, Bobby Ramirez.

00:13:16.580 We looked at each other and acknowledged, we are going to war.

00:13:20.820 Bobby and I would get our commissions together, and over the next decade, I would have the honor to serve alongside some of the legends of the 9-11 generation.

00:13:28.820 I mourned as we lost so many teammates on June 28, 2005, when our helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, and Marcus Luttrell would be the lone survivor.

00:13:39.160 I was honored to have served as an ops officer for the Captain Phillips mission.

00:13:43.920 I mourned once again at the loss of Extortion 17, and served as one of the operations officers and planners for the memorial of our 22 teammates,

00:13:52.680 who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom on that fateful day.

00:13:56.540 And like many of you, I watched with tremendous pride when a fellow SEAL officer I had served with was on the ground in Pakistan on a highly classified mission

00:14:06.060 and made the radio call back to the White House Situation Room.

00:14:10.180 Forgotten country, Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo, signaling the death of the most wanted man in the world, Osama bin Laden.

00:14:18.740 My most impactful mission occurred on September 13, 2007, operating outside of Fallujah, Iraq, in a small rural area known as Al-Karma.

00:14:29.340 We were tasked to go after the number one leader for al-Qaeda in the western province, and moving to target, we walked into a very well-executed ambush.

00:14:37.560 In the ensuing 40-minute firefight, myself, Luke, and Maddie would be severely wounded.

00:14:42.600 Luke was shot by a machine gun below the knee, almost taking off his leg.

00:14:47.400 Maddie would run forward under heavy machine gun fire, sustaining three machine gun rounds, before still managing to drag himself and Luke to safety.

00:14:55.340 During the firefight, I was hit twice in the arm with at least six more rounds, striking my helmet, shooting off one of my night vision goggles,

00:15:03.060 hitting me multiple times in the body armor, and striking my weapon.

00:15:05.880 I was unable to keep fighting and directing until another bullet struck me in the face, knocking me out.

00:15:11.600 Caught in the open, while the firefight continued to rage over me, I was pinned down, patiently waiting for my teammates to win the fight and bring in the medevac,

00:15:20.200 all while my life slowly drained out of me and my world faded to black.

00:15:24.980 While unconscious, my team leader, Jay Aliasson, exposed himself to enemy machine gun fire to run forward and get me back to cover,

00:15:31.960 put a tourniquet on my shattered arm, and saved my life.

00:15:34.540 He then proceeded to call in multiple extreme danger close fire missions by an Air Force AC-130 gunship.

00:15:42.040 Those missions would end up being the closest air support missions executed in the entire Iraq war.

00:15:47.160 If it was not for my teammates, my team leader, the fourth SOS gunship crew, and the amazing naval doctors, nurses, and corpsmen,

00:15:55.240 I would not be here today to tell this story.

00:15:58.060 Since that fateful night, I've undergone almost 40 reconstructive surgeries.

00:16:02.700 I've had six blood transfusions, a tracheotomy that I wore for seven months and two days.

00:16:08.560 I've had 1,500 stitches, 200 staples, five plates, one titanium orgle to floor, 15 screws, eight pins, 20 skin grafts, three bone grafts, one calvarian bone graft.

00:16:19.980 I've had my jaw shattered, broken, and rebroken three times.

00:16:24.280 I have my jaw wired shut for over 12 weeks, and I lost over 50 pounds.

00:16:28.120 I have spent approximately 190 hours in surgery under anesthesia.

00:16:33.200 Thankfully, my SEAL teammates continue to remind me that I should be super thankful because, apparently, all the plastic surgery is merely an improvement on how I used to look.

00:16:44.780 While in the hospital, struggling with my devastating wounds, disfigurement, and the possibility that my SEAL career was over, I made a choice.

00:16:52.740 I could continue to lay there and feel sorry for myself, or I could choose to set the example of so many other amazing warriors that they'd set before me.

00:17:02.260 I would author a sign I would place on the hospital door on a bright orange piece of paper that would say,

00:17:07.000 Attention to all who enter here, if you're coming in this room with sorrow to feel sorry for my wounds, don't bother.

00:17:14.780 The wounds I received, I got in a job that I love, doing it for people I love, defending the freedom of a country I deeply love.

00:17:21.440 I will overcome.

00:17:23.500 If you are not prepared for that, go elsewhere.

00:17:26.840 That sign took on a life of its own, going viral across the media and earning me an invitation to the White House to meet President Bush.

00:17:33.800 A lot of people want to make a big deal about it, but I know what it represents.

00:17:37.940 It represents the spirit of the United States Navy and its warriors.

00:17:42.280 It represents all of you.

00:17:45.960 What will your sign on the door say?

00:17:50.420 So we have come full circle, 250 years on this journey from the Revolutionary War to today.

00:17:57.420 Amazing sailors who chose to sacrifice for the future of our great nation.

00:18:01.480 Choice and sacrifice.

00:18:04.620 This final message is to our current sailors.

00:18:07.900 All of you are amazing Americans who chose to serve, willing to sacrifice everything so that our fellow Americans can have life, liberty, and pursue happiness.

00:18:18.080 And while we all pray for peace, those of us who have been to war pray the most, I also recognize we must prepare for war.

00:18:26.760 I applaud the Secretary of War for his renewed focus on lethality and a mindset of war.

00:18:32.980 All of you here are warriors.

00:18:35.220 It is our job to be ready to take the fight to our nation's enemies.

00:18:38.880 We must always be ready mentally, physically, and emotionally.

00:18:41.660 We must be lethal because what is at stake is our very freedom.

00:18:47.040 China, North Korea, Russia, and so many others would love to deprive us of our freedoms.

00:18:51.880 And understand this.

00:18:53.400 Freedom is a gift.

00:18:55.160 It must be nurtured, preserved, protected.

00:18:58.940 And in the darkest times, it must be fought for.

00:19:02.360 All of you here are the front line of American freedom.

00:19:06.280 You are the titans of the sea.

00:19:09.060 So from John Paul Jones to the bin Laden raid, the U.S. Navy has been instrumental in fighting and leading America's wars.

00:19:15.700 All of us here today, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

00:19:20.680 And those giants willingly picked up the flame of American freedom and carried it with them all around the world.

00:19:27.680 And unfortunately, some of them did not come home.

00:19:31.340 The U.S. Navy has laid many warriors upon the altar of freedom.

00:19:35.120 Over my military career, I lost too many friends, including my best friend, Commander Bobby Ramirez.

00:19:41.640 All of them are now part of the eternal flame of American freedom.

00:19:44.960 It is up to all of us to ensure that flame never burns out.

00:19:49.460 For 250 years, the torch of American freedom has burned.

00:19:53.380 It's been carried by sailors from all walks of life, all races, all colors, and it has been seen all around the world.

00:20:01.240 Warriors have carried it with them crossing the beaches of Normandy, on Iwo Jima, Korea, and in the jungles of Vietnam.

00:20:08.060 It has been held high in Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and across Western Africa.

00:20:13.880 When a hero falls and their flame is extinguished, every American's torch back home burns just a little brighter.

00:20:22.300 Every American citizen of the United States is entrusted with a small part of this flame.

00:20:27.040 Most Americans feed their flame and ensure it burns brightly for all to see.

00:20:30.880 Other Americans, they take their freedom for granted, attacking the very ideals that built our nation, and they allow their flames to burn out. 0.67

00:20:40.880 Thankfully, there are those of us who wear the uniform, who are entrusted with an oath and presented at the start of our naval careers with a part of the flame to keep the torch of American freedom always burning.

00:20:50.500 17 years ago, I lay on the battlefield in Iraq, pouring my blood into the soil, and I looked up, and I saw that dark angel standing over me, and he said it was time to go.

00:21:03.400 And I thought he was right, but then I realized I wasn't finished.

00:21:07.660 I had a torch of American freedom to preserve and forever keep burning.

00:21:11.080 So I got up, I walked 75 yards to that medevac helicopter, and I came home.

00:21:16.220 And I vowed once again that I would never allow that flame to burn out while I still hold breath.

00:21:22.140 Today, I pass my torch of freedom on to all of you.

00:21:26.780 You are the future of the United States Navy.

00:21:30.480 Our nation needs you to train hard.

00:21:33.340 We need you to be lethal.

00:21:35.120 We need you to be ready.

00:21:36.780 The Secretary of War has called upon you.

00:21:39.380 My only question is, will you carry this flame of freedom forward as the foundation for the next 250 years?

00:21:50.060 God bless the United States Navy.

00:21:52.700 God bless the United States of America.

00:21:55.580 And go Navy, beat Army.

00:22:06.560 Eric Prince.

00:22:09.380 Jason, let's keep it on that shot right there. 0.99

00:22:12.020 Jason Redmond, by the way, we're going to know the Navy's heel.

00:22:14.740 Jason Redmond, tell me about him.

00:22:18.080 It's an inspiring story.

00:22:19.560 A guy that took that many hits, and to keep that kind of attitude and positive,

00:22:24.740 to grind away and to will himself back to health, it's just, it's really humbling.

00:22:30.540 And it's one of the reasons I've told my kids or any young people that if you're going to join the military,

00:22:39.880 join the most elite part you can qualify for, because you'll be really happy with the people you work with.

00:22:45.220 And he exemplifies that.

00:22:46.540 Here's another, I believe, Navy SEAL.

00:22:49.900 Let's go right to the podium.

00:22:50.780 I can't express how moved and inspired I am for being a part of this 250th celebration of our Navy.

00:22:59.060 I would first like to say thank you to the crew of these ships and sailors for hosting this event.

00:23:08.500 We understand the effort and manpower to make this happen,

00:23:11.920 and thank you for carrying the torch, protecting our families and this great nation.

00:23:17.320 While I was reflecting on this momentous occasion and milestone for our country,

00:23:23.920 I looked for a voice or a message to turn to.

00:23:30.720 Our Secretary of War and my Navy SEAL ethos came to mind.

00:23:37.840 We're gathered here today in a time that demands strength,

00:23:43.240 not the kind of strength measured in numbers, or equipment, or technology,

00:23:48.980 but the strength measured in spirit.

00:23:52.360 The strength of men and women who have sworn an oath to defend our nation.

00:23:57.440 The strength of those who understand that freedom is not a gift, it is earned.

00:24:03.280 It is guarded and, if necessary, paid for with sacrifice.

00:24:09.580 The Secretary of War recently reminded us of a truth.

00:24:13.240 We sometimes forget.

00:24:16.000 America does not stand tall because of its weapons.

00:24:19.980 America stands tall because of its warriors.

00:24:23.840 Weapons rust.

00:24:25.740 Technology changes.

00:24:26.860 But the human heart, sharpened by discipline, courage, and resilience, that endures.

00:24:36.040 That is what keeps this republic alive.

00:24:39.620 As Navy SEALs, we don't just know this truth.

00:24:43.760 We live it.

00:24:45.400 The SEAL ethos is not simply words etched on a wall.

00:24:48.840 It's written in sacrifice.

00:24:51.220 It is carried on the shoulders of every man and woman who has ever worn this uniform.

00:24:55.880 It says,

00:24:58.640 My loyalty to country and team is beyond reproach.

00:25:02.920 I humbly serve as a guardian to my fellow Americans, always ready to defend those who are unable to defend themselves.

00:25:13.260 That is more than a creed, that is a covenant, a binding promise to each other, to the mission and to the people of this nation.

00:25:25.280 And it is lived not just on the battlefield, but in the quiet places, when no one is watching.

00:25:32.960 In the early hours of training, the late nights of preparation, in the relentless pursuit of excellence.

00:25:41.980 That is where the ethos is forged.

00:25:44.340 The Secretary of recent words echo this same call.

00:25:50.460 Readiness is not a posture.

00:25:53.300 Readiness is a way of life.

00:25:56.020 And he's right.

00:25:58.140 Readiness is not something we turn on and off.

00:26:02.020 Readiness is not a box to check.

00:26:05.300 Readiness is who we are every day in every choice we make.

00:26:09.780 It is built in sweat, in sacrifice, and in repetition.

00:26:16.620 It is built when your lungs burn, your body aches, and every part of you screams to quit.

00:26:24.200 But you refuse.

00:26:26.360 It is built when you choose discipline over comfort.

00:26:30.060 When you choose to serve others before yourself.

00:26:33.880 When you choose the harder path because it's the right one.

00:26:38.120 Too often, we think of the fight as something out there.

00:26:43.700 Across oceans, in deserts, or mountains.

00:26:47.740 But the truth is, the fight is within.

00:26:51.080 Every morning, when our feet hit the ground, we face a choice.

00:26:55.900 Do we rise to the standard of warriors?

00:26:58.780 Or do we fall short?

00:27:00.100 Do we embody the values we swore to uphold?

00:27:04.640 Or do we let fear, complacency, or doubt take root?

00:27:10.560 The SEAL ethos reminds us, I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.

00:27:17.900 That means the battle is not about glory, it's about grit.

00:27:23.720 It's about facing ourselves, our weakness, our excuses, and refusing to let them win.

00:27:31.860 And here's the thing.

00:27:33.940 Not one of us does this alone.

00:27:35.920 We stand because of our brothers and sisters to our left and to our right.

00:27:43.060 We endure because someone else is counting on us.

00:27:47.200 We push through because we know if we falter, someone else bears the cost.

00:27:53.520 That's why the ethos says, I serve with honor on and off the battlefield.

00:27:59.920 Because in the end, this is not just about individual strength.

00:28:04.980 This is about unity.

00:28:06.700 About knowing that the man or woman beside you will not quit.

00:28:11.700 Will not surrender.

00:28:13.740 And will not let you down.

00:28:15.520 And in that bond, in that unbreakable trust, we find the strength to overcome any obstacle.

00:28:25.380 Our Secretary of War is not trying to make our time in the military harder.

00:28:30.120 He's trying to ingrain in each and every service member that discipline in both physical and mental readiness is a lifelong lesson.

00:28:39.240 I believe he is not only ensuring that our military is fierce, lethal, and ready today.

00:28:46.880 He is looking toward the future to ensure that we all become leaders in our own communities as veterans.

00:28:54.980 There is a simple truth that when you hang up that uniform, you become a veteran.

00:29:01.020 Only those who have never raised their right hand and taken this oath of service can be called civilians.

00:29:08.220 I believe our Secretary of War wants us to take the lessons learned during our service and become examples for generations to follow.

00:29:19.720 To become the compass for our youth, examples to aspire to.

00:29:26.160 I can tell you from experience, it is not an easy task finding purpose after the military.

00:29:32.880 It took me decades to navigate emotions, frustrations, and the constant desire to serve again.

00:29:42.900 Ultimately, I found what I call service after service.

00:29:47.900 I realized that serving others and making my fellow veterans my focus helped me feel whole.

00:29:54.880 It gave me purpose, direction, and a sense of camaraderie.

00:30:01.100 I now run a Naval Special Warfare Museum in New York named after Lieutenant Michael Murphy,

00:30:07.480 a Navy SEAL who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan,

00:30:12.640 and the movie depicted was Lone Survivor.

00:30:15.940 Every day I must rise to the level of a Navy SEAL because people are expecting it, and they should.

00:30:24.480 Even though I am medically retired, I cannot be an out-of-shape SEAL.

00:30:29.960 How can I recite to our visitors that my nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies if I don't look that way?

00:30:39.760 How can we expect our future generations to rise to the occasion or hear the calling if we ourselves do not?

00:30:50.720 I must be that image of excellence in front of our school field trips or any visitor who is expecting to see the tip of the spear.

00:31:00.140 I lean on discipline, learn from years of service, knowing that I still have service to do.

00:31:07.140 I still have to be an example for my own children, my neighbors, my community, and my nation.

00:31:16.080 You see, our service never stops. It evolves.

00:31:19.980 In today's world, resilience is everything.

00:31:23.920 The challenges we face are not short-term. They are enduring.

00:31:29.480 The missions are longer, the threats are more complex,

00:31:32.860 and the demands on our force and our families is heavier.

00:31:38.420 Yet the expectations remain unchanged,

00:31:41.660 that we will not falter, we will not retreat, and we will never quit.

00:31:48.040 As the ethos concludes, the loyalty to my teammates and the mission is sacred.

00:31:54.240 I will not quit. I will not fail.

00:31:58.540 That is the warrior's promise, not only to those who wear the uniform,

00:32:03.140 but to every American who looks to us for strength, for safety, and for hope.

00:32:09.620 So as we stand together today, let us reaffirm what is expected of us,

00:32:16.320 to embody honor, courage, loyalty, and resilience.

00:32:21.880 Let us remember that every action and decision we make reflects not only on ourselves,

00:32:28.420 but on the generations of warriors who came before us and those who will follow after.

00:32:34.040 We are not asked to be perfect, we are asked to be relentless.

00:32:39.520 We are not asked to avoid adversity, we are asked to thrive in it.

00:32:44.680 We are not asked to fight for ourselves, we are asked to fight for a cause greater than self,

00:32:53.260 a nation greater than any one individual.

00:32:56.680 That is today's expectation, and that is why we must carry this forward together for the next 250 years.

00:33:07.160 Thank you. May God bless our warriors, our families, and may God bless the United States of America.

00:33:17.000 Eric Prince.

00:33:19.220 Yes, sir.

00:33:21.060 I know you've got to bounce your overseas quickly. 0.97

00:33:24.140 The warrior ethos, what does it mean to you, sir?

00:33:26.680 Look, we live in a republic, we are defended by a very small segment of society that chooses to join,

00:33:38.260 and they write an unlimited check, okay?

00:33:40.800 When you join the military, you're saying to the leadership, here am I, send me,

00:33:47.600 and that warrior ethos is that you're going to get the job done,

00:33:51.880 and you're going to make sure as many of your colleagues can get the job done with you as well,

00:33:57.760 and to not quit in the process.

00:34:00.040 And what Hegseth did this last week in calling all the generals, all 800 of them together,

00:34:06.880 I wish he had used the opportunity to call a huge number of them on the spot,

00:34:11.880 but at least a direct call to accountability and to standards was very, very important

00:34:17.260 because we've had a military culture that's gone adrift over the last couple of decades,

00:34:21.540 and we need to tighten up the ship because the storm clouds are coming,

00:34:26.860 and we must prepare for that because otherwise it could go very, very ugly for us if we don't prepare for the realities of the modern battlefield

00:34:37.560 and how cheap and dangerous all these precision weapons are to our survival.

00:34:45.480 Eric, how did being a Navy SEAL form you as a man and change you as a person?

00:34:53.060 It was, I owe a lot to the SEAL teams in that entire experience

00:34:58.000 because it truly taught you to always find a lower gear, to not quit,

00:35:04.080 that however miserable, uncomfortable, whatever, there is a way to make it work

00:35:08.440 and to survive and to persist and to win.

00:35:12.240 And that's an attitude I've tried to provide.

00:35:15.640 I've tried to apply to my, certainly to my professional life and personal life as well.

00:35:22.000 But, you know, it's not over.

00:35:23.940 You haven't been beaten until you quit.

00:35:28.360 Eric Prince, by the way, isn't, I think one of your sons is a Navy SEAL?

00:35:33.100 We have multiple kids in the military going through the process.

00:35:41.740 Thank you, sir.

00:35:42.500 Eric, always honored to have you on here, sir.

00:35:44.460 Thank you for staying up over there and joining us today for our coverage.

00:35:49.160 Go Navy.

00:35:55.080 I'm so conflicted on the go Navy beat Army now that Moe's West Point.

00:35:58.720 Let's go to the main studio.

00:36:00.280 We're going to jump back to the podium as soon as I think, as soon as Ambassador Crowley comes.

00:36:06.040 Main studio, Admiral Sonny Masso.

00:36:09.080 Admiral Masso, thank you for joining us today for our coverage.

00:36:11.560 You're in studio with Cleo.

00:36:13.160 What can we anticipate?

00:36:14.380 We're going to go through a two-hour, two-hour naval gunfire exercise, Sonny.

00:36:19.140 You're a surface warfare officer.

00:36:20.580 What can we anticipate today to see out on the Navy gunfire range off the Virginia Cape, sir?

00:36:25.240 Well, I think we're going to see an explosion of activity from 5-inch-54 guns.

00:36:35.060 We'll see aircraft maneuvers.

00:36:37.720 We'll see helicopters loaded with Navy SEALs and special ops personnel maybe doing some repelling.

00:36:44.640 It'll be an exhibition of all of the capabilities that we offer, potentially even including ribboats that are the key cornerstone of our vessel boarding search and seizure capabilities,

00:36:58.420 and really just elucidate all the missions that we participate in and let the good people of the Tidewater area get to see this and celebrate it on behalf of our 250th birthday.

00:37:12.280 Sonny, Admiral, you know, we've had Navy SEALs.

00:37:18.240 We've had submariners.

00:37:19.320 We're going to have some naval air folks on later. 1.00

00:37:22.180 Still the bedrock of the Navy is surface warfare.

00:37:25.760 Walk us through what is surface warfare.

00:37:27.900 Explain it to our audience, carrier strike groups, all of it, sir.

00:37:31.860 Great.

00:37:32.860 So, fundamentally, in our Navy today, we have about 290 battle force ships, which include our 11 aircraft carriers, about 115 to 120 cruisers and destroyers,

00:37:50.740 all gas turbine vessels that can stay on station a long time.

00:37:54.680 They're very capable.

00:37:55.460 They can have sensors that look into exoatmospheric events, and they can track exoatmospheric missiles coming and inbound.

00:38:07.420 They're extraordinarily capable.

00:38:10.000 The backbone of the fleet, though, requires them, you know, to be anywhere.

00:38:15.800 And each of these cruisers and destroyers, and then, of course, I didn't mention our submarines.

00:38:23.180 We've got about 70 submarines, either ballistic missile submarines and or fast attack submarines.

00:38:30.060 So, we come in with a very viable force that, you know, we're going to be able to demonstrate, not just today, but we demonstrate every day.

00:38:39.940 Look no further than our net effect against Houthi rebels and things of that nature.

00:38:46.800 It was really a no-brainer.

00:38:48.900 It was well within our swim lane of capabilities.

00:38:51.440 But a surface warfare officer in a surface warfare strike group extends power projection, presence of the United States military throughout the world and in any theater where it may be needed.

00:39:07.580 Now, we do have concentrations such as the Straits of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf, Taiwan Straits, areas like that where we're always in the vicinity.

00:39:17.760 And we're projecting United States national interests in all these locales, not the least of which, really, now, as we're kind of looking toward the Philippine Islands.

00:39:28.560 And it's a place that I know you're very familiar with, as am I, since we were there together.

00:39:34.480 But the simple point is watching and checking the Spratly Islands and any threats of aggression that might occur.

00:39:41.900 But in addition to that, a very important mission is our humanitarian assistance disaster relief roles, where we can come in with medicine and veterinary and public works, power, all of that, never spend the night, never bring a weapon aboard wherever we're needed to go and to serve and help others.

00:40:05.500 Admiral, hang on for one second.

00:40:08.520 By the way, we're going to avoid post-City stories, sea stories today.

00:40:12.200 It's a family broadcast.

00:40:13.840 But, Cleo, Admiral, your theory of the case, studying our Pacific Fleet sailors, your theory of the case that the strategic heartland of the United States is actually the vast Pacific.

00:40:27.380 And you talk about the three-island chain and manifest destiny.

00:40:30.460 We've been a Pacific power since the late 19th century.

00:40:33.020 Two hundred and ninety capital ships.

00:40:36.820 Is that going to is that going to make it, ma'am?

00:40:39.260 Is that is that what's necessary to actually fulfill the strategy that you think is actual the naval strategy of the 21st century?

00:40:46.860 No.

00:40:48.300 And and not just that.

00:40:49.700 It needs much more and it needs much more complicated ships and ability to deploy.

00:40:57.040 And as you know, it's in it's already a contested environment to get to the first, second and third vertical island chains.

00:41:03.280 You need to get across the center of the Pacific from Hawaii all the way to Guam, which again is the United States of America.

00:41:10.120 So this idea that you can leave Americans hanging out there like like happened during World War Two, where there are terrible predations by the Japanese on on Americans in Guam because they were just left there means you need to be able to get across the center of the Pacific.

00:41:25.600 And that that that takes a lot of gear and it also takes now a lot of digging out of the Chinese who've already embedded with political warfare across the whole center of the Pacific. 0.98

00:41:36.220 So, yes, first, second and third island chain.

00:41:38.540 But those are the luxuries.

00:41:40.480 First, you have to get control over the center of the Pacific.

00:41:42.840 And that takes both the equipment and the political will to dig out the Chinese political warfare that's already undermining U.S. power projection in the region.

00:41:54.300 Cleo, hang on.

00:41:55.380 We've got Cleo Pascal, Admiral Sonny Masso in the Real America Voice studios in Washington, D.C.

00:42:01.280 We have Captain Fennell with us and we're going to bring in many, many others.

00:42:05.900 We're getting ready for the naval gunfire exercise and others.

00:42:08.800 Total warfare, surface, submarine, air, all of it.

00:42:12.880 The commander in chief of the United States will view that from the USS Bush at the center of a carrier strike group.

00:42:20.920 Going to lead you with the Navy hymn.

00:42:22.300 We're going to go back to the stage, I think, as soon as Ambassador Monica Crowley takes it.

00:42:26.820 That's anticipated.

00:42:28.220 Also getting ready for the go to the out to the strike group.

00:42:31.340 Author Virginia, Capes, short commercial break.

00:42:34.280 We'll return to Real America's Voice coverage of Navy 250 in just a moment.

00:42:38.800 We'll be right back with more Navy 250, sea power, and freedom. 0.61

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00:43:00.720 For 250 years, America's Navy has guarded freedom, projected strength, and carried the fight across the sea.

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00:43:36.100 Navy 250, sea power, and freedom.

00:43:40.040 With your host, Steve Bannon, with live reporting from Jack Posobiec and Steve Gruber.

00:43:45.600 Starts right now.

00:43:46.880 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:44:01.560 Pray for our enemies.

00:44:02.780 Because we're going medieval on these people.

00:44:06.820 Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:44:11.080 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:44:13.000 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:44:14.420 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:44:17.120 It's going to happen.

00:44:18.380 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:44:21.780 Mega media.

00:44:22.680 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:44:28.560 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:44:32.320 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:44:38.720 War Room.

00:44:39.540 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:44:48.580 It's Sunday, 5 October in the year of war, 2025.

00:44:51.720 We're here for Navy 250.

00:44:54.100 We're commemorating the birth of the greatest Navy in the history of mankind, the United States Navy.

00:45:00.760 Today, we're juggling between, we've got on the USS Truman, there's going to be a presentation by the President of the United States,

00:45:06.240 the Commander-in-Chief later in the day after a naval gunfire exercise and other weapons.

00:45:11.660 The President's going to join, going to review this joint exercise on the USS Bush.

00:45:17.420 He's going to do it, I think, from the bridge.

00:45:20.420 He's heading out there momentarily.

00:45:22.300 We'll go to him.

00:45:22.960 And we've got our own Jack Posobiec with the Commander-in-Chief.

00:45:25.960 Steve Gruber's on the riser on the USS Truman.

00:45:30.580 And supposedly, if we stick to plan, Ambassador Monica Crowley's going to come out in a little while. 0.99

00:45:35.700 We're going to cut to live to that and to Steve Gruber.

00:45:37.760 I've got now some experts, Captain Fennell, Admiral Masso, Cleo Pascal.

00:45:43.260 We're going to be, Captain Morgan's going to join us in a moment, talk about drones and drone warfare.

00:45:47.980 I want to go to Captain Fennell first.

00:45:50.160 And like I said, as soon as something happens, we're going to cut away from this.

00:45:52.920 Captain Fennell, I've got a question.

00:45:54.080 And Sonny Masso just laid out the 290 capital ships built around 11, I think, aircraft carriers for carrier strike groups or carrier battle groups.

00:46:05.540 It's a traditional way the United States Navy has fought basically since World War II when we won the war in the Pacific against the Imperial Japanese Navy based around not the battleship, but based around the aircraft carrier and naval air.

00:46:19.280 However, is that – we're going to have Morgan on here for a second. 0.99

00:46:22.540 He's talking about drones, but then you've got the Chinese Communist Party and all the weapons they have close in off of the coast of China, which Taiwan's only 90 miles away.

00:46:32.580 We talk about fighting our way across the Pacific and trying to have to – Cleo keeps telling us, hey, we're letting the Chinese Communist Party take those islands that the Marines, the Marine Corps fought for and the Navy fought for in World War II.

00:46:45.560 But isn't the concept of the carrier battle group the reason that the cost of the Navy is so expensive of capital ships and what we're trying to do?

00:46:54.660 And is it a relic from time gone by?

00:46:56.760 Is it a time to rethink fundamentally the basic warfighting capability of the United States and what makes the most sense, particularly since we're pivoting now to hemispheric defense where we need expeditionary strike capability throughout the world, sir?

00:47:10.880 Well, Steve, there's an old saying. It's called a bird in the hand as we're two in the bush.

00:47:16.980 So before we start cutting away the carriers, we need to make sure that we have something reliable to restore to or to turn to.

00:47:26.520 In World War II, we relied – before the Japanese struck us on 7 December 1941, the principal platform of the U.S. Navy was the battleship.

00:47:35.600 And after our battleships were sunk, we switched and started focusing on carriers, and that's where we've been, as you said, for the last 80 years.

00:47:43.640 The Pacific, as we talked earlier, is 17 times the size of continental United States.

00:47:48.980 It takes over almost 12 days steaming at 20 knots for one carrier to just high-speed transit across the center of the Pacific without stopping 24-7, which never happens.

00:48:00.700 So it's a big, big ocean, and we need to be able to bring forces to bear to affect – to get the kinds of power projection effects that we want, whether it's to stop an invasion or to stop something else that the Chinese are doing or drug cartels or anything else. 0.95

00:48:16.780 And we can't do that if we don't have platforms that can sustain combat power over long duration.

00:48:23.640 The carrier is still the principal platform.

00:48:26.220 Now, I'm biased because I spent 20 years of my – 29 years when I was at sea, those sea duties, on carriers.

00:48:33.140 And I know and understand the capabilities of those carriers and the difficulty of an enemy to try to sink a carrier.

00:48:41.460 So as I said in the earlier segments, the Navy has had a defensive mindset.

00:48:47.120 Our good friend Eric Prince just even highlighted the fact that we have missiles coming at our platforms.

00:48:53.060 And so we're constantly wondering about if we're going to take a hit.

00:48:56.980 But what I, again, heard President Trump say last week is we have to be able to take a hit and keep fighting.

00:49:03.420 And so right now, the carrier is the principal platform that can lash up with new technologies that you'll hear about and strike the enemy at great distance.

00:49:14.840 But hang on.

00:49:16.060 I'm going to go back to Admiral Masso here in a moment, but I've got to ask you.

00:49:19.000 You essentially gave up one of the most promising carriers around as a naval intelligence officer because you had the courage to warn the American elite that they weren't building a navy that was –

00:49:31.600 that the Chinese Communist Party was stealing a march on us to build a navy that could actually take on and destroy the United States Navy.

00:49:39.480 Hasn't their focus been how to take down and close combat off the coast of China and around Taiwan, which we must defend, and the three island chains to destroy carrier –

00:49:49.420 I mean, haven't they totally focused on how you destroy carrier battle groups?

00:49:53.320 And that makes us even more vulnerable, sir?

00:49:56.620 Yes.

00:49:57.060 Yes, they call it their counter-intervention strategy in Chinese.

00:49:59.980 We call it anti-access area denial or A2AD.

00:50:04.180 But make no mistake, what we're seeing this last year with the carriers operating east of Guam towards Hawaii,

00:50:11.960 the new unveiling of this Fujian aircraft carrier that is launching fifth-generation J-35 stealth fighters with electromagnetic aircraft launch systems,

00:50:22.300 that's not just designed to win the fight inside the first and second island chain.

00:50:27.400 That is a navy that is going to have global power projection capabilities. 0.56

00:50:32.120 They're building new ballistic missile submarines and fast attack submarines that aren't going to just stay in their local waters.

00:50:38.540 They are building a global navy.

