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WarRoom Special: Sea Power And Freedom Celebrating Navy 250
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We'll be right back with more Navy 250, sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor AMAC for standing with rav. Okay, there's a live shot right there. The commander Chief will be coming off Air Force One. He's landed in Norfolk. We're about to get rolling. All the activities. I think Ambassador Monica Crowley, great friend of the show, be giving an address, I think, on the Truman here momentarily, a couple of Navy seals will also join her to give their real life experiences. Let's bring in another Navy seal, our own Eric Prince. Eric, I asked, he had Lieutenant Jason Redmond, one of the real heroes of the Afghan war, was on a moment ago, a Navy seal. The question I asked him or had Steve Ruber ask, I want to ask you. We're going through naval history today, the Operations War of 1812, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI, World War II, all of it. The question I got to ask you is why Afghanistan's a long way from the water, as is Iraq. Why were the Navy SEALs so prominent in the great war against terror in those two countries for so many years? Sir? 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. It started out of necessity when a bunch of Marines got killed in Tarawa Batio Atoll and they started doing udts, underwater Demolition Teams. And then in Korea is when they really first started going ashore, blowing up bridges, blowing up key enemy objectives right off the beach. And then Vietnam really got them feet dry into the rice paddies, into the Mekong Delta, becoming indispensable, true special operators. 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 to give the U.S. that kind of unconventional capability to fight unusual problems. The SEAL teams have always, since then, maintained the ability to fight in snow, mountains, desert conditions, to be adaptive. 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, they're going to figure out how to do it. And so it doesn't surprise me that they did so well so far from the sea in a landlocked country like Afghanistan, because they're going to adapt to make it happen. Now, since then, they've really done a focus on returning to water. A lot more diving, a lot more submarine operations, a lot more maritime operations. Back to that tradition of one foot on the inbound or the outbound is going to involve water. 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. We're going to cut to the live broadcast on this. Like I said, the ambassador, Monica Crowley thinks we'll start things off with a Talk at about 12:20, 12:30, pretty much on schedule as it rolls. Eric, we have an amphibious ready group off the coast of Venezuela now with 4000 fleet Marines and sailors and really in the amphib area. What would be equivalent of a, of a Navy battle group or strike group around an aircraft carrier. Talk to us about that. The capabilities that has and I know you've been very involved in thinking through hemispheric defense, particularly the problems we have in Latin America. Is this really going to be against non state actors? Do you think we're revving up to actually go in take airports, ports and railroad nodes in Valenzuela, sir? 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 there's a lot more network to be taken out through Mexico and of course coming by sea. 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, 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. You know, 13, 14 months ago he flat out stole election that he lost by 40, 45 points and he's maintained the, you know, himself in power as a true dictator. Now I think the Trump administration wants him to leave. I don't know if they're going to go full kinetic and actually strike targets in Venezuela. 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 or didn't stay alive for long 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 and then you'll see some, some tickets. Is 50 million. Is that where it gets the attention that Erik Prince even gets? No, no strikes your interest, 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. They told guys in Capital. We're to state a war with these non state actors as cartels from northern Mexico all the way down through Latin America. How important are naval assets going to be to kind of block? You've already seen him take out a couple of these boats. But also in the Pacific because the fentanyl ain't coming up from Venezuela. It's still the Chinese Communist Party. A second opium war against us with their partners in the cartels. And in northern Mexico. How lethal could Navy Seals and Navy assets be in actually going to Connecticut? As they told Capitol Hill, we're going kinetic in a war against the cartels. Sir, I think it's, they're right in saying we are at war with them. There is hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by fentanyl last year. That's far more than what we lost in World War II. We lost 250,000 in the European theater and 150,000 in the Pacific theater. During World War II. You're losing almost that number every year just from fentanyl. So it is right to push back and it is right to go kinetic. That's the only, I mean a two by four between the eyes is all that they're going to understand. I know that there was the Mexican cartels reached out quietly looking to make a deal to back away, to allow themselves to preserve their life and their, I guess their existing fortune. I don't know where they stand in that negotiation. That's not my business. But the fact is. Hang on, hang on, hang on. We are, Hang on, hang on, hang on. We are breaking some news here because this is talk to about at least what you can talk about that about. The Mexican cartels kind of said when they saw the army down there and realized they could have Navy SEALs and direct interdiction and President Trump was prepared to do it. Right. Doesn't care what the Mexican government's got to say about it. All of a sudden they're a lot more open to some sort of lay down their arms and stop this. Is that what I'm hearing? Yes. 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. But they've never felt JSOC level energy directed at them. 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. And you would stack a lot of sicarios if they decided to get in a fight with JSOC level expertise. Look, that the, 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. It's largely parade, parade level efforts. 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. And I think they, they realize that Trump is serious enough, he's a serious enough person that he could deliver that kind of energy on their heads. Eric, clearly the Chinese Communist Party in the PLA was, which considers the Caribbean their lake. They're going to watch this intensely today. Give us just the idea of the kinds of things that you anticipate. We'll see during the live fire, the naval gunfire and missile and naval air exercise that the commander in Chief is about to view from the bridge of the USS Bush. 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, and, and you have a lot of cheap precision that they can just throw quantities of stuff at our ships and there is, you know, rolling airframe missiles and SM2 missiles to shoot down incoming threats. Hey, Eric, the fact is we've got, we've got. Eric, we've got the Navy SEAL, that's the Navy SEALs about to take the station. Redmond, let's go live this. I will, I will definitely yield. Welcome. It's truly an honor to be here for the Navy 250th, honoring the greatest naval force the world has ever seen. 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. We chose to raise our hands and swore an oath to the Constitution, a choice to sacrifice our freedom, our earning potential, and even worse 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. So it was in the beginning, all the way to today. In order to understand the full context of what you are a part of, I think it is important to remember our history. So let's go back to the beginning 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. 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. Despite his small size, he had big dreams. Dreams. His name was Jason Redmond. 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. I would attend ISA school right here in Virginia Beach. And on December 15, 1995, I achieved my dream. And Seaman Apprentice Redmond graduated from Navy Seal training Bud's Class 202. Stop making fun of me. All of you who weren't born fngs. I would go on to have an amazing career. Three deployments to South America. I would be shot at for the first time conducting counter drug operations in Colombia. 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. I won't lie, I had to wash out my wetsuit after that one. I became a SEAL training instructor and made it to Petty Officer First Class before I was recommended to earn a commission. I would attend Old Dominion University ROTC right down the street here. I am sure, just like many of you sitting in this audience while at school 911 happened. I remember watching the towers fall. Standing next to my best friend and fellow SEAL Bobby Ramirez. We looked at each other and acknowledged we are going to war. 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 911 generation. 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. I was honored to have served as an ops officer for the Captain Phillips mission. 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 who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom on that fateful day. 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 and made the radio call back to the White House Situation Room for God and country. Geronimo. Geronimo. Geronimo. Signaling the death of the most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden. My most impactful mission occurred on September 13, 2007. Operating outside of Fallujah, Iraq in a small rural area known as Al Karma, we were tasked to go after the number one leader for Al Qaeda in the western province. And moving to target, we walked into to a very well executed ambush. In the ensuing 40 minute firefight, myself, Luke and Maddie would be severely wounded. Luke was shot by a machine gun below the knee, almost taking off his leg. Matty would run forward under heavy machine gun fire, sustaining three machine gun rounds before still managing to drag himself and Luke to safety. 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, hitting me multiple times in the body armor and striking my weapon. I was able to keep fighting and directing until another bullet struck me in the face, knocking me out. 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. All while my life slowly drained out of me and my world faded to black. While unconscious, my team leader, Jay Aliasin, exposed himself to enemy machine gun fire to run forward and get me back to cover, put a tourniquet on my shattered arm and saved my life. He then proceeded to call in multiple extreme danger close fire missions by an Air Force AC130 gunship. Those missions would end up being the closest air support missions executed in the entire Iraq War. If it was not for my teammates, my team leader, the 4th SOS gunship crew, and the amazing naval doctors, nurses and corpsmen, I would not be here today to tell this story. Since that fateful night, I've undergone almost 40 reconstructive surgeries. I've had six blood transfusions, a tracheotomy that I wore for seven months and two days. I've had 1500 stitches, 200 staples, five plates, one titanium orbital floor, 15 screws, eight pins, 20 skin grafts, three bone grafts, one calvarium block bone graft. I've had my jaw shattered, broken and rebroken three times. I have my jaw wired shut for over 12 weeks and I lost over 50 pounds. I have spent approximately 190 hours in surgery under anesthesia. 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 while in the hospital, struggling with my devastating wounds, disfigurement, and the possibility that my SEAL career was over, I made a choice. 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 had sat before me. I would author a sign I would place on the hospital door on a bright orange piece of paper that would say, attention to all who enter here. If you're coming in this room with sorrow to feel sorry for my wounds, don't bother. 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. I will overcome. If you are not prepared for that, go elsewhere. 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. A lot of people want to make a big, big deal about it, but I know what it represents. It represents the spirit of the United States Navy and its warriors. It represents all of you. What will your sign on the door say? So we have come full circle. 250 years on this journey from the Revolutionary War to today. Amazing sailors who chose to sacrifice for the future of our great nation. Choice and sacrifice. This final message is to our current sailors. 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. 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. I applaud the Secretary of War for his renewed. His renewed focus on lethality and a mindset of war. All of you here are warriors. It is our job to be ready to take the fight to our nation's enemies. We must always be ready. Mentally, physically, and emotionally. We must be lethal, because what is at stake is our very freedom. China, North Korea, Russia, and so many others would love to deprive us of our freedoms and understand this freedom is a gift. It must be nurtured, preserved, protected, and in the darkest times, it must be fought for. All of you here are the front line of American freedom. You are the titans of the sea. So from John Paul Jones to the Bin Laden raid, the US Navy has been instrumental in fighting and leading America's wars. All of us here today, we stand on the shoulders of giants. And those giants willingly picked up the flame of American freedom and carried it with them all around the world. And unfortunately, some of them did not come home. The U.S. navy has laid many warriors upon the altar of freedom. Over my military career, I lost too many friends, including my best friend, Commander Bobby Ramirez. All of them are now part of the eternal flame of American freedom. It is up to all, all of us to ensure that flame never burns out. For 250 years, the torch of American freedom has burned. It's been carried by sailors from all walks of life, all races, all colors. And it has been seen all around the world. Warriors have carried it with them, crossing the beaches of Normandy, on Iwo Jima, Korea, and in the jungles of Vietnam. It has been held high in Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and across Western Africa. When a hero falls and their flame is extinguished, every American's torch back home burns just a little brighter. Every American citizen of the United States is entrusted with a small part of this flame. Most Americans feed their flame and ensure it burns brightly for all to see. Other Americans, they take their freedom for granted, attacking the very ideals that built our nation. And they allow their flames to burn out. 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. Seventeen years ago, I lay on the battlefield in Iraq, pouring my blood into the soil. I looked up and I saw that dark angel standing over me. And he said it was time to go. And I thought he was right. But then I realized I wasn't finished. I had a torch of American freedom to preserve and forever keep burning. So I got up, I walked 75 yards to that medevac helicopter, and I came home and I vowed once again that I would never allow that flame to burn out. While I still hold breath, today, I pass my torch of freedom onto all of you. You are the future of, of the United States Navy. Our nation needs you to train hard. We need you to be lethal. We need you to be ready. The Secretary of War has called upon you. My only question is, will you carry this flame of freedom forward as the foundation for the next 250 years? God bless the United States Navy. God bless the United States of America. America. And go. Navy beat Army. Eric Prince. Jason, let's keep it on. That shot right there, Jason. Jason Redmond. By the way of another Navy seal, Jason Redmond. Tell me about him. Just an inspiring story. A guy that took that many hits and to keep that kind of attitude and positive to, to grind away and to will himself back to health, it's just, it's really humbling and it's it's one of the reasons I've told my kids or any young people that if you, if you're going to join the military, join the most elite part you can, you can qualify for because you'll be really happy with the people you work with. And he exotified. There's another believer. Navy Navy seal. Let's go right to the podium. I can't express how moved and inspired I am for being a part of this 250th celebration of our Navy. I would first like to say thank you to the crew of these ships and sailors for hosting this event. We understand the effort and manpower to make this happen, and thank you for carrying the torch, protecting our families and this great nation. While I was reflecting on this momentous occasion and milestone for our country, I looked for a voice or a message to turn to our Secretary of War. And my Navy SEAL ethos came to mind. We are gathered here today in a time that demands strength. Not the kind of strength measured in numbers or equipment or technology, but the strength measured in spirit, the strength of men and women who have sworn an oath to defend our nation. The strength of those who understand that freedom is not a gift. It is earned. It is guarded, and if necessary, paid for with sacrifice. The Secretary of War recently reminded us of a truth we sometimes forget. America does not stand tall because of its weapons. America stands tall because of its warriors. Weapons, rust. Technology changes, but the human heart, sharpened by discipline, courage and resilience that endures. That is what keeps this republic Alive. As Navy SEALs, we don't just know this truth, we live it. The SEAL ethos is not simply words etched on a wall. It's written in sacrifice. It is carried on the shoulders of every man and woman who has ever worn this uniform. It says, my loyalty to country and team beyond reproach. I humbly serve as a guardian to my fellow Americans, always ready to defend those who are unable to defend themselves. 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. And it has lived not just on the battlefield, but in the quiet place when no one is watching. In the early hours of training, the late nights of preparation, in the relentless pursuit of excellence, that is where the ethos is forged. The Secretary recent words echo this same call. Readiness is not a posture. Readiness is a way of life. And he's right. Readiness is not something we turn on and off. Readiness is not a box to check. Readiness is who we are. Every day, in every choice. We make. It is built in sweat, in sacrifice, and in repetition. It is built when your lungs burn, your body aches, and every part of you screams to quit but you refuse. It is built when you choose discipline over comfort, when you choose to serve others before yourself, when you choose the harder path because it's the right one. Too often we think of the fight as something out there, across oceans, in deserts or mountains. But the truth is, the fight is within. Every morning, when our feet hit the ground, we face a choice. Do we rise to the standard of warriors? Or do we fall short? Do we embody the values we swore to uphold? Or do we let fear, complacency, or doubt take root? The seal ethos reminds us, I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions. That means the battle is not about glory. It's about grit. It's about facing ourselves, our weakness, our excuses, and refusing to let them win. And here's the thing. Not one of us does this alone. We stand because of our brothers and sisters to our left and to our right. We endure because someone else is counting on us. We push through because we know if we falter, someone else bears the cost. That's why the ethos says, I serve with honor on and off the battlefield. Because in the end, this is not just about individual strength. This is about unity, about knowing that the man or woman beside you will not quit, will not surrender, and will not let you down. And in that bond, in that unbreakable trust, we find the strength to overcome any obstacle. Our Secretary of War is not trying to make our time in the military harder. He's trying to ingrain in each and every service member that discipline in both physical and mental readiness is a lifelong lesson. I believe he is not only ensuring that our military is fierce, lethal, and ready today, he is looking toward the future to ensure that we all become leaders in our own communities. As veterans. There is a simple truth. Truth that when you hang up that uniform, you become a veteran. Only those who have never raised their right hand and taken this oath of service can be called civilians. I believe our Secretary of War wants us to take the lessons learned during our service and become examples for generations to follow to become the compass for our youth examples to aspire to. I can tell you from experience, it is not an easy task finding purpose after the military. It took me decades to navigate emotions, frustrations, and the constant desire to serve again. Ultimately, I found what I call service after service. I realized that serving others and making my fellow veterans My focus helped me feel whole. It gave me purpose, direction and a sense of camaraderie. I now run a Naval Special Warfare Museum in New York Named after Lt. Michael Murphy, a Navy SEAL who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan. And the movie depends on depicted was Lone Survivor. Every day I must rise to the level of a Navy SEAL because people are expecting it, and they should. Even though I am medically retired, I cannot be an out of shape seal. 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? How can we expect our future generations to rise to the occasion or hear the calling if we ourselves do not? 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. I lean on discipline, learn from years of service, knowing that I still have service to do. I still have to be an example for my own children, my neighbors, my community and my nation. You see, our service never stops. It evolves. In today's world, resilience is everything. The challenges we face are not short term. They are enduring. The missions are longer, the threats are more complex, and the demands on our force and our families is heavier. Yet the expectations remain unchanged that we will not falter, we will not retreat, and we will never quit. As the ethos concludes, the loyalty to my teammates and the mission is sacred. I will not quit. I will not fail. That is the warrior's promise, not only to those who wear the uniform, but to every American who looks to us for strength, for safety and for hope. So as we stand together today, let us reaffirm what is expected of us to embody honor, courage, loyalty and resilience. Let us remember that every action and decision we make reflects not only on ourselves, but on the generations of warriors who came before us and those who will follow after. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to be relentless. We are not asked to avoid adversity. We are asked to thrive in it. We are not asked to fight for ourselves. We are asked to fight for a cause greater than self, a nation greater than any one individual. That is today's expectation. And that is why we must carry this forward together for the next 250 years. Thank you. May God bless our warriors, our families, and may God bless United States of America. Eric Prince. Yes, sir. I know you got to bounce your overseas quickly. The warrior ethos, what does it mean to you, sir? Look, we live in A republic, we are defended by a very small segment of society that chooses to join and they write an unlimited check. Okay. When you join the military, you're, you're saying to the leadership here am I send me. And that warrior ethos is that you're going to get the job done and you're going to make sure as many of your colleagues can get the job done with you as well and to not quit in the process. And in what Hegseth did this last week in calling all the generals, all 800 of them together, I wish he had used the opportunity to call a huge number of them on the spot. But at least a direct call to accountability and to standards was very, very important because we've had a military culture that's gone adrift over the last couple of decades and we need to tighten up the ship because the storm clouds are coming and we must prepare for that because otherwise it could not, it could go very, very ugly for us if we don't prepare for the realities of the modern battlefield and how cheap and dangerous all these precision weapons are to our survival. Eric, how did being a Naval Navy SEAL form you as a man and change you as a person? It was, I owe a lot to the SEAL teams in that entire experience because it truly taught you to always find a lower gear, to not quit that, however miserable, uncomfortable, whatever, there is a way to make it work and to, and to survive and to persist and to win. And that's a, that's an attitude I try to provide. I've tried to apply to my, certainly my professional life and personal life as well. But, you know, it's not over. You haven't been beaten until you quit. Eric Prince, by the way, isn't I think one of your sons is a Navy seal. We have multiple kids in the military going through the process. Thank you, sir. Eric, always honored to have you on here, sir. Thank you for staying up over there and joining us today for our coverage. Donating. I'm so conflicted on the go. Navy beat army now that Mose West Point. Let's go to the main street. We're going to jump back to the podium as soon as I think as soon as Ambassador Crowley comes. Main studio, Admiral Sonny Masso. Admiral Masso, thank you for joining us today for our coverage. You're in studio with Cleo. What can we anticipate? We're going to go through a two hour, hour, two hour naval gunfire exercise. Sonny, your surface warfare officer, what can we anticipate today to see out on the Navy gunfire Range off the Virginia Cape, sir. Well, I think we're going to see an explosion of activity from 5 inch 54 guns. We'll see aircraft maneuvers, we'll see helicopters loaded with Navy SEALs and special ops personnel, maybe doing some repelling. It'll be an exhibition of all of the capabilities that we offer, potentially even including RHIB boats that are the cornerstone of our vessel. Boarding, search and seizure capabilities 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. Sonny. Admiral, you know we've had Navy SEALs, we've had submariners, we're going to have some naval air folks on later still. The bedrock of the Navy is, is surface warfare. Walk us through what is surface warfare? Explain it to our audience. Carrier strike groups, all of it, sir. Great. 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, all gas turbine vessels that can stay on station a long time. They're very capable. They can have sensors that look into exo atmospheric events and they can track exoatmospheric missiles coming and inbound. They're extraordinarily capable. The backbone of the fleet though requires them to be anywhere. And each of these cruisers and destroyers. And then of course I didn't mention our submarines. We've got about 70 submarines, either ballistic missile submarines and, or fast attack submarines, so. 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. Look no further than our net effect against Houthi rebels and things of that nature. It was really a no brainer. It was well within our swim lane of capabilities. 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. 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. And we're projecting United States national interests in all these locations, locales, not the least of which really now as we're kind of looking toward the Philippine Islands and it's a place that I know you're very familiar with, as am I, since we were there together. But the simple point is watching and checking the Spratly Islands and any threats of aggression that might occur. 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. Admiral Hanger, for one second, by the way, we're going to avoid Post City Stories, Sea Stories today. It's a family broadcast. But Cleo Admiral, your theory, your theory, your theory of the case studying our Pacific Fleet sailors. Your theory, the case that the strategic heartland of the United States is actually the vast Pacific and you talk about the three island chain and manifest destiny. We've been a Pacific power since the late 19th century, 290 capital ships. Is that going to is that going to make it, ma'? Am, Is that is that what's necessary to actually fulfill the strategy that you think is actual the naval strategy of the 2020 first century? No, and not just that. It needs much more and it needs much more complicated ships and ability to deploy. And as you know, it's in it's already a contested environment. To get to the first, second and third vertical island chains, 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. So this idea that you can leave Americans hanging out there like happened during World War II, where there are terrible predations by the Japanese on Americans in Guam because they were just left there, means you need to be able to get across the center of the Pacific. And that that takes a lot of gear. And it also takes now a lot of digging out of the Chinese who have already embedded with political warfare across the whole center of the Pacific. So yes, first, second and third island chain, but those are the luxuries. First, you have to get control over the center of the Pacific. And that takes both the equipment and the political will to dig out the Chinese political warfare that's already undermining US power projection in the region. Cleo, hang on. We've got Cleo Pascal, Admiral Sonny Masso in the Real America Voice Studios in Washington, D.C. we have Kennedy, Captain Fanell with us and we're going to bring in many, many others. We're getting ready for the naval gunfire exercise and others total warfare, surface, submarine, air, all of it. The commander in chief of the United States will view that from the USS Bush at the center of a carrier strike group. Going to lead you with the Navy. Him. We're going to go back to the stage. I think as soon as Ambassador Monica Crowley takes it. That's anticipated it also getting ready for to go to the out to the strike group off of Virginia Capes. Short commercial break. 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We'll go to him. And we got our own Jack Posovic with the commander in chief. Steve Gruber's on the on the riser on the USS Truman. And supposedly if we stick to plan, Ambassador Monica Crowley is going to come out in a little while. We're going to cut to life to that and to Steve Gruber. I've got now some extras. Captain Fennell, Admiral Masso, Cleo Pascal, we're going to be Captain Morgan's going to join us in a moment. Talk about drones and drone warfare. I want to go to Captain Fennell first and like I said, as soon as something happens, we're going to cut away from this Captain for now. I got a question. Sonny Masso just laid out the the 290 capital ships built around 11, I think aircraft carriers for carrier strike groups or carrier battle groups. It's the 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 Is that we're going to have Morgan on here for a second. He's talking about drones, but then you 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. 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. 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 and is it a relic from time gone by? Is it time to rethink fundamentally the basic war fighting 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. Well, Steve, there's an old saying, it's called a bird in the hand as we're two in the bush. 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. In World War II, we relied before the Japanese struck us on the 7th of December 1941, the principal platform of the US Navy was the battleship. 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, the Pacific, as we talked earlier, 17 times the size of continental United States. It takes over almost 12 days steaming at 20 knots for one carrier to just high speed transit across the center of the Pacific and without stopping 24 7, which never happens. 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. And we can't do that if we don't have platforms that can sustain combat power over long duration. The carrier is still the principal platform. Now, I'm biased because I spent 20 years of my 29 years when I was at sea, those sea duties on carriers. And I know and understand the capabilities of those carriers and the difficulty of an enemy to try to sink a carrier. So as I said in the earlier segments, the Navy has had a defensive mindset. Our good friend Erik Prince just even highlighted the fact that we have missiles coming at our platforms. And so we're constantly wondering about if we're going to take a hit. But what I again heard President Trump say last week is we have to be able to take a hit and keep fighting. And so right now, the carrier is the principal platform that can lash up. Hang on. New technologies. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. And strike before I go back. Yeah, but, but, but hang on. I'm going to go back to Admiral Massaro here in a moment. But I got to ask you, you essentially gave up one of the most promising careers 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 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. Hasn't their focus been how to take down in close combat off the coast of China and around Taiwan, which we must defend and the three island chains to destroy carrier. I mean, haven't they totally focused on how you destroy carrier battle groups? And that makes us even more vulnerable, sir? Yes. They call it their counter intervention strategy. In Chinese, we call it anti access area denial or A2AD. But make no mistake, what we're seeing this last year with the carriers operating east of Guam towards Hawaii, the new unveiling of this Fujian aircraft carrier that is launching 5th generation J35 stealth fighters with electromagnetic aircraft launch systems. That's not just designed to win the fight inside the first and second island chain. That is a navy that is going to have global power projection capabilities. They're building new ballistic missile submarines and fast attack submarines that aren't going to just stay in their local waters. They are building a global navy. 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. We're going to need platforms like carriers to be able to fight and win that war. We're going to need other new technologies and other new capabilities. But the centerpiece for now is still the carrier battle group and other systems that contribute to that. Oh, by the way, we also have expeditionary strike groups like the one down you were mentioning down in the off of Venezuela, the Iwo Jima expeditionary strike group ARC. They are down there, they have platforms, they have F35s. They are a power projection capability that we have as well. So it's not just our carriers, it's also our arcs, our expeditionary strike groups. Those are the centerpieces of how we operate, supported by our nuclear submarine force, then fast attack and SSGNs that can launch hundreds of TLAMs and other kinds of missile systems. So it's not just one thing. The carriers cost more. We need to look at the cost, we need to look at how we're acquiring things. We've had several program failures in the last decade and a half with the Toro combat ship, the Jomwalt cruiser, and now the World Class with severe problems. And so it's not just the cost, it's how we acquire things and, and our success doing it. We need a Rickover. Yeah. Admiral Masso, this is the thing we talked about Rickover earlier in the film that I made with Michael Pack. You can't do with 290 capital ships. Right. You've already made that case. You got, you've got a structure and a force structure and a fighting philosophy built around the Kerry Bella group. But given the fact we've had, we have had so many failures with the littoral ship, with the Zoom hall class, I mean, how do you convince, how does the Trump administration convince Congress that we have to go through a massive shipbuilding upgrade? Because you were there, you and I were shipmates. You were there and you went back to the Pentagon during the, when I think we had under 200 ships. We came out of the fleet and built up to a 600 ship Navy. How do you convince Congress and the American people to underwrite that bill, sir? Well, I think we have to. It begins with really articulating the threat, the threat of hypersonic missiles, the, the, the threat of the changing nature of even what we've created in our Missile Defense agency, where we focused intensely on mid course and terminal phase intercept. And I think that the lessons that we're learning today in terms of technological advancements, specifically in China centers around. We're going to have to be better at intelligence and reconnaissance, early warning detections, things of this nature, and that maybe it's not a missile intercept, it's a strike, you know, that comes from our aircraft carrier. So I'm not one that believes unilaterally that our aircraft carrier carriers are obsolete by a long shot. But I do know that we need to refine our tactics, techniques and procedures. We need to have a robust communication strategy with Congress that includes events such as what we're experiencing today, where they can see our frontline ships and how they take action in their mission sets. But I do believe that, you know, the service that probably does legislative affairs best of all are the Marine Corps. 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. I'm very fond of our legislative leadership that we have in place right now. But with that said, we need to have a more complete relationship with those who are in, you know, in the House National Security Committees or Senate Armed Services and really tell those stories. Now. We've waited for this day, Admiral Massar, for a long time for the president actually be out there. It's going to be amazing. And I know he's so enthusiastic. Like I said, I think he's watched victory at sea 100 times. We're going to take a short commercial break. Captain Paul Morgan is going to join U.S. naval Aviator, 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 China, with the People's Liberation Navy. Short commercial break we're both in Norfolk and we're going to be off the Virginia capes. When we return, in the War Room, Real America's Voice, continual coverage of Navy 250. We'll continue in a moment. We'll be right back with more Navy 250, sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor, Birch Gold Group, for standing with Rav. Welcome back to Navy 250, sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor, Patriot Mobile for standing with Rav. Okay, welcome back. Honored to be back. Navy 250 we got a lot going on. A full naval exercise will take place here shortly with the commander in chief out on, I think, the bridge of the USS Bush. And, of course, you got the Truman, another one of our carriers pierside in Norfolk. Steve Gruber's on the Riser, we're going to cut to all of it as soon as we get some action at either. Jack Posobic is that with the President United States and Gruber's anchoring at the Truman and Monica are own colleague Ambassador Monica Crowley should be addressing us shortly. Kind of lay out the day. Want to go to Captain Paul Morgan. Paul, you're a naval aviator, right? Helicopter pilot. But you now are a specialist in high performance lethal drones. We talk about the surface Navy, we talk about this huge investment that we potentially need to defend the Pacific, particularly against the Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan. All of talk about hemispheric defense and how much that means and how critical the Navy is to that. But are we missing something? 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 I believe so, Steve. I spent a lot of time as a program manager for all Navy and Marine Corps uavs. We did a lot of work with the shipboard integration of Scane Eagle, which was a new capability that frankly got us back into the fight from a naval perspective. Started very simply and then we grew into a fully integrated ScanEagle system in the small surface warfare combatants which I always cruised on. I was a frigate and a, and a cruiser sailor. So there are ways that we are making the tyranny of distance, which is what we call it in the, in the, in the Asia Theater. How do I communicate? How do I jam? How do I do things at distance? What's the power of endurance? How do I use these semi lethal and also long flying UAVs? How do I merge them with the man fleet? So man unmanned teaming is going to become a big thing. Trying to shorten the energy loop of decisions between finding something that is actionable and making a decision on that Data. That's where UAVs are unique. So for instance, the jamming world is where we got started. We were very concerned about F18Gs, the inability for them to get close enough to jam without putting just a boatload of energy in the air. So we came up with an expendable UAV when I was the program manager and we called it whisper rather than shout. You can get in close, you could do everything you need to do with an expendable UAV from the F18 and you can whisper jam, not shout from 50 miles or 150 miles. So that's the power of UAVs. It's a time sink. It's the power of endurance and it's the power of communications at long distances. By the way, Like I said, we're going to cut to the naval exercise as soon as it happens. It should be shortly. Also back on the main stage, 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 now you got the Russians and the Ukrainians pounding each other every night, principally with drones. You've had this incredible strike by the Ukrainians. Now was it coordinated with American intelligence? Probably at a V spaden, but they went in, I think, 2,000 miles into Russia. They took apart at least half of the third leg of the nuclear triad, the strategic bomber. Something Curtis LeMay couldn't even think about. Is the army or what's happening on ground, particularly in Ukraine, is the Navy, the Navy SEALs in 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. The Navy was behind when I was a program manager. There's no way around it. The army got me back into the fight. By the way, we deployed Raven A's, Raven B's with socom. We did a lot of chumming off of what the army had done. I actually deployed shadows with the Marine Corps in advance. We got rid of pioneers. The army actually gave me a shadow battalion to deploy and I paid them back two years later. And that's the spirit of the cooperation that we had with the Army. 