00:50:40.640 And if we get in a dogfight with them in the middle of the Pacific, from east of Guam to Hawaii, or hopefully not towards our west coast, 0.76

00:50:48.960 we're going to need platforms like carriers to be able to fight and win that war.

00:50:53.920 We're going to need other new technologies and other new capabilities.

00:50:56.860 But the centerpiece for now is still the carrier battle group and other systems that contribute to that.

00:51:03.740 Oh, by the way, we also have expeditionary strike groups, like the one down you were mentioning down in the off of Venezuela,

00:51:11.040 the Iwo Jima expeditionary strike group ARG.

00:51:14.680 They are down there.

00:51:15.800 They have platforms.

00:51:16.980 They have F-35s.

00:51:18.780 They are a power projection capability that we have as well.

00:51:21.960 So it's not just our carriers.

00:51:23.560 It's also our ARGs, our expeditionary strike groups.

00:51:26.280 Those are the centerpieces of how we operate, supported by our nuclear submarine force,

00:51:32.160 the fast attack and SSGNs that can launch hundreds of T-LAMs and other kinds of missile systems.

00:51:39.700 So it's not just one thing.

00:51:41.680 The carriers cost more.

00:51:43.440 We need to look at the cost.

00:51:44.900 We need to look at how we're acquiring things.

00:51:47.240 We've had several program failures in the last decade and a half with the littoral combat ship, the zone wall cruiser, and now the board class with severe problems.

00:51:58.580 And so it's not just the cost.

00:52:00.520 It's how we acquire things and our success in doing it.

00:52:03.600 We need a Rickover.

00:52:04.500 Yeah, Admiral Masso, this is the thing.

00:52:08.280 We talked about Rickover earlier in the film that I made with Michael Pack.

00:52:13.460 You can't do it with 290 capital ships, right?

00:52:15.960 You've already made that case.

00:52:17.020 You've got a structure and a force structure and a fighting philosophy built around the carry battle group.

00:52:21.740 But given the fact we have had so many failures with the littoral ship, with the zone wall class, right, I mean, how do you convince –

00:52:31.440 how does the Trump administration convince Congress that we have to go through a massive shipbuilding upgrade?

00:52:37.360 Because you were there.

00:52:38.280 You and I were shipmates.

00:52:39.960 You were there, and you went back to the Pentagon during the – when I think we had under 200 ships.

00:52:44.120 We came out of the fleet and built up to a 600-ship navy.

00:52:47.140 How do you convince Congress and the American people to underwrite that bill, sir?

00:52:52.700 Well, I think we have to – it begins with really articulating the threat, the threat of hypersonic missiles,

00:53:01.820 the threat of the changing nature of even what we've created in our Missile Defense Agency,

00:53:08.300 where we focused intensely on mid-course and terminal phase intercept.

00:53:14.920 And I think that the lessons that we're learning today in terms of technological advancements specifically in China centers around

00:53:25.000 we're going to have to be better at intelligence and reconnaissance, early warning detections, things of this nature,

00:53:32.800 and that maybe it's not a missile intercept, it's a strike, you know, that comes from our aircraft carrier.

00:53:39.260 So I'm not one that believes unilaterally that our aircraft carriers are obsolete by a long shot.

00:53:46.840 But I do know that we need to refine our tactics, techniques, and procedures.

00:53:53.080 We need to have a robust communication strategy with Congress that includes events such as what we're experiencing today,

00:54:00.000 where they can see our frontline ships and how they take action in their mission sets.

00:54:07.600 But I do believe that, you know, the service that probably does legislative affairs best of all are the Marine Corps.

00:54:15.480 And one of the things they do is they make it personal and they take they take that story and they just drill home on it over and over again.

00:54:24.480 I'm very fond of our legislative leadership that we have in place right now.

00:54:30.080 But with that said, we need to have a more complete relationship with those who are in, you know,

00:54:38.840 in the House National Security Committees or Senate Armed Services and really tell those stories.

00:54:45.480 You know, we've waited for this day, Admiral Masso, for a long time, for the president to actually be out there.

00:54:51.500 It's going to be amazing.

00:54:52.460 And I know he's so enthusiastic, like I said, I think he's watched Victory at Sea a hundred times.

00:54:58.020 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:54:59.920 Captain Paul Morgan is going to join us, naval aviator.

00:55:02.820 But we're going to talk about the changing nature of naval warfare, particularly the drones and what the drones mean in far as our thinking about the coming fight in 2027 or beyond with the Chinese, with the People's Liberation Navy.

00:55:20.220 Short commercial break.

00:55:21.400 We're both in Norfolk and we're going to be off the Virginia capes when we return in the war room.

00:55:26.880 Real America's Voice, continual coverage of Navy 250.

00:55:30.600 We'll continue in a moment.

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00:56:15.360 Okay, welcome back.

00:56:16.920 Honored to be back, Navy 250.

00:56:18.360 We've got a lot going on.

00:56:20.940 A full naval exercise will take place here shortly with the commander-in-chief out on, I think, the bridge of the USS Bush.

00:56:28.580 And, of course, we've got the Truman, another one of our carriers, Pearside in Norfolk.

00:56:33.480 Steve Gruber's on the riser.

00:56:35.660 We're going to cut to all of it as soon as we get some action at either.

00:56:38.240 Jack Posobiec is out with the president of the United States.

00:56:40.540 And Gruber's anchoring at the Truman, and Monica, our own colleague, Ambassador Monica Crowley, should be addressing us shortly, kind of lay out the day.

00:56:52.020 I want to go to Captain Paul Morgan.

00:56:54.140 Paul, you're a naval aviator, right, helicopter pilot, but you now are a specialist in high-performance lethal drones.

00:57:00.780 We talk about the surface Navy.

00:57:03.320 We talk about this huge investment that we potentially need to defend the Pacific, particularly against the Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan. 0.84

00:57:11.180 We talk about hemispheric defense and how much that means and how critical the Navy is to that.

00:57:16.300 But are we missing something?

00:57:17.400 Is drone warfare and the advances in drone warfare, which has made such a massive difference on the land battle, as we see in Ukraine, is that going to radically change naval warfare, sir?

00:57:32.840 I believe so, Steve.

00:57:34.440 I spent a lot of time as a program manager for all Navy and Marine Corps UAE.

00:57:39.040 We did a lot of work with the shipboard integration of ScanEagle, which was a new capability that, frankly, got us back into the fight from a naval perspective.

00:57:49.560 It started very simply, and then we grew into a fully integrated ScanEagle system in the small surface warfare combatants, which I always cruised on.

00:57:58.160 I was a frigate and a cruiser sailor.

00:58:00.820 So there are ways that we are making the tyranny of distance, which is what we call it in the Asian theater. 0.84

00:58:09.480 How do I communicate?

00:58:11.220 How do I jam?

00:58:12.340 How do I do things at distance?

00:58:14.360 What's the power of endurance?

00:58:16.060 How do I use these semi-lethal and also long-flying UAVs?

00:58:23.340 How do I merge them with the manned fleet?

00:58:25.840 So manned-on-manned teaming is going to become a big thing.

00:58:29.420 Trying to shorten the energy loop of decisions between finding something that is actionable and making a decision on that data.

00:58:40.220 That's where UAVs are unique.

00:58:42.300 So, for instance, the jamming world is where we got started.

00:58:46.260 We were very concerned about F-18Gs, the inability for them to get close enough to jam without putting just a boatload of energy in the air.

00:58:56.420 So we came up with an expendable UAV when I was the program manager, and we called it whisper rather than shout.

00:59:02.320 You can get in close.

00:59:04.320 You can do everything you need to do with an expendable UAV from the F-18, and you can whisper jam, not shout, from 50 miles or 150 miles.

00:59:15.860 So that's the power of UAVs.

00:59:18.680 It's a time sink.

00:59:19.800 It's the power of endurance, and it's the power of communications at long distances.

00:59:23.860 By the way, like I said, we're going to cut to the naval exercise as soon as it happens.

00:59:29.740 It should be shortly also back on the main stage.

00:59:33.480 Captain Morgan, I think people have been surprised, at least, you know, civilians have been surprised about the lethality and reach of drones when you talk about the war in Ukraine.

00:59:43.340 Now you've got the Russians and the Ukrainians pounding each other every night, principally with drones. 0.98

00:59:48.600 You've had this incredible strike by the Ukrainians now, was it coordinated with American intelligence, probably out of Wiesbaden. 0.92

00:59:55.680 But they went in, I think, 2,000 miles into Russia.

01:00:00.120 They took out part, at least half of the third leg of the nuclear triad, the strategic bomber, something Curtis LeMay couldn't even think about.

01:00:08.480 Is the Army or what's happening on ground, particularly in Ukraine, is the Navy, the Navy SEALs and the Marine Corps, are we a little behind the power curve, or are we thinking about this in an advanced state for naval warfare and prepared to do the acquisitions you need to actually make this happen?

01:00:30.520 The Navy was behind when I was a program manager.

01:00:33.880 There's no way around it.

01:00:35.320 The Army got me back into the fight, by the way.

01:00:37.560 We deployed Raven A's, Raven B's with SOCOM.

01:00:41.640 We did a lot of chumming off of what the Army had done.

01:00:45.520 I actually deployed shadows with the Marine Corps in advance.

01:00:49.260 We got rid of Pioneers. 1.00

01:00:50.920 The Army actually gave me a shadow battalion to deploy, and I paid them back two years later.

01:00:56.880 And that's the spirit of the cooperation that we had with the Army.

01:00:59.940 The key for us in the ability and what they've shown in the Ukrainian theater over land is swarming, and we call it the tyranny, not only of distance, but the tyranny of nearness. 0.89

01:01:14.200 So, you know, swarming at distance is very difficult, right?

01:01:18.320 The endurance of the smalls and the endurance of swarms.

01:01:21.540 You're swarming your next-door neighbors.

01:01:23.920 Cool.

01:01:25.320 That's what's going on in Ukraine.

01:01:26.840 You're able to take these cheap, very effective UAVs, tremendously effective, take advantage of all the power of computing, all the power of camera size.

01:01:37.640 Batteries are so much better.

01:01:39.420 Propulsion is so much better.

01:01:40.560 So what we're seeing and what the Navy is doing is looking at that as an example.

01:01:46.700 What are called requests for information and new proposals come out from the Marine Corps all the time.

01:01:52.860 We want ship-based.

01:01:54.740 We want tank-based.

01:01:57.380 We want reconnaissance-based UAVs.

01:02:00.100 Same with the Navy SEALs.

01:02:01.300 I've worked very closely with them.

01:02:03.600 They're interested because we call it digital crack.

01:02:06.300 Once you get it, once you see it, and once you're able to inculcate that in your everyday life, it's a pattern of life that you can rely on and that you can go back and look at.

01:02:17.600 That's the key.

01:02:18.760 And that's the power that the Marine Corps and the Navy is looking at.

01:02:22.080 So, for instance, real quickly, when I did the escorts of the Reef Lake Kuwaiti tankers, if I'd have had a UAV attached to the back of the ship at 400 feet, my visual horizon went from 11 miles to 40.

01:02:34.460 That's a significant delta in response time for small boats, for decoys, for any number of different things.

01:02:45.600 That's the power of the UAV, is the persistence, the endurance, and the ability to coordinate with manned airplanes.

01:02:53.760 Captain Fennell, your naval intelligence.

01:02:56.360 Is Captain Morgan right?

01:02:58.500 Is this changing the nature of particularly surface warfare as we think about the Chinese Communist Party, who actually also are some of the world's experts in drone and drone warfare, sir?

01:03:09.960 Oh, there's no question about it, that we have to look at this technology and see how to marinize it, to get it at sea.

01:03:19.200 I was in the Pentagon in 2010, my one year in the Pentagon, and I worked in the program office that dealt with UAVs, ScanEagle, and other platforms like that, the new UCAB that we have.

01:03:31.280 So we've been, I think he's right, we've been behind, we need to go faster, there's going to be some kind of issue with the distances, the distances across the Pacific.

01:03:44.220 You're not going to be able to fly some of these small wire-guided drones, you know, from a destroyer or a small ship 2,000 miles away from China and be able to be effective.

01:03:56.960 So we've got to find ways to get these platforms in close and get them integrated into what we call distributed maritime operations network, so that we can network all of our platforms, manned and unmanned.

01:04:08.940 So it is here to stay. The question is, how is it going to be applicable to naval warfare?

01:04:15.000 And I'll just say, in my experience, watching the Pentagon and the intelligence community transition from fighting war at land in Afghanistan and Iraq and applying that to the naval maritime domain, it's not just a simple cut and paste.

01:04:33.460 It has to be completely rethought. There's different atmospherics, there's different, you know, sensitivities to salt and seawater and duration at sea and repair and all of that kind of stuff that has to be looked at.

01:04:47.600 And I know folks like Captain Morgan are all about that. So we've got people looking at it, we just need to accelerate.

01:04:53.000 It needs to be part of this restoration of this make America's Navy great again.

01:04:58.240 We need to restore and do what we did in 1940 to focus on building our Navy.

01:05:04.080 And it's not going to be the Navy of 1940 where we just pumped out, you know, destroyers and jeep carriers and carriers.

01:05:10.600 It's going to be the new Navy of the 21st century, but we have to make it a national priority.

01:05:16.020 I think that's the message that I want to get across.

01:05:18.560 I'm going to give Admiral Masson a second, but I want to continue that.

01:05:23.800 There were visionaries before Pearl Harbor.

01:05:26.400 They knew it was a gunfight coming, right?

01:05:28.400 I mean, the leaders of our country, they started preparing an army.

01:05:31.100 They started getting ready to an army for a fight of war in Europe.

01:05:34.100 But particularly, there was a big fight inside the Navy because it was still you still had an aspect that was battle battleship centric.

01:05:40.900 But you had some visionaries that said, hey, when we fight the Japanese across the vast Pacific, we're going to need the aircraft carriers. 0.97

01:05:47.320 Tell our audience about that.

01:05:48.400 What happened this kind of late 1930s, 1940 before Pearl Harbor?

01:05:53.400 Yeah, there was a great understanding amongst many in Washington and folks in the fleet that the Imperial Japanese Navy and the striking fleet, the Kido Butai, were a serious, very serious threat and that they were growing dangerous and that there was going to be a conflict.

01:06:11.920 And so one of the senators in the Congress, Senator Carl Vinson, put together a bill called the Two Ocean Navy Act in 38, 39.

01:06:23.980 It got passed in 40.

01:06:25.420 And it was that work that was done in 1940 that allowed us to start winning and seeing the production of that industrial might roll off the lines in 43, in the summer of 43, that allowed us to win the war in the Pacific.

01:06:41.020 If that bill had not been passed in 1940, we'd just scrape by in the Battle of Midway.

01:06:47.080 It was a miracle that we won there.

01:06:49.100 It was a turning point, but it was only a turning point in respect that we had something coming off the line in a new fleet.

01:06:56.500 We need that same kind of a focus today because the Chinese, not just our Navy, but the Chinese Communist Party's agenda is to destroy the United States of America. 0.99

01:07:07.020 They prefer to do it non-kinetically, but they have built a kinetic capability and they will use it if given the opportunity.

01:07:14.020 Okay, right there you see the President, the Commander-in-Chief is now landing on the USS Bush.

01:07:22.820 Right, here we go.

01:07:23.660 We're going to cut to the voice of God here to explain what's going on.

01:07:27.520 Let's go ahead to it.

01:07:27.960 We thank you today for joining us aboard the H. George H. W. Bush Freedom at Work, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 12.

01:07:46.000 We also thank our sailors on Pier 14 next to the Harry S. Truman and the USS Gearsarge.

01:07:52.580 We are grateful to have you here today to witness not only the size and scope of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier,

01:07:58.700 but to showcase how the men and women of the Team Avenger bring 100,000 tons of American steel to life.

01:08:05.240 Our sailors are trained and ready to fight with the right skills, equipment, and warrior ethos to protect the American interest around the globe.

01:08:13.220 The platform's team and the events experienced today will encompass the full power and might of the United States Navy.

01:08:20.540 You will see fast-attack submarines, live fires from eight Arleigh Burke class-guided missile destroyers,

01:08:26.260 Navy SEALs fast-roping from a helicopter to a destroyer,

01:08:29.060 and finally an air-powered demonstration featuring a full complement of the Carrier Air Wing showing the unmatched power of U.S. naval aviation.

01:08:37.540 Now, be prepared to be amazed as our Navy demonstrates the impressive capabilities of the most powerful naval force the world has ever seen.

01:08:46.540 The helicopter bringing President Trump out.

01:09:09.480 Captain Morgan, you're very familiar with helicopters in the Navy, sir?

01:09:13.080 Yes.

01:09:20.020 Right there.

01:09:20.760 That's a...

01:09:22.080 Commander Chief's going to join.

01:09:24.180 Going to hit the deck here in a moment.

01:09:25.520 You saw the...

01:09:27.200 We're going to have a narrator for the entire exercise.

01:09:31.180 I believe that actually the President is going to go up to the bridge and view it with the First Lady from the bridge.

01:09:38.240 Admiral Masso, what do you anticipate we're going to see here when things get up and running?

01:09:45.840 Well, I think we're going to see a lot of activity.

01:09:48.980 As I had said, you know, they talked about fast-roping SEALs off helicopters, Navy gunfire support missions, things of that nature.

01:09:59.580 It's going to be loud and proud and very impressive.

01:10:08.200 Admiral, here we go.

01:10:09.580 The Commander Chief's coming out.

01:10:11.620 Admiral, real quickly, drones and changing the nature of surface warfare.

01:10:16.640 Your thoughts?

01:10:17.140 Absolutely essential, crucial.

01:10:21.740 It's non-negotiable.

01:10:23.660 It's got to be an important cornerstone of our investment strategies for not the future in 20 years, but for the future in 18 months.

01:10:34.180 I couldn't agree more with both the captains who spoke earlier.

01:10:40.020 It's got to be done quickly, methodically.

01:10:45.640 We've got to integrate the tactical picture in a kind of a common tactical operation picture where we're getting the best intelligence that we can get so we can make decisions.

01:10:58.000 And then also we need to focus on what an offensive capability of a drone needs to look like given the threats that we're addressing.

01:11:10.020 You're going to see today the President's been looking forward to this.

01:11:12.780 Like I said, I think this is his Teddy Roosevelt moment.

01:11:15.840 He gets to see the fleet in action.

01:11:18.980 And Admiral Masso is absolutely correct.

01:11:20.620 I think you're going to see a lot of explosions and a lot of gunfire because at the end of the day, power projection is about exactly that.

01:11:28.040 It's about the Navy's ability to put aircraft across the deck coming from carrier strike groups and also having the surface warfare that can then pound the enemy.

01:11:37.560 People ought to keep in mind we have an amphibious ready group, 4,000 fleet marines, and sailors off the coast of Venezuela even as we speak.

01:11:48.940 There we go right there.

01:11:50.220 That's Admiral Masso.

01:11:51.840 That's the real Navy right there.

01:11:54.060 The cruisers, destroyers, and frigates.

01:11:57.180 Are they not, sir?

01:11:59.280 They absolutely are.

01:12:01.360 That is the Navy, the real Navy.

01:12:03.840 Yes.

01:12:04.120 Oh, God, I love, I love to, but they look magnificent.

01:12:10.720 Just love, there's a submarine right there.

01:12:14.140 I think we're going to have some activity from fast attacks.

01:12:16.060 Maybe we shoot a couple of tomahawks today. 0.94

01:12:17.860 Here we go.

01:12:18.500 We're going to turn back to the commentator.

01:12:20.120 This submarine is built for longevity, stealth, and high performance.

01:12:24.180 Iowa's advanced technology allows for near silent movement through the world's oceans.

01:12:28.100 Its sensitive sonar can attack and track enemy submarines and warships from extended distances.

01:12:32.480 With a length of 377 feet and 6,800 tons and a speed of 25 knots, the Iowa represents the greatest America's silent fleet.

01:12:40.680 The Iowa's crew is comprised of 15 officers and 117 enlisted sailors, all highly trained and selected from the nation's most competitive candidates.

01:12:49.040 The Iowa's armament consists of four torpedo tubes and two Virginia payload tubes, each capable of holding six vertical launch tomahawk missiles that can strike over 1,200 miles away.

01:12:58.760 Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the USS Iowa and the United States Navy's silent service.

01:13:12.800 Okay, right there.

01:13:14.560 Sonny, give us a perspective of our fast attack and ballistic missile submarines.

01:13:19.340 Well, we're, of course, investing heavily in the Columbia class.

01:13:26.540 We have kind of completed construction on a vast array of ships.

01:13:32.320 We had the Seawolf class, which had three ships in that class, Connecticut, Seawolf, and Jimmy Carter.

01:13:37.800 They have a very robust shipboard combat system, including a wide aperture array, and there is no more powerful anti-submarine capability than what comes from a submarine.

01:13:53.180 The activities that we have in Guam, which is another area that you and I operated in together, is powerful in the Taiwan Straits, and they're finding, you know, the capabilities that they have with respect.

01:14:11.720 Back to the narrowing missile destroyers, sailing in formation, the USS Faragut, the USS Donald Cook, the USS Mason, the USS Delbert D. Black, the USS Ross, USS Cole, USS Neitz, USS Gonzalez, and USS Carney.

01:14:25.940 Each of these powerful warships is manned by 320 of America's finest sailors, highly trained, battle-ready warfighters, who embody the skill, spirit, and dedication to make the United States Navy the greatest naval force in history.

01:14:37.980 Their seamless teamwork and unwavering commitment, delivering precision firepower upon our nation's enemies from the surface of the sea.

01:14:46.120 Aboard the aircraft carrier, the commander of Destroyer Squadron 2-2 operates as the sea combatant commander for the George H. W. Bush Carrier Strike Group.

01:14:55.000 The Deseron commander is responsible for directing each of the destroyers under his command to successfully engage in anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare.

01:15:07.980 The Deseron-23, the little beavers, the very famous destroyer squadron from World War II.

01:15:26.460 The destroyer squadron works underneath the carrier battle group to make sure they get protection for the carrier, sir?

01:15:32.960 The Deseron-23 staff, of which we're both familiar with from those days long ago, will reside on the aircraft carrier, and they will fight the Deserons that support the strike group from the carrier.

01:15:52.980 And, again, as the narrator said, it's not just anti-submarine warfare, but it's anti-surface warfare, and it's tracking intel and reconnaissance and everything that goes with the warfighting calculus.

01:16:07.980 Also, Captain Fennell, the fast-attack submarines, they are absolutely essential to what we talk about the protection of the destroyers, not just the surface Navy and our ASW capability, anti-submarine warfare capability.

01:16:28.100 Fast-attack submarines and direct support of the carrier battle group are also essential, particularly given developments in the Chinese Navy, sir?

01:16:38.760 And our fast-attack friends have been focused on kind of more independent operations, but when we get back to the kind of confrontation that we had with the Soviet Navy,

01:16:54.320 now that we will face from a Chinese Navy that's building submarines at a rapid pace and has been building them, 0.79

01:17:01.500 we need to make sure that we have our hunter-killer submarines protecting our high-value assets.

01:17:07.200 So that gets into the, you know, we talk about the missiles coming in from up above.

01:17:12.260 We also have to protect from the undersea, and the Chinese have nuclear power, fast-attack. 1.00

01:17:18.080 ...failings close-in weapon system, also known as CWIS.

01:17:21.860 The Failings weapon system provides U.S. Navy ships with an interlayer point defense capability against anti-missiles, low-frying aircraft, UAVs, and high-speed surface craft.

01:17:31.360 The Failings weapon system is the only deployed close-in weapon system capable of autonomously performing its own search, detect, evaluation, track, engage, and kill assessment functions.

01:17:42.820 This is the ship's last line of defense, providing a fast reaction, radar-guided, 20-millimeter gun,

01:17:48.380 weapon system that is capable of firing at a rate of 4,500 rounds per minute.

01:17:52.420 Yeah, right there, the President's being shown the Admiral Masson.

01:18:14.160 Like I said, we're cutting it out.

01:18:15.080 The Navy's controlling the narrator, so we're just going to go every time the narrator speaks.

01:18:18.940 The President's on the deck right there of the Bush.

01:18:20.940 When you talk about that gun system, Admiral Masson, what are we talking about?

01:18:25.800 Well, the close-in weapon support is a very vital component.

01:18:32.160 And I think if you recall back in the day where the USS Stark did not have their CWIS set to an automatic capability,

01:18:41.380 and an Exocet came in and severely damaged, took lives of that ship.

01:18:46.720 And it was the great damage control efforts of the ships in partnership with them out there that saved the ship from sinking.

01:18:56.340 But this is a very reliable system.

01:18:59.500 It's one of the best we've got.

01:19:00.720 I know I was part of some of the studies between a shoot-off between Sea Vulcan 25 and actually a 30-millimeter derivation of it.

01:19:12.440 But the 4,500 rounds is extremely powerful and really does work.

01:19:17.760 And our former ship, the Paul F. Foster, is a test ship for such activities where they actually shoot missiles at it

01:19:27.020 and they're intercepted by capabilities embedded on the ship, and that's done from the Naval Surface Warfare Center.

01:19:34.180 At 45, you're hitting these bolts at 4,500 a minute.

01:19:38.180 By the way, you just saw the water going up off of our combatant right there.

01:19:42.600 I think you're going to get a 5-inch 54 going off in a minute.

01:19:45.360 I wish we could get the, if the sound hit it, your teeth would rattle.

01:19:52.080 Admiral Masso, that's kind of a last line of defense.

01:19:54.700 You're basically putting up a sheet of steel to shred whatever missile's coming,

01:19:58.960 any airframe that's coming to hit a surface vessel kind of at the last second, right?

01:20:04.240 I mean, that's your last hope is to hit that, is you hit your close in, to basically shred the airframe before you hit?

01:20:12.760 Yeah, that's part of it.

01:20:14.660 And we also have, you know, a rapid bloom off-board chaff, which sends out aluminum

01:20:23.020 and things that will maybe change the direction of an incoming missile of some sort.

01:20:30.320 So we've got a number of different capabilities, but the last line of defense would be the CWIS.

01:20:37.300 But there's great comfort and confidence in that capability.

01:20:41.380 The Mark 45 5-inch gun is a fully automatic naval gun mount.

01:20:45.720 The Mark 45 is designed to engage surface and air targets

01:20:48.580 and provide naval surface fire support for expeditionary operations.

01:20:52.540 The gun mount includes a 20-round automatic loader drum.

01:20:57.180 Its maximum fire rate of 16 to 20 rounds per minute with an effective range of 13 nautical miles.

01:21:09.700 Masso, Captain Fennell, you know that if you're standing on the bridge of that ship

01:21:12.660 and that 5-inch 54 is going off, it rattles your teeth.

01:21:16.580 I mean, the repercussions are so hard.

01:21:19.440 Sonny, you've fired that many, many, many times, right?

01:21:23.200 Tell the audience what it's like.

01:21:26.040 Well, it's pretty substantial.

01:21:30.120 And, again, it's got a pretty long range.

01:21:34.580 But, yes, it's a major explosion.

01:21:36.720 And, in fact, the shell casings are launched from it,

01:21:40.600 and they substantially mark up the decks because of the violence of the thrust of that firing.

01:21:49.280 And, again, those are unmount mounts, and you can see them right there.

01:21:53.420 You can see that smoke coming out.

01:21:55.920 And if you look carefully, you can see some of the shell casings.

01:22:07.540 And the president has got to be absolutely beside himself with pride right now,

01:22:12.600 seeing what his great navy can bring to bear.

01:22:16.060 That smell of cordite, there's nothing like it.

01:22:29.740 Admiral, people maybe not familiar with the navy are sitting there going,

01:22:33.680 they remember Victory at Sea with battleships with 16-inch guns.

01:22:38.580 Why, because of missile technology, drone technology, and the automated nature of the 5-inch 54,

01:22:47.720 that these ships can actually deliver much more lethality,

01:22:50.900 although nothing can replace a naval gunfire from a battleship,

01:22:55.460 at least psychologically, on an enemy that's embedded.

01:22:59.240 Why is the surface warfare capability so much more lethal today?

01:23:03.080 Well, I think it all goes to the sensors that they have that kind of position us for the right ranging

01:23:14.880 and locations of those items that we might be trying to shoot at.

01:23:20.740 So we've got more sophisticated fire control radars.

01:23:24.780 I think you recall when the Spruance class came into bearing and the Arleigh Burke classes,

01:23:34.740 these ships, because of the sophistication of the fire control radars, almost never miss.

01:23:40.200 They just don't.

01:23:41.600 And so they're more lethal because they're more accurate.

01:23:46.040 The standard missile 2, or SM-2, is that U.S. Navy's premier air defense weapon

01:23:51.200 with a range of up to 90 nautical miles.

01:23:53.400 The SM-2 is launched for part 3-1 vertical launch system.

01:24:10.600 This weapon system is an integral part of the Aegis weapon system

01:24:13.620 aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

01:24:17.880 Its primary mission includes fleet area defense and ship self-defense,

01:24:21.380 and its use seem active radar guidance to decisively engage and destroy

01:24:26.420 even the most advanced adversary fighter aircraft.

01:24:29.560 One of our ships and company, the USS Kearney, recently fired the SM-2 missile

01:24:33.080 in support of combat operations in the Red Sea.

01:24:36.080 On October 19, 2023, the USS Kearney was involved in one of the most intense combat engagements

01:24:41.500 by a U.S. Navy warship since World War II.

01:24:44.600 By the end of what became a 10-hour standoff, Kearney had shot down 15 drones

01:24:48.580 and four land-attack cruise missiles fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen.

01:24:53.000 This marked the most intense combat engagement of the U.S. Navy in years.

01:24:56.740 Ladies and gentlemen, your United States Navy surface fleet.

01:24:59.860 Right there, we have, that's a gun line.

01:25:14.880 Explain to the audience what's going on.

01:25:16.560 Well, for safety, you know, they're in a formation one, it looks like,

01:25:25.440 and that's just to create a spread so that if they're launching a different SM-2,

01:25:31.980 standard missile two, extended range, they're firing guns, things of that nature,

01:25:37.400 that form one is an old, it's a way to just be out of each other's way

01:25:44.380 and to manage the show a little bit better.

01:25:47.280 They can operate in a number of different configurations.

01:25:51.860 The U.S. Navy SEALs were established by President John F. Kennedy in 1962

01:25:56.160 as a small elite maritime force.

01:25:58.780 They carry out types of clandestine small-unit high-impact missions

01:26:05.700 that large forces with high-profile platforms, such as ships, tanks, jets, and submarines, cannot.

01:26:11.320 SEALs conduct essential on-the-ground special mechanics

01:26:13.460 and critical targets to enable strikes by larger conventional forces.

01:26:19.560 Ladies and gentlemen, what you are witnessing is effective integration

01:26:27.780 and interoperability with varying air and maritime and land components

01:26:32.180 that's critical to the SEAL operations.

01:26:34.660 Today's helicopter assault force is relying on a skilled pilot

01:26:37.120 and a crew of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 11

01:26:39.580 to insert them into a target area via fast rope from an MH-60 Sierra helicopter.

01:26:47.080 Fast roping is designed to enable SEALs a rapid insertion into areas of rough terrain

01:26:51.920 or obstacles that would prevent a suitable landing zone.

01:26:54.600 The height of the fast rope is dependent on the target area

01:26:58.520 but can be held up to 90 feet, the equivalent of a nine-story building

01:27:02.360 with close to 100 pounds of combat equipment aboard each Navy SEAL operator.

01:27:06.680 Underwater demolition, now Navy SEALs, UDT.

01:27:26.760 By the way, I want to tell you, as soon as the narrator comes back up,

01:27:37.780 we automatically override Admiral Masso and Captain Fennell's analysis of all this.

01:27:43.780 I think you're seeing the combined arms.

01:27:45.320 You're going to see some submarines.

01:27:47.100 You're seeing some...

01:27:47.580 We'll lay down covering fire, enabling operators to begin the assault.

01:27:56.760 There's some of the covering fire of the helicopters.

01:28:03.020 Captain Morgan knows about that.

01:28:07.440 Admiral Masso, you're getting kind of an overview

01:28:09.520 of the combined arms capabilities of the Navy right here, are we not?