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. So, you know, swarming at distance is very difficult. Right? The endurance of the smalls and endurance of swarms. You're swarming your next door neighbors. Cool. That's what's going on in Ukraine. 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. Batteries are so much better. Propulsion is so much better. So what we're seeing and what the Navy is doing is looking at that as an example. What are called requests for information and, and new proposals come out from the Marine Corps all the time. We want ship based, we want tank base, we want reconnaissance based UAVs. Same with the Navy Seals. I've worked very closely with them. They're interested because we call it digital crack. 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. That's the key and that's the power that the Marine Corps, the Navy's looking at. So for instance, real quickly, when I was did the escorts of the reflight Kuwaiti tankers, if I'd have had a UAV attached to the back of the ship at 400ft, my visual horizon went from 11 miles to 40. That's a significant delta in response time for small boats, for decoys, for any number of different things. That's the power of the UAV is the persistence, the endurance, and the ability to coordinate with manned airplanes. Captain Fanell, your Naval intelligence is Captain Morgan. Right. 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? Well, 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. 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 UCAV that we have. 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. You're not going to be able to fly some of these small wire guided drones from a destroyer or a small ship to 2,000 miles away from China and be able to be effective. We 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. So it is here to stay. The question is, how is it going to be applicable to naval warfare? 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 and it has to be completely rethought. There's different atmospherics, there's different sensitivities to salt and seawater and duration at sea and repair and all of that kind of stuff that has to be looked at. And I know folks like Captain Morgan are all about that. So we've got people looking at it. We just need to accelerate it needs to be part of this restoration of this make America's Navy great again. We need to restore and do what we did in 1940 to focus on building our navy. And it's not going to be the Navy of 1940 where we just pumped out, you know, destroyers and jeep carriers and carriers. It's going to be the new navy of the 21st century, but we have to make it a national priority. I think that's the message that I want to get across. I'm going to give back Emerald Mass in a second, but I want to continue that. There were visionaries before Pearl Harbor. They knew it was a gunfight coming, right. I mean, the leaders of our country, they started preparing an army, they started getting ready an army for fighter war in Europe. But particularly there was a big fight inside the Navy because it was still, you still had an aspect that was battleship centric, but you had some visionaries that said, hey, when we fight the Japanese across the vast Pacific, we're going to need aircraft carriers. Tell our audience about that. What happened this kind of late night, late 1930s, 1940, before Pearl Harbor. 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. And so one of the senators in the Congress, Senator Carl Vinson, put together the a bill called the Two Ocean Navy act in 38, 39. It got passed in 40. 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. If that bill had not been passed in 1940, we just scraped by in the Battle of Midway. It was a miracle that we won there. 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. We need that same kind of a focus today because the Chinese, not just their navy, but the Chinese Communist Party's agenda is to destroy the United States of America. They prefer to do it non kinetically, but they have built a kinetic capability and they will use it if given the opportunity. Okay, right there you see the President, the Commander in Chief is now landing on the USS Bush. Right, Here we go. We're going to Cut to. We're going to cut to the voice of God here to explain what's going on. Let's go and do it. John Palin. And finally, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Cottle. I will be your narrator. Lieutenant Daniel Burns, call sign hey. Hey. From Fort Lauderdale, Florida, we thank you today for joining us aboard The H. George H.W. bush Freedom at Work, the flagship of carrier strike group 12. We also thank ourselves, sailors on Pier 14 next to the Harry S. Truman and the USS Kearsarge. We are grateful to have you here today to witness not only the size and scope of the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, but to showcase how the men and women of the Team Avenger bring a hundred thousand tons of American steel to life. Our sailors are trained and ready to fight with the right skills, equipment and warrior ethos to protect the American interest around the globe. The platforms team and the events experienced today will encompass the full power and might of the United States Navy. You will see fast attack submarines, live fires from eight Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers, Navy SEALs fast roping from a helicopter to a destroyer. And finally an air power demonstration featuring a full complement of the carrier air wing showing the unmatched power of US Naval aviation. Now, now, be prepared to be amazed as our Navy demonstrates the impressive capabilities of the most powerful naval force the world has ever seen. The helicopter bringing President President Trump out. Captain Morgan, you are, you're very familiar with helicopters in the Navy, sir. Yes, right there. That's a. Commander Chief's gonna join, gonna hit the deck here in a moment. You saw the, we have a narrator for the entire exercise. I believe that actually the President is going to go up to the bridge and view it with the first lady from the bridge. Admiral Masso, what do you anticipate we're going to see here when things get up and running? Well, I think we're going to see a lot of activity. As I had said, they talked about fast roping SEALs off helicopters, Navy gunfire support, support missions, things of that nature. It's going to be loud and proud and very impressive. Admiral, Here we go. The Commander in Chief is coming out. Admiral, real quickly. Drones and changing the nature of surface warfare. Your thoughts? Absolutely essential. Crucial. It's non negotiable. It's got to be an important, important cornerstone of our investment strategies for not, not the future in 20 years, but for the future in 18 months. I couldn't agree more with, with both the captains who spoke earlier. It's, it's got to be done quickly, methodically. We've got to integrate the tactical picture in a. In a kind of a common tactical political operation picture where we're getting the best intelligence that we can get so we can make decisions. 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. You're going to see today the President's been looking forward to this. Like I said, I think this is his Teddy Roosevelt moment. He gets to see the fleet in action. And Admiral Massaro is absolutely correct. I think you'll see a lot of explosions and a lot of gunfire because at the end of the day, power projection is about exactly that. 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. People ought to keep in mind we have an amphibious, amphibious ready group. 4000 fleet marines and sailors off of the coast of Venezuela even as we speak. There we go. Right there. That's. That's Admiral Massar. That's the real. That's the real Navy right there. The cruisers, destroyers and frigates, are they not, sir? They absolutely are. That is the Navy. The real Navy, Yes. Oh, God, I love. I love to. But they look magnificent. Just love. There's a submarine right there. I think we're going to have some activity from fast attacks, maybe even shoot a couple of Tomahawks today. Here we go. We're going to turn back the commentary. This submarine is built for longevity, stealth and high performance. Iowa's advanced technology allows for near silent movement through the world's oceans. Its sensitive sonar can detect and track enemy submarines and warships from extended distances. With a length of 377ft and 6,800 tons and a speed of 25 knots, the Iowa represents the greatest America's silent fleet. 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. 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 1200 miles away. Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the USS Iowa and the United States Navy's silent service. Okay, right there, our submarine. Sonny, give us a perspective of our fast attack and ballistic missile submarines. Well, we're of course, investing heavily in the Columbia class. We have kind of completed construction on a vast array of ships. We had the Seawolf class, which had three ships in that class, CT Seawolf and Jimmy Carter. 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, submarine. The activities that we have in Guam, which is another area that you and I operated in together, is, is power powerful in the Taiwan Straits and, and they're finding, you know, their capabilities that they miss formation. The USS FAR, the USS Donald Cook, the USS Mason, the USS Delbert D. Black, USS Ross, USS Cole, USS Neets, USS Gonzalez and USS Carney. 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. Their seamless teamwork and unwavering commitment delivering precision firepower upon our nation's enemies from the surface of the sea. Aboard the aircraft carrier, the commander of Destroyer Squadron 22 operates as the Sea Combatant Commander for the George H.W. bush Carrier Strike Group. The DESRON commander is responsible for directing each of the destroyers under his command to successfully engage in anti surface and anti submarine warfare. Admiral Masso, you and I were shipmates in the, in The, I think Dejeron 23, the Little Beavers, the very famous, the very famous destroyer squadron From World War II Destroyer Squadron works underneath the carrier battle group to make sure they get protection for the carrier, sir. They do. The Desron 23 staff of which we're both familiar with from those days long ago will reside on the aircraft carrier and they will, you know, fight the DES runs that support the strike group from the carrier. And again, as the narrator said, it's not just anti submarine warfare, but it's anti surface warfare and it's tracking intel, intel and reconnaissance and everything that goes with the war fighting calculus. Also Captain Funnell, the, the, the fast attack submarines, they are absolutely essential to what we call the protection of the shores, not just the surface Navy. And our ASW capability, Anti Submarine Marine warfare capability, Fast attack submarines and direct support of the carrier battle group are also essential, particularly given developments in the Chinese Navy, sir. 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, now that we will face from a Chinese navy that's building submarines at a rapid pace and has been building them, we need to make sure that we have our hunter killer submarines protecting our high value assets. So that gets into the, you know, we talk about the missiles coming in from up above we also have to protect from the undersea and the Chinese have firepower just going Phalanx close in weapon system Also known as ciws, the Phalanx weapon system provides US Navy ships with an inner layer point defense capability against anti missiles, low flying aircraft, UAVs and high speed surface craft. The Phalanx 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. This is the ship's last line of defense, providing a fast reaction radar guided 20 millimeter gun weapon system that is capable of firing at a rate of 4,500 rounds per minute. Yeah, right there. The President's being shown the Admiral Masson. Like I say, we're cutting out. The Navy's controlling the, the narrator. So we're just going to go. Every time the narrator speaks, the President's on the deck right there of the bush. When you talk about that gun system, Admiral Massar, what are we talking about? Well the close in weapons support is a very vital component and I think if you recall back in the day where the USS Stark did not have their CIWS set to an automatic capability and an Exocet came in and severely damaged, took lives of that ship. And it was the great damage control efforts of the ships in partnership with them out there that saved the ship from sinking. But this is a very reliable system. It's one of the best we've got. I know I was part of some of the stuff studies between a shoot off between, see Vulcan 25 and, and actually a 30 millimeter derivation of it. But the 4500 rounds is extremely powerful and really does work. And our former ship, the Paul Foster is a test ship for you know, such activities where they actually shoot missiles at it and their intercept interrupted by capabilities embedded on the ship. And that's done from the Naval surface warfare center at 45. You're hitting these bolts at 4500aminute. By the way, you just saw the water going up off of the, off of our combatant right there. I think you're going to get a 5 inch 54 going off in a minute. Wish we could get the, if the sound hit it, your, your, the, the, your teeth would rattle. Admiral Masso, that's kind of a last line of the fence. You're basically putting up a shot sheet of steel to shred whatever missiles coming every, any airframe that's coming to hit a surface vessel kind of at the last second. Right? I mean that's your last Hope is to hit that as you hit your close in to basically shred the airframe before you hit. Yeah, that, that, that's part of it. And we also have, you know, rapid bloom off board chaff which sends out aluminum and things that will maybe change the direction of an incoming missile of some sort. So we've got a number of different capabilities but the last line of defense would be the ciws. But there's, there's great comfort and confidence in that capability. 5 inch gun is a fully automatic naval gun mount. Mark 45 is designed to engage, engage surface and air targets and provide naval surface fire support for expeditionary operations. 20. The gun mount includes a 20 round automatic loader drum. Its maximum fire rate of 16 to 20 rounds per minute with an effective range of 13 nautical miles mass. Captain Fennell, you know that if you're standing on the bridge of that ship and that 5 inch 54 is going off, it rattles your teeth. I mean the repercussions are so hard. Sonny, you've fired that many, many, many times, right? Tell the audience what it's like. Well, it's pretty substantial and again it's got a pretty long range. But yes, it's a major explosion and in fact the shell casings are launched from it and they substantially mark up the decks because of the violence of the thrust of that firing. And again those are unmount mounts and you can see them right there, you can see that smoke coming out. And if you look carefully you can see some of the shell casings. And the President has got to be absolutely beside himself with pride right now, seeing what his great navy can bring to bear. That smell of cordite. There's nothing like it. Admiral. People, the people maybe not for familiar with the Navy are sitting there going, they remember victory at sea with, with battleships with 16 inch guns. Why? Because of the new armor. But why? Because of missile technology, drone technology in the automated nature of the 5 inch 54 that these ships can actually deliver much more lethality. Although nothing can replace a naval gunfire from a battleship, at least psychologically on a, on an enemy that's embedded. Why is why the surface warfare capability so much more lethal today? Well, I think it all goes to the sensors that they have that kind of position us for the right ranging and locations of those, those items that we might be trying to shoot at. So we've got more sophisticated, sophisticated fire control radars. I think you recall when the Spruance class came into bearing in the Arleigh Burke classes, these ships because of the sophistication of the fire control radars almost never miss. They just don't. And so they're more lethal because they're more accurate. The Standard Missile 2, or SM2 is the US Navy's premier air defense weapon. With a range of up to 90 nautical miles, the SM2 is launched from Mark 41 Launch Systems. This weapon system is an integral part of the Aegis weapon system aboard the TAG class cruisers and Arleigh Burke class destroyers. Its primary mission includes fleet area defense and ship self defense and has used SEEM active radar guidance to decisively engage and destroy even the most advanced adversary fighter aircraft. One of our ships and company, the USS Carney recently fired the SM2 missile in support of combat operations in the red Sea. On October 19, 2023, the USS Carney was involved in one of the most intense combat engagements by a US Navy warship since World War II. By the end of what became a 10 hour standoff, Kearney had shot down 15 drones and four land attack cruise missiles fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen. This marked the most intense combat engagement of the US Navy in years. Ladies and gentlemen, your United States Navy surface fleet. Right there we have. That's a gun line. Explain to the audience what's going on. Well, for safety, you know, they're in a formation one it looks like, and that's just to create a spread so that if they're launching a different SM2, standard missile two extended range, they're firing guns, things of that nature, that form one is an old. It's a way to just be out of each other's way and to manage the show a little bit better. They can operate in a number of different configurations. The U.S. navy SEALs were established by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 as a small elite maritime force. They carry out types of clandestine, small unit, high impact missions that large forces with high profile platforms such as ships, tanks, jets and submarines cannot. Seals conduct essential on the ground special necronics at critical targets to enable strikes by larger conventional forces. Ladies and gentlemen, what you're witnessing is effective integration and interoperability with varying air and maritime and land components with critical to the SEAL operations. Today's helicopter assault force is relying on a skilled pilot and a crew of helicopter C Combat Squadron 11 to insert them into a target area via fast rope from an MH60C era helicopter. Fast roping is designed to enable seals a rapid insertion into areas of rough terrain or obstacles that would prevent a suitable landing zone. The height of the fast rope is dependent on the target area, but can be held up to 90ft, the equivalent of a nine story building with close to 100 pounds of combat equipment aboard each. Navy SEAL operator, underwater demolition. Now, Navy SEALs UDT. By the way, I want to tell the. As soon as the narrator comes back up, we automatically override Admiral Masso and Captain Fennell's analysis of all this. I think you're seeing the combined arms. You're going to see some submarines, you're seeing some covering fire enabling operators to begin the assault. There's some of the covering fire of the helicopters. Captain Morgan knows about that. Admiral. Master, you're getting kind of an overview of the combined arms capabilities of the Navy right here, are we not? We absolutely are. This is extraordinary. It's a great demonstration. And you know, you ask how we can enhance the, you know, the desires of what we believe we need to develop. Look no further than what we're seeing right now with the President, the Secretary of the Navy. I believe this will be one of the very first exhibitions that he's ever seen. And this is all very important public relations, but it also shows some extraordinary training. And when Erik Prince so rightly talked about having that ethos, that ethos is about the right manning, the right equipment and the right training. And look no further than what we're watching right now. I mean, some of these weapons systems, like for instance, the submarines, the fast attack, remember the boomers, are the ones that hold the ballistic missiles that can target Russia or China to drop a nuclear weapon. Today, the naval Special warfare maintains a forward posture, operating across the globe from South America and Europe to the Middle east and Asia, proactively addressing emerging threats and safeguarding national interests. These operators are global premier maritime special operations force, delivering decisive action where it matters most. They are trained to operate in the harshest environments, from desert cities to remote coastlines. They continue to innovate in a battle space defined by evolving technology and global competition. Across its history, Naval Special Warfare has remained true to the ethos of the Navy SEAL teams. They are quiet professionals, relentless in their pursuit of excellence and unwavering in their commitment to the mission. Naval Special Warfare honors the great generations of warriors and support personnel who have built its legacy and reaffirms his commitment to serving with honor, courage and excellence well into the future. Sure, we're going to have some naval air assets also. Captain Morgan, I'll bring you in here. Before, was it Leyte Golf or or Midway was the first naval battle, I think in history that the two sides never saw each other. Right. They were at such a distance that it was all done through naval aircraft. Now this eventually will be, you'll evolve around to drones, etc. But people should understand in these battles the way they're set up, it's not like Nelson's Navy or in the Revolution where you pull alongside, just unsheath the guns and just let's get it on. These are done at vast different distances. Are not, Sir. Well, Steve, the first multiplier. A highly skilled warrior capable of operating in remote environments or engaging the enemy in an urban setting. They are experts in close quarters combat, demolitions, communications, marksmanship and a myriad of other skills essential for success in the most challenging environments. They are the tip of the spear, the silent God Imran, the embodiment of American resolve. They are the US Navy seals and they stand ready to defend freedom, protect our interests and answer the call, however it may come. Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you enjoyed this small display of the capabilities of the Naval special warfare and our supporting elements as we seek to carry on the legacy of the frogmen that have gone before us. Give it up for your United States Navy SEALs. During the Second World War, USS San Juicito launched Lieutenant Junior Grade George H.W. bush and his TBF Avenger torpedo bomber from a vast expanse of the western Pacific. This helps support 58 critical combat missions. Since this pivotal area, the aircraft carrier has remained an indispensable pillar of America's national security, providing vital roles in the conflicts from Vietnam all the way till recent inherent Resolve. Today, our Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carriers represent the cutting edge of naval aviation technology. These mighty vessels launch aircraft using steam catapults powerful enough to accelerate a 65,000 pound aircraft from zero to nearly 200 miles per hour in a mere seconds. This represents an extraordinary feat of engineering and precision. After completing their missions, our pilots execute one of the most challenging maneuvers in aviation. Landing aboard a moving ship approaching at the precise 8 degrees of 3.5 degree glide slope. From approximately 3/4 of a mile, they aim to catch one one of the three arresting wires that are only 40ft apart, offering a total landing area of 80ft. This narrow margin leaves virtually no room for error in this demanding skill. This is required both day and night and it distinguishes our naval aviators as the most highly trained and capable pilots in the world. The flight deck is angled at 9 degrees, a critical design feature that allows aircraft to be launched and recovered simultaneously, maximum maximizing operational tempo and efficiency. Four steam catapults propel the fixed wing aircraft into the skies while three resting wires safely Recover them upon return. All aircraft operations are expertly coordinated by the air boss from the primary flight control. Supporting these complex operations are four large elevators that move the aircraft seamlessly between the flight deck and the hangars below. These hangars are carefully divided into three bays of thick steel engineered to contain and restrict the spread of fire, ensuring the safety, personnel and equipment. The two aircraft located on the fantail at the aftmost portion of the ship are now about to kick on their engines and prepare to launch and intercept whatever may be on the way. We see them taxiing forward to the waist catapults now where 52,000 pounds of steel will use its own 44,000 pounds of thrust and the impressive power of the carrier's catapult system to go from 0 to 150 knots in roughly three seconds. The USS8 George H.W. bush has four catapults, two on the bow, two on the waist. It is capable of launching one aircraft every 30 seconds. As you will see, the aircraft will taxi up to the catapult, lower the launch bar into a small shuttle. Behind the nose gear will be attached a hold back fitting from the landing gear to the ship. The whole back bar will hold the aircraft as the pilot runs his throttles to full power. When the pilot is ready to launch, they will give a crisp loot and the catapult officer will then press the button who will release the launch bar and away he goes. Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you from the waist the catapult. Demo it. Captain Morgan, this is still one of the most dangerous carrier launches and carrier recovery still among the most dangerous activities the Navy does call, correct? Oh, absolutely. I again I admire this so much. This has been a lot of fun. They very rarely get this kind of up close and personal in this present. Would be on the, on the bridge right now observing this. There we go. Check out. While our intrepid alert aircraft proceed to investigate and neutralize a threat. Three of our aircraft are returning from the fight now. Overhead in the stack we will recover 1F35 Lightning, 2 1F18 Super Hornet and 1 1E 2D Hawkeye. Very technical, very dangerous. Admiral Masso, on the, on the recovery of these of the aircraft. Normally there's a destroyer right in back of the, right back of the carrier. That is a plane guard ship. Talk to me about that. What's the purpose of having a surface warfare combatant right in back of the, of the carrier? Well, they actually do a combination. They'll have a helo off. You know what they call the starboard delta and they stand off in the kind of, in the wake. In the absence of that helo, they'll put a destroyer in what they call two SNX position, which is anywhere from 12 to 1500 yards astern of the, of the carrier. And if someone were to be blown overboard or there'd be an aircraft accident of some sort, the destroyer would render that first response to either pick up an individual who's fallen overboard or to go alongside to grab a pilot that may be part of a plane that went into the water. So it's a pretty essential, you know, very, very demanding. You know, you've got to be at the top of your game. You've got to be paying attention, all hands on deck, watching and making sure because you just don't have that much time to really respond to any sort of emergency. There's a commander in chief right there getting fully briefed now. Overhead is the navy's all weather carrier based tactical battle management airborne early warning command and control aircraft. The E2D is a twin engine, five crew member high wing turboprop aircraft with a 24 foot diameter radome attached to the upper fuselage. The Hawkeye is our eye in the sky. The pilots will manage this aircraft to touchdown in the landing area or LA. A small piece of steel roughly 100ft wide and with a wingspan of nearly 80ft. There is not much room for error here. The Utd Pilot would demonstrate the power of the E2D's engines and look to take back off again in only a few hundred feet. Paul Morgan. That's what people have to realize. When these planes come in, they hit the, they go to full power, right. In case the arresting gear, they miss the arresting gear or something breaks. They got to be ready to launch instantaneously, sir. Oh, absolutely. And this, what you're looking at right here is one of the hardest aircraft to bring aboard. I know a lot of E2 guys and it's pretty sporty. Well, there was turbine buildup, Steve, that was the thing until they put the new blades and new fade X on was. It was a little lag time and it talk, talk to us about that as we watch this come in. What do you mean by that? Tell the audience. Well, these are turbo fans or jet engines with, with you know, props on the end. And so these are new engines and new blade arrangements. They used to be four bladed so it didn't take as much air as this did. You can see that's a magnificent airplane by the way. But they're going to go to full power. And there was always that little wind up time that they hated. Right there, that's a touch and go right there. Yeah. So they'll, they'll spool up as they come in the land. And there was always that second or two that the pilots would tell me. It was just like come on baby, let's. Come on, keep going, let's go. Next Inbound is the F35, the US Navy's first fifth generation stealth fighter. This cutting edge aircraft marks the historic leap in naval aviation Bringing radar evading stealth technology to the carrier deck for the first time in naval history. The F35C sets new standards in weapons system integration, lethality, maintainability, combat radius and payload. Delivering a true multi mission power projection from the sea. It pairs fifth generation survivability with major advances in network enabled mission systems reliability and interoperability. Designed as a first day of the war fighter, the F35C is built to dominate both air and surface threats while surviving the most challenging threats threat environments of today. Admiral Massa, you first and then pause to come in here. The commander in chief I think is down there on, on the actual deck itself. I, I've never seen, I thought it would be observed from up above. That's, that's like the most dangerous place on earth right now, is it not, Abass? Well, he's not standing next to an aircraft that's getting ready to launch. If he's on the deck, he's probably in the landing signal officer's staging area. Yeah. And if he's there, this is where the LSO is. They have a glide slope indicator and the landing signal officer will ask the pilot to call the ball and, and he's looking for an alignment of lights and, and that's a great place to view it. It's very exciting, especially for non aviators such as the president or such as me. You know I love being back there. Yeah. You know it's. But, but, but if that cable, but if that cable, if, if that cable snaps and they do snap, that cable snaps, it goes off like a. I mean Captain Morgan, I admire the president for being down there and like you said, like Sonny said, it's unique. You get a unique opportunity. But everything on this deck right now is still one of the most dangerous places on earth. Am I incorrect in that? The next approach is the fh, A fourth generation aircraft in the workhorse of the U. S. Navy. With a wingspan of 45ft and touching down with over 100 knots. The resting wires across the deck will bring it to a speed of down to zero allowing to stop within a few hundred feet. This clears away for any following aircraft with an ideal interval of 55 seconds. Captain for captain for now. With the captain for now. Remember those pilots have to go to full throttle. That's the bravery and courage of naval aviators. Yes, I thought it is. It's very exciting and it's very dangerous. I. I've done it several times. I think the President is actually standing forward of the island. Recognize the harm and equipment that are working on the flight deck operations to make the flight ops possible on an aircraft carrier. If you look around you will notice a wide array of different colored jerseys and float coats running around the deck of the carrier. These are the people that make things happen out here on a day to day basis. They are the reason the George H.W. bush Strike Group team can achieve our full combat capability anytime any place. These are just a few of the people that make the aircraft carrier flight operations possible. The true strength of the carrier strike group comes from the dedicated men and women who work tirelessly to maintain these impressive machines every day. Our next demonstration will be an F18 organic refueling capabilities. Here you will now see an aircraft coming into the pattern who is operating on a low fuel state and will be forced to discontinue his approach. It 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. Got posto out there. Extraordinary naval exercise right now. The pilot is now executing a wave off from the carrier indicating a foul deck. 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. The airborne refueling aircraft has been said 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 expeditionally join and refuel the aircraft to give it another chance to land. If you follow the the path of the low fuel aircraft on the port side of the ship you will see the tanker setting up in position to set up for air to air refueling. Now it is up to the pilot with a low fuel aircraft to steel his nerves and execute a precise and controlled connection. Inserting the refueling pogue 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 organic Tanking has made it possible by the F18 and has made Navy's operations in hostile theaters without divert airfields possible for the last two decades. This ensuring safe aircraft recovery and extends the operational range of the F18 for long range strikes. Captain Morgan. Paul Morgan. What. What is the. The. This ability to. In right there. Another great shot. The what is the power of the. Of that in flight refueling capability you had to wave off because you're low fuel. Tell the audience how. Why is that so important? Well, blue auto ops means there's no gas stations, right? You're not. You're not flying to San Diego. So this is a great shot. Next, we will witness the 2M 35C Lightning II air perform basic fighter maneuvers commonly referred to as dog fighting. This is a tactic that has roots tracing back to the daring pilots of World War I. Each pilot will push their bodies and their aircraft to the extreme limits in order to achieve victory. Approaching from the bow and the stern, the fighters close in on each other at speeds exceeding 1000 knots. Beginning of the fight on neutral terms. To determine the winner, the aircraft will fly past each other in a high aspect pass with just 500ft separating them. There's a commander in chief right there with the first lady getting a briefing. I think it's a strike force. I think it's a strike force commander. The admiral, maybe. Sonny, is that this. Is that the chief of naval operations with him or is that the strike force commander? I don't. I can't see clearly, but I'm. I'm almost certain that Admiral Cottle is there as well. After the merge, each fighter will look to max perform their aircraft by pulling to the load limit of the aircraft at 7.5 GS. As they raid around and approach the next merge, each fighter is looking to cue and employ both the AIM120 and AIM9X missiles to take out their adversary and win the fight. Both fighters in a similar aircraft will look to capitalize on errors made by the other pilot to gain the offensive position. The fighters are now approaching the second neutral merge. One aircraft has decided to execute a nose high maneuver and gain a positional advantage. Preparing to employ the AIM120 to kill their adversary. They will open their weapons bay doors and the fighter that has a positional advantage will max perform to get the behind their adversary and maintain the offensive position. After Employing both the AIM120 and the AIM9X, the offensive fighter will not maneuver to execute a gain attack on their adversary. In an attempt to gain a 1v1 engagement. Victory. Paul Morgan, tell the audience. What, what, what, what would seven GS feel like? Well, as a helicopter pilot, it would be bad. I think the max I've ever done is like four or five in flight school. But seven G's is. That'll make you, make you tired. The edge of human endurance. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. We will see the E2D up close and personal in flight. The E2D is the Navy's premier carrier borne airborne early warning asset. It provides impressive radar detection ranges and works alongside the rest of the carrier's troop as the eye in the sky maintained. Atop the fuselage you can see a large rotating dish. This is a powerful APY9 radar that allows the E2D to maintain situational awareness to the battle space. It plays a critical role in ensuring the carrier strike group defenses 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. A touch and go right there. President is down on the flight deck. It's, it's pretty amazing. Very amazing actually. See the arresting, the hook, the tail hook right there. So Paul, walk us through that. What that tail hook is there to catch the arresting gear. How difficult is that? Well, it's, you know, I, again, I was a not a jet guy, but the aids to landing are so much better. And this is such a magnificent airplane. But a lot of it's done glide slope wise and the, the Admiral said it earlier, let's call the ball and they'll get you down. But one quick aside, you remember Jeff Strabel, right? Sure. His daughter is the E2NFO. In the last top gun was the E2NFO. Where in the last Top Gun movie, when Tom Cruise is talking to the E2. That's, that's. Wow. Wow. I know, I thought I'd share that with you. That, that's amazing. I know, it's awesome. See the, see the tail hook right there? Yep. So folks, if that tail hook doesn't get the arresting gear, that's the touch and go. You're at full throttle. So you just touch and go right back up. That's what they practice all the time before they teach them how to actually land it. Sonny, we've been a couple, three of those exercises off of San Diego where they're taking the pilots from, from Miramar, teach them how to land on carriers. Right. A couple of three can do the touch and goes, but they can't do that. They can't do that. Equipped with the M61A1 Vulcan Gatling gun housed in the nose, the weapon fires 20mm rounds at a staggering of 6,000 rounds per minute to precisely destroy small targets while minimizing collateral damage. The 20mm cannon is equipped with a semi armor piercing high explosive incinerator rounds which are fired at supersonic speeds to inflict heavy damage to their targets. Each aircraft will execute a well honed strafe pattern, diving at nearly 30 degrees straight at the target and unleashing the Vulcan's firepower in a demonstration of the F18's ability to prosecute targets even when all bombs are expended. Sonny, where we had the close end weapon system to put up that wall of steel to to stop a missile from hitting a surface vessel at the last second. This is kind of what we have in the air in one of these fighter aircraft. This Vulcan gun is kind of similar. You're just putting down a wall of lead to rip apart shatter anything in front of you. We will see them dispensing flares and executing a guns jinx in order to defend against enemy air defense artillery and surface air missiles and look to return to base safely. Next UP is the MH60 Sierra. The Sierra is the Navy's multi mission workhorse helicopter. It has two auxiliary fuel tanks and it can stay airborne for about four and a half hours, about two hours without it. Its max speed is 180 knots. It can carry up to £23,000 and £55 of internal fuel for special operations support. The MH60 Sierra can insert and extract Navy special warfare personnel by fast roping or static line as well as free fall parachute. It also provides ISR capabilities, sniper overwatch, JTAC support and helicopter visit board search and seizure for maritime interdiction. The armament for the MH60 Sierra includes the the Gau 2150 caliber gun with nearly 2 kilometers effective range of M24 7.62 mm guns with an effective range of 1,100 meters. When fully armed the MH60 Sierra can carry up to eight AGM 114 Hellfire missiles with an 8 kilometer reach and 20 mm 3 barrel M197 Gatling gun with up to 38 rounds of unguided 2.75 inch rockets. Using the digital rocket launcher, this platform can fire Precise rockets at about 5,5000 meters. 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 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 crews surveying weaponry with 50 caliber machine guns to ensure target destruction. Paul, the utility of those helicopters is pretty extraordinary. You've got anti submarine helicopters, you have a whole different. Walk us through quickly what the, what the different types of helicopters are and how they add both of the, you got the surface combatants out there and the carrier. You know it's interesting Steve, I manage both of those programs, the Romeo and the Sierra. As the IPT lead we have only two helicopters now with the 53s we ran a program called the Common Cockpit. The cockpits are virtually the same. That's the key. So training and how we get people through the pipeline is completely different than what used to be where we all had stovepipe helicopters and training. The Sierra is more of the tactical insertion extraction. Romeo now is the, is the ASW bird, anti submarine bird and. But they both have guns and missiles now and they're also MVG compatible, which they weren't for decades unfortunately. Magnificent airplanes. By the way, at Massa Aeromasso the helicopters add a whole different dimension when they're put on service combatants, do they not? Absolutely. And in fact if you think about different missions, specifically anti submarine warfare, if we are in contact with a subject submarine, you really want to fight that submarine with a helicopter. 