01:28:13.940 We absolutely are.

01:28:16.620 This is extraordinary.

01:28:18.200 It's a great demonstration.

01:28:20.380 And, you know, you ask how we can enhance the, you know,

01:28:24.200 the desires of what we believe we need to develop.

01:28:28.360 Look no further than what we're seeing right now with the president,

01:28:31.780 the secretary of the Navy.

01:28:33.280 I believe this will be one of the very first exhibitions that he's ever seen.

01:28:37.540 And this is all very important public relations,

01:28:42.040 but it also shows some extraordinary training.

01:28:46.920 And when Eric Prince so rightly talked about having that ethos,

01:28:52.600 that ethos is about the right manning, the right equipment, and the right training.

01:28:57.560 And look no further than what we're watching right now.

01:29:03.100 I mean, some of these weapon systems, like, for instance, the submarines,

01:29:06.720 the fast attack, remember the boomers are the ones that hold the ballistic missiles

01:29:10.540 that can target Russia or China to drop a nuclear weapon on the fast attacks.

01:29:14.620 Today, the Naval Special Warfare maintains a forward posture operating across the globe

01:29:18.540 from South America and Europe to the Middle East and Asia

01:29:22.000 for actively addressing emerging threats and safeguarding national interests.

01:29:26.320 These operators are a global premier maritime special operations force

01:29:29.580 delivering decisive action where it matters most.

01:29:32.420 They are trained to operate in the harshest environments

01:29:34.540 from desert cities to remote coastlines.

01:29:37.120 They continue to innovate in a battle space

01:29:38.780 defined by evolving technology and global competition.

01:29:42.340 Across its history, Naval Special Warfare has remained true

01:29:45.080 to the ethos of the Navy SEAL teams.

01:29:47.540 They are quiet professionals, relentless in their pursuit of excellence,

01:29:50.680 and unwavering in their commitment to the mission.

01:29:52.880 Naval Special Warfare honors the great generations of warriors

01:29:55.280 and support personnel who have built its legacy

01:29:57.540 and reaffirms its commitment to serving with honor, courage, and excellence

01:30:01.400 well into the future.

01:30:04.540 I'm sure we're going to have some Naval Air Assets also.

01:30:14.420 Captain Morgan, I'm bringing in here before we get...

01:30:16.580 Was it Leyte Gulf or Midway was the first Naval battle, I think, in history

01:30:21.080 that the two sides never saw each other, right?

01:30:23.980 They were at such a distance that it was all done through Naval aircraft.

01:30:28.120 Now, this eventually will evolve away around to drones, et cetera.

01:30:33.640 But people should understand, in these battles, the way they're set up,

01:30:37.340 it's not like Nelson's Navy or in the Revolution where you pull alongside,

01:30:41.440 just unsheathe the guns, and just let's get it on.

01:30:44.480 These are done at vast distances, or not, sir?

01:30:47.700 Well, Steve, the first multiplier, a highly skilled warrior capable of operating

01:30:59.880 in remote environments or engaging the enemy in an urban setting.

01:31:03.380 They are experts in close quarters, combats, demolitions, communications,

01:31:07.280 marksmanship, and a myriad of other skills essential for success

01:31:10.120 in the most challenging environments.

01:31:11.520 They are the tip of the spear, the silent guidance, the embodiment of American resolve.

01:31:16.480 They are the U.S. Navy SEALs, and they stand ready to defend freedom,

01:31:20.640 protect our interests, and answer the call however it may come.

01:31:24.400 Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you enjoy this small display of the capabilities

01:31:27.020 of the Naval Special Warfare and our supporting elements

01:31:29.580 as we seek to carry on the legacy of the Frogmen that have gone before us.

01:31:33.120 Give it up for your United States Navy SEALs.

01:31:41.520 During the Second World War, USS San Jacinto launched Lieutenant Junior Grade

01:31:46.420 George H.W. Bush and his TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber

01:31:49.960 from a vast expanse of the Western Pacific.

01:31:52.780 This helped support 58 critical combat missions.

01:31:56.120 Since this pivotal area, the aircraft carrier has remained an indispensable pillar

01:31:59.500 of America's national security, providing vital roles in the conflicts

01:32:03.360 from Vietnam all the way to recent inherent resolve.

01:32:06.980 Today, our Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers represent the cutting edge

01:32:10.940 of naval aviation technology.

01:32:13.020 These mighty vessels launch aircraft using steam catapults, powerful enough

01:32:16.900 to accelerate a 65,000-pound aircraft from zero to nearly 200 miles per hour

01:32:22.540 in a mere seconds.

01:32:24.020 This represents an extraordinary feat of engineering and precision.

01:32:28.320 After completing their missions, our pilots execute one of the most challenging maneuvers

01:32:31.860 in aviation, landing aboard a moving ship.

01:32:35.300 Approaching at the precise eight degrees of three-and-a-half-degree glide slope

01:32:38.300 from approximately three-quarters of a mile, they aim to catch one of the three arresting

01:32:42.560 wires that are only 40 feet apart, offering a total landing area of 80 feet.

01:32:47.860 This narrow margin leaves virtually no room for error.

01:32:50.960 In this demanding skill, this is required both day and night, and it distinguishes our

01:32:55.220 naval aviators as the most highly trained and capable pilots in the world.

01:32:59.740 The flight deck is angled at nine degrees, a critical design feature that allows aircraft

01:33:03.760 to be launched and recovered simultaneously, maximizing operational tempo and efficiency.

01:33:10.320 Four steam catapults propel the fixed-wing aircraft into the skies, while three arresting

01:33:14.540 wires safely recover them upon return.

01:33:17.100 All aircraft operations are expertly coordinated by the airboss from the primary flight control.

01:33:23.420 Supporting these complex operations are four large elevators that move the aircraft seamlessly

01:33:27.420 between the flight deck and the hangars below.

01:33:29.420 These hangars are carefully divided into three bays of thick steel, engineered to contain

01:33:34.100 and restrict the spread of fire, ensuring the safety personnel and equipment.

01:33:41.840 The two aircraft located on the fantail at the aftmost portion of the ship are now about

01:33:46.880 to kick on their engines and prepare to launch and intercept whatever may be on the way.

01:33:51.260 We see them taxiing forward to the waste catapults now, where 52,000 pounds of steel will use its

01:33:56.540 own 44,000 pounds of thrust and the impressive power of the carrier's catapult system to go

01:34:01.720 from zero to up 150 knots in roughly three seconds.

01:34:06.220 The USSA George H.W. Bush has four catapults, two on the bow, two on the waist.

01:34:11.260 It is capable of launching one aircraft every 30 seconds.

01:34:14.620 As you will see, the aircraft will taxi up to the catapult, lower the launch bar into a small shuttle.

01:34:20.940 Behind the nose gear will be attached a holdback fitting from the landing gear to the ship.

01:34:25.380 The holdback bar will hold the aircraft as the pilot runs his throttles to full power.

01:34:30.060 When the pilot is ready to launch, they will give a crisp loot and the catapult officer will

01:34:33.440 then press the button, will release the launch bar, and away he goes.

01:34:36.640 The airfield has temps at the finish for half to 50 hours.

01:34:44.880 The airfield would beですね, the fishàl Lizzy would go up and down one at the top of

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01:40:36.400 of the carrier? Well they actually do a combination they'll have a helo off you

01:40:43.280 know what they call the starboard delta and they stand off in the kind of in the

01:40:48.100 wake. In the absence of that helo they'll put a destroyer in what they

01:40:53.280 call two SNX position which is anywhere from 12 to 1500 yards a stern of the

01:41:00.760 of the carrier and if someone were to be blown overboard or there be an

01:41:07.760 aircraft accident of some sort the destroyer would render that first

01:41:12.940 response to either pick up an individual who's fallen overboard or to go

01:41:18.500 alongside to grab a pilot that may be part of a plane that went into the water.

01:41:24.760 So it's a it's a pretty essential you know very very demanding you know you've

01:41:31.000 got to be at the top of your game you've got to be paying attention all hands on

01:41:35.500 deck watching and making sure because you just don't have that much time to

01:41:39.820 respond to any sort of emergency. There's a commander-in-chief right there getting

01:41:47.620 fully briefed. Now overhead is the E2D Hawkeye. The Hawkeye is the Navy's all

01:41:53.400 weather carrier base tactical battle management airborne early warning

01:41:56.860 command and control aircraft. The E2D is a twin engine five crew member high wing

01:42:01.820 turboprop aircraft with a 24 foot diameter radome attached to the upper

01:42:05.900 fuselage. The Hawkeye is our eye in the sky. The pilots will manage this aircraft

01:42:11.040 to touchdown in the landing area or LA. A small piece of steel roughly a hundred feet

01:42:16.200 wide and with a wingspan of nearly 80 feet there is not much room for error.

01:42:20.280 Here the E2D pilot would demonstrate the power of the E2D's engines and look to

01:42:24.900 take back off again in only a few hundred feet.

01:42:33.580 Paul Morgan that's what people have to realize when these planes come in they

01:42:37.860 hit they go to full power right in case the arresting gear they missed the

01:42:41.200 arresting gear or something breaks they got to be ready to launch

01:42:44.000 instantaneously sir well absolutely and that's what you're looking at right here

01:42:49.560 is one of the hardest aircraft to bring aboard I know a lot of E2 guys and it's

01:42:55.040 pretty sporty well there was turbine buildup Steve that was the thing that

01:43:05.880 until they put the new blades and they can do fade X on it it was it was a little

01:43:11.680 lifetime and it buckered talk talk talk to us about that as we watch this come in

01:43:18.000 what do you mean by that tell the audience well these are turbo fans or jet engines

01:43:22.800 with with you know crops on the end and so these are new engines and new blade arrangements

01:43:29.360 but they used to be four bladed so you didn't take as much air as this did you can see that

01:43:34.440 it's a magnificent airplane by the way but they're going to go to full power and there

01:43:39.640 was always that little wind-up time that they hated right there

01:43:43.960 that's a touch and go right there

01:43:49.520 yeah so they'll they'll spool up as they come on the land and there was always that second or two

01:43:55.720 that the pilots would tell me it was just like come on baby let's come on keep going let's go

01:44:01.120 next inbound is the F-35C carrier variant the U.S. Navy's first fifth generation stealth fighter

01:44:08.520 this cutting-edge aircraft marks the historic leap in naval aviation bringing radar evading stealth

01:44:13.240 technology to the carrier deck for the first time in naval history the F-35C sets new standards

01:44:18.120 and weapon system integration lethality maintainability combat radius and payload delivering a true

01:44:24.340 multi-mission power projection from the sea it pairs fifth generation survivability with major advances

01:44:30.080 and network-enabled mission systems reliability and interoperability designed as a first day of the

01:44:35.580 warfighter the F-35C is built to dominate both air and surface threats while surviving the most

01:44:40.500 challenging threat environments of today

01:44:42.860 admiral man so you first and then pause you to come in here the commander-in-chief i think is down there

01:44:56.740 on on the actual deck itself i've never seen i thought it would be observed from up above that's

01:45:01.240 that's like the most dangerous place on earth right now is it not uh abramasso well he's he's not

01:45:08.560 standing next to an aircraft that's getting ready to launch if he's on the deck he's probably in the

01:45:13.860 landing signal officers uh staging area yes yeah and and if he's there he's you know this is where the lso is

01:45:23.400 that uh and they they have a glide slope indicator and they and the landing signal officer will ask the pilot to

01:45:31.620 call the ball and and he's looking for an alignment of lights and uh and that's a great place to view it it's very

01:45:40.680 exciting uh especially for non uh aviators such as the president or or such as me uh you know i love

01:45:48.880 being back there yeah you know it's uh but but but if that cable but if that cable if if that cable

01:45:54.900 snaps and they do snap that cable snaps it goes off like a uh i mean captain morgan i admire the president

01:46:01.300 for being down there and like you said like sonny said it's unique you get a unique opportunity but

01:46:06.180 everything on this deck right now is still one of the most dangerous places on earth am i incorrect in

01:46:11.400 that

01:46:11.660 the next approach is the f-18 supermerning a fourth generation aircraft in the workhorse of the u.s

01:46:27.320 navy with a wingspan of 45 feet and touching down with over 100 knots the resting wires across the deck

01:46:32.860 will bring it to a speed of down to zero allowing to stop within a few hundred feet

01:46:37.440 this clears the way for any following aircraft with an ideal interval of 55 seconds

01:46:42.200 it's captain for captain for now with the captain for now remember those pilots have to go to full throttle

01:47:05.120 that's the bravery and courage of uh naval aviators

01:47:09.460 yes i but it is it's very exciting and it's very dangerous uh i've done it several times uh i think the

01:47:18.680 president is actually standing forward of the island recognize the hard man equipment that are working

01:47:23.280 on the flight deck operations to make the flight ops possible on an aircraft carrier

01:47:27.160 if you look around you will notice a wide array of different color jerseys and float coats running

01:47:31.260 around the deck of the carrier these are the people that make things happen out here on a day

01:47:35.020 to day basis they are the reason the george hw bush strike group team can achieve our full combat

01:47:40.020 capability anytime anyplace these are just a few of the people that make the aircraft carrier flight

01:47:45.400 operations possible the true strength of the carrier strike group comes from the dedicated men

01:47:49.720 and women who work tirelessly to maintain these impressive machines every day 1.00

01:47:53.500 our next demonstration will be an f-18 organic refueling capabilities here you will now see an aircraft

01:48:02.340 coming into the pattern who is operating on a low fuel state and will be forced to discontinue his approach

01:48:07.340 approach

01:48:14.340 ok

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01:48:35.340 I want to thank the navy for providing us this feed I think we're the only I think we're the only channel that has it really want to thank people for doing this

01:49:03.340 we've got postal out there extraordinary naval exercise right now

01:49:16.340 the pilot is now executing a wave off from the carrier indicating a foul deck

01:49:20.340 a foul deck means that there is an obstruction in the landing area and for the safety of those on the deck and the aircraft coming into land the approach has been aborted

01:49:27.340 the airborne refueling aircraft has been sent to hawk our low fuel aircraft in the pattern during their attempt to land since they were unable to come aboard they are on low fuel and it is up to the tanker aircraft to expeditiously join and refuel the aircraft to give it another chance to land

01:49:42.340 if you follow the path of the low fuel aircraft on the port side of the ship you will see the tanker setting up a position to set up for air to air refueling

01:49:55.340 now it is up to the pilot with the low fuel aircraft to steal his nerves and execute a precise and controlled connection

01:50:02.340 inserting the refueling poke into the drogue basket of the tanker aircraft and flying a perfect formation to hold in basket and to receive enough fuel for another chance to land

01:50:12.340 organic tanking has made it possible by the f-18 and has made navy's operations in hostile theaters without divert airfields possible for the last two air two decades

01:50:21.340 this ensuring safe aircraft recovery and extends the operational range of the f-18 for long range strikes

01:50:28.340 uh

01:50:35.340 uh

01:50:49.340 uh

01:50:52.340 uh

01:50:57.340 captain morgan paul morgan uh what what is the the the this ability to in inf uh right there another great

01:51:04.340 shot the um what is uh the power of the uh of that in-flight uh refueling capability you had to wave

01:51:12.340 oxygen low fuel tell the audience how why is that so important

01:51:18.340 well blue water ops means there's no gas stations right you're not you're not flying to san diego so this is a great

01:51:25.340 shot

01:51:26.340 next we will witness the two m35c lightning two air perform basic fighter maneuvers commonly referred to as

01:51:32.340 dog fighting this is a tactic that has roots tracing back to the daring pilots of war war one

01:51:37.340 each pilot will push their bodies and their aircraft to the extreme limits in order to achieve victory

01:51:42.340 approaching from the bow and the stern the fighters closing on each other at speeds exceeding 1 000

01:51:47.340 knots beginning of the fight on neutral terms to determine the winner the aircraft will fly past

01:51:52.340 each other in a high aspect pass with just 500 feet separating them

01:51:59.340 there's a commander-in-chief right there with the first lady 1.00

01:52:06.340 getting a briefing i think it's the strike force i think it's the strike force commander of the

01:52:18.340 admiral

01:52:31.340 maybe sunny is that this is that the chief of naval operations with him or is that the strike force uh

01:52:37.340 commander i don't i can't see clearly but i'm i'm almost certain that uh admiral coddle is there as well

01:52:46.340 as

01:52:53.340 a

01:52:55.340 one

01:52:56.340 after the verge each fighter will look to max perform their aircraft by pulling to the load limit of the

01:53:09.340 aircraft at seven and a half g's as they raid around and approach the next merge each fighter is

01:53:14.340 looking to cue and employ both the aim 120 and aim 9x missiles to take out their adversary and win the fight

01:53:20.340 both fighters in a similar aircraft will look to capitalize on errors made by the other pilot to gain the offensive position

01:53:28.340 the fighters are now approaching the second neutral merge one aircraft has decided to execute a nose high maneuver and gain a

01:53:34.340 positional advantage preparing to employ the aim 120 to kill their adversary they will open their weapons bay doors and the

01:53:41.340 fighter that has a positional advantage will max perform to get them behind their adversary and maintain the offensive position

01:53:46.340 after employing both the aim 120 and the aim 9x the offensive fighter will not maneuver to execute a gain attack on their

01:53:57.340 on their adversary in an attempt to gain a 1v1 engagement victory

01:54:27.340 so

01:54:29.340 paul morgan tell the audience what what what what would seven g's feel like

01:54:34.340 yeah

01:54:35.340 well as a helicopter pilot it would be bad

01:54:38.340 um i i i think the max i've ever done is like four or five in flight school but uh seven g's is

01:54:46.340 that'll make you make you tired

01:54:51.340 the edge of human endurance

01:54:54.340 oh absolutely

01:54:55.340 next we will see the e2d up close and personal in flight

01:54:58.340 the e2d is the navy's premier carrier-borne airborne early warning asset

01:55:02.340 it provides impressive radar detection ranges and works alongside the rest of the carrier's troop

01:55:06.340 as the eye in the sky

01:55:08.340 maintained atop the fuselage you can see a large rotating dish

01:55:11.340 this is a powerful apy-9 radar that allows the e2d to maintain situational awareness to the battle space

01:55:17.340 it plays a critical role in ensuring the carrier strike group defenses

01:55:36.340 during large-scale engagements it is up to the e2d that is providing crucial intelligence and direction to the aircraft engaged in the prosecution of threats and aircraft and surface vessels

01:55:49.340 but as beer it becomes be more monthly

01:55:52.340 as well i know i would make sure that it has already taken some ROAD to beside each other

01:55:53.340 to the project

01:56:02.340 aligned

01:56:06.340 plus

01:56:08.340 you

01:56:10.340 Thank you.

01:56:40.340 Thank you.

01:56:48.340 The touch and go right there.

01:56:51.260 The President is down on the flight deck.

01:56:54.580 It's pretty amazing.

01:56:58.220 Very amazing, actually.

01:57:10.340 I see the arresting, the hook, the tail hook right there.

01:57:20.260 So, Paul, walk us through that.

01:57:28.700 That tail hook is there to catch the arresting gear.

01:57:31.680 How difficult is that?

01:57:32.820 Well, it's, you know, I, again, I was a, not a jet guy, but the aids to landing are so much better.

01:57:43.580 And this is such a magnificent airplane, but a lot of it's done glide slope wise.

01:57:48.900 And the Admiral said that earlier, let's call the ball and they'll look at you down.

01:57:52.660 But one quick aside, you remember Jeff Strabel, all right?

01:57:58.340 Sure.

01:57:59.820 His daughter is the E2 NFO in the last Top Gun.

01:58:07.960 Was the E2 NFO where?

01:58:10.460 In the last Top Gun movie when Tom Cruise is talking to the E2.

01:58:14.660 Oh, wow.

01:58:15.520 I know, I thought I'd share that with you.

01:58:17.860 Strabel's daughter?

01:58:21.360 That's amazing.

01:58:23.040 I know.

01:58:23.860 It's awesome.

01:58:25.760 See the, see the tail hook right there?

01:58:28.600 Yep.

01:58:30.260 So, folks, if that tail hook doesn't get the arresting gear, that's the touch and go.

01:58:35.740 You're at full throttle, so you just touch and go right back up.

01:58:39.700 That's what they practice all the time before they teach them how to actually land it.

01:58:45.520 And, Sonny, we've been a couple, three of those exercises off of San Diego where they're taking the pilots from Miramar.

01:58:52.900 Teach them how to land on carriers, right?

01:58:55.740 A couple, three can do the touch and go, but they can't do that.

01:58:58.220 The F-18.

01:58:58.860 They can't do that final one.

01:58:59.260 Each aircraft is equipped with the M61A1 Vulcan Gatling gun housed in the nose.

01:59:04.600 The weapon fires 20-millimeter rounds at a staggering of 6,000 rounds per minute

01:59:08.340 to precisely destroy small targets while minimizing collateral damage.

01:59:12.120 The 20-millimeter cannon is equipped with a semi-armor-piercing, high-explosive incendiary rounds,

01:59:17.080 which are fired at supersonic speeds to inflict heavy damage to their targets.

01:59:20.780 Each aircraft will execute a well-honed strafe pattern, diving at nearly 30 degrees straight at the target

01:59:38.100 and unleashing the Vulcan's firepower in a demonstration of the F-18's ability to prosecute targets

01:59:43.120 even when all bombs are expended.

01:59:44.920 Sonny, where we had the close-in weapons system to put up that wall of steel

01:59:55.440 to stop a missile from hitting a surface vessel at the last second,

01:59:59.000 this is kind of what we have in the air in one of these fighter aircraft.

02:00:05.460 This Vulcan gun is kind of similar.

02:00:07.380 You're just putting down a wall of lead to rip apart, shatter anything in front of you, correct?

02:00:12.980 We will see them dispensing flares and executing a gun's jink

02:00:16.700 in order to defend against enemy air defense artillery and surface-to-air missiles

02:00:21.060 and look to return to base safely.

02:00:23.040 Here we go.

02:00:30.280 There we go.

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02:02:58.120 Using the digital rocket launcher, this platform can fire precise rockets at about five and five thousand meters.

02:03:06.120 Here we see the Sierra make three total approaches off a notional target off our port side, first employing their unguided rocket payload before circling around the ship at the end of the run.

02:03:15.120 And now returning over the right shoulder, we'll see a combination of 20 millimeter machine guns, unguided rockets, and lastly, they will depart to the north prior to returning to suppress the area with

02:03:24.100 crew surveying weaponry with .50 caliber machine guns to ensure target destruction.

02:03:54.100 Paul, the utility of those helicopters is pretty extraordinary.

02:04:00.100 You've got anti-submarine helicopters.

02:04:02.100 You have a whole different...

02:04:04.100 Walk us through quickly what the different types of helicopters are and how they add both of the...

02:04:09.100 You've got the service combatants out there and the carrier.

02:04:12.100 You know, it's interesting, Steve.

02:04:14.100 I manage both of those programs, the Romeo and the Sierra, as the IPT lead.

02:04:19.100 We have only two helicopters now with the 53s.

02:04:24.100 We ran a program called the Common Cockpit.

02:04:27.100 The cockpits are virtually the same.

02:04:29.100 That's the key.

02:04:30.100 So training and how we get people through the pipeline is completely different than what used to be, where we all had stowpipe helicopters and training.

02:04:41.100 The Sierra is more of the tactical assertion and extraction.

02:04:46.100 The Romeo now is the ASW bird, anti-submarine bird, but they both have guns and missiles now.

02:04:53.100 And they're also NVG compatible, which they weren't for decades, unfortunately.

02:05:00.100 Magnificent airplanes, by the way.

02:05:02.100 Admiral Masso, the...

02:05:03.100 Admiral Masso, the helicopters add a whole different dimension when they're put on service combatants, do they not?

02:05:17.100 Absolutely.

02:05:18.100 And, in fact, if you think about different missions, specifically anti-submarine warfare, the...

02:05:27.100 If we're...

02:05:28.100 If we are in contact with a submarine, you really want to fight that submarine with a helicopter.

02:05:35.100 The F-18 demo flight.

02:05:36.100 What you are about to witness is highlights the mobility, versatility, and power of the most lethal carrier-based strike fighter aircraft in the world, the F-18 Super Hornet, nicknamed the Rhino.

02:05:48.100 Toad one.

02:05:49.100 That meets the

02:06:14.500 The F-18 pilots are now setting up for the minimum radius turn to the tail stand.

02:06:31.220 With a max A-B selected, the air crew will select 90 degrees angle of bank and hold for 7.5 G's for a 360 degrees of turn.

02:06:38.360 At the end of the minimum radius turn, aircraft will max perform to the vertical,

02:06:41.520 followed by a negative G pushover to return to level flights.

02:06:44.500 The F-18 pilots are now setting up for the minimum radius turn.

02:07:14.500 The F-18 pilots are now setting up for the square loop.

02:07:31.760 As the Super Hornets approach through the show center at 350 miles an hour,

02:07:35.860 the pilot will rapidly reposition the nose four times,

02:07:39.360 flying a distinct square path through the sky.

02:07:50.700 Ladies and gentlemen, from the left, the square loop.

02:07:52.960 Admiral Massa, if you're on the deck of that carrier like the president is right now,

02:08:19.240 when it goes by and stripes, you can barely, it's pretty all-encompassing.

02:08:24.340 As the pilots push outbound.

02:08:25.760 They are now setting up for the inverted whisper pass.

02:08:27.980 A UAV

02:08:31.500 A UAV

02:08:35.460 A UAV

02:08:36.900 A UAV

02:08:38.080 A UAV

02:08:38.840 A UAV

02:08:41.380 A UAV

02:08:42.320 Ladies and gentlemen, we're getting a direct feed from the carrier.

02:09:03.440 I don't think anybody else, I don't think any of the network's getting this, so it's

02:09:06.180 really, and the Navy's doing this switching of the cameras, so they're in control.

02:09:11.000 Just some magnificent shots.

02:09:13.120 If you had full volume of the sound, you would barely be able to hear yourself think.

02:09:19.780 It's that loud, that all-encompassing.

02:09:21.840 There's the carrier right there.

02:09:22.960 Ladies and gentlemen, make your cameras ready.

02:09:24.300 The F-18 is now setting up for their final maneuver, their PhotoPass.

02:09:28.220 The Aircraft Pass show center at a 90-degree angle of bank and 200 feet and in maximum

02:09:32.320 afterburner.

02:09:41.000 Paul Morgan, how many years does it take to be able to fly like this, these fighter pilots?

02:10:10.800 Well, flight school is about a year, and then depending on the aircraft, it's going to

02:10:18.600 be at least another year.

02:10:19.820 And then you go to your first squadron from what's called a replacement air group.

02:10:24.320 It takes about two and a half, three years in the pipeline to go on your first cruise.

02:10:28.780 It's kind of amazing.

02:10:29.740 Admiral Massa, we would be off in the San Diego Op area many weekends, right, when they were

02:10:43.080 training those pilots to come out and do carrier landings?

02:10:47.140 Ladies and gentlemen, next up is the F-35C, the Navy's newest variant, Joint Strike Fighter.

02:10:51.760 It is the only 5th generation aircraft in the Navy's inventory and combines stealth with

02:10:57.120 sensor fusion.

02:11:00.000 The C model differs from other F-35 variants with its larger wings, increased fuel capacity,

02:11:04.960 added ailerons, and enhanced landing gear, giving it the unique ability to launch and

02:11:08.840 recover from the aircraft carrier at sea.

02:11:11.060 Serving as the pilot today for the demo will be Lieutenant Underdown, call sign, BAM, from

02:11:19.560 Virginia Beach, Virginia.

02:11:41.060 Ladies and gentlemen, you are watching now the F-35C, reposition for the minimum radius

02:12:08.220 turn.

02:12:08.560 As you're watching this, you will see that he was pressed in his seat.

02:12:11.540 That's seven and a half times the force of gravity.

02:12:13.760 To put that in perspective, during this maneuver, BAM's body weight will feel close to 1,500 pounds. 0.62

02:12:18.400 During an aerial dogfight, the F-35C can execute extremely tight turns, giving the ability to

02:12:23.180 rapidly reposition its nose and gain an advantage over the adversary.

02:12:30.880 To now demonstrate the agility of the F-35C, Lieutenant Underdown will approach for the tactical

02:12:35.240 pitch.

02:12:35.640 From a speed of 300 miles per hour, BAM will select full A-B, roll the aircraft 45 degrees,

02:12:40.560 and show the F-35's ability to rapidly reposition its nose at high speeds and high angles of attack.

02:12:46.680 He will then climb in the vertical, demonstrating the power of the Lightning II as he accelerates

02:12:50.840 away from the ground.

02:12:51.680 The F-35 will now set up for the high speed.

02:12:55.760 The F-35 will now set up for the high speed pass, pulling six G's back towards show line. 0.59

02:13:23.700 He will then approach show center at 300 feet and .95 Mach.

02:13:27.980 You may notice the white vapor coming off the aircraft, indicating it is approaching the

02:13:31.420 speed of sound at nearly 750 miles per hour.

02:13:34.920 The ability to ingress at low altitudes and high speeds enables pilots to avoid detection

02:13:39.340 and preserve the element of surprise.

02:13:41.340 The F-35 will now set up for the high speed pass, including the F-35C, and the F-35C.

02:13:46.340 The F-35 will now set up for the high speed pass, including the F-35C, and the F-35C, and the F-35C.

02:13:48.340 The F-35 has received overennis on the 36th.

02:13:51.780 The F-35 will now

02:14:08.320 captain morgan what is seven g's if it's if you weigh 1500 pounds how do you even function in

02:14:31.360 the cockpit well they have they have g suits on um and they the design of the seats is actually

02:14:38.860 really good you're leaning back a lot more than you used to so to pull four g's and like a t34 is

02:14:45.880 is hard but it's to pull seven leaning backwards with a g suit on it's going to be it's going to

02:14:53.340 feel like you had no g suit sitting in a 34 at about four g's that's about the way it feels

02:14:58.640 but you'll black out that's that's uh that's the way it goes

02:15:03.540 oh look at that

02:15:07.420 that's major emerald masso what do we have right there

02:15:12.860 i can't tell it looks like a

02:15:17.640 i can't tell

02:15:20.800 it looks like a cruiser

02:15:25.220 hopefully maybe we get a helicopter demonstration off the uh off the fantail

02:15:34.300 i would tell you one thing captain morgan is as dangerous it is for those fighter aircraft

02:15:39.500 coming in on uh as you guys used to do with no visibility no horizon in the dead of night is

02:15:45.540 pretty pretty dangerous uh when he got it like a when the frigates and destroyers those small

02:15:50.800 laying decks and bank uh are bouncing around correct it is but your brother had a lot harder

02:15:57.520 time than i did steve's brother was an h2 pilot i was an h60 guy

02:16:01.080 60s are so robust they're they're just so much more stable than the the old h2 but 0.95

02:16:06.540 it's challenging but it's uh it's it's got its place in aviation but the carrier stuff is really quite

02:16:13.280 something for the culminating power demonstration all participating aircraft will return overhead the

02:16:19.600 aircraft carrier for one final flyover this formation represents the full complement of

02:16:24.560 the carrier air wing embodying the strength precision and professionalism of united states

02:16:29.360 naval aviation 14 war ready aircraft will thunder across the sky in a disciplined wedge formation

02:16:35.360 while the mh-60 displays the colors of our nation a solemn reminder of the freedoms we protect

02:16:40.680 each aircraft is a vital instrument of our navy's war fighting capabilities combining power precision

02:16:46.500 and unwavering resolve together they stand as a shield for america's interest a testament to

02:16:52.460 our credible deterrence and if called upon an overwhelming force

02:17:10.680 the force for america's interest a testament to the subscriptial status a testament for osu

02:17:22.260 thestic王 of united states and bless container r Critical空

02:17:23.720 also provides the resources of the internal 백신 and standard for the standard for with scar tissue

02:17:28.100 and their own airplanes being exposed away from a credentialing force

02:17:30.160 or more of the Woods Dav mames to alsoprivate 10th america's interest

02:17:35.240 Paul is that where we're putting down actually putting down a diver or putting down someone to actually rescue a

02:17:39.660 A pilot, because Sonny had mentioned that the real way when you have a man overboard during when these exercises are in the fleet,

02:17:51.360 and you get guys blown overboard all the time by the jets, the plane guard ships right in back.