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 F18 Super Hornet. Nicknamed the Rhino. It the F18 pilots are now setting up for the minimum radius turn to the tailstand. With the max AB selected, the aircrew will select 90 degrees angle of bank and hold for 7.5 G's for a 360 degrees of turn. @ the end of the minimum turn aircraft will max perform to the vertical followed by a negative G pushover to return to level flights. IT pilots are now setting up for the square loop. As the Super Hornets approach through the show center at 350 miles an hour, the pilot will rapidly reposition the nose four times, flying a distinct square path through the sky. Ladies and gentlemen, from the left, the square loop. Admiral Massa, if you're on the, if you're in the deck of that carrier or deck of that carrier like the President's right now, when it goes by in stripes you can barely. It's pretty all encompassing. As the pilots push out, they are now Setting up for the inverted whisker. Pass it, ladies. We're getting a direct feed from the carrier. I don't think everybody else, I don't think any other network's getting this. So it's really. And the Navy's doing this switching of the camera so they're in control. There's some magnificent shots. If you had full volume of the sound, you would barely be able to hear yourself think. It's, it's that loud, that all encompassing. There's a cat carrier right there. Ladies and gentlemen, make your cameras ready. The F18 is now setting up for their final maneuver, their photo pass. The aircraft will pass show center at a 90 degrees angle of bank and 200ft. And in maximum afterburner. Paul Morgan. How many years of training does it take to be able to fly like this, these, these fighter pilots? Well, flight school is about a year and then depending on the aircraft, it's going to be at least another year. And then you go to your first squadron from what's called replacement air Group. It takes about two and a half, three years in the pipeline to go on your first cruise. It's kind of amazing, Admiral Massa. We would be off in the San Diego OP area many weekends. Right. And when they were training those pilots to come out and do carrier landings, ladies and gentlemen, next UP is the F35C, the Navy's newest variant Joint Strike Fighter. It is the only fifth generation aircraft in the Navy's inventory and combines stealth with sensor fusion. The C model differs from other F35 variants with its larger wings, increased fuel capacity, added ailerons and enhanced landing gear, giving it the unique ability to launch and recover from the aircraft carrier at sea. Serving as the pilot today for the Demo will be Lieutenant Underdown, call sign Bam from Virginia Beach, Virginia. It. Ladies and gentlemen, you are watching now. The F35C repositioned for the minimum radius turn. As you're watching this, you will see that he was pressed in his seat at seven and a half times the force of gravity. To put that in perspective, during this maneuver, Bam's body weight will feel close to 1500 pounds. During an aerial dogfight, the F35C can execute extremely tight turns, giving the ability to rapidly reposition his nose and gain an advantage over the adversary. To now demonstrate the agility of the F35C, Lieutenant Underdown will approach for the tactical pitch from a speed of 300 mph. Bam will select full AB, roll the aircraft 45 degrees and show the F35's ability to rapidly reposition its nose at high speeds and high angles of attack. He will then climb in the vertical, demonstrating the power of the Lightning II as he accelerates away from the ground. The F35 will now set up for the high speed pass, pulling six GS back towards showline. He will then approach Show center at 300ft and 0.95 Mach. You may notice the white vapor coming off the aircraft indicating it is approaching the speed of sound at nearly 750 miles per hour. The ability to ingress at low altitudes and high speeds enables pilots to avoid detection and preserve the element of surprise. Captain Morgan, what is seven GS? If it's, if you weigh 1500 pounds, how do you even function in the cockpit? Well, they have, they have G suits on and they, the design of the seats is actually really good. You're leaning back a lot more than you used to. So to pull four GS and like a T34 is, is hard, but it's. To pull seven leaning backwards with a G suit on, it's going to be, it's going to feel like you had no G suit. Sitting in a 34 at about 4 G's that's about the way it feels. Feels. But you'll black out. That's, that's, that's the way it goes. Oh, look at that. That's magic. Emerald Massa, what do we have right there? I can't tell. Looks like a, I can't, looks like a cruiser. Hopefully. Maybe we get a helicopter demonstration off the, off the fantail. I would tell you one thing, Captain Morgan. As dangerous it is for those fighter aircraft coming in on, as you guys used to do, with no visibility, no horizon in the dead of night is pretty, pretty dangerous when you got like a, when the frigates and destroyers, those small laying decks are bouncing around. Correct, it is. But your brother had a lot harder time than I did. Steve's brother was an H2 pilot. I was an H60 guy. 60s are so robust. They're, they're just so much more stable than the old age two. But it's challenging but it's, it's, it's got its place in aviation. But the carrier stuff is really quite something. For the culminating air power demonstration, all participating in the aircraft will return overhead the aircraft carrier for one final flyover. This formation represents the full complement of the carrier air wing, embodying the strength, precision and professionalism of United states naval aviation. 14 war ready aircraft will thunder across the sky in a disciplined wedge formation. While the MH60 displays the colors of our nation, A solemn reminder of the freedoms we protect. Each aircraft is a vital instrument of our navy's war fighting capabilities. Combining power, precision and unwavering resolve. Together they stand as a shield for America's interest. A testament to our credible deterrence. And if called upon an overwhelming force. Paul. Is that we're putting down. Actually putting down a diver or putting down someone to actually rescue a pilot. Because Sonny had mentioned that the Arbriano. The real way when you have a man overboard during one of these exercises are in the fleet and you get guys blown overboard all the time by the jets, the plane guard ships right in back. But the best way actually to get them is by the helicopter. Can get them quicker before. Because I can tell you and Sunny, I think we'll vouch for this. Very hard to send when you're blown overboard. That ocean is pretty vast. Even if you're on top of it. Very hard to see. Still. The helicopter is the best way to rescue somebody, Correct? 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, that the air crewmen will take care of the person and they'll both winch up together. There's the commander in chief. Did that whole exercise from the. From the actual flight deck itself. Wow. Talk about in harm's way. Admiral Masso talked about the lamps you've there. Come right there. The. The wedge. They're coming across now. The entire representative of the air wing itself, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for United States naval aviation. Pretty impressive. Always. Ladies and gentlemen, as we conclude today's sea power demonstration, we stand united in awe and gratitude for United States Navy, a force forged in the crucible of history and the stalwart defender of American freedom for over two centuries. From the daring frigates of the revolutionary war which challenged the might of the British empire, to the steel battleships that secured victory in two world wars, from the vigilant silent service of submarines during the cold war to the swift carrier presence that projects power in today's global arena, the navy has stood as the unwavering shield of our nation. These waters have been the proving grounds of heroes like John Paul Jones, whose legendary resolve declared, I have not yet begun to fight. They echo with great value of the great white fleet that carried America's message of strength and diplomacy throughout the globe. They remember the sacrifice at Midway and Leyte Gulf, where fate and freedom was decided in the open seas and the skies above. Today, as we Witness the might and precision of this modern fleet. We honor the generations of sailors who have answered the call to defend liberty and uphold justice. Their courage, skills and dedication have preserved the peace and prosperity we cherish. To the men and women of the United States Navy, you are the inheritors of this proud legacy, the embodiment of America's promise to stand vigilant and strong against our nation's enemies. We salute your unwavering commitment, your honor and your sacrifice. May your sails always catch the winds of victory. May your watch be ever steadfast. And may God bless the United States Navy and the United States of America. Obviously, very impressive. The commander in chief, I think, will spend a few minutes with the crew and then maybe with the officers. He'll be heading back to Norfolk. We got Steve Gruber there. There's going to be a actual series of talks and the President will address that vast crowd that's on the deck of the USS Truman. So I just keep talking what you guys are doing. Okay, maybe we go back, we get a shot of the Truman. I think it's going to shift there, and they're going to be some speakers. Prior to the. There's Titans of the Sea, Admiral Masso, the lamps. Helicopters coming in on a small frigate or destroyer in the middle of the night with no horizon. Pretty dangerous operation for naval aviators and the personnel on the tiny little flight decks back there on the. On the frigates and destroyers. You know, I always found the level of professionalism of the air debts that we deployed with to be extraordinary. And we had what we called R2D2, which was the computer and robot in Star wars. And that was our glide slope indicator. And as they would make their final approaches, we would turn on the run the flight deck lights and the sgli, the glide slope indicator. And they just were so professional. And as you recall, we were able to land 40 sixes. We landed H3s and SH2 Seasprite helicopters. And the pilots were extraordinary. They just. An amazing job. Incredible. Incredible. So proud. My kid brother's a lamp spot right there. You see the color guard? Let's go and cut back to the. Let's cut back to the main deck. Don't need to see me. Here we go right now. 250th birthday. As one force and of one voice, we remember and we celebrate both our storied past and our proud heritage. With the origins of the Navy predating our independence, our Continental Congress knew that a fleet of sufficient force was necessary for protection of our colonies and even for freedom. Itself with your hands and through your vessels. Our Navy was born as a force for good. Today we celebrate one another, Sailors and Marines who are the lifeblood of our force and the heart of our birthday celebration. And we are deeply grateful for all our shipmates, past and present, who have thrown themselves upon the sea again and again in the service of our great country and the finest, most powerful Navy and Marine Corps the world has ever seen. May you fill this space now with your divine presence and power as we commemorate this momentous occasion together. May you gird us with toughness and discipline as war fighters, even as we work diligently to deter and passionately to preserve peace through strength. May you make us ready and resilient when the call of duty comes, as protectors of our nation, guarantors of freedom on the seas. And may you forevermore watch over and bless those who serve upon the sea, above the sea and under the sea, as we sail towards a bold future together. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Rabbi Yonatan Warren. We come together now to acknowledge and memorialize those who came before us. Eternal God. For generations they came, young, hopeful, enthusiastic, to serve, to answer a call from their nation, from their communities, from you. We pray for them, for those who answered the call to serve in the United States Navy and in the United States Marine Corps for 250 years. They came in times of war and in times of peace. They came because freedom, democracy, union, revolution. Ask it, require it, demand it. And they answered that call they gave of themselves, of their intellect, of their vigor, of their spirit. And because of that, today we stand on their shoulders and we are eternally grateful. Grateful for their service. God, Master of healing, we ask you, tend to the emotional and physical well being of our nation's sea service veterans. May they never feel forgotten by those whose liberty they have so steadfastly defended. Lord, aid the caregivers who tend to their wounds. El Mali Rachelim God, full of compassion, hold close those who made the ultimate sacrifice, who died in the selfless devotion to the greater whole. May they be bound up in the bond of eternal life. And may they rest in peace. Lord, remember their parents, partners, children and all the loved ones they left behind. Protect and comfort them. Bring them peace. Bring them grace. In this semi quincentennial of our Navy and Marine Corps, may all assemble here. May all our fellow service members and may our nation come to know and savor the blessings of true peace and security. May God bless us and our nation. And let us say Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, Please welcome Father Daniel Schwartz, Eternal Father, strong to save. Throughout sacred Scripture, you have raised men and women and entire peoples to enact your will. Never just for themselves, but also for those entrusted to their care. Behind and next to each sailor and marine are fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and sons and daughters, families from whom we go out and to whom we return each time we take to the sea and set foot on foreign shores. The gift of life is a precious and sacred act, the holy bond of a family. We ask your blessing upon the families of America who have offered their sons and daughters in the noble service of persevering in the causes of truth, justice and humanity. May they be protected in our absence, fortified in their waiting vigil. And while steel ships and ranks of proud uniforms capture the imagination, birthdays, by their nature, are family affairs. Today is no exception in our celebration of 250 years of naval and marine service. May we persevere in our thankfulness for the families whose sacrifices run parallel to our own. Lord our God. We ask this final grace to remain steadfast in mission, resolute in our character, and devoted to the threefold legacy you have bestowed upon us which we celebrate today, our families, our fleet and our great nation. May the good work you have begun in us all be brought to fulfillment. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as musician 2nd Class Morgan Ramirez leads us in the national anthem. O say can you see by the dawn's early delight what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O' er the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming and the rugged red glare the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave O' er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Ready? Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the chief of protocol of the United States, Ambassador Monica Crowley. Go, girl. Hello, Naval Station Norfolk. This is my first time here, guys, and this is absolutely awesome. It's such a joy and an honor to be here at the world's largest national naval base and home to the US Navy's Fleet Forces Command. Especially today when we all gather to salute the remarkable first 250 years of our incredible United States Navy. I am deeply honored to join President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Secretary Hedseth, Secretary Collins, Secretary Phelan, and of course, all of you to celebrate 250 years of naval power and American might. The United States Navy has a glorious and storied past of historic victories at sea. From the small but determined Continental Navy sealing American independence in the Battle of the Chesapeake to victory over the Barbary pirates in the Barbary wars, to the first battle of ironclad warships at Hampton Roads, to the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American American War, to the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide in the Pacific theater in World War II, to the biggest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which shattered the enemy's naval capabilities for the rest of the Second World War. The United States Navy has always protected and defended American American freedom and brought glory upon glory to our great nation. Today, history sets sail again and we all have a front seat to freedom in motion as we honor America's awesome sea power. This big birthday party for the US Navy is part of a yearly celebration of our exceptional history and the start of a new era of American greatness. Today, we launch the next 250 years of supreme US naval power and of American liberty, dynamism, leadership and pride. And what an absolute gift it is to have President Trump in the White House during this epic moment in our nation's history. Now, some of us may recall America's bicentennial in 1976, when we were all very, very, very young. One of my earliest memories as a little girl is gathering with my family at the Jersey shore to celebrate that very special day. I'll never forget the indelible sense of American patriotism that took root in me that day. I can't remember the specifics of July 4, 1976, but I do remember gazing in wonder at the fireworks, holding red, white and blue sparklers, waving a small American flag, and singing the national anthem with hundreds of others. Whether or not you remember every detail of that day, you do remember how you felt proud to be an American. It is now our privilege to to share this experience, this core memory with the next generation of young Americans. From sea to shining sea on the eve of America's 250th birthday, the national mood is one of celebration. Americans are optimistic about the future. Thanks to President Trump and Secretary Hedsack, we are renewing our commitments to military might and peace through strength. We are working together to realign and reunite our great nation around our shared patriotic values and a renewed sense of civic pride. As we sail toward July 4, 2026, there there is no greater champion for this new 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 welcoming our exceptional Commander in Chief here today with the kind of tremendous reception he so greatly deserves. We are now in a moment in our history when, thanks to President Trump, we are turning the tide again. Just as the revolutionary generation that founded our great Navy did. It is now our time to take big risks to save our country. And it is our duty to honor our past generations and their staggering sacrifices for which we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. We are the natural successors to the Revolutionary War generation. Fiercely independent, ruggedly individualist, faithful to God and to country, with a white hot love of liberty and the unique, enduring American American spirit. It's been said that great civilizations tend to 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 forever vigilance. Something that the Navy has maintained with excellence, fortitude and commitment to duty for two and a half centuries. President Trump is reclaiming the American Republic for the American people. He is launching us into the next 250 years of American greatness, as he did in his first term by delivering a strong economy, an enforced border and record low illegal immigration, A rebuilt, modernized military with record recruitment. A government that actually serves its people and world peace. America first. Next year's momentous celebration will be thanks to his leadership in activating a national and worldwide celebration of America's 250th birthday. We are preparing to honor and celebrate our nation's history in unforgettable ways. From our military anniversaries as we're doing here today, to a majestic flotilla of tall ships from around the world, to many other really big surprises, we know that this celebration will have a truly global impact, showcasing American power and leadership while promoting a future of peace and prosperity. America's 250th is so much more than than just a date on the calendar. This moment will inspire a new era of American greatness. Not only will this be the most monumental and exciting celebration in American history, but it will spark a shared vision for America's future. And Lord knows we need that. Thanks to the Trump administration, next Independence Day will will be a once or twice in a lifetime moment of sparkling American grandeur and patriotism. This is the new golden age. And with God's help, we will make America even greater over the next 250 years. And it's all made possible by the unmatched force of the United States Nation, Navy and the Innumerable sacrifices of every man and woman who was put on the naval uniform. We owe so much of America's independence on July 4, 1776, to the birth of the Navy on October 13, 1775. Today our hearts are filled with gratitude and, and pride for you, the men and women of the United States Navy, and your indispensable role in securing the first 250 and the next 250 years of American greatness. Happy birthday, U.S. navy. Because of you, we continue to be the beacon of hope I a citadel of liberty and a light in the darkness. Thank you. God bless you. God bless our Commander in chief, and may God continue to bless the United States of America. Ambassador Crowley. Now, Ambassador Crowley's not only had a protocol for the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State, but also as a, as a side deal is doing the is running America to 50. Captain Fennell, give me a, give me your thoughts of what you've seen so far in the naval exercise. We're going to cut back to the stage as soon as we, as soon as we have some more speakers. Your thoughts so far, what you've seen, sir? Well, the air power demonstration and