02:17:57.240 But the best way actually to get them is by the helicopter, can get them quicker before.

02:18:01.860 Because I can tell you, and Sonny, I think we'll vouch for this.

02:18:04.720 It's very hard to see. When you're blown overboard, that ocean is pretty vast, even if you're on top of it, very hard to see.

02:18:12.120 Still, the helicopter is the best way to rescue somebody, correct?

02:18:16.120 It is. And the interesting part is they'll send an air crewman down on the hook to make sure if who we're rescuing is hurt or disabled,

02:18:26.720 that the air crewman will take care of the person and they'll both winch up together.

02:18:30.260 There's the commander-in-chief.

02:18:35.540 Did that whole exercise from the actual flight deck itself. Wow.

02:18:41.420 Talk about in harm's way.

02:18:45.040 Admiral Masso talked about the lamps.

02:18:48.320 You've, they're coming right there, the wedge, they're coming across now, the entire representative of the air wing itself.

02:18:56.360 Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for United States Naval Aviation. 0.99

02:19:01.140 Pretty impressive.

02:19:03.200 Always.

02:19:03.640 Ladies and gentlemen, as we conclude today's Sea Power Demonstration, we stand united in awe and gratitude for United States Navy,

02:19:17.300 a force forged in the crucible of history and the stalwart defender of American freedom for over two centuries.

02:19:23.180 From the daring frigates of the Revolutionary War, which challenged the might of the British Empire,

02:19:28.120 to the steel battleships that secured victory in two world wars,

02:19:31.920 from the vigilant silent service of submarines during the Cold War,

02:19:35.340 to the swift carrier presence that projects power in today's global arena,

02:19:39.060 the Navy has stood as the unwavering shield of our nation.

02:19:42.000 These waters have been the proving grounds of heroes like John Paul Jones,

02:19:45.980 whose legendary resolve declared, I have not been begun to fight.

02:19:49.680 They echo with great value of the great white fleet that carried America's message of strength and diplomacy throughout the globe.

02:19:55.340 They remember the sacrifice at Bidwai and Leyte Gulf, where fate and freedom was decided in the open seas and the skies above.

02:20:03.160 Today, as we witness the might and precision of this modern fleet,

02:20:06.220 we honor the generations of sailors who have answered the call to defend liberty and uphold justice.

02:20:11.720 Their courage, skills, and dedication have preserved the peace and prosperity we cherish.

02:20:16.420 To the men and women of the United States Navy, you are the inheritors of this proud legacy,

02:20:21.440 the embodiment of America's promise to stand vigilant and strong against our nation's enemies.

02:20:26.460 We salute your unwavering commitment, your honor, and your sacrifice.

02:20:30.360 May your sails always catch the winds of victory.

02:20:32.700 May your watch be ever steadfast.

02:20:34.640 And may God bless the United States Navy and the United States of America.

02:20:46.420 May your sails always catch the winds of victory.

02:20:54.920 Obviously, very impressive.

02:20:57.160 The Commander-in-Chief, I think, will spend a few minutes with the crew and then maybe with the officers.

02:21:03.640 He'll be heading back to Narfolk.

02:21:06.220 We got Steve Gruber there.

02:21:07.580 There's going to be an actual series of talks.

02:21:11.400 and the president will address that vast crowd

02:21:14.580 that's on the deck of the USS Truman.

02:21:34.980 Okay.

02:21:38.700 Maybe we go back and get a shot of the Truman.

02:21:40.460 I think it's going to shift there,

02:21:41.600 and there are going to be some speakers prior to the Titans of the Sea.

02:21:46.500 Admiral Masso, the LAMPS helicopter is coming in on a small frigate

02:21:51.120 or destroyer in the middle of the night with no horizon.

02:21:54.660 Pretty dangerous operation for naval aviators

02:21:57.560 and the personnel on the tiny little flight decks back there

02:22:00.740 on the frigates and destroyers.

02:22:03.980 You know, I always found the level of professionalism

02:22:08.040 of the air debts that we deployed with to be extraordinary.

02:22:13.040 And we had what we called R2-D2,

02:22:15.900 which was the computer and a robot in Star Wars,

02:22:20.440 and that was our glide slope indicator.

02:22:22.600 And as they would make their final approaches,

02:22:27.140 we would turn on the flight deck lights and the SGLI,

02:22:31.860 the glide slope indicator.

02:22:34.700 And they just were so professional.

02:22:37.380 And as you recall, we were able to land 46s.

02:22:41.600 We landed H-3s and H-SH-2, sea sprite helicopters. 0.91

02:22:49.460 And the pilots were extraordinary.

02:22:53.520 They just did an amazing job.

02:22:55.160 Incredible.

02:22:57.160 Incredible.

02:22:57.920 I'm so proud my kid brother's a LAMPS pilot.

02:23:00.660 Right there you see the color guard.

02:23:01.980 Let's go ahead and cut back to the main deck.

02:23:06.200 Don't need to see me.

02:23:06.940 And here we go right now.

02:23:09.080 On this story, 250th birthday,

02:23:12.020 as one force and of one voice,

02:23:15.420 we remember and we celebrate both our storied past

02:23:19.440 and our proud heritage.

02:23:22.000 With the origins of the Navy predating our independence,

02:23:25.840 our Continental Congress knew

02:23:27.420 that a fleet of sufficient force was necessary

02:23:30.600 for protection of our colonies

02:23:32.660 and even for freedom itself.

02:23:34.980 With your hands and through your vessels,

02:23:39.440 our Navy was born as a force for good.

02:23:43.260 Today, we celebrate one another,

02:23:46.740 sailors and Marines who are the lifeblood of our force

02:23:49.940 and the heart of our birthday celebration.

02:23:53.800 And we are deeply grateful for all our shipmates,

02:23:57.440 past and present,

02:23:58.940 who have thrown themselves upon the sea

02:24:01.120 again and again in the service of our great country

02:24:05.080 and the finest, most powerful Navy and Marine Corps

02:24:08.600 the world has ever seen.

02:24:11.160 May you fill this space now

02:24:12.680 with your divine presence and power

02:24:15.180 as we commemorate this momentous occasion together.

02:24:18.460 May you gird us with toughness and discipline

02:24:22.240 as warfighters,

02:24:24.360 even as we work diligently to deter

02:24:27.240 and passionately to preserve peace through strength.

02:24:31.800 May you make us ready and resilient

02:24:34.320 when the call of duty comes

02:24:36.240 as protectors of our nation

02:24:38.360 and guarantors of freedom on the seas.

02:24:42.260 And may you forevermore

02:24:43.900 watch over and bless those who serve

02:24:46.560 upon the sea, above the sea, and under the sea

02:24:51.060 as we sail towards a bold future together.

02:24:54.880 Amen.

02:24:59.500 Ladies and gentlemen,

02:25:00.880 please welcome Rabbi Yonatan Warren.

02:25:03.340 We come together now to acknowledge

02:25:10.520 and memorialize those who came before us.

02:25:14.000 Eternal God, for generations they came

02:25:16.140 young, hopeful, enthusiastic to serve,

02:25:19.900 to answer a call from their nation,

02:25:21.780 from their communities, from you.

02:25:24.680 We pray for them,

02:25:26.020 for those who answered the call to serve

02:25:28.100 in the United States Navy

02:25:29.640 and in the United States Marine Corps.

02:25:32.000 For 250 years,

02:25:35.040 they came in times of war

02:25:36.660 and in times of peace.

02:25:38.440 They came because freedom,

02:25:39.780 democracy, union, revolution,

02:25:42.260 ask it, require it, demand it,

02:25:44.440 and they answered that call.

02:25:46.820 They gave of themselves,

02:25:47.960 of their intellect,

02:25:49.040 of their vigor, of their spirit,

02:25:50.460 and because of that,

02:25:51.800 today, we stand on their shoulders

02:25:54.320 and we are eternally grateful

02:25:56.500 for their service.

02:25:59.860 God, Master of Healing,

02:26:01.180 we ask you tend to the emotional

02:26:03.420 and physical well-being

02:26:04.940 of our nation's sea service veterans.

02:26:07.940 May they never feel forgotten

02:26:09.340 by those whose liberty

02:26:10.580 they have so steadfastly defended.

02:26:14.420 Lord, aid the caregivers

02:26:15.640 who tend to their wounds.

02:26:18.440 El Mali Rahmim, God, 0.58

02:26:19.520 full of compassion,

02:26:20.900 hold close those

02:26:21.840 who made the ultimate sacrifice,

02:26:23.760 who died in the selfless devotion

02:26:25.680 to the greater whole.

02:26:26.600 May they be bound up

02:26:28.460 in the bound of eternal life

02:26:30.240 and may they rest in peace.

02:26:32.580 Lord, remember their parents,

02:26:34.240 partners, children,

02:26:35.440 and all the loved ones

02:26:37.020 they left behind.

02:26:38.620 Protect and comfort them.

02:26:40.460 Bring them peace.

02:26:41.800 Bring them grace.

02:26:43.360 In this semi-quincentennial

02:26:45.100 of our Navy and Marine Corps,

02:26:47.140 may all assembled here,

02:26:48.720 may all our fellow service members,

02:26:50.280 and may our nation

02:26:51.560 come to know and savor

02:26:52.620 for the blessings

02:26:53.140 of true peace and security.

02:26:55.260 May God bless us

02:26:56.100 and our nation

02:26:56.660 and let us say amen.

02:27:02.600 Ladies and gentlemen,

02:27:04.060 please welcome

02:27:04.940 Father Daniel Swartz.

02:27:12.080 Eternal Father,

02:27:13.380 strong to save,

02:27:14.960 throughout sacred scripture,

02:27:16.580 you have raised men and women

02:27:18.220 and entire peoples

02:27:19.700 to enact your will,

02:27:20.800 never just for themselves,

02:27:23.360 but also for those

02:27:24.500 entrusted to their care.

02:27:26.920 Behind and next to each

02:27:28.540 sailor and Marine

02:27:29.560 are fathers and mothers

02:27:31.400 and brothers and sisters

02:27:32.720 and sons and daughters,

02:27:35.180 families from whom we go out

02:27:36.720 and to whom we return

02:27:38.460 each time we take to the sea

02:27:40.480 and set foot on foreign shores.

02:27:43.920 The gift of life

02:27:45.400 is a precious and sacred act,

02:27:48.100 the holy bond of a family.

02:27:49.540 We ask your blessing

02:27:51.400 upon the families of America

02:27:52.940 who have offered

02:27:54.200 their sons and daughters

02:27:55.360 in the noble service

02:27:57.040 of persevering

02:27:58.540 in the causes of truth,

02:28:00.700 justice,

02:28:01.640 and humanity.

02:28:03.240 May they be protected

02:28:04.580 in our absence

02:28:05.520 and fortified

02:28:06.840 in their waiting vigil.

02:28:09.440 And while steel ships 0.98

02:28:10.760 and ranks of proud uniforms

02:28:12.980 capture the imagination,

02:28:15.480 birthdays,

02:28:16.220 by their nature,

02:28:17.460 are family affairs.

02:28:18.520 Today is no exception.

02:28:21.980 In our celebration

02:28:22.880 of 250 years

02:28:24.740 of Naval and Marine service,

02:28:27.420 may we persevere

02:28:28.560 in our thankfulness

02:28:29.660 for the families

02:28:30.720 whose sacrifices

02:28:31.800 run parallel to our own.

02:28:35.320 Lord our God,

02:28:36.760 we ask this final grace

02:28:38.280 to remain steadfast

02:28:40.260 in mission,

02:28:41.640 resolute in our character,

02:28:43.220 and devoted

02:28:44.480 to the three-fold legacy

02:28:46.020 you have bestowed upon us

02:28:47.840 which we celebrate today.

02:28:50.300 Our families,

02:28:51.680 our fleet,

02:28:52.700 and our great nation.

02:28:54.880 May the good work

02:28:55.760 you have begun in us all

02:28:57.000 be brought to fulfillment.

02:28:58.420 Amen.

02:28:59.480 Amen.

02:29:04.960 Ladies and gentlemen,

02:29:06.760 please remain standing

02:29:08.000 as musician second class

02:29:09.960 Morgan Ramirez

02:29:11.180 leads us

02:29:12.100 in the national anthem.

02:29:13.500 Oh, say can you see

02:29:21.360 by the dawn's early light

02:29:25.740 what so proudly we hailed

02:29:29.820 at the twilight's last gleaming,

02:29:34.640 whose broad stripes

02:29:35.980 and bright stars

02:29:38.440 through the perilous fight,

02:29:42.600 o'er the ramparts

02:29:45.020 we watched

02:29:46.960 were so gallantly streaming,

02:29:52.080 and the rocket's red glare,

02:29:56.180 the bombs bursting in air,

02:30:00.520 gave proof through the night

02:30:04.340 that our flag was still there.

02:30:08.680 Oh, say does that star-spangled banner

02:30:15.520 yet wave

02:30:19.380 o'er the land of the free

02:30:23.600 and the home of the brave.

02:30:31.160 O'er the land of the brave

02:30:32.120 O'er the land of the brave

02:30:34.600 and the brave

02:30:34.900 and the brave

02:30:36.520 O'er the brave

02:30:36.560 and the brave

02:30:37.120 O'er the brave

02:30:38.040 and the brave

02:30:51.780 and the brave

02:30:52.640 and the brave

02:30:53.420 and the brave

02:30:54.540 and the brave

02:30:54.980 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the Chief of Protocol of the United

02:31:15.700 States Ambassador Monica Crowley Hello Naval Station Norfolk

02:31:45.700 This is my first time here guys and this is absolutely awesome It's such a joy and an

02:31:55.020 honor to be here at the world's largest naval base and home to the US Navy's Fleet Forces

02:32:02.100 Command especially today when we all gather to salute the remarkable first 250 years of

02:32:12.420 our incredible United States Navy I am deeply honored to join President Trump,

02:32:27.000 First Lady Melania Trump, Secretary Hedgeseth, Secretary Collins, Secretary Phelan and of

02:32:34.500 course all of you to celebrate 250 years of naval power and American might the United

02:32:44.320 States Navy has a glorious and storied past of historic victories at sea from the small

02:32:52.920 but determined continental Navy sealing American independence in the Battle of the Chesapeake to

02:33:01.000 the victory of the Barbary pirates in the Barbary Wars to the first battle of ironclad warships

02:33:09.140 at Hampton Roads to the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War to the Battle

02:33:16.740 of Midway which turned the tide in the Pacific theater in World War II to the biggest naval

02:33:24.000 battle in history the Battle of Leyte Gulf which shattered the enemy's naval capabilities for the

02:33:31.380 rest of the Second World War II the United States Navy has always protected and defended American

02:33:40.440 freedom and brought glory upon glory to our great nation today history set sail again and we all have a

02:33:53.000 front seat to freedom in motion as we honor America's awesome sea power this big birthday

02:34:02.000 party for the US Navy is part of a year-long celebration of our exceptional history and the

02:34:09.980 start of a new era of American greatness today we launched the next 250 years of supreme US naval power

02:34:22.400 power and of American liberty dynamism leadership and pride and what an absolute gift it is to have

02:34:32.960 President Trump in the White House during this epic moment in our nation's history

02:34:39.400 now some of us may recall America's bicentennial in 1976 when we were all very very very young one of my

02:34:57.340 earliest memories as a little girl is gathering with my family at the Jersey Shore to celebrate that

02:35:03.760 very special day I'll never forget the indelible sense of American patriotism that took root in

02:35:11.980 me that day I can't remember the specifics of July 4th 1976 but I do remember gazing in wonder at the

02:35:22.360 fireworks holding red white and blue sparklers waving a small American flag and singing the national anthem with

02:35:31.900 hundreds of others whether or not you remember every detail of that day you do remember how you felt proud to be an

02:35:44.140 American it is now our privilege to share this experience this core memory with the next generation of young

02:35:53.920 Americans from sea to shining sea on the eve of America's 250th birthday the national mood is one of celebration Americans are

02:36:06.740 optimistic about the future thanks to President Trump and secretary headset we are renewing our commitments to military

02:36:16.880 and peace through strength we are working together to realign and reunite our great nation around our shared patriotic

02:36:28.520 values and a renewed sense of civic pride as we sail toward July 4th 2026 there is no greater champion for this new

02:36:41.300 patriotism than president Donald J Trump I am so honored to be part of our national birthday party and to join with all of you in

02:36:53.540 welcoming our exceptional commander-in-chief here today with the kind of tremendous reception he so greatly deserves

02:37:02.780 to be part of our national interest we are now in a moment in our history when thanks to President Trump we are

02:37:10.120 turning the tide again just as the revolutionary generation that founded our great Navy did it is now our time to

02:37:21.240 take big risks to save our country and it is our duty to honor our past generations and their staggering sacrifices for

02:37:31.840 which we owe them a huge debt of gratitude we are the natural successors to the Revolutionary War

02:37:40.480 generation fiercely independent ruggedly individualist faithful to God and to country with a white hot love of liberty and the

02:37:53.200 unique enduring American spirit it's been said that great civilizations tend to

02:38:01.840 not last more than about 250 years we've made it to 249 with our big 250 next year but preparing for our next 250 years requires

02:38:18.400 forever vigilance something that the Navy has maintained with excellence fortitude

02:38:27.040 and commitment to duty for two and a half centuries

02:38:33.040 President Trump is reclaiming the American Republic for the American people he is launching us into the next 250 years of

02:38:44.860 American greatness as he did in his first term by delivering a strong economy and enforced border and record

02:38:53.500 low illegal immigration a rebuilt modernized military with record recruitment a government that actually serves its

02:39:07.500 people and world peace America first next year's momentous celebration will be thanks to his leadership in

02:39:20.140 activating a national and worldwide celebration of America's 250th birthday we are preparing to honor and

02:39:28.860 celebrate our nation's history in unforgettable ways from our military anniversaries as we're doing here today

02:39:37.580 to a majestic flotilla of tall ships from around the world to many other really big surprises

02:39:45.420 we know that this celebration will have a truly global impact showcasing American power and leadership while

02:39:54.940 promoting a future of peace and prosperity America's 250th is so much more than just a date on the calendar

02:40:04.700 this moment will inspire a new era of American greatness not only will this be the most

02:40:12.300 monumental and exciting celebration in American history but it will spark a shared vision for America's future and

02:40:21.420 Lord knows we need that thanks to the Trump administration next Independence Day will be a once or twice in a lifetime

02:40:31.420 moment of sparkling American grandeur and patriotism this is the new golden age and with God's help we will

02:40:42.220 make America even greater over the next 250 years and it's all made possible by the unmatched force of the United States Navy

02:40:54.140 and the innumerable sacrifices of every man and woman who was put on the naval uniform

02:41:02.860 we owe so much of America's independence on July 4th

02:41:06.860 1776 to the birth of the Navy on October 13th 1775 today our hearts are filled with gratitude and pride

02:41:19.580 and pride for you the men and women of the United States Navy and your indispensable role in securing the

02:41:28.700 first 250 and the next 250 years of American greatness happy birthday U.S. Navy because of you

02:41:40.140 we continue to be the beacon of hope a citadel of liberty and a light in the darkness thank you

02:41:50.940 God bless you God bless our commander-in-chief and may God continue to bless the United States of America

02:42:10.140 ambassador crowd now ambassador crowd is not only had a protocol for the president the vice president and

02:42:24.060 the secretary of state but also as a as a side deal is doing the um is running America to 50

02:42:33.580 captain finnell give me a give me your thoughts of what you've seen so far in the naval exercise we're

02:42:37.660 going to cut back to the stage as soon as we uh as soon as we uh have some more speakers your thoughts

02:42:43.740 so far what you've seen sir well the uh air power demonstration and the carrier strike group operations

02:42:51.260 writ large reminded me of you know my time in the fleet and i think one aspect that folks would be

02:42:57.020 interested to know about is that the strike planning that goes on on board the carrier and that we do

02:43:02.700 cyclical flight operations so they'll start flying say at noon and they'll fly and launch a two dozen

02:43:09.980 aircraft and they'll recover them in an hour and a half or two hours later and they'll do that cycle

02:43:16.220 again and they'll do up to 10 uh or 12 cycles a day uh normally during a deployment on an average flight

02:43:23.980 day so that's you know several over 100 planes more than 100 planes will be launched throughout the day

02:43:30.060 closer to 200 and that kind of sustained carrier operations is something that still no one can do

02:43:36.780 like we we can and i think that's really the power of the of the navy and our naval air wings and our

02:43:42.380 carrier strike groups and the associated platforms is that we can bring sustained operations over a long

02:43:48.700 duration in fact we've tested it uh you can go for about four days straight running 24 7 of cyclical

02:43:56.860 carrier flight operations and then all of a sudden uh the the equipment doesn't break down but the

02:44:02.780 people do they need they need a rest and that's why when we have multiple carriers one carrier will be

02:44:07.820 up on the line and another carrier may be back resting for a day or two and then they'll they'll

02:44:12.700 switch in and out and that gives us really even a much more power so that's the kind of power that we

02:44:18.700 have in our navy uh in those cyclical operations where they're planning their flight operations where

02:44:25.980 they're going to fly what targets are going to strike uh and then they uh they go out and they

02:44:31.260 do it and they come back and they report their results to the carrier intelligence team that

02:44:35.820 collates all this data does the battle damage bomb damage assessment and the you know contributes to

02:44:42.140 the war fight whether it's over land or at sea and so this is really something that's unique to any

02:44:48.700 other nation in the history of mankind our ability to do this with so many carriers uh over the course of the

02:44:55.420 the last 80 years uh and that's the area where we want to stay ahead and make sure that we have the

02:45:01.500 latest and greatest technology to keep us ahead of what the chinese are building because they're 1.00

02:45:05.980 trying to replicate uh what we have built uh they can't generate the kind of sorties today with the

02:45:12.380 first two carriers that they have they just can't do it they're not big enough and don't have the the

02:45:17.420 capacity uh their follow-on carriers they're going to try to do what we're doing and so this is the real challenge

02:45:26.380 we're standing by waiting for the commander in chief to return to um norfolk naval station

02:45:31.980 and come aboard the uh come aboard the truman where he will give remarks thousands of sailors

02:45:37.260 and uh and other family members there on the deck of the uh of the truman and in the stands off to the

02:45:43.660 side uh cleo pascal uh you have uh done a fantastic job of telling us about the importance of the pacific and

02:45:50.700 there were pacific power in the united states navy is needed for power projection everywhere but

02:45:56.060 particularly confronting the chinese communist party in the uh in the pacific and particularly

02:46:01.660 the western pacific give us your your thoughts about today so far oh it's been great and i think

02:46:08.300 that the message that's being sent uh not only to the american people but to the chinese uh planners that

02:46:14.780 this is an administration that is serious about the navy they're uh showing off the the capabilities

02:46:20.140 but they're also just showing off the pride which means that you may start to see some new investment

02:46:25.020 which would be sorely needed is is hopefully going to resonate um and as you see the the resonance

02:46:31.580 within the public across the united states especially after the uh speech to the flag officers by the

02:46:38.060 secretary of war and the president and the fact that recruitment numbers are up you're dealing with

02:46:43.100 a completely different military and a different political approach to the military than the u.s has

02:46:49.420 seen in a very long time so this is uh on many levels not not just in terms of capabilities but also

02:46:56.380 in terms of what we've talked about before political warfare narrative warfare this has been a very

02:47:00.700 very important day emerald masso uh your thoughts you're you're closer to this than than many of us

02:47:08.380 given the pete hexas thought the secretary of war the president's kind of telling the uh the

02:47:13.580 generals about where we're going to go in the future uh today uh do you think uh not just capitol hill

02:47:19.020 but do you think our enemies in beijing are taking notice of the pride of the american people in their

02:47:23.740 fleet and the capabilities of this fleet i think without question they are they're they they are

02:47:30.540 watching this and uh you know an overused term shock and awe uh that's what we kind of saw today we

02:47:37.260 saw a vast capability of special and unique uh skill sets uh we saw the diversity of tasks a lot of these

02:47:46.780 ships these aegis cruisers and guided missile destroyers can perform you know 12 to 18 separate

02:47:53.020 missions uh our helicopter is is a long arm extension of of of all of those capabilities

02:48:00.540 and of course uh you know who would we be without our fighter jets and and um in that so i think what

02:48:07.660 we saw today was so impressive and especially from the undersea side uh we can bring a lot of capability

02:48:15.740 to a fight and uh our sailors are so well trained and uh one of the things we learned you know from the

02:48:22.300 end of the cold war was that the uh the soviets uh it didn't really employ their enlisted people like

02:48:28.860 we employ our enlisted people and the backbone of our fleet are those individuals and i know you knew

02:48:36.460 that i i i see it every day and uh i spoke at a ship reunion last night and uh and all those sailors

02:48:46.140 there were so proud of what they accomplished in their careers and uh and and it's it's the best

02:48:52.460 part of our our battle plans are our people talked about that admiral massa the difference in the way

02:48:59.660 that the united states navy thinks of and utilizes uh in the enlisted man and the uh understanding the

02:49:06.620 chiefs run the navy just like the sergeants run the army the non-commissioned officers talk about the

02:49:11.340 about how integrated it is different than some more hierarchical even the royal navy but particularly

02:49:17.820 the the the uh the soviet union's navy well if you think about it uh we have a structure on every

02:49:26.540 navy ship that that if you're looking at it like a union you know we have apprentice we have journeymen

02:49:32.540 and we have masters and the apprentice are the brand new sailor that comes aboard and may do damage

02:49:38.780 control maintenance as a collateral aside but it helps them learn the functions of the ship

02:49:44.860 uh the same is true even with uh food service that they have to participate in but once they start uh

02:49:51.660 you know really learning their jobs uh and start making rank you know third class petty officer second

02:49:57.820 class petty officer they enter the the uh world of the journeyman and then we start teaching them

02:50:04.140 leadership and it's a it's it's really it's a algorithm that has been so successful for all

02:50:09.580 these years because we uh we give these sailors every opportunity to crush any any um

02:50:19.900 any any limitations that they have and um and not every ship is like that you know if you

02:50:26.300 if you were to look at say the old soviet system you know there they didn't really get into the

02:50:31.100 journeyman and master officers did all the tricky maintenance in that um and and we we value our

02:50:38.060 people and this is why a second class petty officer can get down there and fix some gear that you know

02:50:44.460 uh a lot of other navies would have to call um you know technical experts to fly in and and and fix

02:50:52.860 but yet our people can do that uh the the the greatest part of today's exhibition was

02:50:59.660 demonstrating just how many and how wonderful our sailors are that can pull off all of those uh

02:51:06.620 multi-tasks

02:51:11.420 okay we're waiting for we're going to go to steve gruber now on the riser thank you admiral masso

02:51:15.580 you guys are going to stick around president's due back off of the carry of the strike group back to

02:51:21.580 norfolk naval station back to the truman uh going to address the sailors and family members there

02:51:27.820 uh steve gruber you're on the riser what do you got for us brother

02:51:35.820 it's a packed house and i can tell you about the enthusiasm here i took the time to speak to some of

02:51:39.660 these sailors uh the men and women of the united states navy's day 2025 i stood out there and mingled

02:51:45.820 with them for a bit what do you think about the united states right now how's morale better than it

02:51:49.820 has been they said and i think that's a big takeaway here because this is a big pep rally

02:51:53.740 the united states navy as we've talked about 250 years and so it's encouraging because you know

02:51:59.420 steve if you listen to the left-wing media think that you know the media or the military is not

02:52:04.780 with donald trump that's absolutely false uh when i sit here and talk to these young men and women

02:52:09.660 some of them have been in a couple years something in 15 or 20 years they say morale is better today

02:52:14.540 than it has been for a number of years and you can figure out why they have a commander-in-chief they

02:52:19.020 believe in a commander-in-chief who sits out there and watches all of their equipment get used it's

02:52:23.980 impressive there's no question about it and the applause that ripped through here every time they

02:52:28.700 really like the submarines by the way that's a big favorite for the crowd here but all of the equipment

02:52:32.860 they're showing off it is uh it's electric the weather is it's hot i'm not going to kid you it's

02:52:37.980 a perfect day donald trump should be here oh in the next 20 30 minutes we we assume and i'm looking

02:52:43.660 forward to it to what the president has to say here because he has a very positive receptive crowd

02:52:48.780 and look uh like i said it's packed it's hard to get through the crowd here anymore it's packed

02:52:52.860 all the way back thousands of uh men and women the united states navy are here it's a it's a great

02:52:58.700 scene absolutely great scene steve hang on for a second we're gonna come back to you we're gonna come

02:53:05.020 back to the deck of the truman i want to give a hat tip to the musical director finally we're getting

02:53:10.540 some great music up there not that the navy band wasn't playing great great music before but i think

02:53:15.500 it's a little more appropriate a little more marshall as we say we're going to take a short

02:53:19.660 commercial break we've got admiral sonny masso captain paul morgan captain jim finnell cleo pascal

02:53:25.900 short commercial break we'll return to real america's voice navy 250 in a moment

02:53:45.500 we'll be right back with more navy 250 sea power and freedom we want to thank our sponsor patriot

02:53:53.420 mobile for standing with rav welcome back to navy 250 sea power and freedom we want to thank our

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02:54:18.700 well we're going to go back to steve 0.98

02:54:21.580 some fabulous movies by the way i'm reminded by my family members that my uncle dick dick wills uh who

02:54:28.060 was just a richard wills just a great man was a enlisted man fought at late golf the greatest i think the 0.73

02:54:34.300 largest naval battle in history bull halsey and his fleet off of the philippines as emerald master

02:54:41.740 remembers let's listen to some music here for a moment then i'm going to go back to steve gruber

02:54:56.220 live it

02:55:06.140 so

02:55:09.100 and

02:55:13.660 Thank you.

02:55:43.660 Thank you.

02:56:13.660 Thank you.

02:56:43.660 Thank you.

02:57:14.660 Aren't they always in a sour mood?

02:57:17.160 They're also in a sour mood because we're the only ones carrying this thing front to back, top to bottom, wall to wall.

02:57:25.120 It's a testament.

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02:58:03.300 Now, you ask about the crowd here, you know, some of those great Navy SEALs we interviewed here earlier, Steve.

02:58:09.920 I just saw them walk down into the crowd down here.

02:58:12.780 You've got a lot of folks that are Navy all the way around us, but you've got a lot of civilians in here, too.

02:58:17.240 And it's just a very celebratory crowd, as you put.

02:58:20.280 It is a celebration of American freedom and what it took to get us there.

02:58:25.240 The music is fabulous now, like you mentioned.

02:58:27.740 And it's just an American celebration, as this whole 250 event has been.

02:58:32.220 And I go back to the big parade in D.C. when Donald Trump was there, and he'll be here shortly as well.

02:58:38.680 It is a great day, Steve.

02:58:40.220 I'm telling you, it's a great day to be here.

02:58:41.960 It's a great day to be an American.

02:58:43.880 And just let me say this.

02:58:45.200 God bless America, because I feel good being here.

02:58:49.180 This is what we wanted.

02:58:50.440 It's a fine Navy day.

02:58:51.540 Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy band.

02:59:02.220 Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy band.

02:59:32.220 Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy band.

03:00:02.220 Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy band.

03:00:32.220 Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy band.

03:00:42.680 Okay, as you know, I'm prejudiced towards this music.

03:00:45.800 So we're going to stay as long as the Navy band plays.

03:00:47.780 We're going to stay on it right here, hopefully.

03:00:50.500 But we're getting ready for the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief.

03:00:52.740 You saw a moment ago they're getting the podium ready for the Commander-in-Chief.

03:00:57.000 He's going to address the enlisted and officers of the Truman and around Norfolk Naval Station.

03:01:05.360 Here we go.

03:01:22.740 Here we go.

03:01:52.740 Here we go.

03:02:22.740 Here we go.

03:02:52.740 Here we go.

03:03:22.720 Here we go.

03:03:52.720 Here we go.

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03:04:31.160 fleet at narfic am i do you remember that or am i wrong there i do that's absolutely correct uh and

03:04:37.060 you know he he wanted to establish and assert power projection and uh and he uh invoked his

03:04:45.960 own personal powers uh and and sent them out you know to the far east and then he had to get um

03:04:53.820 an act of congress to get get you know to pay for the fuel to get him back but yes he did uh he did

03:05:00.980 do a pass and review in norfolk and um and that was a substantial example of mahan's influence of sea

03:05:12.680 power on world history uh in in action talk to me about that talk to me about how particularly as

03:05:21.020 naval officers you're you're ingrained in alfred thayer mahan his the the book uh the impact of

03:05:27.600 sea power upon history is really the basics of naval doctrine for both the royal navy and the

03:05:34.120 united states navy sir what he did was he instantiated the fact that you know uh 96 percent of the world's

03:05:43.980 population live on coastlines he instantiated the fact that we need require sea lines of communication

03:05:52.400 communication for the exchange of commerce and that those sea lines needed to be protected

03:05:57.880 and the only nation that was substantial enough to do that was the united states and this was a book

03:06:05.440 that really uh really influenced president uh roosevelt theodore uh the 26th president where

03:06:14.040 uh he took it almost as a biblical uh mission uh statement that uh this was something that he had to

03:06:22.160 uh in fact uh create and and from that spawned things like the great white fleet but also the

03:06:30.420 investment of navy and really naval aviation uh uh all of that uh there's a great book written by a

03:06:38.040 historian named dr dave winkler on the uh the very first uh aircraft carrier which just celebrated its

03:06:45.940 100th birthday a few years ago but the uss langley and uh and in the heuristic development of of

03:06:53.640 aircraft and launch and recovery of those aircraft and uh and of course world war one uh precipitated

03:07:01.060 another uh another uh example of studying and and uh and raising the bar and and those operations

03:07:09.000 hey uh admiral masso hang on hang on one second we'll take a just take a quick break take a quick

03:07:14.100 break or return admiral sunny masso captain finnell captain morgan cleo pascal we're going to go ahead

03:07:20.060 and jump we'll be right back with more navy 250 sea power and freedom we want to thank our sponsor

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03:07:33.680 for 250 years america's navy has guarded freedom projected strength and carried the fight across

03:07:49.520 the sea now from norfolk virginia history meets destiny they fight fight fight and they win win win

03:07:59.840 president donald j trump joins america's warriors aboard a mighty aircraft carrier as we celebrate two

03:08:09.560 and a half centuries of sea power explosive demonstrations military might unstoppable strength

03:08:17.300 navy 250 sea power and freedom with your host steve bannon with live reporting from jack

03:08:25.280 asobic and steve gruber starts right now

03:08:29.000 i want to thank birch gold and uh amac and of course uh patriot mobile our sponsors for today

03:08:44.580 want to thank uh thank them and also rob's sake parker say for making the logistics

03:08:48.840 of this was enormous and because of the effort put in by real american force we got the special

03:08:54.200 inside baseball footage from the uh naval operations uh at the at the um at the gun range

03:09:01.960 aboard the uss bush want to um got steve gruber as soon as you get some more music we'll listen to

03:09:08.940 that captain finnell sunny brought it up talking about uh alfred thayer mahan why is a young naval

03:09:15.820 officer when you either go to the naval war college or more likely you take the correspondence courses

03:09:22.000 why is it the first uh the first war you learn about it's not the revolutionary war but they take

03:09:27.000 you back to the peloponnesian war why is the peloponnesian war against athens and sparta such a

03:09:32.240 important uh tool for learning about geopolitics sir because it was the first great naval conflict in our

03:09:41.580 kind of recorded history that talked about how one nation can defeat another nation through uh

03:09:48.040 through naval power and so the study of that and understanding of that and how that influenced

03:09:54.860 the development of the greek city-states and how they were able to uh a smaller force to feed a larger

03:10:02.220 force if you will through power projection is something that uh mahan you know studied and and

03:10:08.660 then wrote about and took that history to us it made us uh uh understand the value and power of sea

03:10:15.840 power uh that was something that uh probably people knew before then but it was really recorded and

03:10:22.820 taught in in in the universities uh in the middle ages and beyond in the in the in the enlightenment that

03:10:29.480 people got to learn about that and understand what happened uh in the peloponnesian wars and then you

03:10:35.860 know the the romans with their their fleets so uh the the the issue of the ability to move goods and

03:10:43.300 services via the sea was also wrapped up in this idea that you had to have vessels that could fight

03:10:53.040 and win and defend those commercial vessels and i think that's uh really the the the long arc of history

03:11:01.380 in terms of naval power and uh mahan was our our teacher for that and still is today and as as you

03:11:09.180 had previous guests on talked about this idea that we had this we had to have this ability to project

03:11:14.580 our fleets around the world and it wasn't just sending ships like the great white fleet as we just

03:11:20.520 talked about went out with uh you know 16 battleships some 14 000 officers and and sailors for this long

03:11:28.540 journey what we learned was is that we needed to have a system of of bases and refueling and

03:11:35.420 capability to underway replenishment and all of that and back then it was coal uh today it's it's you

03:11:41.960 know it's it's it's diesel fuel and other fuels but the point is is that we have this ability to

03:11:47.540 understand uh that uh the power of naval platforms isn't just to carry our goods but it's also they were

03:11:57.160 required to be protected as they're carrying them we're seeing uh paul morgan what are we seeing

03:12:06.540 right now is that the osprey coming aboard the uh truman yeah that's that's really interesting

03:12:11.500 that's a hmx one osprey because it's a green top um wow yeah that's an osprey that's beautiful

03:12:18.360 is is president on that i don't know that's what sonny masso that's the question i've

03:12:27.340 morgan was caught by surprise they put the president of the united states on that

03:12:31.780 a quite controversial aircraft i might add correct

03:12:35.020 although commandant of the marine corps uh mike haggie uh he to show how safe it was he had his

03:12:42.660 entire family his wife and kids you know go on a couple of flights by the way for all our marine

03:12:50.800 brethren and so many we know and love the uh the uh we're going to do the 250th anniversary of the

03:12:56.800 birthday of the marine corps also that's going to be a very very special event uh we're going to give

03:13:01.600 their entire own day since uh admiral masso uh you know better than the the marines uh bridal and we

03:13:10.820 call him the junior naval service so it's uh it's a very special very special breed of man

03:13:16.640 very special breed of man or woman no the osprey i don't think we're gonna see the commander chief

03:13:21.660 get out of there let's go ahead sir no i i don't think so but as you know i grew up in at the north

03:13:27.520 gate of camp pendleton in san clemente california and i have immense respect for the marine corps as i

03:13:34.300 know you do as well yeah tremendous cleo uh let me ask you why is it henry kissinger's uh sidekick

03:13:43.500 graham allison they kissinger and graham allison always compared china in the united states to the

03:13:50.620 to uh athens and sparta you know allison graham's book destined for war he talks about the 12 or 14

03:13:58.460 times a rising power and a declining power have uh squared off i think you know those 14 times 10

03:14:05.300 of them have been kind of you know almost global conflicts why do people keep hearkening back to

03:14:11.240 the peloponnesian war all the time ma'am well the peloponnesian war as captain finnell said is quite

03:14:17.240 important but the thucydides trap stuff i i put it in in the mckinder bucket of something that needs

03:14:23.120 to be thought of properly and again i don't really buy it because um india is in the same position

03:14:30.220 and india isn't about to try to uh attack the united states in the same way that the chinese

03:14:35.500 communist party is and then if you look at those terms chinese communist party there's a word in

03:14:40.040 there communist that isn't in the the indian republic's name so i think it's not necessary that

03:14:47.360 a rising uh country is going to attack another one i think you know this is something innate

03:14:54.580 within the system that has been governing uh the land of china does it look like they put the

03:15:01.020 journalists on the osprey is that what they did no no i just i was just i was just telling i was just

03:15:06.680 telling the not that we're not we're not smack talking the osprey i just want to make sure but

03:15:11.540 my producer just said hey is that the media that's coming out of the osprey

03:15:15.680 yeah i think it is clio thanks for pointing that out though clio uh talk tell the audience what the

03:15:24.840 facilities trap is why is it such an important concept at least for uh the munich uh the munich

03:15:31.920 defense conference ma'am uh because it it sort of justifies uh this thing that you know anybody tries

03:15:39.520 to to challenge us it's it's a kind of destiny thing and it's not nothing to do with the actual

03:15:45.460 systems themselves and so you don't have to look at china uh as a as a system or as a as a regime the

03:15:52.780 nature of the regime you can just say oh well you know it's history and there just happened to be this

03:15:57.260 rising power it's it's similar to this kind of reverse opium war thing that i i also don't like

03:16:02.720 it's it's very effective narrative warfare on the chinese side because it pulls you away from thinking 0.89

03:16:08.500 about the actual dynamics uh but you know in terms of the fentanyl being revenge for the opium war first

03:16:14.360 of all the u.s wasn't involved in the opium war second of all the opium war was wrong and so it's

03:16:20.680 sort of like saying we have slavery in xinjiang because you had slavery in the u.s at some point

03:16:26.260 two wrongs definitely do not make a right you know and and third it just it gives this uh narrative

03:16:33.720 warfare weapon to give them a pass and at the same time hit do you think at the u.s do you think the

03:16:40.120 ccp do you think the ccp really makes a difference between great britain at the highest power and the

03:16:45.500 united states don't they just consider us foreign devils uh i think they use different aspects of

03:16:52.180 uh unrestricted warfare depending on what what what works so for example uh in the case of you don't see

03:16:59.520 the sort of fentanyl flood that in the uk that you do here in the u.s uh but what you do see is a

03:17:05.980 is a buying up of elites including uh the think tank community that's giving rise to a situation where

03:17:11.160 for example the diego garcia military base is is coming under risk and i think the weak point there

03:17:18.100 isn't mauritius it's the uk and it's because of the way that they've tried to undermine the uk

03:17:21.900 so i think i think they've got you know this toolkit as described and i'm the 20 you know 24 warfare

03:17:27.420 unrestricted warfare plus many others they've invented since then and they will use as they

03:17:32.600 like but one of the key the top three of those warfares is this sort of psychological warfare and

03:17:38.980 they've also got media warfare and that that is these things like the thucydides trap or

03:17:44.600 um you know the fentanyl is the opium war things like that that put you on the back foot and uh make

03:17:52.540 it make it so that you're not looking at china as its own thing but you get caught up in these 0.98

03:17:57.800 other intellectual eddies that can paralyze you or or whip you in circles or give a justification to

03:18:04.580 not just say hold on a second this is absolutely wrong and it has to be stopped

03:18:09.160 by the way look at that magnificent shot right there right next to the uh the truman uh the president

03:18:16.100 of united states commander-in-chief will be there momentarily tell you what we're going to try to fit

03:18:19.580 in one more commercial break uh the president of united states i think will be arriving momentarily

03:18:24.580 going to give remarks to a combination of uh sailors and uh officers and family members and other

03:18:31.620 interested personages incredible day navy 250 a commemoration and celebration of the 250th

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03:19:14.100 let's go let's go to uh let's go listen to some music from the navy band i believe the commander

03:19:25.620 in chief has arrived not on the osprey i might mention i'm not digging this i'm not dinging the

03:19:32.360 osprey but it was cleo pascal that did mention that they put the media on it let that be her quote

03:19:38.200 but there is there's commander-in-chief right there they're coming in

03:19:42.200 amazing this is uh steve grubin can i go to grubin

03:19:58.260 the fleet

03:20:09.260 out of norfolk virginia the atlantic fleet

03:20:12.400 captain finnell and admiral masso myself were pacific fleet sailors

03:20:18.420 the fleet the historic seven fleet that won the war in the pacific and really uh traditions of that

03:20:28.420 fleet are just amazing the history of it the customs and traditions of it just absolutely extraordinary

03:20:34.360 admiral masso your your thoughts

03:20:37.820 yeah we used to

03:20:46.660 and i think we corrected your we got your microphone working any any thoughts on this as you watch the commander-in-chief i think has arrived

03:21:14.660 at the truman about to address the atlantic fleet sailors

03:21:20.660 well i i think that these sailors are hungry for the type of leadership that he's been providing

03:21:27.660 and i know that there's an air of excitement and pride and and we you know they love the navy and and there's no better way to celebrate a birthday

03:21:37.660 than you know with the commander-in-chief uh sharing it with them

03:21:43.660 so i know that they're uh they're probably uh hyper uh excited about this

03:21:49.660 and i know that he will uh not disappoint

03:21:55.660 emerald we did have a uh

03:21:57.660 it's just a demonstrable fact we did have an issue with recruiting right for a couple of years there it's kind of been sorted out

03:22:03.660 what are your thoughts about that

03:22:07.660 well uh this is kind of a big deal

03:22:09.660 and it really reflects what the remarks of the secretary of war expressed last week to the generals and admirals

03:22:15.660 and uh and basically the recruiting was uh you know we didn't we didn't have a substantial mission

03:22:21.660 uh you know there was no active war in iraq or in afghanistan and so a lot of people kind of lost interest in it

03:22:27.660 but um you know more specifically uh in the absence of recruiting we had to compromise some of the standards

03:22:39.660 that were elucidated by the secretary of war as being unacceptable fat sailors you know this type of thing

03:22:47.660 and it used to be that if you failed two fitness tests then you were sent sent home

03:22:53.660 and uh and and what we changed that to be is because we couldn't afford to lose some of these sailors

03:22:59.660 because there's nobody in the pipeline replacing them we uh we we didn't send them home we just uh wouldn't promote them

03:23:07.660 uh so uh so he this this was a big departure and uh you know i think a a lot of people will clamor for this to be uh implemented immediately if not sooner

03:23:18.660 because uh it was compromising you know combat readiness

03:23:23.660 and and so uh and now recruiting is better uh for the first time in a number of years we're able to make our numbers

03:23:31.660 and not do it with fancy nascar programs and all these kind of things people are here serving for all the reasons they always serve

03:23:39.660 to learn a trade to serve their country to make themselves better to see the world

03:23:45.660 and uh and i think we're backed in business with that um that that way forward

03:23:55.660 okay let's go let's let's pull in on the navy band uh here we come right here i think it's doug collins

03:24:03.660 and see what we've got going on

03:24:33.660 ladies and gentlemen please welcome the chief of naval operations admiral daryl caudel

03:25:03.660 ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage the united states secretary of the navy

03:25:31.660 john phelan

03:25:35.660 john phelan

03:25:39.660 and

03:25:41.660 and

03:25:45.660 and

03:25:49.660 and

03:25:51.660 and

03:25:53.660 and

03:26:03.660 and

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03:26:11.660 and

03:26:25.660 and

03:26:27.660 and

03:26:29.660 and

03:26:31.660 and

03:26:33.660 and

03:26:51.660 and

03:26:53.660 and

03:26:55.660 and

03:27:15.660 and

03:27:17.660 and

03:27:19.660 and

03:27:41.660 and

03:27:43.660 and

03:27:45.660 and

03:27:47.660 and

03:28:05.660 and

03:28:07.660 and

03:28:09.660 and

03:28:31.660 and

03:28:33.660 and

03:28:35.660 and

03:28:57.660 and

03:28:59.660 and

03:29:01.660 and

03:29:03.660 behind that flag stands a team that is disciplined lethal and dominant

03:29:07.660 today we show the world what american sea power means deadly precision meticulous execution

03:29:13.660 raw power and the will to use it

03:29:15.660 secretary hexeth we are restoring the warrior ethos to this department of the navy not by slogan but by

03:29:23.660 performance the truman right here beside me sustained more than 50 days of tomahawk launches and precision airstrikes

03:29:29.660 to degrade

03:29:31.660 to degrade arand backed hootie capabilities

03:29:33.660 to degrade

03:29:34.660 and protect commercial shipping during operation rough rider

03:29:36.660 there are many many missions that we are operating and executing on

03:29:39.660 very well

03:29:41.660 including

03:29:42.660 choking off cartel cash flows

03:29:45.660 between operation atlantic and pacific watch

03:29:48.660 we've seized over 400 we've seized

03:29:50.660 over 450 metric tons of cocaine

03:29:51.660 worth more than 11 billion dollars

03:29:53.660 these seizures represent lives saved

03:29:55.660 all these operations show us our fleet is ready to answer the nation's call

03:30:00.660 247

03:30:01.660 365

03:30:03.660 the remarkable success is a testament to the bold vision of president trump

03:30:07.660 whose leadership has ignited a renewed sense of patriotism

03:30:10.660 inserting more americans to serve

03:30:13.660 i'm happy to say the navy broke its recruiting record four months

03:30:16.660 early

03:30:17.660 so help is on the way for the high operating tempo you've been living through

03:30:22.660 to our marines standing in the line with us your grit and discipline give us a fighting force no adversary can match war fighters you are the backbone of this

03:30:27.660 maritime strength keeping our nation safe and secure and prosperous you prove every day freedom isn't free

03:30:46.660 president trump thanks you secretary hegg says thanks you i thank you and your country thanks you we appreciate the sacrifice you and your

03:30:56.660 families make and we value your unwavering commitment to the mission

03:31:01.660 sea power is a family business your sacrifices are not unnoticed and they are deeply appreciated

03:31:08.660 they may wear the uniform but you share the honor and we share the pride

03:31:14.660 god bless you god bless our navy and marine corps and god bless the united states of america

03:31:19.660 thank you

03:31:21.660 secretary of the navy

03:31:30.660 with appropriate remarks as we say

03:31:33.660 navy band playing uh

03:31:36.660 i don't know if that's a navy band that may be piped in because i think that might be the uh

03:31:40.660 i think that actually might be uh

03:31:42.660 the naval academy glee club which does such a magnificent job

03:31:46.660 one of these songs in the navy okay i think we're prepared waiting for the commander in chief

03:31:51.660 and the first lady 0.95

03:31:53.660 fight for the

03:31:55.660 rights of every man

03:31:57.660 i am a real

03:31:59.660 american

03:32:01.660 fight for what's right

03:32:03.660 fight for your life

03:32:05.660 when it comes crashing down and it hurts inside

03:32:20.660 fight for what's right

03:32:21.660 you gotta take a stand

03:32:22.660 you gotta take a stand it don't hurt to hide

03:32:25.660 if you hurt my friends then you hurt my pride

03:32:31.660 i gotta be a man i can't let it slide

03:32:35.660 i am a real american

03:32:42.660 fight for the rights of every man

03:32:44.660 i am a real american

03:32:48.660 fight for what's right

03:32:50.660 fight for your life

03:32:52.660 i feel strong about right and wrong

03:33:07.660 and i don't take trouble for very long

03:33:13.660 now

03:33:14.660 i'll get something deep inside of me

03:33:18.660 courage is the thing that

03:33:20.660 i'll take a breath from me

03:33:22.660 as people know this is not my exactly

03:33:24.660 it's not my favorite style of music

03:33:28.660 but we'll get maybe some maybe have a sea chant here or something

03:33:31.660 uh secretary of navy

03:33:33.660 i don't know i think is is p i'm not so sure pete's down there

03:33:37.660 wasn't pete at the navy football game i gotta get on mo

03:33:40.660 about this army navy game that's coming up navy looks pretty daggone good

03:33:44.660 heck of a uh heck of a football team

03:33:47.660 i think some of the media is getting in place some of the other people in the presidential party

03:33:50.660 obviously coming down that's the shot you have there

03:33:53.660 we're awaiting uh the introduction

03:33:56.660 uh believe is next is going to be the commander in chief the first lady 1.00

03:34:00.660 commander in chief going to give his remarks

03:34:03.660 we're pretty close to being on time given the fact how to go out to the

03:34:07.660 virginia capes

03:34:10.660 and uh do the exercise the naval warfare exercise

03:34:13.660 just want to give a compliment i really want to thank the united states navy for giving us that

03:34:16.660 footage of real america's voice all the

03:34:18.660 work and i tell you about how great this uh the rav and the war room team

03:34:22.660 are i think we got to go ahead or got really the

03:34:25.660 the the signal this is actually going to happen

03:34:28.660 basically thursday

03:34:29.660 when it was kind of locked in i think the president was going to go down to

03:34:32.660 norfolk speak before but they changed the schedule around

03:34:35.660 the president has wanted to do this as uh admiral masso and uh and cleo and uh

03:34:41.660 captain finnell have talked about

03:34:43.660 the great white fleet the review by president roosevelt

03:34:46.660 and really the rise of the

03:34:48.660 united states as a global power in the spanish-american war and

03:34:52.660 how that was decisions were made in the late 19th century about building a global navy and

03:34:57.660 teddy roosevelt was famously as an i think undersecretary of the navy uh took a bunch

03:35:03.660 it took a lot made a lot of moves to make that happen the navy as an institution

03:35:07.660 um and he didn't ask permission he just went ahead and did it

03:35:11.660 getting ready now i think that's monica ambassador crowley

03:35:15.660 getting ready for the president united states to come we're going to jump to that live

03:35:19.660 here at momentarily still members of his party and and others coming down

03:35:24.660 making sure they get see i think a lot of uh congressmen do we have a steve gruber

03:35:29.660 no gruber of course getting a signal down there right now is uh

03:35:33.660 very hard as you can imagine given all the uh the communications going on

03:35:38.660 the uh you talk about institutions one of the most impressive institution in mankind's history

03:35:43.660 has been the royal navy what the royal navy did to uh really build and expand the uh the uh

03:35:50.660 british empire and that's what's so uh so incredibly impressive about the uh the

03:35:55.660 united states navy cover captain morgan you're still with us paul you've had to uh

03:36:00.660 basically a lead young men and uh and motivate young men as a as a helicopter pilot and and and

03:36:08.660 doing all the things you had to do in your detachment your squadron talk to me about recruiting now

03:36:12.660 today young sailors uh what is what is the pitch to a young sailor a young 17 18 year old kid uh

03:36:20.660 and thinking about coming into the united states navy you know that's that's a really interesting

03:36:25.660 question a lot of my son's friends my son went to vmi their naval officers marine corps officers a

03:36:33.660 lot of them left early and as soon as they could that's over they're they're now deciding to stay

03:36:39.660 and their message i don't i'm 68 years old my message is going to fall on deaf ears but the the

03:36:46.660 young officers and the senior enlisted i have a story to tell now that's very very positive

03:36:52.660 and and i think the impact on recruiting is going to be great i i would like to address admiral

03:36:57.660 masso's uh comments about uh air debts uh and how professional they were he clearly never cruised

03:37:04.660 with me so i just wanted to lay that out there um one last thing the president only flies on white

03:37:12.080 top aircraft so the osprey is green top uh the 60 that you saw as a white top that's what that's

03:37:18.200 what they call the white tops they're the presidential birds explain that to people explain that for a

03:37:25.340 second about that about what that means well the white tops i did a tour as the chief pilot at the

03:37:31.460 sikorsky factory for three years and we did all the maintenance on the presidential h3s i wouldn't 0.99

03:37:36.280 even look at them steve i mean they they're just they're so nice and they're so pristine but they

03:37:41.000 are maintained to a standard that's really unbelievable and the hmx one guys who are the marine corps pilots

03:37:47.040 that fly them uh they just show up and take parts nobody even questions it's it's a beautiful thing

03:37:52.320 and so the white tops are special airplanes i i did my initial night vision goggle calls with

03:37:57.880 uh hfx one and it was in green board sixes so i didn't mean to disparage the v22 i'm so sorry it

03:38:05.380 was i didn't mean it that way no no no it was it it was cleo that put in the the the kill shot on the

03:38:13.180 media okay let's go yeah i've written that down right there let's go let's go live

03:38:18.880 my goodness well good afternoon how we doing sailors

03:38:46.320 the absolute best of america i'm honored to be at the world's largest naval base now i'm the only

03:39:01.160 thing between you the first lady and the commander in chief so i'm going to keep this very brief

03:39:06.080 looking out at all of you i know you know why the president always says we have the strongest most

03:39:13.300 powerful most lethal most ready military on the planet and he's going to make sure we keep it that

03:39:20.220 way this is the perfect way to mark 250 years of the united states navy you know president trump

03:39:27.900 has made our mission clear america first and peace through strength with common sense

03:39:34.200 at every turn at the war department that is the war department we're committed to that core mission

03:39:41.480 of peace through strength and for the navy that means more sailors more subs more ships and more

03:39:48.080 munitions for all of them the navy and the marine corps embody the resilience of our country nobody

03:39:55.900 nobody in the world does it better than the united states navy always remember this

03:40:02.200 fact

03:40:06.740 you are not civilians you are different sailors seals marines you were set set apart for a distinct purpose

03:40:16.280 your diversity is not your strength your strength is your unity of purpose your shared mission your love

03:40:24.720 purpose your love of country generation after generation battle after battle ship after ship sailor after

03:40:33.880 sailor you have set the tone the story began with john paul jones when he declared i have not yet begun

03:40:42.520 to fight today we have a commander-in-chief who fights for all of you and fights for our country every

03:40:51.460 single day a commander-in-chief who guarantees that you the war fighters have everything you need on the

03:40:58.740 high seas to deter our enemies and if necessary win overwhelmingly we have a president who appreciates your

03:41:08.680 dedication he appreciates your service your sacrifice and that of your family as well and as i always tell

03:41:16.060 every service member every sailor i see he has your back so war fighters on behalf of everyone at the

03:41:24.080 department of war thank you thank you for your commitment to america's navy you stand the watch 250 years

03:41:32.140 later god bless you god and may god bless our great republic godspeed thank you

03:41:41.440 okay secretary of war brought up by pete uh by uh nugent ted nugent can't get any better than that

03:41:55.840 right particularly here in real america's voice if charmaine is one of our one of our hosts she's 1.00

03:42:01.660 fantastic also an ambassador for turning point pete hex is right there uh we're waiting uh secretary

03:42:10.060 navy pete amazing uh talk very motivational this week i think you got people's attention

03:42:15.260 admiral masso did did the secretary were your flag officer did he get the flag officer's attention this

03:42:20.540 week well i don't know that it was a function of getting their attention and i think that

03:42:27.180 he wanted to speak from the heart on some things that uh he wanted to address versus standards and he

03:42:34.600 wanted to return to a war a warrior ethos and i think yeah i think i think people paid attention

03:42:40.840 they got it uh they they are smart men and women and they um they know how to proceed from here so i

03:42:48.600 think it was a a solid message well delivered and uh it left no doubt into what his strategic intent

03:42:56.120 is for the behavior of all battle group staffs you know as we go forward

03:43:04.360 perfect hang over a second we're about to have the commander-in-chief and the first lady 1.00

03:43:08.600 navy band will strike up the commander-in-chief's uh the kind of song and then we'll go president

03:43:13.320 trump's going to give remarks uh if i know president trump i believe he may go off the glass what we say

03:43:19.480 away from prepared remarks i think he's going to be very enthusiastic he's wanted this day to come for a long

03:43:25.080 time sonny you're so right about teddy roosevelt captain fowell president trump and his enthusiasm

03:43:31.080 i think the very first steve gruber said it best today had that steve gruber felt like a 12 year

03:43:36.360 old he was so excited to see this kind of operation to see the pride of the sailors to see the pride of

03:43:41.800 the fleet to see not just the weapons but the precision that the navy training has where officers

03:43:47.640 and enlisted just been absolutely incredible and uh i'm sure the president has uh that enthusiasm

03:43:54.200 is with him this is something he's wanted to do for a long time and actually has is doing it uh very

03:44:01.240 close to where uh teddy roosevelt reviewed the great white fleet which was really america sending

03:44:07.640 a signal to the world we are a global power and we intend to comport ourselves as a global power and

03:44:13.800 we're going to put the resources necessary to become a global power uh so it's uh been an extraordinary day

03:44:21.160 so far present there normally beforehand when you see the president he's always runs a few minutes

03:44:26.840 late on this he's he's more than likely talking to enlisted men and some of the crew uh he always

03:44:33.800 does a a meet and greet beforehand where he will meet people uh from the local community it's pretty

03:44:39.480 extraordinary because given the fact you got to think about a speech and you're about to address

03:44:43.000 not just 10 000 people live but the entire world and uh both our allies and our enemies will be

03:44:50.200 watching this speech uh the president always takes time to spend uh x amount of time beforehand to uh

03:44:57.720 to uh do a meet and greet meet local people etc i'm sure right now he is talking to some of the

03:45:03.320 some of the sailors uh of the uh of the truman um captain finnell give it give me your assessment so

03:45:10.920 far we're getting ready for the address by the commander-in-chief uh to the assembled uh

03:45:16.440 enlisted men and crew of the ships at the naval station how do you think it's gone so far

03:45:21.640 well i think it's uh fantastic steve and on this issue of uh spirit and pride in our nation and our

03:45:27.880 our navy today uh i i have a little study here it said 1964 the public opinion of the military was

03:45:34.680 75 percent captain hang on one second we got the first lady 1.00

03:45:41.560 okay we got the first lady right there let's hear the applause let's pick up the sound 0.99

03:45:59.640 so

03:46:10.920 it is an honor to be with you to celebrate

03:46:35.560 the 250th year since the united states navy was officially established generations of sailors have

03:46:47.080 kept america free because of their presence on the high seas your strength bravery and sacrifice

03:46:58.200 inspires us all the president and i just attend an extraordinary demonstration an inspiring display

03:47:08.840 of skills that reflects the very best of our navy for me it brought the back

03:47:16.840 so fond memories of my visit to the uss george hw bush in 2018 i will always remember the pride and

03:47:28.360 professionalism of the sailors i met on that vessel i witness the enduring spirit of america's navy

03:47:37.480 which propels every mission which propels every mission and lives on to every sailor who serves

03:47:46.120 now it is my privilege to introduce someone who holds our military close to his heart

03:47:54.440 not only as the commander-in-chief but as a proud american who believes deeply in the men and women who wear the uniform

03:48:05.960 but we have a few things so that we will never really wear the reason we wear them

03:48:10.280 the women who white women wore them please join me in welcoming my husband the 45th and 47th 0.98

03:48:13.960 president do united states Donald j trump

03:48:31.480 Thank you.

03:49:01.480 Thank you.

03:49:31.480 Because there ain't no doubt I love this land.

03:49:36.420 God bless the USA.

03:49:38.480 From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee.

03:49:56.600 Across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea.

03:50:04.800 From Detroit down to Houston, and New York to L.A.

03:50:10.640 Where there's pride in every American heart.

03:50:14.900 And it's time we stand and say...

03:50:20.640 That I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

03:50:28.000 And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

03:50:33.960 And I gladly stand up next to you, and defend her still today.

03:50:40.500 Because there ain't no doubt I love this land.

03:50:45.940 God bless the USA.

03:50:48.940 And I gladly stand up next to you, and defend her still today.

03:51:14.940 Because there ain't no doubt I love this land.

03:51:21.120 God bless the USA.

03:51:25.940 God bless the United States Navy.

03:51:41.320 USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

03:51:57.260 Well, that was good timing, wasn't it?

03:52:04.340 We had to get that right.

03:52:06.340 We had to get that right.

03:52:08.680 But they always get it right.

03:52:09.840 I was just given a display with a wonderful First Lady,

03:52:13.880 the likes of which I think few people have ever seen before.

03:52:16.780 We were a few minutes away, and the display of strength

03:52:21.500 was absolutely incredible.

03:52:23.000 We appreciate it.

03:52:23.800 Thank you, Navy.

03:52:24.600 Thank you very much.

03:52:25.520 And I want to thank our magnificent First Lady for that introduction. 1.00

03:52:33.640 The people love our First Lady.

03:52:35.640 Thank you.

03:52:38.640 And let me say to all of the incredible sailors on this pier,

03:52:42.780 it's great to be with the fleet.

03:52:46.460 The fleet.

03:52:49.880 And let's also give a very special thanks to the shipmates

03:52:53.600 who put on that spectacular display of Navy dominance. 0.99

03:52:57.900 And that's what it was.

03:52:58.740 It was dominance.

03:52:59.560 And bravo, Zulu.

03:53:01.560 You know who that is?

03:53:02.560 Bravo, Zulu.

03:53:03.560 You know.

03:53:04.560 A lot of people don't.