the carrier strike group operations writ large reminded me of, you know, my time in the fleet. And I think one aspect that folks would be interested to know about is that the strike planning that goes on on board the carrier and that we do cyclical flight operations. So they'll start flying, say at noon, and they'll fly and launch two dozen aircraft and they'll recover them in an hour and a half or two hours later, and they'll do that cycle again, and they'll do up to 10 or 12 cycles a day, normally during a deployment, on an average flight day. So that's, you know, several, over 100 planes, more than 100 planes will be launched throughout the day, closer to 200. And that kind of sustained carrier operations is something that still no one can do like we can. And I think that's really the power of the Navy and our naval air wings and our carrier strike groups and the associated platforms is that we can bring sustained operations over a long duration. In fact, we've tested it. You can go for about four days straight running 247 cyclical carrier flight operations. And then all of a sudden, the equipment doesn't break down, but the people do. They need a rest. And that's why when we have multiple carriers, one carrier will be up on the line and another carrier may be back resting for a day or two, and then they'll Switch in and out. And that gives us really even a much more power. So that's the kind of power that we have in our Navy in those cyclical operations where they're planning their flight operations, where they're going to fly, what targets are going to strike, and then they, they go out and they do it and they come back and they report their results to the carrier intelligence team that collates all this data, does the battle damage, bomb damage assessment and contributes to the war fight, whether it's over land or at sea. This is really something that's unique to any other nation in the history of mankind. Our ability to do this with so many carriers over the course of the last 80 years. And that's the area where we want to stay ahead and make sure that we have the latest and greatest technology to keep us ahead of what the Chinese are building, because they're trying to replicate what we have built. They can't generate the kind of sorties today with the first two carriers that they have. They just can't do it. They're not big enough and don't have the capacity. They're following carriers. They're going to try to do what we're doing. And so this is the real challenge. We're standing by, waiting for the Commander in Chief to return to Norfolk Naval Station and come aboard the Truman where he would give remarks. Thousands of sailors and other family members there on the deck of the Truman and in the stands off to the side. Cleo Pascal, you have done a fantastic job of telling us about the importance of the Pacific and that we're a Pacific power in the United States Navy as needed for power projection everywhere, but particularly confronting the Chinese Communist Party in the, in the Pacific and particularly the Western Pacific. Give us your thoughts about today so far. Oh, it's been great. And I think that the message that's being sent not only to the American people, but to the Chinese planners, that this is an administration that is serious about the Navy. They're showing off the capabilities, but they're also just showing off the pride, which means that you may start to see some new investment which would be sorely needed, is, is hopefully going to resonate. And as you see the, the resonance within the public across the United States, especially after the speech to the flag officers by the Secretary of War and the President and the fact that recruitment numbers are up, you're dealing with a completely different military and a different political approach to the military than the US has seen in a very long time. So this is on many levels not, not just in terms of capabilities, but also in terms of what we've talked about before. Political warfare, narrative warfare. This has been a very important day. Admiral Masso, your thoughts? You're closer to this than many of us. Given the Pete Hexis thought, the Secretary of War, the President's kind of telling the generals about where we're going to go in the future today. Do you think not just Capitol Hill, but you think our enemies in Beijing are taking notice of the pride of the American people in their fleet and the capabilities of this fleet? I think without question they are there. They, they are watching this and you know, an overused term, shock and awe. That's what we kind of of saw today. We saw a vast capability of special and unique skill sets. We saw the diversity of tasks. A lot of these ships, these Aegis Cruisers and guided missile destroyers can perform, you know, 12 to 18 separate missions. Our helicopter is a long arm extension of all of those capabilities and of course, you know, know who would we be without our fighter jets and, and in that. So I think what we saw today was so impressive, impressive especially from the undersea side, we can bring a lot of capability to a fight. And our sailors are so well trained. And one of the things we learned, you know, from the end of the Cold War was that the, the Soviets didn't really employ their enlisted people like we employ our enlisted people. And the backbone of our fleet are those individuals. And I know you knew that. I see it every day and I spoke at a ship reunion last night and all those sailors there were so proud of what they accomplished in their careers. It's the best part of our, our battle plans are our people. Talk about that. Admiral Massa, the difference in the way that the United States Navy thinks of and utilizes the enlisted man and the understanding. The chiefs run the Navy just like the sergeants run the army. The non commissioned officers talk about the, about how integrated it is. Different than some more hierarchical. Even the Royal Navy, but particularly the, the Soviet Union's Navy. Well, if you think about it, we have a structure on every Navy ship that if you're looking at it like a union, you know, we have apprentice, we have journeymen and we have masters and the apprentice are the brand new sailor that comes aboard and may do damage control maintenance as a collateral aside, but it helps them learn the functions of the ship. Ship. The same is true even with food service that they have to participate in. But once they start, you know, really learning their jobs and start making rank, you know, third class petty Officer, second class petty officer. They enter the, the world of the journeyman and then we start teaching them leadership. And it's a, it's really, it's a algorithm that has been so successful for all these years because we, we give these sailors every opportunity to crush any, any, any, any limitations that they have. And, and not every ship is like that. You know, if you, if you were to look at say the old Soviet system, you know, they didn't really get into the journeyman and master officers did all of the tricky maintenance and that. And we value our people and this is why a second class petty officer can get down there and fix some gear that, you know, a lot of other navies would have to call, you know, technical experts to fly in and fix. But yet our people can do that. The greatest part of today's exhibition was demonstrating just how many and how wonderful our sailors are that can pull off all of those multitasks. Okay, we're waiting for, we're going to go to Steve Gruber now on the rise of. Thank you Admiral Mass. So it's going to stick around. Presidents do back off of the, carry the strike group back to Norfolk Naval Station, back to the Truman going to address the sailors and family members there. Steve Gruber, you're on the riser. What do you got for us, brother? It's a packed house and I can tell you about the enthusiasm here. I took the time to speak to some of these sailors, the men and women of the United states Navy today, 20, 25. I stood out there and mingled with them for a bit. What do you think about the United States right now? How's morale? Better than it has been, they said. And I think that's a big takeaway here because this is a big cut rally United States Navy, as we've talked about 250 years. And so it's encouraging because you know, Steve, if you listen to the left wing media think that, you know, the media or the military is not with Donald Trump, that's absolutely false. When I sit here and talk to these young men and women, some of them have been in a couple of years, some have been in 15 or 20 years. They say morale is better today than it has been for a number of years. And you can figure out why. They have a commander in chief they believe and a commander in chief who sits out there and watches all of their equipment get used. It's impressive, there's no question about it. And the applause that rip through here every time. They really like the submarines, by the way. That's a big favorite for the crowd here. But all of the equipment, they're showing off, it is, it's electric. The weather is, it's hot. I'm not going to kid you. It's a perfect day. Donald Trump should be here, oh, in the next 20, 30 minutes, we assume, and I'm looking forward to it, to what the president has to say here because he has a very positive, receptive crowd. And look, like I said, it's packed. It's hard to get through the crowd here anymore. It's packed all the way back. Thousands of men and women from the United States Navy are here. It's a great scene, Absolutely great scene. Steve, hang on for a second. We're going to come back to you. We're going to come back to the deck of the Truman. I want to give a hat tip to the musical director. Finally. We're getting some great music up there. Not that the Navy band wasn't playing great, great music before, but I think it's a little more appropriate, a little more martial as we say. We're going to take a short commercial break. We got Admiral Sonny Masso, Captain Paul Morgan, Captain Jim Fernell, Cleo Pascal. Short commercial break. Will return to real America's voice. Navy 250 in a foreign. We'll be right back with more Navy 250 sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor Patriot Mobile for standing with Rav. Welcome back to Navy 250, sea power and Freedom. We welcome to thank our sponsors Birch Gold Group, Patriot Mobile and AMAC for standing with rav. By the way, go back to Steve Gruber. There some fabulous movies, by the way, I'm reminded by my family members that my uncle Dick, Dick Wills, who was just a. Richard Wills, just a great man, was a enlisted man, fought at Leyte Golf, the greatest, I think the largest naval battle in history. Bull Halsey and his fleet off of the Philippines, as Admiral Masser remembers. Let's listen to some music here for a moment. Then I'm going to go back to Steve Gruber. Wow. Now we're playing some music. Steve Gruber. Tell me about the, tell me about the audience. You're on the deck. You're on the riser with the media on the USS Harry Truman. By the way, is the media, is the, is the media. I guess they're in a sour mood today given the celebratory nature of, of our, of the enlisted men. Aren't they always in a sour mood? They're also sour mood because we're the Only ones carrying this thing. Front to back, top to bottom, wall to wall. It's a testament. Hey, shout out to Rob Sig and the complete RAB team for making this possible and getting all those camera angles, all that opportunity, all that firepower power on display for every. The crowd here is fabulous by the way. I also want to say before we get too far, our sponsors are fabulous too. People like Birch Gold. If you had gotten into gold, say a few months ago, you'd be pretty happy right now. It's almost $4,000 an ounce. You could bank on that for sure. If you want to know more about gold right now and one of our great sponsors here for this event, text America to 9,898 98. Find out mortgage or free information kit on gold for Birch gold. Text American to 98. 98 98. Now you ask about the crowd here. You know some of Those great Navy SEALs we interviewed here earlier, Steve, I just saw them walk down into the crowd down here. You've got a lot of folks that are Navy all the way around us, but you have a lot of civilians in here too. And it's just a very celebratory crowd as you put it, is a celebration of American freedom and what it took to get us there, there. The music is fabulous now like you mentioned and it's just an American celebration as this whole 250 event has been. I go back to the big parade in D.C. when, when Donald Trump was there and he'll be here shortly as well. It is a great day, Steve. I'm telling you, it's a great day to be here. It's a great day to be an American and, and just let me say this, God bless America because I feel good being here. This is what we wanted, a fine Navy Day. Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy band because you know, I'm prejudiced towards this music. So we're going to stay as long as the Navy Band plays, we're going to stay on it right here, hopefully getting ready for the President. I say it's the commander in Chief. You saw a moment ago. They're getting the podium ready for the commander. Chief. He's going to address the, the enlisted and officers of the Truman and around Norfolk Naval Station. Here we go. It Sam. Yeah, definitely we're going to take breaks until the President comes. We're going to jump right to it. The commander in chief of the Armed forces has been out seeing a live fire exercise. It's kind of his teddy Roosevelt moment, the White Fleet. Admiral Massow, you may know the history better than I do. I think Roosevelt actually reviewed the White Fleet. The White Fleet went around the world and went around the world because he wanted to show the global power, power of the United States Navy. I believe, I believe that Roosevelt reviewed the White Fleet at Narfik. Am I, do you remember that or am I wrong there? I do. That's absolutely correct. And you know, he, he wanted to establish and assert power projection and, and he invoked his own personal powers and sent them out, you know, to the Far east. And then he had to get an act of Congress to get, get, you know, to pay for the fuel to get him back. But yes, he did, he did do a pass and review in Norfolk and, and that was a substantial example of Mahan's influence of sea power on world history in, in action. Talk to me about that. Talk to me about how particularly as naval officers, you're ingrained in Alfred Thayer Mahan. His, the book the Impact of Sea Power upon History is really the basics of naval doctrine for both the Royal Navy and the United States Navy. Sir, what he did was he instantiated the fact that, you know, 96% of the world's population live on coastline. He instantiated the fact that we require sea lines of communication for the exchange of commerce and that those sea lions needed to be protected. And the only nation that was substantial enough to do that was the United States. And this was a book that really, really influenced President Roosevelt, Theodore the 26th president, where he took it almost as a biblical mission statement that this was something that he had to in fact create. And from that spawned things like the Great White Fleet, but also the investment of Navy and really naval aviation, all of that. There's a great British written by a historian named Dr. Dave Winkler on the very first aircraft carrier which just celebrated its 100th birthday a few years ago. But the USS Langley and the heuristic development of aircraft and launch and recovery of those aircraft, and of course World War I precipitated another example of studying and, and, and raising the bar and, and those operations. Hey, Admiral Masso. Hang on, hang on one second. We'll take a, just take a quick break. Take a quick break or turn. Admiral Sonny Masso. Captain Fennell, Captain Morgan, Cleo Pascal. We're going to go ahead and jump. We'll be right back with more Navy 250 sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor AMAC for standing with RAV. For 250 years, America's Navy has guarded freedom, projected strength and carried the fight across the sea. Now from Norfolk, Virginia, Virginia, history meets destiny. They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win. President Donald J. Trump joins America's warriors aboard a mighty aircraft carrier as we celebrate two and a half centuries of sea power. Explosive demonstrations, military might, unstoppable strength, Navy 2 5th safety, sea power and freedom with your host, Steve Bannon with live reporting from Jack Posowic and Steve Gruber starts right now. I want to thank Birch Gold and AMAC and of course Patriot Mobile, our sponsors for today want to thank thank them and also Rob Sig, Parker Sig for making the logistics of this was enormous and because of the effort put in by real American Voice, we got the special inside baseball footage from the naval operations at the at the out the gun range aboard the USS Bush. Want to SCOTT Steve Gruber, as soon as we get some more music, we'll listen to that. Captain for now. Sonny brought it up. Tom. It Alfred Thayer Mahan, why is a young naval officer, when you either go to the Naval War College or more likely you take the correspondence courses, why is it the first the first war you learn about? It's not the Revolutionary War, but they take you back to the Peloponnesian War. Why is the Peloponnesian War against Athens and Sparta such a important tool for learning about geopolitics? Sir because it was the first great naval conflict in our kind of recorded history that talked about how one nation could defeat another nation through naval power. And so the study of that and understanding of that and how that influenced the development of the Greek city states and how they were able to a smaller force defeat a larger force, if you will, through power projection is something that Mahan studied and then wrote about and took that history to us. It made us understand the value and power of sea power. That was something that probably people knew before then, but it was really recorded and taught in the universities in the Middle Ages and beyond in the Enlightenment that people got to learn about that and understand what happened in the Peloponnesian wars and then, you know, then the Romans with their their fleets. So the the issue of the ability to move goods and services via the sea was also wrapped up in this idea that you had to have vessels that could fight and win and defend those commercial vessels. And I think that's really the the long arc of history in terms of naval power. And Mahan was our teacher for that and still is today. And as you had previous guests on, talked about this idea that we had to have this ability to project our fleets around the world. And it wasn't just sending ships like the Great White Fleet as we just talked about, went out with 16 battleships, some 14,000 officers and. And sailors for this long journey. What we learned was, is that we needed to have a system of bases and refueling and capability to underway replenishment and all of that. And back then it was coal. Today it's diesel fuel and other fuels. But the point is that we had this ability to understand that the power of naval platforms isn't just to carry our goods, but it's also they were required to be protected as they're carrying them. We're seeing Paul Morgan. What are we seeing right now? Is that the Osprey coming aboard the Truman? Yeah, that's. That's really interesting. That's a HMX1 Osprey because it's a green top. Wow. Yeah, that's an Osprey. That's beautiful. Is president on that? I don't know. That's Sonny Masso. That's the question. Morgan was caught by a surprise. They put the President, United States on that. A quite controversial aircraft, I might add. Correct. Although Commandant of the Marine Corps Mike Hagee, to show how safe it was, he had his entire family, his wife and kids, you know, go on a couple of flights. By the way, for all our Marine brethren and so many we know and love the. The. We're going to do the 250th anniversary of the birthday of the Marine Corps also. That's going to be a very, very special event. We're going to give them their entire own day. Since Admiral Masso, you know better. The. The Marines bridle at. We call them the Junior Naval Service. So it's. It's a very special. Very special breed of man. Very special breed of man. Or woman. No, the Osprey. I don't think we're gonna see the commander. Chief, get out of there. Let's go ahead, sir. No, I don't think so. But as you know, I grew up in. At the north gate of Camp Pendleton in San Clemente, California, and I have immense respect for the Marine Corps, as I know you do as well. All. Yeah, tremendous. Cleo, let me ask you, why is it Henry Kissinger's sidekick, Graham Allison, they. Kissinger and Graham Allison always compared China in the United States to the. To. To Athens and Sparta. You know, Alison Graham's book, Destined for War, he talks about the 12 or 14 times a rising power and a declining power have squared off. I think those 14 times 10 of them have been kind of, you know, almost global conflicts. Why do people keep hearkening back to the Peloponnesian War all the time, Ma'? Am? Well, the Peloponnesian War, as Captain Funnell said, is quite important, but the Thucydides trap stuff, I put it in the mackinder bucket of something that needs to be thought of properly. And again, I don't really buy it because. Because India is in the same position and India isn't about to try to attack the United States in the same way that the Chinese Communist Party is. And then if you look at those