03:53:06.560 And it's a true honor to be here

03:53:08.700 with the thousands of our nation's finest sailors

03:53:12.380 at the largest naval facility in the entire world.

03:53:16.540 It's the largest, and I would say, more importantly, it's the best.

03:53:20.120 Okay?

03:53:21.120 It's both the Norfolk Naval Base.

03:53:23.120 Thank you very much.

03:53:24.120 The largest, and it's the best.

03:53:27.120 We're gathered on this storied waterfront

03:53:29.120 to celebrate 250 years of strength, tenacity, and unwavering courage

03:53:34.600 by the greatest fighting force even.

03:53:37.400 And that's true.

03:53:38.340 No matter where you go, no matter where you go,

03:53:41.540 no matter what you even think about,

03:53:43.180 there's nothing like the fighting force that we have.

03:53:46.480 Roamed the seas, it's called the United States Navy,

03:53:50.280 and there's nothing in the world like it. Nothing. Not even close.

03:53:53.420 You read stories. They don't have it.

03:53:55.860 Let me tell you. We check it closely.

03:53:58.460 We check it closely.

03:54:00.360 Docs beside us today are a combined 150,000 tons

03:54:05.400 of pure American naval supremacy

03:54:08.760 and two colossal reasons why no one should ever want to start a fight with the USA.

03:54:13.300 They won't fight.

03:54:14.580 We're putting out a lot of fights, though. Do you see that?

03:54:16.740 We're going to be close to number eight.

03:54:18.840 Number eight.

03:54:20.540 We don't want to send you into battle unless it's necessary, right?

03:54:25.220 We're putting out a lot of fires.

03:54:29.280 Maybe some of you will be angry.

03:54:31.720 You'll say, what's he doing? We want to fight.

03:54:33.820 You know what? If we can solve them the way I'm solving them,

03:54:36.360 we solve seven.

03:54:38.060 We have another one that's taken 3,000 years,

03:54:40.700 and we're pretty close, but I don't want to talk about it until it's done.

03:54:45.000 But let's give a big round of applause to the men and women

03:54:47.900 of the majestic USS Kearsarge.

03:54:51.780 Thank you.

03:54:55.440 And let's hear it for the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman.

03:55:02.820 Those who call this carrier home live by a motto that captures the spirit of America's Navy.

03:55:21.440 It's very simple. The words, give them hell, and we do give them hell. 0.97

03:55:26.220 For two and a half centuries, that is what every generation of American sailors have done.

03:55:33.960 You've conquered raging oceans and brave, ferocious storms to vanquish America's enemies

03:55:39.900 on the high seas and distant shores.

03:55:42.820 You've beaten mighty warships into twisted wrecks of steel.

03:55:47.100 You've splintered vast armadas and sent the mangled pride of empire sinking into oblivion.

03:55:53.880 You've surged the waters thick in danger, blood, brine, and through it all,

03:56:00.020 the United States Navy has kept the stars and stripes soaring high and proud above those big, magnificent waves.

03:56:07.980 You love doing it, too.

03:56:09.180 There's not a thing in the world that you'd rather do, is there?

03:56:12.100 Is there?

03:56:13.100 No.

03:56:14.100 I like your life better than mine, I have to be honest with you.

03:56:20.880 Sailing on those beautiful waters all the time, you're so lucky.

03:56:25.320 Because the American sailor never quits, never fails, and never, ever lets us down.

03:56:31.780 They've never let us down.

03:56:32.960 Thank you.

03:56:33.960 Thank you.

03:56:37.960 And we're honored to be joined today by service members representing every part of this great naval tradition.

03:56:43.740 Our incredible surface warriors are the reason America's enemies tremble at the sight of a navy ship haze gray or underway.

03:56:53.740 The instant U.S. carrier, cruiser, or destroyer breaks across the horizon.

03:57:00.740 Every tyrant and adversary on the planet knows their choice is very simple.

03:57:06.520 It's leave America in peace or be blown up in fire and fury never seen before.

03:57:13.960 All over the world, people know of the skill, nerve, swagger, and sheer attitude of the boldest and most daring pilots on the sea.

03:57:25.180 The U.S. naval aviators, and I just got to witness it with Melania.

03:57:29.740 They land screaming jets on pitching decks in the dark of night with no room for error.

03:57:35.840 There's no room for error.

03:57:37.180 The greatest pilots in the world.

03:57:39.720 And while Navy pilots rain down pain from above, the greatest adversaries fear the daring deeds of our silent service below.

03:57:47.760 They prowl and strike from crushing depths unseen, undetected, and unstoppable.

03:58:05.040 They are our brave submariners.

03:58:07.940 Where are the submariners here?

03:58:12.080 And they are brave.

03:58:15.220 The most lethal weapon in the world, I will tell you, nobody knows where it is.

03:58:19.560 And what it carries is nothing that carries weaponry like that.

03:58:23.860 And we're 25 years ahead of any other country when it comes to submarines.

03:58:27.700 Nobody's even close.

03:58:29.160 Nobody can match us.

03:58:30.300 No roll call of Navy warriors would be complete without recognizing some of the fiercest and most elite commandos in the history of war.

03:58:40.880 They are the toughest and there's nobody tougher.

03:58:44.140 There's just nobody, that's what they tell me, there's nobody tougher, called the Navy SEALs.

03:58:48.480 What do you think about the Navy SEALs?

03:58:50.480 Where are the Navy SEALs?

03:58:52.780 We're not going to mess with the Navy SEALs.

03:58:54.780 They are great.

03:58:55.780 Thank you very much.

03:58:57.780 Incredible people.

03:58:58.780 And, of course, our enemies have learned to dread that special cast of warriors

03:59:03.120 who have charged forward almost everywhere America has seized a stronghold or stormed a beachhead.

03:59:09.520 They call themselves the Leathernecks, the Jarheads, the Devil Dogs. 0.99

03:59:14.860 But we revere them as the United States Marines.

03:59:19.860 Incredible people.

03:59:25.860 Incredible people.

03:59:27.860 With us today are some of those who have led these exceptional men and women.

03:59:34.200 They've led them like nobody else.

03:59:37.200 And I'll tell you, a person I'm very, very proud of, he has stepped up and he's hitting home run after home run.

03:59:44.200 They love him.

03:59:45.200 I want to introduce, again, a man who's just exceptional.

03:59:49.540 I'm so happy with this choice, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

03:59:54.540 Thank you, Pete.

03:59:59.540 Doing a job.

04:00:01.540 I said, Pete, what do you think?

04:00:04.540 You know, we used to call it Secretary of War, the Department of War, the War Department.

04:00:11.540 Now we call it Defense.

04:00:13.540 And I don't know, would you ever want to, you know, we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything in between, we won everything before.

04:00:25.880 And all of a sudden they decide to change the name.

04:00:27.880 They went woke then, too, you know, woke is a long term word.

04:00:31.880 I said, what do you think about changing it to the Department of War?

04:00:35.880 He said, I love it, sir.

04:00:37.880 And that was about the end of it, right?

04:00:40.880 That was the end of it.

04:00:42.880 Thank you, Pete.

04:00:43.880 Great job.

04:00:44.880 He's a great leader.

04:00:45.880 Also, Secretary of the Navy, a very, very successful man.

04:00:49.540 He gave it all up to do this.

04:00:51.220 And we're designing more ships.

04:00:53.220 We have more ships being built shortly.

04:00:55.220 We're going to have more great ships being built than we've ever had being built in the history of the Navy.

04:01:01.880 John Phelan.

04:01:02.880 John, thank you.

04:01:04.220 Great job, John.

04:01:08.220 He made a lot of money in the private sector.

04:01:10.220 And I said, you want to do this, John?

04:01:11.220 We need a lot of ships and we need them fast.

04:01:13.220 And he said, I want to do it.

04:01:14.220 He gave up a lot.

04:01:15.220 Gave up everything to do this.

04:01:17.220 But he's loving it and he's doing a fantastic job.

04:01:21.220 Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Darrell Caudill.

04:01:25.220 Thank you.

04:01:27.220 Great job.

04:01:29.220 Rear Admiral Gavin Duff.

04:01:40.220 And along with so many different people here that I could introduce them all day long.

04:01:45.220 I don't want to do that because we've got to get to business, talking a little bit about war and peace.

04:01:50.220 But along with your great officers here at Norfolk Naval Base, Vice Admiral John Gumbleton.

04:01:56.220 John.

04:01:57.220 Thank you.

04:01:58.220 Thank you, John.

04:01:59.220 Great.

04:02:00.220 Young guy.

04:02:01.220 Young guy.

04:02:02.220 Great.

04:02:03.220 Doug Perry and Rob Goucher.

04:02:07.220 Thank you.

04:02:12.220 And a very special thanks to a man who just got a 93 percent approval.

04:02:17.220 He runs the Veterans Everything, I call it.

04:02:21.220 He's Veterans Everything.

04:02:22.220 The VA Secretary, Doug Collins.

04:02:25.220 He's doing great.

04:02:26.220 Thank you, Doug.

04:02:27.220 You're doing a great job.

04:02:30.220 Ambassador Monica Crowley.

04:02:32.220 Monica, thank you very much.

04:02:35.220 A man that everybody loves.

04:02:37.220 He was my doctor in the White House and I got to know him very well.

04:02:41.220 He was also the doctor for Barack Hussein Obama.

04:02:46.220 Have you heard of him?

04:02:48.220 And he was a doctor for a man named Bush.

04:02:53.220 And at a press conference, they asked him, who's in the best shape?

04:02:58.220 Who's the healthiest?

04:02:59.220 Who's the strongest?

04:03:00.220 Who's the best physical specimen of the three?

04:03:03.220 He said, that's easy.

04:03:04.220 President Donald Trump.

04:03:06.220 And I said, I love this guy.

04:03:08.220 I said, I love him.

04:03:13.220 Ronnie Jackson.

04:03:14.220 He's now a congressman, as you know.

04:03:16.220 So he was an admiral.

04:03:17.220 He was a chief doctor.

04:03:18.220 He was the whole boss of doctors.

04:03:21.220 And now he's a very, very successful congressman from Texas.

04:03:26.220 Thank you, Ronnie, very much.

04:03:27.220 And I appreciate those words.

04:03:28.220 I'll never forget them.

04:03:30.220 Jen Kiggins.

04:03:32.220 Jen, thank you.

04:03:33.220 John McGuire.

04:03:35.220 Rob Whitman.

04:03:37.220 Dan Crenshaw.

04:03:38.220 Derek Van Orden.

04:03:40.220 These are unbelievable, talented people that are with me and they fight.

04:03:44.220 Thank you very much, fellas.

04:03:46.220 Thank you.

04:03:47.220 Thank you very much, darling.

04:03:48.220 These are great congress — I say congress warriors.

04:03:52.220 That's what you have to be today to be in Congress if you're going to make it.

04:03:55.220 I also want to recognize all of the newly pinned chief petty officers — you've got a lot of them here today.

04:04:01.220 I had to approve it — who recently earned their anchors and now bear their venerable title.

04:04:09.220 Navy Chief.

04:04:10.220 Navy Chief.

04:04:11.220 Thank you, Navy Chiefs.

04:04:13.220 Let's also express the gratitude of our entire nation to every Navy veteran who has come out to honor this big anniversary.

04:04:21.220 We see so many veterans.

04:04:23.220 I saw it backstage.

04:04:24.220 I was shaking hands with veterans all over the place.

04:04:27.220 And they are great.

04:04:29.220 And they're respected.

04:04:30.220 And they're loved.

04:04:31.220 Thank you very much.

04:04:32.220 Stand up if you'd like.

04:04:33.220 Thank you very much.

04:04:34.220 I really loved — I saw it backstage.

04:04:44.220 I saw so many veterans.

04:04:46.220 My hand will never be the same.

04:04:49.220 Thank you very much.

04:04:50.220 A great honor.

04:04:51.220 And a very special thanks to the countless Navy families who support our sailors with such love and devotion.

04:04:58.220 None of what are — and think of this — without them, you wouldn't be celebrating today.

04:05:04.220 Many of you would not be doing very well.

04:05:06.220 Male or female, you wouldn't be doing very well. 0.98

04:05:08.220 So we want to thank our family members, right?

04:05:10.220 All of them.

04:05:11.220 Parents, husbands, wives.

04:05:13.220 Thank you.

04:05:14.220 Thank you very much.

04:05:19.220 From the American Revolution until today, the story of the U.S. Navy is a tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and commitment stretching back 250 years.

04:05:29.220 So we're celebrating 250.

04:05:31.220 I almost thought I wouldn't get to do that because I was president in 2016.

04:05:38.220 And then they rigged the election on me.

04:05:42.220 And then we caught them, didn't we?

04:05:44.220 We caught them.

04:05:45.220 But, you know, we had to run it again.

04:05:46.220 I ran it again.

04:05:47.220 And I got 250.

04:05:48.220 And I got the World Cup.

04:05:49.220 And I got the Olympics.

04:05:50.220 Can you believe all of it?

04:05:53.220 In my first term, I was the one that got the Olympics.

04:05:58.220 I was the one that got the World Cup.

04:06:00.220 And I said, you know, the sad part is, maybe I'll go.

04:06:04.220 Maybe I won't even be invited because it won't be during my term.

04:06:07.220 I would say, if we're a Democrat, I might not be invited.

04:06:10.220 They don't love me exactly too much.

04:06:12.220 And then when this happened, now all of a sudden they got all three.

04:06:15.220 But you know what's the most important?

04:06:17.220 250 years is the most important.

04:06:20.220 Above World Cup, above Olympic.

04:06:22.220 But we got them all coming.

04:06:24.220 And then June 14th, next year, we're going to have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House, on the grounds of the White House.

04:06:36.220 When the Continental Congress formed a fleet of just two ships in October 1775, many scoffed at their chances against the most powerful empire on Earth.

04:06:51.220 That was the most powerful ever, relatively speaking.

04:06:57.220 We had two ships.

04:06:58.220 We had nothing other but we had great heart.

04:07:00.220 They didn't know the audacity and the grit of the American sailor.

04:07:04.220 They had no idea.

04:07:05.220 The war for independence gave us some of the greatest American heroes of all time, including the father of the U.S. Navy Captain John Paul Jones.

04:07:15.220 You know that.

04:07:16.220 When a far stronger British ship demanded his surrender, Jones yelled back that timeless battle cry right now.

04:07:24.220 I have not yet begun to fight.

04:07:26.220 Don't ask me for that.

04:07:28.220 Think of that.

04:07:29.220 I could just see it.

04:07:30.220 He's a wise guy.

04:07:31.220 He's asking.

04:07:32.220 I haven't even begun to fight.

04:07:33.220 And he knocked the hell out of him.

04:07:35.220 In the War of 1812, Captain James Lawrence shouted his final words to his crew as blood streamed down from his mortal wounds.

04:07:44.220 Fight her till she sinks, he yelled. 1.00

04:07:47.220 Don't give up the ship.

04:07:49.220 Don't give up the ship.

04:07:50.220 These are all incredible.

04:07:52.220 Very, very famous statements now with years and time.

04:07:56.220 Very famous.

04:07:57.220 Don't give up the ship.

04:07:58.220 I say it all the time.

04:07:59.220 You're a little behind.

04:08:00.220 I say, don't give up the ship.

04:08:02.220 But we win.

04:08:03.220 We all know how to win.

04:08:04.220 Today, that eternal creed is written into the hearts of every sailor in the fleet.

04:08:10.220 America's Navy never, ever gives up the ship.

04:08:13.220 Right?

04:08:14.220 We never give it up.

04:08:15.220 Another Titan of the early Navy was the great Commodore Arthur Sinclair.

04:08:20.220 He defeated the French in the Caribbean battle.

04:08:23.220 And then he went to work on the Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli and raided British forces when they were so powerful in 1812.

04:08:32.220 The War of 1812.

04:08:34.220 He raided them.

04:08:35.220 He was knocking them out one by one.

04:08:37.220 Everyone said, where does this guy come from?

04:08:40.220 And we're all descendants when you think of it.

04:08:43.220 Commodore Sinclair went on to become the commanding officer here at the Naval Station Norfolk, right here, where he founded a nautical school for officers that eventually became the one and only U.S. Naval Academy.

04:08:58.220 And I'm going to be at your Army-Navy game this year.

04:09:08.220 Who am I going to root for, huh?

04:09:10.220 You may be surprised.

04:09:14.220 It's going to be great.

04:09:16.220 It's going to be great.

04:09:17.220 We're going to be here.

04:09:18.220 Generations of the Commodore's descendants have forged their own towering legacies of service in the Navy.

04:09:25.220 And we're joined today by his fifth great grandson, Commander Link Mustin.

04:09:31.220 Where is Mustin?

04:09:32.220 Commander Mustin, where are you?

04:09:34.220 He's here.

04:09:35.220 Wow, look at this handsome guy.

04:09:37.220 That's good genetics, right?

04:09:39.220 He's got good genes.

04:09:41.220 Thank you very much.

04:09:43.220 Commander, thank you for continuing a family tradition that has endured for two and a half centuries.

04:09:49.220 Can you believe that, huh?

04:09:51.220 I wonder if they were as good looking as you.

04:09:53.220 I doubt it.

04:09:54.220 You just got better with age, right?

04:09:56.220 Congratulations.

04:09:57.220 Is that young man your boy?

04:09:58.220 Wow.

04:09:59.220 He beats you.

04:10:00.220 They beat you.

04:10:01.220 That's what we want to see.

04:10:04.220 Over the generations, our Navy sailors raised Old Laurie above the streets of Veracruz,

04:10:09.220 sent the Spanish fleet to its watery grave in Manila Bay,

04:10:13.220 and buried the vicious German wolf packs at the bottom of the sea.

04:10:18.220 Those were vicious, vicious wolf packs.

04:10:21.220 They were brutal.

04:10:22.220 They were hitting us hard.

04:10:23.220 And then we came up with the answer, didn't we?

04:10:25.220 We came up with a way to knock them out.

04:10:27.220 And we were knocking them out so fast, they didn't know what to do.

04:10:30.220 It was really the end, once we discovered the secret through some brilliant minds.

04:10:35.220 A lot of them are descendants of the people here right now.

04:10:39.220 In every era of conflict, the Navy has never failed to hunt, kill, and to win.

04:10:44.220 Never failed.

04:10:45.220 Never failed.

04:10:46.220 In World War II, Admiral Bull hauls his motto, hit hard, hit fast, hit often.

04:10:52.220 And that is exactly what the sailors do.

04:10:55.220 One of those warriors was submarine commander Eugene Flukie, who sent more Japanese tonnage 0.98

04:11:02.220 to the ocean floor than any other man in history.

04:11:05.220 I don't like to talk about it too much now.

04:11:07.220 You know, they've been a nice ally.

04:11:08.220 But anybody from Japan here right now will get off the subject immediately. 1.00

04:11:14.220 But think of it.

04:11:16.220 Sent more tonnage to the bottom of the sea, one after one.

04:11:20.220 He brought the famed USS Barb.

04:11:23.220 He destroyed a Japanese tanker and a carrier with a single salvo to his men's chagrin.

04:11:30.220 They were very concerned about it.

04:11:32.220 They didn't think we could do that.

04:11:33.220 And he just knocked them out one after another.

04:11:36.220 And again, torpedoes were flying.

04:11:39.220 But his greatest feat came when he spotted 30 enemy ships at port off the coast of China.

04:11:45.220 You know that very famous story.

04:11:47.220 Commander Flukie ordered his men to their battle station, slipped into the harbor,

04:11:52.220 and sank six vessels at one time before taking off into the beautiful, wild, blue ocean.

04:12:00.220 He received four navy crosses, the Legion of Merit, and the Congressional Medal of Honor.

04:12:06.220 That was a brave guy in recognition of the incredible achievements of the USS Barb under his command.

04:12:13.220 This December, we will lay the keel of a brand-new Virginia-class submarine bearing that same legendary name.

04:12:21.220 And his grandson, Tom, will be there to pick it up.

04:12:25.220 Tom is with us today.

04:12:27.220 And I want to thank you for keeping that great legacy around.

04:12:30.220 Where is Tom?

04:12:31.220 Oh, look.

04:12:32.220 Stand up, Tom.

04:12:33.220 Great.

04:12:36.220 Good, Tom.

04:12:37.220 Thank you.

04:12:38.220 That's good.

04:12:40.220 That's good genes, too, Tom, isn't it?

04:12:42.220 That's good stuff.

04:12:43.220 Thank you very much both for being here.

04:12:46.220 From Midway to the Coral Sea to Leyte Gulf, American sailors fought the most epic naval battles in history.

04:12:55.220 And at Normandy, the Navy led the greatest armada ever formed to deliver the single largest invasion force the world has ever seen.

04:13:04.220 One of the sailors who did it was Felix Maurizio, who enlisted at age 18 and trained right here in Norfolk, trained right here.

04:13:13.220 On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, Felix manned an amphibious landing craft that did six harrowing runs to Omaha Beach.

04:13:23.220 You all know about it.

04:13:24.220 You all know about it.

04:13:25.220 These are all famous fights.

04:13:27.220 He delivered hundreds of American troops into the battle, including his brother, Sal.

04:13:32.220 Felix lost so many of his friends that day, but he kept fighting.

04:13:36.220 He kept going out there, getting more soldiers, getting more, more of everything.

04:13:41.220 He just kept coming.

04:13:42.220 They couldn't stop him and went on to serve in the Pacific under the great Admiral Nimitz.

04:13:49.220 In February 1945, he spent his 21st birthday landing Marines on the blood-soaked sands of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest, toughest battles ever.

04:14:00.220 Historic battle.

04:14:02.220 Six months later, he was aboard the USS Talladega in Tokyo Bay.

04:14:07.220 When Japan surrendered, they said, I don't think we want Felix hitting us anymore.

04:14:12.220 And he retired as a chief petty officer in 1966.

04:14:16.220 This year, Felix celebrated his 100th birthday, and he is here this afternoon as a living testament to the glory of the United States Navy.

04:14:26.220 Wow.

04:14:27.220 That's great.

04:14:40.220 He looks good.

04:14:42.220 Felix, you look better than I do.

04:14:46.220 I'm not happy about this, Felix.

04:14:58.220 No, they don't want to mess around with him.

04:15:01.220 And Felix, we salute you.

04:15:02.220 Thank you very much.

04:15:03.220 Incredible.

04:15:04.220 100 years.

04:15:05.220 In Korea, American sailors and Marines carried out the daring landing in Incheon and flew more than a quarter of a million combat sortes against the enemy.

04:15:17.220 It was an amazing effort.

04:15:19.220 In Vietnam, the Navy unleashed Operation Rolling Thunder and deployed a brand-new unit, the Navy SEALs, to tear up Mekong River Delta.

04:15:29.220 The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. 0.82

04:15:34.220 We would have won easy.

04:15:35.220 We would have won Afghanistan easy. 1.00

04:15:37.220 We would have won every war easy.

04:15:39.220 But we got politically correct.

04:15:40.220 Let's take it easy.

04:15:42.220 We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand.

04:15:46.220 We win.

04:15:47.220 Now we win.

04:15:51.220 We don't want to be politically correct anymore.

04:15:54.220 And history will never forget that it was the SEALs who stormed the compound at Osama bin Laden and put a bullet in his head.

04:16:03.220 Remember that.

04:16:04.220 And please remember, I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before.

04:16:11.220 He blew up the World Trade Center.

04:16:13.220 And I said, you got to watch Osama bin Laden.

04:16:16.220 And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true.

04:16:20.220 But I said one year before to Pete Hegseth.

04:16:22.220 I said one year before.

04:16:24.220 Where's Pete?

04:16:25.220 In the book, I wrote whatever the hell the title.

04:16:28.220 I can't tell you.

04:16:29.220 But I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden.

04:16:35.220 And I didn't like it.

04:16:37.220 And you got to take care of him.

04:16:39.220 They didn't do it.

04:16:40.220 A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center.

04:16:42.220 So we got to take a little credit because nobody else is going to give it to me.

04:16:45.220 You know the old story?

04:16:47.220 They don't give you credit.

04:16:48.220 Just take it yourself.

04:16:50.220 And it was the U.S. Navy that dumped his wretched corpse off the decks of the Carl Vinson to sink into the dark abyss.

04:16:58.220 The Navy's central role in the defense of our liberty continues to this day.

04:17:03.220 Just a few months ago, the Ohio-class guided missile submarine played an indispensable part in one of the most spectacular military feats the world has ever seen.

04:17:13.220 The obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer.

04:17:18.220 How did that work out?

04:17:19.220 Pretty good, right?

04:17:20.220 And we shot 30 tomahawks.

04:17:21.220 You know that?

04:17:22.220 On top of — after the B-2.

04:17:23.220 How about that?

04:17:24.220 The B-2s, what they did, those beautiful flying wings.

04:17:25.220 What they did, they hit every single target they hit.

04:17:27.220 And just in case we shot 30 tomahawks out of a submarine, every one of them hit, too. 0.97

04:17:33.220 So I would say Iran was not particularly thrilled.

04:17:37.220 They were going to have a nuclear weapon within a month.

04:17:40.220 And now they can start the operation all over again.

04:17:42.220 But I hope they don't, because we'll have to take care of that, too, if they do.

04:17:45.220 I let them know that you want to do that, it's fine.

04:17:47.220 But we're going to take care of that, and we're not going to wait so long.

04:17:50.220 But we're going to take care of that — and we're not going to wait so long.

04:17:53.220 The B-2s, what they did, the B-2s, what they did, those beautiful flying wings, what they did.

04:17:58.220 Let them know that you want to do that.

04:17:59.840 It's fine.

04:18:00.700 But we're going to take care of that.

04:18:02.340 And we're not going to wait so long.

04:18:03.740 It should have been done long before I came along.

04:18:07.240 You know that I had the pilots of the B-2s in my office, the famous Oval Office.

04:18:12.420 I had them in the B-2s.

04:18:14.820 They came in to the White House.

04:18:16.560 And we talked about it.

04:18:18.220 They said, you know, sir, for 22 years, our predecessors and us trained for that hit.

04:18:25.220 For 22 years, they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran. 0.85

04:18:30.500 He said, but it was only when you came along that we did it.

04:18:34.120 And they were so happy that they did it.

04:18:36.000 But they've been training for that hit for 22 years, but no president wanted to do it.

04:18:40.860 They would have had a nuclear weapon within a month, probably within a month or shortly thereafter.

04:18:45.600 And speaking to them would have been much more difficult.

04:18:48.240 In recent weeks, the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water.

04:18:55.500 You see that?

04:19:02.940 And, you know, there are no boats in the water anymore.

04:19:05.240 We can't find any.

04:19:06.180 We're having a hard time finding them.

04:19:07.560 But, you know, it's a pretty tough thing we've been doing.

04:19:12.220 But you have to think of it this way.

04:19:14.240 Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people and the destruction of families.

04:19:23.460 So when you think of it that way, what we're doing is actually an act of kindness.

04:19:29.120 But we did another one last night.

04:19:31.520 Now we just can't find any.

04:19:33.040 You know, it's the old story.

04:19:34.280 We're so good at it that there are no boats.

04:19:37.680 In fact, even fishing boats, nobody wants to go into the water anymore.

04:19:40.840 Sorry to tell you that.

04:19:42.700 But we're stopping drugs coming into America, if that's okay.

04:19:46.700 We're stopping drugs at a level that nobody's ever seen before.

04:19:50.280 Last year, we lost, I believe, 300,000 people.

04:19:55.580 And that's not talking about the destruction to families.

04:19:58.240 Every one of us knows families that have been destroyed because the son, daughter, even mothers and fathers are destroyed by the fentanyl pouring in and drugs pouring in.

04:20:07.980 Well, they're not coming in by sea anymore.

04:20:10.160 So now we'll have to start looking about the land because they'll be forced to go by land.

04:20:14.840 And let me tell you right now, that's not going to work out well for them either.

04:20:17.680 And it was the Truman Carrier Strike Group that unleashed American fury on the Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea.

04:20:32.260 And as you know, they settled.

04:20:34.600 But they settled because they made the statement to us, we've never been hit like that ever before.

04:20:39.600 And earlier this year, conducted the single largest airstrike from an American carrier in history.

04:20:46.320 That was the largest ever.

04:20:48.280 I want to express my personal thanks to every single sailor who contributed to these phenomenal victories.

04:20:55.320 We only know victory.

04:20:56.380 We're only going to know victory.

04:20:58.580 We don't want to know the other, the other word.

04:21:01.200 We want to know victory.

04:21:02.420 We're going to have great victories in the years to come.

04:21:05.200 Well, at least for almost three and a half years, we're going to have great victories.

04:21:09.060 I want to thank a group of women from North Carolina. 0.74

04:21:12.240 Look at these great.

04:21:12.980 Will you stand up, please?

04:21:15.420 These beautiful women have followed me. 1.00

04:21:18.920 This is number 151.

04:21:23.220 You could call a rally.

04:21:24.660 This is sort of a rally.

04:21:25.760 Let's face it.

04:21:26.400 This is a rally.

04:21:27.260 This is a speech of love.

04:21:29.500 We're all, we all love our country.

04:21:31.780 But that group is from North Carolina.

04:21:34.520 They're up to about 151 visits.

04:21:37.060 They have a whole group of them.

04:21:39.920 I never see their husbands.

04:21:41.240 I don't know what's going on with their husbands.

04:21:43.620 I assume, do they still love you, the husbands?

04:21:45.960 Yes, good.

04:21:47.120 But I want to thank you.

04:21:48.640 151, they've been following me since 2016.

04:21:52.260 And you look even better now than you did then.

04:21:54.760 But I want to thank you very much.

04:21:56.240 It's a really group.

04:21:57.320 They love our country.

04:21:58.200 They like Trump.

04:21:59.220 But you know what they really do?

04:22:00.380 They love our country.

04:22:01.240 And we have the right policy, right?

04:22:03.480 We have policy.

04:22:04.440 We don't want crime.

04:22:06.220 We don't want men playing in women's sports. 1.00

04:22:09.080 We don't want transgender for everybody. 1.00

04:22:11.980 We don't want to have open borders where millions of people come into our country from jails, 1.00

04:22:16.820 from prisons, from mental institutions and insane asylums, drug dealers, murderers. 0.53

04:22:23.660 11,788 murderers were allowed to come into our country.

04:22:29.600 A lot of them are gone.

04:22:31.800 And by the way, Washington, D.C. is a safe place right now.

04:22:35.220 It went from one of the most dangerous cities in our country, can you believe that,

04:22:39.400 to probably the safest, among the safest in our country.

04:22:43.280 Nobody's being hit anymore.

04:22:47.180 It's very safe.

04:22:48.060 And I want to thank you.

04:22:48.920 A lot of the people here have helped.

04:22:50.320 A lot of the people in the audience are people that have straightened them out.

04:22:54.880 It took 12 days.

04:22:56.380 Think of that.

04:22:57.040 Now we're in Memphis.

04:22:57.860 We're doing the same thing in Memphis.

04:22:59.740 And we're going to Chicago.

04:23:01.440 You know, we have a governor that thinks it's wonderful when 50 people in a short period

04:23:05.680 of time were murdered in Chicago.

04:23:07.840 Over 200 people were hit.

04:23:10.220 And so we send in the National Guard.

04:23:14.120 We send, you know what, we send in what's ever necessary.

04:23:17.000 People don't care.

04:23:17.620 They want to, they don't want crime in their cities.

04:23:20.760 And we're doing it, and we're doing it well.

04:23:23.200 We're doing it like nobody's ever done it before.

04:23:25.560 So I just want to tell you, you're very close to D.C.

04:23:28.220 The restaurants are thriving.

04:23:30.420 The restaurants are dying.

04:23:32.160 They were closing one after another.

04:23:34.180 Now they're thriving.

04:23:35.280 They're opening up beautiful new restaurants.

04:23:37.920 Washington, D.C. is safe.

04:23:39.420 And I even went there and had dinner the other night.

04:23:41.960 And I stood right smack in the middle of the street.

04:23:45.160 Secret Service was thrilled.

04:23:47.140 And I gave a news conference.

04:23:49.200 It's a safe place now.

04:23:50.560 Washington, D.C., it's always going to be.

04:23:52.380 Our nation's capital is always going to be safe.

04:23:55.340 We're never going to let that happen again, what happened there.

04:23:58.540 One of the most beautiful places.

04:24:00.360 And we're doing a big beautification program.

04:24:02.480 It'll take me very little, very short.

04:24:04.980 But we're doing a beautification program to go along with the security and safety.

04:24:09.320 We're getting rid of the graffiti, the potholes, the broken medians between roads.

04:24:14.680 We're doing a real job, and you'd be proud of it.

04:24:16.960 I think everybody here is proud of it, frankly.

04:24:19.220 That's our nation's capital.

04:24:20.760 And that has to be clean, beautiful, and safe.

04:24:23.440 The U.S. Navy always stands for America.

04:24:26.840 As your commander-in-chief, I will always stand for you.

04:24:29.540 I promise you that.

04:24:30.840 You know that.

04:24:31.500 That's why you voted for me in numbers that nobody's ever seen before.

04:24:35.360 And I want you to know that, despite the current Democrat-induced shutdown, we will get our

04:24:42.700 service members every last penny.

04:24:44.520 Don't worry about it.

04:24:46.000 Don't worry about it.

04:24:48.320 You'll worry about it.

04:24:52.020 Do not worry about it.

04:24:53.960 It's all coming.

04:24:54.860 It's coming.

04:24:55.280 And even more, because I'm supporting the across-the-board pay raises for every sailor

04:25:00.700 and service member of the United States Armed Forces.

04:25:06.440 But we have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats.

04:25:10.800 They want to give all of our money to illegal aliens that pour into the country. 0.99

04:25:14.860 And, you know, I have a bigger heart than they do.

04:25:16.820 But the problem is, when you do that, they come in by the millions.

04:25:19.640 Everybody wants that, so you can't do it.

04:25:21.420 But I've also pledged the largest ever investment in our military's history.

04:25:27.020 We're spending over $1 trillion.

04:25:29.740 We've never had anything like that before.

04:25:32.160 $1 trillion on our military.

04:25:35.180 And that includes, along with your Secretary of the Navy and Pete Hexeth, we're going to

04:25:39.960 be building lots of ships and doing a lot of things that you haven't seen happen for 35 years.

04:25:46.400 We'll soon revitalize our once-great shipyards with hundreds of billions of dollars in new

04:25:52.160 investments and people coming from all around the world.

04:25:55.520 And they're going to build ships in America.

04:25:57.740 We want them built in America.

04:25:59.600 And as I told our generals and admirals last Tuesday, we are getting wokeness the hell out of our military.

04:26:05.440 It's gone.

04:26:06.360 It's really gone.

04:26:07.200 I don't know that it was ever really here.

04:26:11.200 I think some of the top people had it.

04:26:12.860 I knew a few of them. 0.99

04:26:13.800 They were really, they were major losers. 1.00

04:26:16.280 But they were losers. 0.98

04:26:19.500 Unlike our great general, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who may be here, Dan Raisin Cain. 0.98

04:26:26.840 You know Raisin Cain?

04:26:28.020 When I heard his name, I said, that's the guy I'm looking for.

04:26:30.660 But he's been an amazing warrior.

04:26:33.520 And, you know, he was the one headed up the attack on Iran. 0.95

04:26:37.620 And everything he's touched has turned out great.

04:26:40.200 He knocked out ISIS.

04:26:41.560 So I was told it would take four to five years to beat ISIS when he came on board.

04:26:46.440 He did it in four weeks.

04:26:48.100 We knocked him out in four weeks.

04:26:49.420 One hundred percent of the ISIS caliphate.

04:26:52.900 Is Dan Cain here?

04:26:55.180 He is.

04:26:56.140 You know why?

04:26:56.880 Because he's working.

04:26:57.620 That's the one thing.

04:27:00.200 We don't have to worry about him.

04:27:01.820 But he is a fantastic man.

04:27:03.440 That's the man I wanted right from the beginning.

04:27:05.400 I said, if I ever do this again, and if I could get lucky enough to win, because we have a base like nobody in history has had,

04:27:11.620 I said, I'm going to pick Raisin Cain as the chairman. 0.99

04:27:15.200 And that's what we did.

04:27:16.140 And he's been incredible.

04:27:17.180 We will not be politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom.

04:27:22.100 That's why we have renamed the Department of Defense at Department of War, as I said.

04:27:27.100 And we have changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

04:27:32.620 That was easy.

04:27:36.180 That was an easy one.

04:27:38.720 You know, for years I've looked at it, and I added it up, and I figured we have 92 percent of the frontage.

04:27:44.460 I said, how come we call it the Gulf of Mexico?

04:27:46.460 I mean, I wouldn't say that Mexico is thrilled with me, but what are you going to do?

04:27:50.420 It's the Gulf of America.

04:27:52.040 And I love it now.

04:27:53.160 I was watching the other night a report, and they said very routinely, in the Gulf of America, this is, you know, they just went on to talk about it.

04:28:02.080 They didn't do it with a smirk or a smile.

04:28:04.060 They didn't say, in the Gulf of America.

04:28:06.140 No, it's called the Gulf of America now, and nobody's playing games with it.

04:28:10.600 We got sued by the Associated Press, and they lost.

04:28:15.360 In fact, the judge was so good, he said he's calling it the Gulf of America.

04:28:18.860 He's got all the approvals.

04:28:20.700 You have to do that, too, to the very liberal Associated Press.

04:28:23.900 They got thrown out of court.

04:28:25.760 In fact, they're almost not allowed to cover me anymore because of that.

04:28:28.900 It was a big hit.

04:28:30.120 So I'm very proud of that.

04:28:32.660 Under our leadership, the spirit of the American forces is soaring like it has never soared before.

04:28:38.740 I think right now we have more spirit than we've ever had before.

04:28:43.000 After years of recruiting shortages, we couldn't get guys or gals to become sailors. 0.99

04:28:50.340 One year ago, they didn't want to be a sailor.

04:28:53.520 Although I must say, once I said we're going to run, a lot of people made it better.

04:28:56.920 But let's go back two years, and it was even worse.

04:29:00.120 Because there was no hope. 0.80

04:29:02.480 We had this horrible, horrible president who had no clue what the hell was happening. 0.75

04:29:08.060 The chances of him walking down those stairs successfully were not good. 0.84

04:29:14.940 And I have to be careful, because one day I'm going to probably fall.

04:29:20.160 No, the North Carolina women said, that will never happen to you.

04:29:24.320 I always say, walk down the steps nice and slow.

04:29:27.040 You ever notice I do nice — I don't have to bop down the stairs.

04:29:30.900 Walk nice and slowly.

04:29:32.960 But we have a waiting list.

04:29:35.160 Think of this.

04:29:35.960 We have a waiting list for people wanting to get into the United States Navy,

04:29:39.740 the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Space Force.

04:29:46.260 Oh, we love Space Force.

04:29:48.560 But think of it.

04:29:49.380 We have a waiting list for every branch of government now.

04:29:53.380 And that includes police.

04:29:55.100 Police and firemen.

04:29:56.100 They didn't want to — nobody wanted to be a policeman.

04:29:59.380 Now they want to be a policeman.

04:30:00.520 Now they want to be in the Navy.

04:30:01.860 They want to be in the Air Force so badly.

04:30:05.400 The Marines, the Army, they want to be in all of it.

04:30:08.360 They love Space Force.

04:30:09.480 I love Space Force because I created Space Force.

04:30:11.800 That was my thing.

04:30:13.360 Then it's going to turn out to be one of the most important.

04:30:16.580 But one year ago, our country was dead.

04:30:21.140 We had a dead country.

04:30:23.180 People say, sir, you shouldn't say that.

04:30:24.880 It's too strong to withdraw.

04:30:25.880 We had a dead country.

04:30:27.700 And today we have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far.

04:30:31.660 One year.

04:30:32.140 Think of it.

04:30:32.620 One year ago, we were dead.

04:30:37.000 The king of Saudi Arabia said to me,

04:30:39.840 President, one year ago, we thought we lost America.

04:30:44.280 We thought it was a dead country.

04:30:46.560 And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.

04:30:49.600 He said that.

04:30:50.740 I use this term.

04:30:51.740 And I'm pleased to say that 2025 was the Navy's single best recruiting year ever.

04:31:00.400 Not bad.

04:31:03.400 So you went from those embarrassing headlines of a year ago.

04:31:07.200 Think of it.

04:31:08.180 Nobody wants to go into the Navy.

04:31:10.240 How does that make you feel?

04:31:12.380 Now you have a different problem.

04:31:13.900 You know what the problem is?

04:31:14.880 Everybody wants your job.

04:31:16.800 I like that better, right?

04:31:19.160 No, but nobody's going to take your job.

04:31:20.980 You were with us when it was not as nice.

04:31:25.520 It wasn't as nice.

04:31:26.700 Those are the people I like the best, too.

04:31:29.140 The people that were with me when it wasn't looking so good,

04:31:31.980 like these ladies from North Carolina. 1.00

04:31:33.840 They were with me when it wasn't looking that good.

04:31:37.560 A lot of fake scandals were created.

04:31:40.160 All fake.

04:31:41.460 One of those eager new recruits is 18-year old Aiden Rollins,

04:31:47.320 a recruit like I'm so proud of.

04:31:50.300 Aiden's father was a sailor.

04:31:51.920 His grandfather was a sailor.

04:31:53.600 And after four years of Navy ROTC,

04:31:57.080 it is Aiden's turn to carry on that tradition.

04:32:00.740 When he enlisted in April, his father, Daniel, a Navy veteran,

04:32:03.980 was so inspired that he decided to re-enlist, too.

04:32:09.180 Wow.

04:32:10.260 I'm delighted to say that father and son are here with us today

04:32:13.980 representing the future of this great fleet.

04:32:16.480 Please, Aiden and your father, please stand up.

04:32:19.620 Wow.

04:32:20.020 Wow.

04:32:29.140 Wow.

04:32:29.640 That's a good-looking family, I tell you.

04:32:32.360 Thank you both.

04:32:33.160 That's a great story.

04:32:34.140 Beautiful.

04:32:35.080 Your father looks pretty young, Aiden.

04:32:36.720 I mean, he's a young-looking guy.

04:32:40.020 Every sailor, aviator, submariner, and shipmate

04:32:43.260 in the Navy inherits a tradition of excellence

04:32:46.420 and daring power and glory unmatched

04:32:48.740 in the long saga of mankind's voyage on the sea.

04:32:53.300 From that first ship, the schooner Hanna,

04:32:56.160 to the awesome sight of a modern carrier battle group underway,

04:33:00.780 the U.S. Navy has always been the iron will

04:33:03.140 of a proud and mighty nation pushing forward

04:33:05.600 through the currents and over those big, beautiful waves,

04:33:10.540 through the spray of raging combat

04:33:12.140 and the fog of naval war.

04:33:15.980 America's sailors have proven time and again

04:33:18.360 that our Navy does just the best job there is.

04:33:22.900 Anything having to do with sailing the oceans,

04:33:26.140 there's nobody to compete.

04:33:27.560 We own the skies, we stalk the depths,

04:33:30.660 and we rule the seas like nobody has ever ruled the seas.

04:33:35.360 From Boston Harbor to Hampton Roads,

04:33:39.220 from the Philippine Sea to the Red Sea,

04:33:42.000 from the Guadalcanal to the vast great Atlantic Ocean,

04:33:47.520 our sailors have seized triumph upon triumph.

04:33:50.320 We don't know anything about defeat.

04:33:52.160 We heaped honor upon honor and carved greatness

04:33:56.700 and splendor into the pages of history.

04:33:59.980 We only talk about the Navy and only use that word splendor.

04:34:04.820 We also say victory because that's the other.

04:34:07.600 We have splendor and we have victory on gun decks and flight decks,

04:34:11.680 in torpedo rooms and cockpits.

04:34:15.080 They have poured out their blood, sweat, and tears

04:34:17.320 and offered their very lives to defend this land between the seas.

04:34:21.560 They have crossed icy canals,

04:34:24.220 leapt from burning wreckage,

04:34:26.280 plunged into frigid water,

04:34:27.880 soared into deadly skies,

04:34:29.880 and slashed across the mine-infested bays

04:34:32.740 to claim American victory

04:34:35.280 and to defend the cause of liberty,

04:34:39.820 to defend, quite frankly, the American flag.

04:34:44.260 In every era and every part of this globe,

04:34:47.860 our sailors have fought with courage in their hearts,

04:34:50.680 patriotism in their souls,

04:34:52.720 and salt water in their veins.

04:34:55.340 You have that salt water?

04:34:57.840 Don't let the doctors change it.

04:34:59.820 Keep it.

04:35:01.060 Because there's nothing like it.

04:35:02.540 There's no blood like it.

04:35:04.180 And standing before all of you today,

04:35:07.080 I know that whatever our nation is threatened

04:35:10.240 and whenever they need help,

04:35:15.140 whenever duty calls,

04:35:17.300 American sailors will hoist our flag high

04:35:19.880 and they will rally to Admiral Farragut's immortal battle cry, 0.99

04:35:24.160 damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, 1.00

04:35:27.000 go, you son of a gun. 1.00

04:35:29.160 With your help, we will fight, fight, fight. 0.97

04:35:32.440 We will win, win, win.

04:35:34.900 Because of you, our Navy and our country

04:35:37.260 will always be proud and righteous

04:35:39.200 and mighty and free.

04:35:41.440 Congratulations once again

04:35:43.200 on 250 years of total dominance.

04:35:47.340 Sail fast.

04:35:48.920 Stay strong.

04:35:49.980 Thank you.

04:35:50.720 God bless our sailors

04:35:52.000 and God bless the United States of America.

04:35:54.840 Thank you very much, everybody.

04:35:56.760 Thank you.

04:35:57.220 Thank you.

04:36:00.840 Thank you.

04:36:01.420 Young man, there's no need to feel down.

04:36:27.260 I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.

04:36:30.840 I said, young man, cause you're in a new town.

04:36:34.800 There's no need to be unhappy.

04:36:39.200 Young man, there's a place you can go.

04:36:42.320 I said, young man, when you're short on your door,

04:36:46.100 you can't stay there.

04:36:48.240 And I'm sure you will find many ways

04:36:51.120 to have a good time.

04:36:56.280 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

04:36:59.940 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

04:37:04.840 They have everything for young men to enjoy.

04:37:09.080 You can hang out with all the boys.

04:37:11.680 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

04:37:15.020 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

04:37:19.920 You can get yourself clean.

04:37:22.140 You can have a good meal.

04:37:24.160 You can do whatever you feel.

04:37:28.220 Young man, are you listening to me?

04:37:31.560 I said, young man, what do you want to be?

04:37:35.360 I said, young man, you can make brilliant dreams.

04:37:39.020 But you've got to know this one big no man 0.97

04:37:44.260 Does it all by himself.

04:37:46.800 I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf

04:37:50.400 And just go there to the YMCA.

04:37:54.500 I'm sure.

04:37:55.180 Chief of the Armed Forces.

04:37:57.860 Incredible, incredible day.

04:38:00.840 Now he's only got to go back and go back to Washington, D.C.

04:38:04.360 and deal with the guys of war.

04:38:07.860 Let's bring in Admiral Gary Hall.

04:38:10.700 Admiral Hall was on the National Security Council

04:38:13.000 for President Trump and President Trump's first term.

04:38:16.940 Admiral Hall, you've had an opportunity to see today

04:38:19.480 a historic 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States Navy

04:38:24.740 and, of course, wrapped up with a very inspiring talk

04:38:29.340 to the sailors and men of the Truman and the other ships

04:38:33.200 in the fleet that are at Norfolk Naval Station.

04:38:35.760 Your thoughts, sir?

04:38:36.380 Well, thank you, Steve.

04:38:38.240 I'm humbled to go after the president.

04:38:40.060 Wow.

04:38:40.440 I have chills right now.

04:38:41.940 I have goose flesh.

04:38:43.100 Send me to the recruiters.

04:38:44.620 I want to sign back up.

04:38:46.280 You know, three great speeches.

04:38:47.960 And I'll tell you, the culture of the Navy

04:38:49.980 is different than all the other services.

04:38:51.980 Each service has their own culture.

04:38:54.020 But in the Navy, you cannot order anybody to cheer.

04:38:57.520 You cannot order them to applaud.

04:38:59.360 And their response to the Secretary of War, their response to the First Lady,

04:39:03.880 their response to the president is awesome.

04:39:06.220 And those people, they just, you know, they hate the fact that people love President Trump.

04:39:12.140 You know, the American sailor, they come from ordinary Americans.

04:39:16.840 You know, they're neither liberal or conservative.

04:39:19.500 They're just good all Americans.

04:39:21.420 And they love the president.

04:39:23.180 To see that is just amazing.

04:39:25.200 The president mentioned, you know, the Kearsarge.

04:39:27.380 And I commanded a similar ship.

04:39:29.420 You know, 1,000 sailors, 2,000 Marines.

04:39:31.800 And again, they are genuine Americans.

04:39:34.840 And when they cheer, it's coming right from their heart.

04:39:38.160 And so, yeah, sign me back up, Steve.

04:39:40.920 You know, in the promo to this broadcast, I saw a picture of you as Ensign Bannon.

04:39:46.760 And first, for our listeners, I want to tell you something.

04:39:49.620 I met Lieutenant Bannon back in 1986, 87.

04:39:54.080 And when he showed up at my squadron, every wife, every spouse, every girl there swooned and went,

04:40:00.620 have you seen Chris Bannon's brother?

04:40:03.100 Oh, he is gorgeous.

04:40:04.780 So, anyway, and Steve, you and I joined at about the same time.

04:40:12.380 And the reason we joined was, and tell me if I'm right with you, adventure, opportunity.

04:40:18.160 And I use the phrase association with heroes.

04:40:22.300 And that's exactly why sailors are joining today.

04:40:25.480 They want adventure.

04:40:26.720 They want opportunity.

04:40:27.600 And they want to serve with like-minded heroes.

04:40:31.460 And service is the big term right there.

04:40:33.660 So, what a great date, 250 years.

04:40:36.240 I only spent 39 years in the Navy.

04:40:38.160 I wish I could have spent a couple more.

04:40:41.480 I want to ask you about, and by the way, I was born right outside an ocean view right near the Norfolk Naval Station.

04:40:47.480 Of course, family, so many family associate with the Navy.

04:40:51.440 And it was reading those inspirational and hearing the stories, the inspirational stories of the Pacific Fleet

04:40:56.800 that I always wanted to be a naval officer and to go to the Pacific Fleet.

04:41:00.820 And I was blessed to be able to do that.

04:41:02.400 One technical question for you.

04:41:04.020 You were President Trump's, on the National Security Council, pretty senior position about alliances.

04:41:09.380 You had been one of the senior officers at NATO outside of your service to the fleet as a pilot.

04:41:16.620 But what's the difference you've seen in the cut of the jib of the president in the second term than the first?

04:41:22.920 Well, one, he doesn't feel hampered.

04:41:26.100 And two, he's doing amazing things.

04:41:28.120 You know, I served for two years at NATO.

04:41:30.580 And, you know, the common joke is NATO stands for not at the office or not after two o'clock.

04:41:35.020 And they are, you know, those staffs, NATO is staffs.

04:41:38.760 It's not force structure.

04:41:39.860 And the fact that President Trump has made them, you know, pony up more of their GDP for infrastructure,

04:41:46.000 that is a big deal because basically any time anything came up in NATO

04:41:52.460 and we had all the senior officers represented, if ever there was a question about what to do,

04:41:58.480 everybody bent over to tie their shoes and I was standing there with loafers.

04:42:01.860 They were all looking for the Americans to take charge, whether it be the 4th of July picnic or an operation at sea. 0.88

04:42:10.420 And their forces, we had quick reaction forces, naval forces, and with an exercise once every year.

04:42:19.040 And there were four quarters where you would sign up.

04:42:21.300 And the NATO forces would only sign up on the quarters that they didn't deploy forces.

04:42:26.640 So President Trump has really, I think, wakened up the NATO forces that they, one, they have to pony up, you know,

04:42:34.060 two, they have to deploy and have the infrastructure to go to sea.

04:42:38.160 You know, when I worked for the president, I used to say, if you go in to see him, one, there's six things I want to tell you.

04:42:43.540 One, he's not going to do the same thing and expect a different result, which is, you know, withdrawal from Afghanistan.

04:42:49.000 Two, he's going to be respectful of taxpayer dollars.

04:42:53.140 And three, he's not going to put any American in harm's way, whether it be DOD, Department of State, or NGOs.

04:42:59.920 And the other thing, if you go into the seat of the president, he's going to ask you with a project, how much are we paying?

04:43:05.720 Why is it important to the United States?

04:43:07.360 How much are we paying?

04:43:08.440 How much are others paying?

04:43:09.900 Burden sharing.

04:43:10.640 And he wants NATO to step up and share the burden.

04:43:13.220 Admiral, hang on for a second.

04:43:18.020 I want to go to, I'm going to come back to you.

04:43:19.500 I want Tej Gill.

04:43:21.180 Tej, you've had this chance to see this today.

04:43:24.080 The Navy SEALs got two great speakers at the beginning and a demonstration of the Navy SEALs boarding ships.

04:43:31.180 Your thoughts today, particularly the enthusiasm of the sailors.

04:43:35.980 Oh, yeah, it was awesome.

04:43:38.080 Trump's the man.

04:43:40.800 Can you hear me?

04:43:43.220 Yes, sir, I got you, Tej.

04:43:45.320 He's amazing.

04:43:46.440 Okay, got it.

04:43:47.380 Yeah, Trump's the man.

04:43:48.420 He's amazing.

04:43:49.840 Those sailors were fired up.

04:43:51.400 And then I saw him earlier.

04:43:52.680 I was watching the show earlier when he was out on the aircraft carrier, and they were doing the live fire demonstration with the Sea Whiz and the Navy SEALs fast rope in there.

04:44:02.780 That was an incredible day.

04:44:04.900 And like Trump said, the naval recruiting in 2025 is the highest ever.

04:44:10.520 And that's because of Trump and that's because of Hegseth getting all the woke stuff out of the military and turning it back into a lethal fighting force, as it should be, and using the naval power to restore the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and defeating the Hooties. 0.96

04:44:27.060 And Trump is the man.

04:44:29.580 Pete Hegseth is doing an amazing job.

04:44:32.060 And the Navy is going to flourish again.

04:44:35.040 It's going to turn back into a fighting force.

04:44:37.960 And their job is to maintain freedom of navigation across the world, to keep the shipping lanes open.

04:44:43.400 For recruiting, it's very, you know, for recruiting for the Navy SEALs, it's always tough to get the right people.

04:44:52.000 I know a lot of people want to be Navy SEALs, but it's so tough psychologically and physically.

04:44:56.520 And I tell people the psychological toughness of you guys is unbelievable.

04:45:01.360 What do you think this meant today to our broader audience, particularly of young Americans, about the potential for volunteering for the Navy?

04:45:10.680 I think young people are going to be fired up.

04:45:13.400 I think, well, we already see they're already fired up.

04:45:16.100 The recruiting is the highest it's ever been for the Navy.

04:45:19.060 And I think that goes across armed forces.

04:45:22.480 But everything Trump and the military is doing right now, it builds enthusiasm.

04:45:30.700 It builds morale.

04:45:32.040 And it gets people motivated to be Americans.

04:45:35.800 Like, we need to bring back an overwhelming sense of patriotism to America.

04:45:39.980 That's how you defeat this woke mind virus, this ideology that's in America.

04:45:46.640 It's through patriotism.

04:45:48.220 And it's through leadership.

04:45:49.860 And Trump is providing the leadership.

04:45:51.480 He put Pete Hegseth in power. 0.97

04:45:53.880 And he is getting rid of all this crap that's in the military. 0.94

04:45:58.140 And it's returning it to its roof. 0.92

04:45:59.920 The Department of War, it's a fighting force.

04:46:03.320 Lethality is its job.

04:46:04.900 And that's what they're doing.

04:46:06.200 And that's going to motivate young people to join the military.

04:46:09.660 Because the military is now the military again.

04:46:12.200 It's a fighting force.

04:46:13.420 It's not, you know, they're not out doing all this other stuff that they're not supposed to be.

04:46:17.920 So I think this is going to motivate young people to join the military big time.

04:46:24.720 As Pete said, precision and ferocity.

04:46:28.360 Guys, hang right there.

04:46:29.640 I want to go.

04:46:30.420 Captain Fennell, we're going to let you go.

04:46:31.980 Your closing thoughts, sir, you spent, you dedicated your professional life to the United States Navy from a very young man.

04:46:39.060 You served your country.

04:46:40.480 You were bold enough and brave enough to tell the country what they needed to hear.

04:46:44.280 At the very moment, certain administrations didn't want anybody to talk about that.

04:46:48.900 What are your thoughts today?

04:46:51.380 Well, I just joined the chorus of what you've just heard.

04:46:55.280 This is really spectacular.

04:46:57.260 I'm sitting over here in Switzerland.

04:46:59.060 It's almost midnight.

04:47:00.760 And proud to be here.

04:47:02.880 I'm proud to have watched all this.

04:47:04.760 And I can feel the energy all the way over here.

04:47:09.020 I came into the Navy in 1986 when I was commissioned.

04:47:12.120 And I came in in the Reagan Top Gun movie had come out.

04:47:17.480 Reagan was president.

04:47:18.980 And I wanted something to do that was meaningful.

04:47:21.320 And I wanted to join the Navy.

04:47:23.620 And I can see in those sailors' faces, especially the petty officers today, and I think Admiral Hall said it, they won't clap.

04:47:33.280 No one orders sailors to clap.

04:47:35.340 They were happy.

04:47:36.320 They were enthusiastic about their president and their service.

04:47:42.300 And I am so excited to see this.

04:47:45.740 And I'm just looking forward to seeing our Navy grow and for us to become the Navy that we have always been, which is to ensure that every seafaring nation has freedom of navigation, free access to the oceans, and that we defend America both from the land and the sea.

04:48:03.500 This has been a great day, and it's been an honor to be here.

04:48:06.200 So thank you very much.

04:48:09.220 Where do people get – you've got another great piece about the Navy we're going to have you on this week to talk about that and the challenge of the Chinese Communist Party, warfighting capability.

04:48:19.480 Where do people – what's the title of your piece, and where do people go to get it?

04:48:22.400 Yeah, the title of the piece is Victory at Sea, the importance of the maritime power against the PRC, and it's an American greatness.

04:48:34.580 I write for American greatness just every few weeks or so when something gets my attention.

04:48:39.140 And this speech today and what the president said last week in Quantico about victory at sea, this is what this is about, getting back to be able to fight and win wars at sea.

04:48:52.560 If we can do that, all the other stuff of humanitarian assistance and showing the flag and helping other people and coalitions and all that will come.

04:49:02.800 But if we cannot defeat any other nation, Navy at sea, then we have failed, and that's what we're headed back to.

04:49:10.140 And I'm so glad that President Trump spoke about that and that we have a new spirit of warfighting and naval warfighting that's coming back to our nation.

04:49:19.320 And as they said, I think the admiral said and others, I'm ready to sign back up if they'll take me.

04:49:25.620 Captain Fennell, thank you so much.

04:49:30.620 You're fighting a pretty good fight and making sure the public knows, understands what's going on.

04:49:34.560 So thank you.

04:49:35.060 Honored to have you on here, sir.

04:49:37.340 Thank you.

04:49:40.200 I think we've got a guy that's about to make captain, Sean Spicer, joins us.

04:49:44.060 Of course, Sean, you were a critical part of the first term.

04:49:47.300 Give me your thoughts today.

04:49:48.400 I think you put on the rank of captain on Tuesday, or have you already put it on as just the ceremonies on Tuesday?

04:49:53.960 The ceremony is on Tuesday.

04:49:55.640 Looking forward to it.

04:49:56.640 I saw Secretary Hegseth last night just to confirm we're good to go.

04:50:00.920 I told him I haven't eaten in like four days because I got really worried after his speech.

04:50:05.000 And he said, I said, fat, not fit.

04:50:07.600 So I said, all right, I'm good.

04:50:09.520 I'm good.

04:50:10.600 Yeah, it was, by the way, a big win yesterday at Navy against Air Force.

04:50:15.660 I'll take a win as a win.

04:50:16.800 It was 34-31.

04:50:19.180 We're halfway to the Commander-in-Chief's trophy once again.

04:50:22.440 And so that was good.

04:50:23.160 But look, I thought today was fantastic, the opportunity to celebrate the Navy, the history of the Navy, seeing those sailors down there on the pier get fired up.

04:50:31.000 This is what it's all about.

04:50:33.000 Those folks getting appreciated, getting thanked for their service, feeling inspired about what they're doing, and importantly, the why.

04:50:41.440 Steve, you know this.

04:50:42.340 I mean, you can sit around forever and do what you're told, but having that sense of duty and purpose is critical.

04:50:46.780 And what President Trump reminded folks again today was that sense of purpose.

04:50:51.500 And he also made it very clear in a sort of a funny way that, look, I'm going to go out there and be the president of peace.

04:50:57.260 I'm on the cusp and on the precipice of solving eight big wars.

04:51:00.980 But that means that you don't have to fight, that you can continue to train and be ready.

04:51:06.300 But we're going to make sure that we bring peace around the world so that we don't have to use you unless we have to.

04:51:10.580 Captain, can you hang on for a second?

04:51:15.220 I'm going to come back to you because I want to ask you some differences between the first and second term.

04:51:19.000 I think we're seeing a much more determined President Trump.

04:51:21.440 There will not be held down by the voices of just conventional, of how to think about things conventionally.

04:51:28.420 I want to go, Cleo Pascal, I want to thank you for spending the entire day doing this.

04:51:35.680 Your whole theory of the case about the Central Pacific being the strategic pivot, the counter to McKinder's heartland theory, I think is brilliant.

04:51:45.220 We're going to spend a lot more time developing that over the days and weeks ahead.

04:51:49.780 Thank you so much.

04:51:50.740 Closing thoughts and observations, ma'am.

04:51:52.480 It's been a great day and an honour to spend it with you and with the posse watching as well.

04:52:01.120 And just for those of you who aren't in the Navy, to understand that this affects your daily lives in so many ways.

04:52:10.180 The old saying of trade follows the flag.

04:52:13.820 This is about the economy and economic growth.

04:52:16.480 And I would argue also the currency follows the flag.

04:52:19.060 So when the British Navy was the dominant force in the 19th century, the British pound was the global reserve currency.

04:52:26.140 And the U.S. dollar really became the global reserve currency at the same time as the naval power of the U.S. became really evident.

04:52:36.020 They're not totally congruent, but they certainly overlap to a large degree.

04:52:40.180 So the role of the Navy in preserving core economic strengths within the U.S. system is paramount.

04:52:48.740 And, you know, the president's speech about rebuilding the Navy and about shipbuilding is incredibly important and heartening.

04:52:58.620 And apart from that, all I'd say is, you know, go Navy, beat China.

04:53:05.840 Cleo, what's your social media?

04:53:07.880 How do people keep up with you?

04:53:08.880 What are your coordinates?

04:53:10.180 Uh, I'm on X, just my name, Cleo Paschal, C-L-E-O-P-A-S-K-A-L. 0.92

04:53:14.780 And on Getter, at Real Cleo, because somebody stole my name.

04:53:21.840 Um, thank you, ma'am.

04:53:23.660 Admiral Masso, you're an expert in naval warfare, surface warfare.

04:53:28.120 You know everything about the, and have worked in the process of getting these great weapon systems and all that.

04:53:33.620 But you really specialize in motivating young men and women.

04:53:36.420 Put in perspective what we saw today, sir.

04:53:38.340 Well, I think that what we saw today is that the 250-year amazing journey of our Navy is completely parallel with our nation and its 250-year journey.

04:53:51.360 Everything our nation has acquired and done has really been enabled in a very large way by our Navy.

04:54:00.000 I think today what we showed our allies and enemies and our own internal sailors in the family is that we are vital, that the president has stepped up and has amazingly supported us.

04:54:15.580 Our future is bright, and there is no better friend nor worse adversary, potentially, than our own Navy.

04:54:24.400 And we showed that in spades today.

04:54:26.500 It was an amazing day.

04:54:27.720 And I thank you for allowing me to participate with you.

04:54:30.640 And I thank you for spending as much time as you did, because no one else put it together like you did.

04:54:37.100 Well, it was easy, given all the guys like you I know in the Navy and how much we love it.

04:54:43.380 But it was incredible.

04:54:45.120 Real America's Voice and the Navy put on such an incredible show of combined operations.

04:54:50.660 And I was really proud of the fact, since Parker and Rob Sieg and the Real America's Voice team worked so hard on this,

04:54:56.460 the actual White House and the Navy decided to give us a feed that nobody else had.

04:55:00.320 So Admiral Masso, do you have social media, Sonny, to place people and go get your writings?

04:55:06.820 No, not really.

04:55:08.060 I mean, I'm out there in LinkedIn and other places.

04:55:10.720 I'm the president of the Navy Museum Development Foundation, and I can be found at emasso at nmdf.org.

04:55:21.620 And again, you've got a podcast on Navy history.

04:55:25.020 You've still got the podcast on Navy history.

04:55:26.980 Where can people go to get that?

04:55:28.080 Well, we're on Naval Historical Foundation, second Saturday, out of YouTube.

04:55:36.420 And we have 84 pieces of great content that I think people would really enjoy.

04:55:43.440 We'll drive them to them.

04:55:44.620 Admiral Masso, thank you so much.

04:55:46.100 Cleo Pascal, as always, you're tremendous.

04:55:48.620 Don't ever change.

04:55:50.740 From the Real America's Voice studios in Washington, D.C.

04:55:54.000 I want to thank Real America's Voice and all the team in Washington for making this happen.

04:55:58.940 Very blessed today to just have a great crew.

04:56:05.240 Let me go back.

04:56:06.200 I want to make sure we get all of our other guests in here.

04:56:08.960 Sean Spicer, just put it in perspective today.

04:56:13.720 And particularly, President Trump's wanted to do this for a long time.

04:56:16.200 The analogy to Roosevelt, the great white fleet.

04:56:19.180 We do it at basically the same thing, Hampton Roads, Virginia Capes.

04:56:23.440 And compare President Trump to the first term and what he's trying to accomplish this term, sir.

04:56:28.640 It's a great question.

04:56:31.360 I've been going down this, and I'll have more to announce because I actually have a project that I'm working on this to really talk about the difference in all of the areas between Trump 1.0 and 2.0.

04:56:40.680 And I think the difference in 2.0, whether it's NATO and one of your previous guests mentioned that, tariffs or the military in particular, think about what he has tasked Secretary of the Navy John Phelan with, shipbuilding.

04:56:53.200 So the first time when he came into office, Steve, you know that there's a lot of us getting to know each other, the president getting to know us, the president trying to understand what his agenda was and how to get it through.

04:57:01.720 So he knew what he wanted, but he didn't necessarily understand the process, and frankly, I don't know if we all did.

04:57:06.420 He came into the second term very clear about what he wanted to do with the time that he had in the second term.

04:57:12.260 So you look at Tom Holman, the precision in which he's carrying out these immigration raids to make sure our country is safer and stronger.

04:57:19.160 But he also is doing that in the military.

04:57:21.180 Anytime you listen to the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, he's very, very laser focused on shipbuilding.

04:57:25.720 He understands the task at hand, the threats that we face in the future, and he's not wasting any time putting plans in PowerPoint presentations and taking meetings.

04:57:34.780 It's like he's got his marching orders out there, which is this is what we need to do to take on threats in the future.

04:57:40.300 I want you to stay laser focused on that.

04:57:41.840 I want you to implement it to get it done.

04:57:43.800 And I think Secretary Phelan has done a phenomenal job of literally taking those orders from the top and executing them, making sure that everyone understands what the focus is. 0.98

04:57:53.040 And that's what I think the real difference is right now is that President Trump isn't waiting around.

04:57:58.060 He understands that the threat is real.

04:57:59.720 The threat is now.

04:58:01.180 And he's tasked all of these folks.

04:58:03.440 And you look at – I know a lot of people who haven't served didn't appreciate, I don't think, the message that Secretary Hanks gave the other day.

04:58:14.340 This idea of an ethos isn't just about how many pushups you can do or how long you can plank for.

04:58:20.160 It's a mindset.

04:58:21.000 If you wake up every day thinking I'm going to be ready to fight, I'm going to be ready to defend this country, it kind of permeates everything that you do.

04:58:27.260 You go to your desk.

04:58:28.240 Whether you're sitting there working in a program that's desk-based or deck-based out on a ship, you understand that there's a purpose to what you do and a readiness to yourself and to your team that's critical.

04:58:42.360 And what Hegseth did the other day was to reset that mentality and say, we're not here to hug each other, to all get along.

04:58:48.800 We're here to protect this nation.

04:58:50.120 And there is a complete and utter sort of unity of purpose that stems from the top with President Trump, goes down to Secretary Hegseth, goes down into the Navy to Secretary Thielen and the CNO and everyone else.

04:59:05.720 So I feel like the sense of unity, purpose, mission is so much greater this time because President Trump has picked a team and made it clear what those policies are and then said, go do it.

04:59:21.640 Sean Spicer, brilliant.

04:59:27.060 I guess we're going to have you back on.

04:59:28.580 I want to talk about the tough trade-offs that have to come.

04:59:30.820 We talk about shipbuilding as we've talked about the different geopolitical concerns and hemispheric defense, all that.

04:59:36.640 There's got to be some tough decisions made and tough trade-offs, but you're absolutely correct.

04:59:40.160 President Trump's given marching orders or in this fight to the fleet, all ahead flank.

04:59:44.880 Sean, where do people get your podcast?

04:59:46.960 Which I can tell you, when I'm on Sean's podcast, everything goes viral.

04:59:51.640 I just tell my team, watch Sean Spicer.

04:59:54.260 It all goes viral.

04:59:56.160 It all goes viral.

04:59:56.720 Some of the stuff I say on the show, going Sean Spicer, it's literally top of Daily Mail and it's viral.

05:00:02.560 So I don't know how you do it, but you keep doing it.

05:00:05.260 Where do people go for your podcast and your social media?

05:00:08.940 It's like a Reese's peanut butter cup.

05:00:10.500 You need the chocolate and the peanut butter to make it taste great.

05:00:12.760 So I'll ask the questions, you give the answers, and then we'll make it all happen.

05:00:16.540 On YouTube, it's Sean M. Spicer.

05:00:18.620 My website, SeanSpicer.com, has my newsletter and everything else.

05:00:21.440 And obviously, on Twitter, it's just Sean Spicer.

05:00:24.160 But obviously, we do a live show in the morning, a show in the evening that you've been on a ton.

05:00:28.800 And anyone who can sign up on YouTube, obviously, we're on Rumble and Getter and all that as well.

05:00:33.160 But really, where we need to continue to grow is on YouTube.

05:00:36.000 So thank you for that.

05:00:38.840 Captain Spicer, thank you.

05:00:40.220 And sorry, I can't be back there Tuesday, but you're going to be – I can tell already you're going to be in good hands.

05:00:46.420 So bravo, Zulu.

05:00:47.760 Yeah, the secretary's got me.

05:00:48.900 I told them that you're not allowed to do push-ups and blues.

05:00:52.440 And then I watched all the midshipmen and the superintendent yesterday break.

05:00:56.420 You saw that, by the way, right?

05:00:57.760 They broke the Guinness Book of World Record number of push-ups.

05:01:00.700 And I was a few minutes late for the game, Steve.

05:01:03.040 And I got to tell you, at first, I was a little concerned that I was running behind, but we had some traffic on Route 50 getting out there.

05:01:09.100 And then when I realized what they were doing, I was like, thank goodness.

05:01:14.120 Keep going.

05:01:15.100 Unbelievable.

05:01:15.640 Navy's got – Mo and the folks at Army are going to have their work really cut out for them against that Navy team.

05:01:20.660 So, Sean, thank you for coming on.

05:01:23.360 Look, everybody go to the podcast, sign up right now.

05:01:25.260 Great coverage today by you.

05:01:26.280 Great coverage, you, Rob Sigg.

05:01:28.880 Real America's Voice was the go-to place today.

05:01:30.980 Thank you guys for doing this.

05:01:32.840 Yeah.

05:01:33.820 Appreciate it.

05:01:34.980 Appreciate Real America's Voice.

05:01:36.100 It was the go-to place.

05:01:37.220 Make a commitment on this.

05:01:38.440 These specials are working.

05:01:39.780 People like the fact you do this in-depth coverage.

05:01:42.540 We get great people on.

05:01:43.620 I got an easy job.

05:01:44.500 I just sit here in the microphone and just like passing the basketball to the shooters.

05:01:50.440 Gary Hall, Admiral Hall, your closing thoughts on all this.

05:01:54.300 I appreciate you coming on.

05:01:55.540 I know you had to travel rapidly to get where you could get up on the show.

05:02:01.580 You've got a great insight to President Trump and particularly how he works in this, thinking about national security.

05:02:07.660 Since you were on the National Security Council for President Trump and worked closely with him for a couple of years,

05:02:12.700 this week is going to be the announcement of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

05:02:19.140 There's already a great piece of, I think it's in Newsweek about how, and maybe Daily Mail also, about how it's kind of stacked against him with the Norwegians.

05:02:26.760 But closing thoughts on today and particularly President Trump and his leadership style we're seeing right now in his second term.

05:02:34.200 Well, first of all, I was one of the Navy's finest helicopter pilots, and the best pilot I ever flew with was a young guy named Chris Bannon.

05:02:42.640 Had to get that out there.

05:02:44.660 Chris was an awesome co-pilot.

05:02:46.640 We made a difference in the war.

05:02:49.200 First of all, the Navy is the away team, so we are deployed.

05:02:54.300 And everybody's been talking about shipbuilding.

05:02:56.560 The President also talked about investing in shipyards, ammo, and sailors.

05:03:01.720 Right now, we have the lowest number of ships in the Navy we've ever had.

05:03:05.280 We have ships that have to come into port, give their ammunition to another ship before they go out.

05:03:10.600 President Trump's going to solve that, and we need to.

05:03:12.860 So I'm grateful for the hammering home of the shipbuilding and the investment in shipyards.

05:03:20.180 And again, we're the away team.

05:03:21.920 Quantity has a quality all of its own.

05:03:24.900 And the President, when you meet the President, and even Bill Maher said,

05:03:28.580 hey, when you're in the White House with him, he's not the guy you see elsewhere.

05:03:33.040 He grew up in construction.

05:03:34.800 I'll tell you, when I walked into the Oval Office, he would get up from his desk and walk right over and shake your hand.

05:03:40.620 I mean, he is a man's man.

05:03:42.620 He's a man of the people.

05:03:44.020 He's down and dirty in the, you know, in the trenches with all American people, not these politicians that do nothing.

05:03:53.220 So the President, I mean, he's got a grasp on this.

05:03:56.740 And we, in 19, I have to say, in the year 2000, I was hosted on board a Chinese ship.

05:04:02.040 And the toast was to the greatest Navy in the world from the fastest growing Navy in the world.

05:04:08.680 I tell you, China is our adversary, and I hope that we never see American ships underwater due to the Chinese fleet. 1.00

05:04:17.720 So we need to build those ships. 0.97

05:04:19.840 We need to invest in those shipyards. 0.99

05:04:22.360 And we have to arm them completely, 100%, with ammo, every ship, every armory.

05:04:28.960 So the President's doing a great job, and he's really focused.

05:04:35.060 Yeah, we've got some tough decisions to make, though.

05:04:37.820 Tough decisions.

05:04:38.860 We've got some tough decisions to make because of the defense budget.

05:04:41.900 Over a trillion dollars, you're going to have to make some tough decisions.

05:04:44.440 Look, I'm all for, I think it's the strategic logic of whether it's hemispheric defense.

05:04:49.960 And or, as I say, you've got to be more confrontational with the Chinese Communist Party.

05:04:55.320 And I realize the new defense we're going to talk about this week, I think the new defense strategy a little bit downplays the issue between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States.

05:05:05.480 Maybe talks about China as a regional power.

05:05:07.500 It's not a regional power.

05:05:08.600 It's not an East Asia power.

05:05:10.260 It's not just to control the South China Sea and the Straits of Taiwan.

05:05:14.000 Oh, they do want to do that.

05:05:15.200 They want to push us out of the three-island chain.

05:05:17.100 They want to push us back across the Pacific, and they also want to have a dominance in South Asia, particularly around the Indo-Pacific. 0.95

05:05:23.840 But we'll get into that more this week.

05:05:26.140 Admiral Hall, where do people go on social media to track you down and your thinking?

05:05:31.580 Well, Apple Podcasts, you can look for Navigating Life with Rear Admiral Gary Hall.

05:05:37.960 You can go to Amazon, buy my book, Navigating Leadership, Making a Pact with Excellence.

05:05:42.740 And on Substack, I'm the Navigating Admiral.

05:05:48.440 And most of my podcasting is with, I've just did an episode with Sonny Masso where we talked about 9-11, the Pentagon, and how our faith helped us through all that.

05:05:57.920 So, again, Navigating Leadership, Making a Pact with Excellence, a great book for all young leaders and old leaders, which will tell my faith journey, my Navy journey, and my leadership journey.

05:06:10.360 So, again, the best co-pilot I've ever had, named Chris Bannon, all-signed race.

05:06:15.520 Wow. Thank you, sir.

05:06:18.820 My kid brother was pretty special, or is pretty special, I should say.

05:06:21.960 Great pilot.

05:06:23.540 Had a co-pilot and a mentor named Admiral Gary Hall.

05:06:26.720 That's pretty good, too.

05:06:27.400 Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

05:06:29.120 Thank you.

05:06:29.840 Thank you, Steve, for having me on.

05:06:30.980 We're trying to get – thank you, sir.

05:06:33.580 We're trying to get Steve Gruber back up, but I think we've lost a signal.

05:06:37.220 President of the United States heading back to the White House.

05:06:41.940 Hopefully, we're going to get Jack Posovic at some time.

05:06:45.860 Jack Posovic.

05:06:46.520 We embedded Jack Posovic, and because of the embed, we didn't get any reports from him all day.

05:06:51.920 I will tease him all night for that.

05:06:55.140 Stan Wojcikowski is on.

05:06:57.180 Stan, and I realize you're joining us from Europe.

05:06:59.180 I appreciate you sticking around.

05:07:01.040 I just wanted to spend a minute about – before we leave this – about the importance.

05:07:04.860 We were able to see the submarines out there today and exercise with the fleas President Trump did.

05:07:10.340 But I just want to make sure before we go, you talk about the importance of submarines and, most importantly, this kind of relationship, alliance we have with our brothers and sisters in Australia to make sure that the Chinese Communist Party, and particularly the Chinese Navy, does not become dominant in the Indo-Pacific, sir.

05:07:30.180 Sure.

05:07:30.740 Thank you very much, Steve, for having me over on the show on such a momentous occasion.

05:07:34.280 And before I talk of submarines, I want to, you know, recognize our men and women in uniform today.

05:07:41.340 We serve in the Navy, both at home, abroad, and in the high seas.

05:07:44.760 This display and show of force we saw today is first and foremost a message to our current troops, but also the future ones enlisting.

05:07:51.440 And in that sense, the Secretary of the Navy fell and spoke of a very high pace of recruitment, which is, I think, commensurate with both the President Trump's doctrine of reinvigorating and recapitalizing our Navy, focusing, obviously, all of the political and the industrial might of the United States to continue being the greatest naval force the world over.

05:08:18.440 In a, obviously, more perilous world, where freedom of navigation and reassuring allies and deterring adversaries remain, and, you know, first and foremost, a priority, I think today was a very strong message, not just sent to the troops, but also sent to our partners and our adversaries.

05:08:44.220 And in that sense, I think to those pundits at home and those allies and partners abroad who have talked a big talk about the U.S. foreign policy being in retreat, the AUKUS alliance, I think, is a very strong case against that perceived retreat.

05:09:03.900 And I want to recognize Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, who was tasked with a very difficult review process for a program that President Trump inherited from his predecessor, which brought together the UK and Australia and the U.S.

05:09:22.320 to project or to continue projecting naval supremacy in the Indo-Pacific, a very large body of water, obviously, and one where there are at any given moment,

05:09:36.320 at least six, seven territorial disputes between China's People Liberation Navy or its maritime militia and our allies in the region from the Philippines to Vietnam to Malaysia or Japan, Taiwan, Korea or Indonesia.

05:09:56.320 Or Indonesia. 0.83

05:09:57.320 And so reaffirming our commitment to AUKUS, this 40 year program, which would build in the U.S.

05:10:06.320 three Virginia class submarines to transfer to Australia and have some sort of a transfer of production, transfer of technology and partnership in collaboration with the UK.

05:10:18.320 The only partner we've ever done a transfer of technology in the nuclear power propulsion realm for Australia to deter first to reassure our friends and allies in the region and also give predictability to our adversaries.

05:10:33.320 Deterrence is the name of the game. Peace through strength is a doctrine.

05:10:39.320 And in fact, stealth is probably today the single most important element of our nuclear triad, because in an age of shifting innovations in in the in the war scenarios that we are seeing in Ukraine and elsewhere, low tech technologies, low tech weapon systems are increasingly threatened by the

05:11:09.320 very expensive, very expensive, very complex systems and platforms.

05:11:14.320 And whether it is, you know, unmanned surface drones or underwater drones or aerial drones that are having a major impact on conventional warfare for very low cost, I might add, it is absolutely fundamental that our submarine fleet remains the strongest fleet in the world and continues to grow.

05:11:37.320 And America first does not necessarily mean America alone.

05:11:42.320 Far from that, I think AUKUS and reaffirming our commitment to AUKUS sends a message to our NATO partners, sends a message to our allies in the Pacific, Indo-Pacific, that the US remains a steadfast partner in keeping freedom of navigation and deterring any kind of adversary, whether they're conventional, asymmetric or

05:12:06.320 or non-state actors.

05:12:09.320 So in that sense, I want to recognize both President Trump and his secretary of the war and secretary of the Navy, but also the undersecretary Colby for having reaffirmed and sent a very strong message in that sense.

05:12:23.320 No, Bridge Colby's done a great job.

05:12:26.320 Just this defense thing is coming out about China being a regional problem versus a global problem.

05:12:32.320 We'll get to that later in the week.

05:12:33.320 Stan, before I let you go, I want you to give us a minute.

05:12:36.320 You used a term that we've talked about today, but I don't think we've actually highlighted it.

05:12:41.320 And this is what I'm saying.

05:12:43.320 There's got to be some tough decisions and choices made.

05:12:46.320 You use the term naval supremacy.

05:12:48.320 What do you mean by naval supremacy and what does it mean in today's world?

05:12:52.320 So naval supremacy, first and foremost, is about freedom of navigation.

05:12:57.320 And this is a big globe where we we exchange and trade goods with all partners around the world.

05:13:05.320 And in centuries prior and even in decades prior, without a strong naval force and a leading globally capable naval force,

05:13:17.320 piracy was a lot more common and state actors could undermine significantly the trading order.

05:13:27.320 And I think in this global world, we need a force that can guarantee freedom of navigation first and foremost.

05:13:36.320 But as we look at the Indo-Pacific, such a large body and swath of water,

05:13:42.320 and we see all these island nations that are constantly challenged in their economic,

05:13:47.320 exclusive economic zones and territorial waters.

05:13:51.320 Naval supremacy also means projecting far from home base the ability to deter those that might want to challenge the existing order.

05:14:00.320 And in the Indo-Pacific, for the most part, it means, you know, the People's Liberation Navy or their maritime militia,

05:14:07.320 whether it is by way of building artificial reefs or whether it is by plowing fisheries in near our shores in South America,

05:14:21.320 in the Galapagos and Argentina, challenging those navies in ways that they're incapable of responding on an equal footing.

05:14:30.320 The U.S. Navy and that U.S. naval supremacy is more important than ever.

05:14:37.320 Stan, where do people go to find out your writing, your thinking, social media?

05:14:43.320 Are you old school and don't do social media?

05:14:45.320 So a bit like the submarines that we spend a lot of time trying to connect capital with industry and policy decision making.

05:14:54.320 We try to remain as stealth as possible. Obviously, we have a LinkedIn page.

05:14:58.320 We have an, you know, an X account.

05:15:01.320 But for the most part, it's to watch your show and not really post anything.

05:15:06.320 I did post something yesterday in French media about the German submarine manufacturer, TKMS,

05:15:12.320 going partly public in Frankfurt and what the implications are for those conventional submarines.

05:15:19.320 I do want to say there was a very good article that came out in the U.S. Naval Institute website by Lieutenant Commander Jim Hassell,

05:15:27.320 who makes the case that conventional submarines should be incorporated into the U.S. Navy to bring lethality for faster and cheaper with less manned service members.

05:15:39.320 And that's certainly one of the policy recommendations that we're putting forth with this administration.

05:15:46.320 We're going to have you on to talk about that diesel boat, diesel boat, diesel boat submarines and diesel boat skippers.

05:15:53.320 We'll appreciate that. Stan, thank you so much. Look forward to having you back on the show.

05:15:57.320 Thank you again, Steve. Have a great evening.

05:15:59.320 Before we close out today, I've got to bring in, Tej, you've answered last call a couple, three times in your life.

05:16:10.320 You're my anchorman here. Sum up today, what was it about, sir?

05:16:15.320 It was about celebrating the history of the Navy, 250 years. That's pretty amazing. And then Trump, Trump bringing everything back to life, like just breathing new, fresh life into the military.

05:16:30.320 And, you know, he tapped Pete Hegseth. And all you need in life is some leadership and guidance, whether you're a self-starter or you need someone else to give it to you.

05:16:42.320 If you have the correct leadership and the correct guidance, then you're going to win.

05:16:46.320 And as we can see in the Red Sea under Biden, there was no freedom of navigation.

05:16:53.320 The Hooties owned it. They're shooting rockets and missiles and drones at ships all the time. 1.00

05:16:59.320 And then Trump came in and within 60 days, it's back open for business.

05:17:04.320 And, you know, he signed some kind of agreement with the Hooties. Basically, they capitulated and shut down their piracy operations. 0.90

05:17:12.320 And the incredible thing is this recruiting numbers are the highest ever for the U.S. Navy.

05:17:22.320 So the leadership and guidance under Trump. And then he just motivates people wherever he goes.

05:17:28.320 Like I was watching a video of him flying in with Air Force Ones with F-35s flying next to it. It's crazy.

05:17:33.320 He's awesome. But he's done this his whole life.

05:17:37.320 I was watching him as a kid in Hollywood and, you know, he was in Home Alone, his other TV shows and everything.

05:17:45.320 Trump's amazing. He's the man. He's not perfect. He doesn't do everything right.

05:17:49.320 But he's almost perfect. And he's exactly what America needs. And he's exactly what the Navy needs.

05:17:55.320 He's breathing new life into the Navy. They're going to build new ships.

05:17:58.320 They're going to refurbish the old ones. They're getting new weapons, new armament.

05:18:02.320 They're getting rid of the woke stuff. So they're going to bring the lethality back into our fighting force. 0.95

05:18:08.320 And they're getting the most important thing is they're getting rid of DEI.

05:18:11.320 So everything is going to be merit based.

05:18:13.320 So we're going to have the best fighting force with the best training, the best equipment.

05:18:18.320 And we're going to be respected and feared around the world.

05:18:21.320 That's that's what our military is there for. Like the guy Stan was saying, it's about deterrence.

05:18:27.320 Nobody respects an adversary that it's like, you know, half ass. It doesn't bring their A game to the table. 0.95

05:18:35.320 So under Trump, he's breathing new life into our military and our military is bringing back the A game.

05:18:41.320 We're going to have the best people, the best training, the best equipment.

05:18:45.320 And nobody's going to want to mess with us. That's that's deterrence. That's what the military is for.

05:18:50.320 And then the other thing is, he said, we're going to start winning again, like World War One, World War Two.

05:18:57.320 We won flat out, period. Full surrender. Right. That's what it's about.

05:19:01.320 And peace through strength. So we don't need if we don't need to do that, then, yeah, that's what the deterrence is.

05:19:09.320 But if we go to war, we have to win, win, win, win. None of this nation building and occupying like we're talking about yesterday, Venezuela, if we take these ports, that's easy.

05:19:19.320 But we always get bogged down when we do this nation building thing, when we occupy these countries for a decade or more and everything gets screwed up.

05:19:28.320 You go in and win and leave. And that's how you do it.

05:19:33.320 Ferocity and precision, as Pete Hex has said the other day, I want to tell people also this thing about people come with peace through strength, peace through strength.

05:19:40.320 Well, look, a lot of people just think that means building more arms, having a bigger defense budget, building more weapons systems.

05:19:47.320 We saw under Biden and all that spending money. They don't fear you. They don't fear your lethality.

05:19:52.320 And if you don't if they don't fear that you've got the political will to use it and to take guys down and to win, then you're not.

05:20:00.320 There's no peace through strength. Peace through strength means people fear you.

05:20:03.320 And they know that if you're pushed when you bring it, it's like the the total obliteration that ended the 12 day war.

05:20:12.320 President Trump hit and hit hard and moved on. And the Iranians have kind of never recovered that. 1.00

05:20:17.320 And quite frankly, that was a central building block to the to what President Trump's going to face when he gets back.

05:20:23.320 Remember, President Trump's leaving here is now got to go back. He gave him a six o'clock deadline.

05:20:27.320 I think they've moved that because his negotiators Jared Kushner and Whitcoff are now at the resort town in Egypt on the Red Sea to start the negotiations, kind of wind this thing up.

05:20:37.320 But you can tell for reports coming out today in Axios and The Washington Post, New York Times, President Trump's not kidding right.

05:20:44.320 He wants to put this deal together and he's going to hammer. He's going to hammer some people, bang heads to make it happen.

05:20:51.320 One thing I did notice today, I want to tell the audience, I've said, hey, it looks like President Trump is, I mean, really tired.

05:20:57.320 There's a couple times this week you see he's doing so much. He was like a young man today.

05:21:02.320 His energy, his enthusiasm, he fed off this. He's been waiting to do this a long time.

05:21:07.320 He absolutely loved it. You could tell the energy, the enthusiasm.

05:21:10.320 He's having fun.

05:21:11.320 Right now, when we leave, he's having fun.

05:21:13.320 When we leave this broadcast, I need a pot of Warpath coffee.

05:21:17.320 Tell me where I'm supposed to go, Tej Gill.

05:21:19.320 Yeah.

05:21:20.320 Since you served your country as a gunman and now you make the greatest coffee in the world.

05:21:25.320 Where do folks go to enjoy it?

05:21:28.320 Warpath.coffee is a website. Warpath.coffee.

05:21:32.320 And then use promo code WARROOM.

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05:21:38.320 And just look at the order, at the reviews.

05:21:41.320 We're closing in on 14,000 five-star reviews.

05:21:44.320 People love our coffee.

05:21:46.320 The way we roast it, we roast it on a perforated drum.

05:21:49.320 So we don't burn it at all whatsoever.

05:21:52.320 So you can just drink it straight black.

05:21:54.320 You don't need to hide the burnt taste with milk and sugar, just straight black.

05:21:58.320 And you can actually enjoy your coffee.

05:22:00.320 It's warpath.coffee, promo code WARROOM.

05:22:05.320 Tej used to tell me, he says, we got the best weapon in the seals.

05:22:07.320 We got the best weapons.

05:22:08.320 We got the best material, the best equipment, the best training, the best leadership.

05:22:12.320 We're the best commandos in the world.

05:22:15.320 But we got nothing but Navy brew right off a destroyer.

05:22:18.320 We got to do better than that.

05:22:20.320 Tej Gill, we love you.

05:22:21.320 Thank you for being part of the program.

05:22:22.320 Thank you, sir.

05:22:23.320 Me too.

05:22:24.320 Appreciate it.

05:22:26.320 Okay.

05:22:27.320 Um, president Trump's heading back to the white house.

05:22:31.320 He's going to then turn his attention to ending.

05:22:34.320 I don't know.

05:22:35.320 Is this his eighth war or ninth war?

05:22:37.320 Of course, the Nobel prize committee is meeting.

05:22:40.320 Even as we speak, they announced on Friday, the recipient of the Nobel peace prize.

05:22:45.320 If this guy doesn't get it, I mean, I don't know what you got to do to get it.

05:22:49.320 Uh, we're going to sign off.

05:22:50.320 I want to thank real America's voice.

05:22:52.320 Everything used to the DC studio, uh, all over.

05:22:56.320 We had equipment everywhere.

05:22:58.320 People everywhere.

05:22:59.320 Jack, but so big.

05:23:00.320 I know Jack, but so he's got some great footage because he was in kind of the bubble with security for the president.

05:23:05.320 It wasn't, it wasn't able to get out, but Jack's got a lot of stories to tell when he gets back.

05:23:09.320 Hopefully we'll have Jack on tomorrow and they're not all C stories.

05:23:11.320 They're not going to all be C stories.

05:23:13.320 So we'll have the Sobic on tomorrow. 1.00

05:23:15.320 We're going to leave you a little compilation at the real America's voice team put together.

05:23:18.320 I want to thank everybody.

05:23:19.320 It's been a long, but a great day.

05:23:21.320 And you can tell by the energy the president United States has.

05:23:24.320 We're going to be back here at 10 a.m.

05:23:26.320 Eastern daylight time tomorrow morning.

05:23:28.320 You're gonna be back in the war room.

05:23:29.320 I'll be up all night putting up, uh, putting up, uh, my thoughts and observations on what's going on, particularly in the Middle East as President Trump tries to hammer out a historic, uh, peace deal.

05:23:41.320 We'll see you back here at 10 o'clock.

05:23:42.320 We're going to leave you now with a compilation video put together by the great real America's voice team.

05:23:48.320 Once again, um, go Navy.

05:23:50.320 Navy.

05:23:51.320 Navy.

05:24:02.320 Navy.

05:24:03.320 Navy.

05:24:04.320 Navy.

05:24:05.320 Navy.

05:24:06.320 Navy.

05:24:07.320 Navy.

05:24:08.320 Navy.

05:24:09.320 Navy.

05:24:10.320 Navy.

05:24:13.320 Navy.

05:24:14.320 Navy.

05:24:17.320 Navy.

05:24:19.320 Navy.

05:24:20.320 Is wishing you a happy Lord it's over

05:24:23.860 We behold who you sing

05:24:26.020 Everybody sing that God is free

05:24:27.940 We behold who you sing

05:24:29.860 Everybody sing that God is free

05:24:31.920 Standing on to sing

05:24:39.700 Like a battle on our own

05:24:43.580 We'll never change our course

05:24:47.160 So visions will still shine

05:24:50.000 All of the deity

05:24:54.500 Anchors away, away 1.00

05:24:58.540 Sail on to victory

05:25:02.000 And sing the Lord to reign, the Lord to reign

05:25:20.000 Anchors away, my boys 1.00

05:25:24.500 Anchors away, away 1.00

05:25:28.540 Farewell to knowledge

05:25:32.000 Rejoice, we sail and wave, my lady

05:25:35.500 Who are the star and the star

05:25:40.540 Where'er we know it all

05:25:44.540 Come, where'er we meet once born

05:25:47.920 We're facing you

05:25:49.040 A happy Lord it's over

05:25:53.080 Eternal Father, strong to save

05:25:57.580 Eternal Father, strong to save

05:26:11.580 Who is the mighty ocean deep

05:26:16.080 Who is the mighty ocean deep

05:26:30.080 O hear us when we cry to thee

05:26:34.580 For those in peril on the sea

05:26:38.620 O hear us when we cry to thee

05:26:47.160 For those in peril on the sea

05:26:55.700 Eternal Father, strong to save

05:26:56.700 Eternal Father, strong to save

05:26:57.700 Eternal Father, strong to save

05:26:58.700 Eternal Father, strong to save

05:26:59.700 Eternal Father, strong to save

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05:27:08.860 For Standing with Ram 0.94

05:27:10.520 This has been a live special report

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Bannon's War Room - October 06, 2025

WarRoom Special： Sea Power And Freedom Celebrating Navy 250

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