terms, Chinese Communist Party, there's a word in there, communist, that isn't in the Indian Republic's name. So I think it's not necessary that a rising country is going to attack another one. I think, you know, this is something innate within the system that has been governing the land of China. Does it look like they put the journalists on the Osprey? Is that what they did? No, I just, I would just, I was just telling, I was just telling the. Not that we're not, we're not smack talking the Osprey. I just want to make sure. But my producer just said, hey, is that the media that's coming out of the Osprey? Yeah, I think it is. Holy Cleo, thanks for pointing that out though. Cleo talk would tell the audience what the Thucydides trap is. Why is it such an important concept, at least for the Munich. The Munich Defense Conference, ma'? Am. Because it sort of justifies this thing that, you know, anybody tries to, to challenge us, it's a, it's a kind of destiny thing. And it's not nothing that to do with the actual systems themselves. And so you don't have to look at China as a, as a system or as a, as a regime. The nature of the regime. You can just say, oh, well, you know, it's history. And there just happened to be this rising power. It's similar to this kind of reverse Opium War thing that I, I also don't like. It's very effective narrative warfare on the Chinese side because it pulls you away from thinking about the actual dynamics. But, you know, in terms of the fentanyl being revenge for the Opium War, first of all, the US Wasn't involved in the Opium War. Second of all, the Opium War was wrong. And so it's sort of like saying we have slavery in Xinjiang because you had slavery in the US at some point. Two wrongs definitely do not make a right. You know, and third, it just, it gives this narrative warfare weapon to give them a pass and at the same time hit. Do you think the U.S. do you think the CCP, do you think the CCP really makes a difference between Great Britain at the highest power in the United States? Don't they just consider us foreign devils? I think they use different aspects of unrestricted warfare depending on what, what, what works. So, for example, in the case of you don't see the sort of fentanyl flavor blood that in the UK that you do here in the US but what you do see is a, is a buying up of elites, including the think tank community, that's giving rise to a situation where, for example, the Diego Garcia military base is, is coming under risk. And I think the weak point there isn't Mauritius, it's the UK and it's because of the way that they've tried to undermine the UK So I think, I think they've got, you know, this toolkit as described and the 20, you know, 24 warfares, unrestricted warfare, plus many other they've invented since then and they will use as they like. But one of the key, the top three of those warfares is this sort of psychological warfare and they've also got media warfare. And that, that is these things like the Thucydides trap or, you know, the fentanyl is the Opium War, things like that, that put you on the back foot and make it, make it so that you're not looking at China as its own thing, but you get caught up in these other intellectual eddies that can paralyze you or whip you in circles or give justification to not just say, hold on a second, this is absolutely wrong and it has to be stopped. By the way, look at that magnificent shot right there, right next to the Truman. The president states commander in chief will be there momentarily. Tell you what, we're going to try to fit in one more commercial break. The President states, I think will be arriving momentarily, going to give remarks to a combination of sailors and officers and family members and other interested personages. Incredible Day. Navy250 A commemoration and celebration of the 250th anniversary of the greatest Navy in the history of mankind. Short commercial breaker and return to Real America's Voice coverage momentarily. We'll be right back with more Navy 250 sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor, Birch Gold Group for standing with Rav. Let's go, let's go to, let's go listen to some music from the Navy band. I believe the Commander in Chief has arrived. Not on the Osprey, I might mention. I'm not digging. I'm not dinging the Osprey, but it was Cleo Pascal that did mention the. They put the media on it. Let that be her quote. There is, there's Commander in Chief right there are coming in. Amazing. This is Steve Gr. Can I go to Grand. The fleet out of Norfolk, Virginia, the Atlantic Fleet. Captain Fennell and Admiral Masser myself were Pacific Fleet sailors. The fleet. The Seventh Fleet, the historic Seventh Fleet that won the war in the Pacific. And really traditions of that fleet are just amazing. The history of it, the customs and traditions of it, just absolutely extraordinary. Admiral Masso, your thoughts? Yeah, we used to. Admiral Massa, 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 at the Truman about to address the Atlantic Fleet sailors. Well, I think that these sailors are hungry for the type of leadership that he's been providing. And I know that there's an air of excitement and pride and, you know, they love the Navy and there's no better way to celebrate a birthday than, you know, with the Commander in Chief sharing it with them. So I know that they're, they're probably hyper excited about this, and I know that he will not disappoint. Emerald, we did have a, 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. What are your thoughts about that? Well, this is kind of a big deal, and it really reflects what the remarks of the Secretary of War expressed last week to the generals and admirals. And, and basically the recruiting was, you know, we didn't, we didn't have a substantial mission. You know, there was no active war in Iraq or in Afghanistan. And so a lot of people kind of lost interest in it. But, you know, more specifically, in the absence of, of recruiting, we had to compromise some of the standards that were elucidated by the Secretary of War as being unacceptable. Fat sailors, you know, this type of thing. And it used to be that if you failed to fitness tests, then you were sent home. And what we changed that to be is because we couldn't afford to lose some of these sailors because there's nobody in the pipeline replacement replacing them. We, we, we didn't send them home. We just wouldn't promote them. So, so this, this was a big departure. And, you know, I think a lot of people will clamor for this to be implemented immediately, if not sooner, because it was compromising, you know, combat readiness. And. And so. And now, regardless, recruiting is better. For the first time in a number of years, we're able to make our numbers 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. To learn a trade, to serve their country, to make themselves better, to see the world. And I think we're back in business with that. Way forward. Okay, let's go. Let's. Let's pull in on the Navy band. Here we come. Right here. I think it's Doug Collins. Let's listen to the Navy band and see what we got going on. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Daryl Cottage. Sam. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the United States Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan SA. Good afternoon, Mr. President. First lady, as always. It's great to see you. Mr. President. Thank you for your leadership and support of our nation's armed forces. Secretary of War, thank you for your leadership and restoring our focus on the war fighter ethos. Secretary of Veteran affairs, great to see you today and thank you for all you do to support our Navy and Marine Corps veterans. CNO Navy leaders, thank you for ensuring that our Navy and the Marine Corps remains the preeminent maritime naval force. Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and members of Congress, thank you for being here today. After seeing today's display of naval power and standing on this pier surrounded by sailors, Marines, family members and patriotic Americans, all I can say is that was damn impressive. Come on, give him a hand. Bravo Zulu. To the sailors that participated in today's sea demonstration, it is the honor and privilege of my lifetime to Serve as your 79th Secretary of the Navy, especially as we kick off the Navy's 250th birthday celebrations. Thank you, President Trump, for your trust and confidence in me. Mr. President, your directive is clear. Peace through strength. And we are executing it. With your one big, beautiful bill and your executive order on restoring America's maritime dominance, you've armed us with the authorities, resources, and urgency to modernize the fleet, expand our shipyards, rebuild the skilled workforce, deepen our magazines, and harden the infrastructure that wins wars at sea. 250 years ago, the Continental Congress made a bold bet. Who controls the seas controls the future. This was the birth of our Navy, a testament to our historic significance. The Constitution states, Congress shall have the power to provide and maintain a Navy. The word maintain means the Navy is intended to be a permanent, continuous institution of national defense and warfare. The founders understood the importance of having a Navy. George Washington is in a letter to the Marquis de Lafayette wrote, as certain as night succeeds the day, without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive and with it everything honorable and glorious. Today, 250 years later, history has proven that to be a superpower, one must be a sea power. Mr. President, your mandate ensures that when the world looks to the seas, it sees an American flag. And behind that flag stands a team that is disciplined, lethal and dominant. Today we showed the world what American sea power means. Deadly precision, meticulous execution, raw power and the will to use it. Secretary Hegseth, we are restoring the wario ethos to this Department of the Navy not by slogan, but by performance. The Truman right here beside me sustained more than 50 days of tomahawk launches and precision airstrikes to degrade Iran backed Houthi capabilities and protect commercial shipping during Operation Rough Rider. There are many, many missions that we are operating and executing on very well, including choking off cartel cash flows between Operation Atlantic and Pacific watch. We've received over 400. We've seized over 450 metric tons of cocaine worth more than $11 billion. These seizures represent lives saved. All these operations show us our fleet is ready to answer the nation's call 24 7, 365. The remarkable success is a testament to the bold vision of President Trump, whose leadership has ignited a renewed sense of patriotism, inserting more Americans in to serve. I'm happy to say the Navy broke its recruiting record four months early, so help is on the way for the high operating tempo you've been living through. 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 maritime strength, keeping our nation safe and secure and prosperous. You prove every day freedom isn't free. President Trump thanks you. Secretary Hest thanks you. I thank you and your country thanks you. We appreciate the sacrifice you and your families make and we value your unwavering commitment to the mission. Sea power is a family business. Your sacrifices are not unnoticed and they are deeply appreciated. They may wear the uniform, but you share the honor and we share the pride. God bless you. God bless our Navy and Marine Corps, and God bless the United States of America. Thank you, Secretary of the Navy, with appropriate remarks, as we say. NAVY BAND playing I don't know if that's a Navy band that may be piped in because I think that might be the. I think that actually might be the Naval Academy Glee Club, which does such a magnificent job on these songs in the Navy. Okay, I think we're prepared. Waiting for the Commander in Chief and the first lady American. Fight for what's right Fight for your life when it comes crashing down and it hurts inside you gotta take a stand it don't hurt to hide if you hood my friends and you hurt my pride I gotta be a man I can't let it slide I am a real American Fight for the rights of every man I am a real American Fight for what's right Fight for, for your life I feel strong about right and wrong and I don't take trouble for very long I'll get something done deep inside of me Courage is the thing that I'll take it fresh from me as people know, this is not my. Exactly. It's not my favorite style of music, but we'll get maybe some. Maybe have a sea chant here or something. Secretary Navy. I don't know. I think it's. Is Pete. I'm not so sure Pete's down there. Wasn't Pete at the Navy football game. I got to get on mo about this Army Navy game that's coming up. Navy looks pretty daggone good. Heck of a. Heck of a football team. Think some of the media is getting in place. Some of the other people in the presidential party obviously coming down. That's the shot you have there. We're awaiting the introduction. Believe his next is going to be the commander in Chief. The first lady Commander Chief going to give his remarks. We're pretty close to being on time given the fact. Had to go out to the Virginia capes and do the exercise, the naval warfare exercise. Just want to give a compliment. I really want to thank the United States Navy for giving us that footage and real America's voice, all the work in it. Tell you about how great this, the RAV and the war room team are. I think we got to go ahead or got really the signal. This is actually going to happen basically Thursday when it was kind of locked in. I think the president was going to go down to Norfolk speak before, but they changed the schedule around. The president has wanted to do this as Admiral Masso and Clio and Captain Fennell have talked about the Great White Fleet, the review by President Roosevelt and really the rise of the United States as a global power in the Spanish American War and how that was. Decisions were made in the late 19th century about building a global Navy. And Teddy Roosevelt was famously as an. I think under Secretary of the Navy. Took a bunch. Took A lot. Made a lot of moves to make that happen. The Navy as an institution. And he didn't ask permission. He just went ahead and did it. Getting ready now, I think that's Monica, Ambassador Crowley getting ready for the President, United States to come. We're going to jump to that live here momentarily. Still members of his party and others coming down, making sure they get, I think a lot of congressmen. Do we have Steve Gruber? No Gruber, of course. Getting a signal down there right now is very hard, as you can imagine, given all the communications going on. You talk about institutions. One of the most impressive institutions in mankind's history has been the Royal Navy. What the Royal Navy did to really build and expand the British Empire. And that's what's so incredibly impressive about the, the United States Navy. Comm. Captain Morgan, you're still with us, Paul. You've had to basically lead young men and, and motivate young men as a, as a helicopter pilot and doing other things you had to do in your detachment, your squadron. Talk to me about recruiting now today, young sailors. What is, what is the pitch to a young Sailor, a young 17, 18 year old kid, in thinking about coming into the United States Navy? You know, that's, that's a really interesting question. A lot of my son's friends, my son at the vmi, or naval officers, Marine Corps officers, a lot of them left early and as soon as they could, that's over. They're, they're now deciding to stay. And their message, I'm 68 years old, my message is going to fall on deaf ears. But the, the young officers and the senior enlisted, I have a story to tell now that's very, very positive and I think the impact on recruiting is going to be great. I would like to address Admiral Masso's comments about air debts and how professional they were. He clearly never cruised with me, so I just wanted to lay that out there. One last thing. The President only flies on white top aircraft. So the Osprey is green top. The 60 that you saw as a white top. That's what, that's what they call the white tops. They're the presidential birds. Explain that to people. Explain that for a second about that, about what that means. Well, the white tops, I did a tour as the chief pilot at the Sikorsky factory for three years and we did all the maintenance on the presidential H3s. I wouldn't even look at them, Steve. I mean they're just, they're so nice and they're so pristine. But they are maintained to a standard that's really unbelievable. And the HMX1 guys, who are the Marine Corps pilots that fly them, they just show up and take parts. Nobody even questions. It's. It's a beautiful thing. And so the white tops are special airplanes. I. I did my initial night vision goggle calls with HMX1, and it was in green board sixes. So I didn't mean to disparage the V22. I'm so sorry. It was, I didn't mean it that way. No, no, no. It was, it was Cleo that put in the, the kill shot on the media. Okay, let's go. Yeah, I've written that right there. Let's do it. Let's go. My goodness. Well, good afternoon. How we doing, sailors? The absolute best of America. I'm honored to be at the world's largest naval base. Now, I'm the only thing between you and the first lady and the Commander in Chief, so I'm going to keep this very brief, looking out at all of you. I know you know why The President always says we have the strongest, most powerful, most lethal, most ready military on the planet. And he's going to make sure we keep it that way. This is the perfect way to mark 250 years of the United States Navy. You know, President Trump has made our mission clear. America first and peace through strength. With common sense at every turn. At the War Department, that is the War Department, we're committed to that core mission of peace through strength. And for the Navy, that means more sailors, more subs, more ships, and more munitions for all of them. The Navy and the Marine Corps embody the resilience of our. Our country. Nobody, nobody in the world does it better than the United States Navy. Always remember this fact. You are not civilians. You are different. Sailors, SEALs, Marines. You were set. Set apart for a distinct purpose. Your diversity is not your strength. Your strength is your unity of purpose, your shared mission, your love of country. Generation after generation, battle after battle, ship after ship, sailor after sailor. You have set the tone. The story began with John Paul Jones when he declared, I have not yet begun to fight. Today, we have a commander in chief who fights for all of you and fights for our country every single day. A commander in chief who guarantees that you, the war fighters, have everything you need on the high seas to deter our enemies and if necessary, win overwhelmingly. We have a president who appreciates your dedication. He appreciates your service, your sacrifice, and that of your family as well. And as I always tell every service member, every sailor, I See, he has your back. So war fighters, on behalf of everyone at the Department of War, thank you. Thank you for your commitment to America's Navy. You stand the watch 250 years later. God bless you. God. And may God bless. Bless our great republic. Godspeed. Thank you. Okay, Secretary of War brought out by Pete. By Nugent. Ted Nugent. Can't get any better than that, right? Particularly here in real America's Voice, we have Charmaine as one of our, one of our hosts. She's fantastic. Also an ambassador for Turning Point. Pete Higgs is right there. We're waiting. Secretary Navy Pete, Amazing talk. Very motivational this week. I think he got people's attention. Admiral Masso, did the secretary bore your flag officer? Did he get the flag officer's attention this week? Well, I don't know that it was a function of getting their attention. I think that he wanted to speak from the heart on some things that he wanted to address versus standards. And he wanted to return to a warrior ethos. And I think, yeah, I think. I think people paid attention. They got it. They. They are smart men and women and they, they know how to proceed from here. So I think it was a solid message, well delivered, and it left no doubt into what his strategic intent is for the behavior of all battle group staffs. You know, as we go forward, perfect hangover. A second. We're about to have the Commander in chief and the first lady Navy band will strike up. The Commander in chief's the song and then we'll go. President Trump's going to give remarks. If I know President Trump, I believe he may go off the glass. What we say away from prepared remarks. Things will be very enthusiastic. He's wanted this day to come for a long time. Sonny, you're so right about Teddy Roosevelt. Captain Fennell, President Trump and his enthusiasm. I think the very first Steve Gruber said it best today. That Steve Gruber felt like a 12 year old. He was so excited to see this kind of operation, to see the pride of the sailors, to see the pride of the fleet, to see not just the weapons, but the precision that the Navy training has where officers and enlisted just been absolutely incredible. And I'm sure the president has that enthusiasm is with him. This is something he's wanted to do for a long time and actually is doing it very close to where Teddy Roosevelt reviewed the Great White Fleet, which was really America sending a signal to the world we are a global power and we intend to comport ourselves as a global power. And we're going to put the resources necessary to become a global power. So it's been an extraordinary day so far. President there. Normally beforehand, when you see the President, he always runs a few minutes late on this. He's more than likely talking to enlisted men and some of the crew. He always does a meet and greet beforehand where he will meet people from the local community. It's pretty extraordinary because given the fact you got to think about a speech and you're about to address not just 10,000 people live, but the entire world and both our allies and our enemies will be watching this speech. The President always takes time to spend X amount of time beforehand to do a meet and greet, meet local people, et cetera. I'm sure right now he is talking to some of the sailors of the Truman. Captain Fennell, give me your assessment so far. We're getting ready for the address by the Commander in Chief to the assembled enlisted men and crew of the ships at the naval station. How you think it's gone so far? I think it's fantastic, Steve. And on this issue of spirit and pride in our nation and our, our Navy today, I, I have a little study here. It said 1964, the public opinion of the military was 75%. Captain, hang on one second. We got the First Lady. Okay, we got the first lady right there. Let's hear the applause. Let's pick up the sound. SA Navy, it is an honor to be with you to celebrate the 250th year since the United States Navy was officially established. Generations of sailors have kept America free because of their presence on the high seas. Your strength, bravery, sacrifice inspires us all. The President and I just attended an extraordinary demonstration, an inspiring display of skills that reflects the very best of our Navy. For me, it brought the back fond memories of my Visit to the USS George H.W. bush in 2018. I will always remember the pride and professionalism of the sailors I met on that vessel. I witness the enduring spirit of America's Navy which propels every mission and lives on to every sailor who serves. Now it is my privilege to introduce someone who holds our military close to his heart, not only as the Commander in Chief, but as a proud American who believes deeply in the men and women who wear the uniform. Please join me in welcoming My husband, the 45th and 40 47th president, the United States, Donald J. Trump. Sam. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me. And I gladly stand up Next to you when they think cursed in today. Cuz there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA from the lake of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of Texas from sea to shining sea From Detroit down to Houston and New York to valley where there's pride in every American heart. And it's time we stand and sing that I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me. And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA And I proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me. Can I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. But there ain't no doubt I love this land. God dance for you. God bless the United States Navy. Well, that was. That was good timing, wasn't it? We had to get that right. We had to get that right. But they always get it right. I was just given a display with our wonderful first lady, the likes of which I think few people have ever seen before. We were a few minutes away, and the display of strength was absolutely incredible. We appreciate it. Thank you, Navy. Thank you very much. And I want to thank our magnificent first lady for that introduction. People love our First Lady. And let me say to all of the incredible sailors on this pier, it's great to be with the fleet. The fleet. And let's also give a very special thanks to the shipmates who put on that. That spectacular display of Navy dominance. And that's what it was. It was dominance. And Bravo Zulu. You know, that is Bravo Zulu. You know, a lot of people don't. That is a true honor to be here with the thousands of our nation's finest sailors at the largest naval facility in the entire world. It's the largest, and I would say, more importantly, it's the best. Okay. As both the Norfolk Naval Base. Thank you very much. The largest, and it's the best. We're gathered on this storied waterfront to celebrate 250 years of strength, tenacity, and unwavering courage by the greatest fighting force even. And that's true. No matter where you go, no matter where you go, no matter what you even think about, there's nothing like the fighting force that we have roam the seas. It's called the United States Navy. And there's nothing in the world like it. Nothing. Not even close. You read stories, they don't have it. Let me tell you. We check it closely. We check it closely. Docked beside us today are a combined 150,000 tons of pure American naval supremacy and two colossal reasons why no one should ever want to start a fight with the usa. They won't fight. We're putting out a lot of fights. So do you see that we're going to be close to number eight? Number eight. We don't want to send you into battle unless it's necessary. Right? We're putting out. We're putting out a lot of fires. Maybe some of you will be angry. You'll say, what's he doing? We want to fight. You know what? If we can solve them the way I'm solving them, we solve seven. We have another one that's taken 3,000 years and we're pretty close. But I don't want to talk about it until it's done. But let's give a big round of applause to the men and women of the majestic USS Kearsarge. Thank you. And let's hear it for the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman. Those who call this carrier home live by a motto that captures the spirit of America's Navy. It's very simple. The words give them hell. And we do give them hell. For two and a half centuries, that is what every generation of American sailors have done. You've conquered raging oceans and brave ferocious storms to vanquish America's enemies on the high seas and distant shores. You've beaten mighty warships into twisted wrecks of steel. You've splintered vast armadas and sent the mangled pride of empires sinking into oblivion. You've surged the the waters thick, danger, blood, brine. And through it all, the United States Navy has kept the Stars and Stripes soaring high and proud above those big, magnificent waves. You love doing it, too. There's not a thing in the world that you'd rather do, is there? Is there? No. I like your life better than mine. I have to be honest with you. Sailing of those beautiful, beautiful waters all the time. You're so lucky. Because the American sailor never quits, never fails and never, ever lets us down. They've never let us down. Thank you. Thank you. And we're honored to be joined today by service members representing every part of this great naval tradition. Our incredible surface warriors are the reason America's enemies tremble at the sight of a Navy ship. Haze, gray or Underway, the incine U.S. carrier, cruiser or destroyer breaks across the horizon. Every tyrant and adversary on the planet knows their choice is very simple. It's leave America in peace or be blown up in fire and fury never seen before before. All over the world, people know of the skill, nerve, swagger and sheer attitude of the boldest and most daring pilots on the sea. The US Naval aviators. And I just got to witness it with Melania. They land screaming jets on pitching decks in the dark of night with no room for error. There's no room for error. The greatest pilots in the world. And while Navy pilots rain down pain from above, the greatest adversaries fear the daring deeds of our silent service. Below they prowl and strike from crushing depths, unseen, undetected and unstoppable. They are our brave submariners. Where are the submariners here? And they are brave. The most lethal weapon in the world. I will tell you. Nobody knows where it is and what it carries. Is nothing that carries weaponry like that. And we're 25 years ahead of any other country when it comes to submarines. Nobody's even close. Nobody can. Matches. No roll call of Navy warriors would be complete without recognizing some of the fiercest and most elite commandos in the history of war. They are the toughest, and there's nobody tougher. It's just nobody. That's what they tell me. Is nobody tougher. Called the Navy seals. What do you think about the Navy seals? Where are the Navy seals? We're not going to mess with the Navy seals. They are great. Thank you very much. Incredible people. And of course, our enemies have learned to dread that special cast of warriors who have charged forward almost everywhere America has seized a stronghold or stormed a beachhead. They call themselves the leathernecks, the jarheads, the devil dogs, but we revere them as the United States Marines. Incredible people. Incredible people. With us today are some of those who have led these exceptional men and women. They've led them like nobody else. 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. They love him. I want to introduce again a man who's just exceptional. I'm so happy with this choice. Secretary of War Pete Hag said, thank you, Pete. Doing a job. I said, pete, what do you think? You know, we used to call it Secretary of War, the Department of War, the War Department. Now we call it Defense. 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. And all of a sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then, too. You know, woke is a long term word. He said, what do you think about changing it to the Department of War? He said, I love it, sir. And that was about the end of it, right? That was the end of it. Thank you, Pete. Great job. He's a great leader also. Secretary of the Navy, a very, very successful man. He gave it all up to do this. And we're designing more ships. We have more ships being built shortly. We're going to have more great ships being built than we've ever had being built in the history of the Navy. John Phelan. John, thank you. Great job. He made a lot of money in the private sector. And I said, you want to do this, John? We need a lot of ships, so we need them fast. And he said, I want to do it. He gave up a lot, gave up everything to do this, but he's loving it and he's doing a fantastic job. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Darrell Caudle. Admiral, thank you. Great, great job. Rear Admiral Gavin Duff. And along with so many different people here that I could introduce them all day long, I don't want to do that because we got to get to business. Talking a little bit about war and peace. But along with your great officers here at Norfolk Naval Base, Vice Admirals John Gumbleton. John, thank you. Thank you, John. Great young guy. You're a young guy. Great. Doug Perry and Rob Goucher. Thank you. And a very special thanks to a man who just got a 93% approval. He runs the Veterans everything I call it. He's Veterans everything. The VA Secretary, Doug Collins. He's doing great. Thank you, Doug. Doing a great job. Ambassador Monica Crowley. Monica, thank you very much. A man that everybody loves. He was my doctor in the White House and I got to know him very well. He was also the doctor for Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? And he was a doctor for a man named Bush. And at a press conference, they asked him, who's in the best shape, who's the healthiest, who's the strongest, who's the best physical specimen of the three. He said, that's easy. President Donald Trump. And I said, I love this guy. I said, I love him. Ronny Jackson, he's now a congressman, as you know. So he was an admiral. He was the chief doctor. He was the whole boss of doctors. And now he's a very, very successful congressman from Texas. Thank you, Ronnie, very much. And I appreciate those words. I'll Never forget them. Jen Kaggins. Jen. Thank you. John McGuire. Rob Whitman. Dan Crenshaw. Daniel. Derek Van Orden. These are unbelievable, talented people that are with me, and they fight. Thank you very much, fellas. Thank you. Thank you very much. Darling, these are great Congress. I say Congress warriors. That's what you have to be today to be in Congress if you're going to make it. I also want to recognize all of the newly pinned chief petty officers. You got a lot of them here today. I had to approve it. Who recently earned their anchors and now bear their venerable title, Navy Chief. Navy Chief. Thank you, Navy Chiefs. Let's also express the gratitude of our entire nation to every Navy veteran who has come out to honor this big anniversary. We see so many veterans. I saw backstage. I was shaking hands with veterans all over the place, and they are great and they're respected and they're loved. Thank you very much. Stand up if you'd like. Thank you very much. They're really loved. I saw it backstage. I saw so many veterans, my hand will never be the same. Thank you very much. A great honor and a very special thanks to the countless Navy families who support our sailors with such love and devotion. None of wadar. And think of this. Without them, you wouldn't be celebrating today. Many of you would not be doing very well. Male or female, you wouldn't be doing very well. So we want to thank our family members, right, all of them. Parents, husbands, wives. Thank you. Thank you very much. From the American Revolution until today, the story of the US Nature Navy is a tale of loyalty, sacrifice and commitment stretching back 250 years. So we're celebrating two hundred and fifty. I almost thought I wouldn't get to do that because I was president in 2016, and then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught him, didn't we? We caught him, but, you know, we had to run it again. I ran it again, and I got 250 and I got the World cup and I got the Olympics. Can you believe all of it in my first term. I was the one that got the Olympics. I was the one that got the World Cup. And I said, you know, the sad part is, maybe I'll go. Maybe I won't even be invited because it won't be during my term. I would say if it were a Democrat, I might not be invited. They don't love me. Exactly. Too much. And then when this happened, now all of a sudden, they got all three. But you know what's the most important? 250 years is the most important, above World cup, above Olympics. But we got them all coming. And on 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. 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. That was the most powerful ever, relatively speaking. We had two ships. We had nothing other, but we had great heart. They didn't know the audacity and the grit of the American sailor. They had no idea the War for Independence. Independence gave us some of the greatest American heroes of all time, including the father of the US Navy, Captain John Paul Jones. You know that when a far stronger British ship demanded his surrender, Jones yelled back that timeless battle cry, right now. I have not yet begun to fight. Don't ask me for that. Think of that. I could just see it. He's a wise guy. He's asking. I haven't even begun. Gun to fight. And he knocked the hell out of him. In the War of 1812, Captain James Lawrence shouted his final words to his crew as blood streamed down from his mortal wounds. Fight her till she sinks. He yelled. Don't give up the ship. Don't give up the ship. These are all incredible, very, very famous statements now with years and time. Very famous. Don't give up the ship. I say it all the time. Time, you're a little behind. I said, don't give up this ship. And we win. We all know how to win. Today that eternal creed is written into the hearts of every sailor in the fleet. America's Navy never, ever gives up the ship. Right? We never give it up. Another titan of the early Navy was the great Commodore Arthur Sinclair. He defeated the French in the Caribbean battle, 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. The war of 1812. He raided them. He was knocking them out one by one. Everyone said, where does this guy come from? And we're all descendants, when you think of it. 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. And I'm going to be at your Army Navy game this year. Who am I going to root for? You may be surprised. It's going to be great. We're going to be here. Generations of the country, Commodore's descendants have Forged their own towering legacies of service in the Navy. And we're joined today by his fifth great grandson, Commander Link Mustin. Where is Mustin? Commander Mustin, where are you? He's here. Wow, look at this handsome guy. That's good genetics. He's got good genes. Thank you very much, Commander. Thank you for continuing a family tradition that has endured for two and a half centuries. Can you believe that? Huh? I wonder if they were as good looking as you. I doubt it. You just got better with age, right? Congratulations. Is that young man your boy? Wow. He beat you. They beat you. That's what we want to see. Over the generations, our Navy sailors raised old lorry above the streets of Veracruz, sent the Spanish fleet to its watery grave and Manila Bay, and buried the vicious German wolf packs at the bottom of the sea. Those were vicious, vicious wolf packs. They were brutal. They were hitting us hard. And then we came up with the answer, didn't we? We came up with a way to knock them out. And we were knocking them out so fast, they didn't know what to do. It was really the end once we discovered the secret through some brilliant minds. A lot of them are descendants of the people, people here right now. In every era of conflict, the Navy has never failed to hunt, kill, and to win. Never failed. Never failed. In World War II, Admiral Bull Halsey's motto, hit hard, hit fast, hit often. And that is exactly what the sailors do. One of those warriors was submarine commander Eugene Fluke, who sent more Japanese tonnage to the ocean floor than any other military man in history. I don't like to talk about it too much now, you know, they've been a nice ally, but anybody from Japan here right now will get off the subject immediately. But think of it. Sent more tonnage to this bottom of the sea. One after one, aboard the famed USS Barb, he destroyed a Japanese tanker and a carrier with a single salvo. To his. To his men's chagrin, they were very concerned about it. They didn't think we could do that. And he just knocked them out one after another. And again, torpedoes were flying. But his greatest feat came when he spotted 30 enemy ships at port off the coast of China. You know that? A very famous story. Commander Fluke ordered his men to their battle station, slipped into the harbor, and sank six vessels at one time before taking off into the beautiful, wild blue ocean. He received four Navy Crosses, the Legion of Merit and the Congressional Medal of Honor. That was a brave guy. In recognition of the incredible achievements of the USS Barb under His command. This December, we will lay the keel of a brand new Virginia class submarine bearing that same legendary name. And his grandson Tom will be there to pick it up. Tom is with us today and I want to thank you for keeping that great legacy around. Where is Tom? Oh, look, stand up, Tom. Great. Good, Tom. Thank you. That's good. That's good genes too, Tom, isn't it? That's good stuff. Thank you very much both for being here. From Midway to the Coral Sea to Leyte Gulf, American sailors fought the most epic naval battles in history. And at Normandy, the Navy led the greatest armada ever formed to deliver the single largest invasion force the world has ever seen. One of the sailors who did it was Felix Maurizio, who enlisted at age 18 and trained right here in Norfolk. Trained right here. On D Day, June 6, 1944, Felix manned an amphibious landing craft that did six harrowing runs to Omaha Beach. You all know about it. These are all famous fights. He delivered hundreds of American troops into the battle, including his brother Sal. Felix lost so many of his friends that day, but he kept fighting. He kept going out there, getting more soldiers, getting more. More of everything. He just kept coming. They couldn't stop him. And went on to serve in the Pacific under the great Admiral Nimitz. 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. Historic battle. Six months later, he was aboard the USS Talladega in Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered. They said, I don't think we want Felix hitting us anymore. And he retired as a chief petty officer in 1966. 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. Wow. That's great. He looks good. Felix, you look better than I do. I'm not happy about. Not happy about this. Felix now, they don't want to mess around with him. And Felix, we salute you. Thank you very much. Incredible. 100 years in Korea, American sailors and Marines carried out the daring landing in Incheon and flew more than a quarter of a million combat sorties against the enemy. It was an amazing effort in Vietnam. The Navy unleashed Operation Rolling Thunder and deployed a brand new unit, the Navy SEALs, to tear up Mekong River Delta. Problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct. Let's take it easy. We're not politically Correct anymore. Just so you understand, we win now. We win. We don't want to be politically correct anymore. 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. Remember that? And please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago. One year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, you got to watch Osama bin Laden. And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true. But I said one year before to Pete Hegseth. I said, one year before, where's Pete? In the book I wrote. Whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you. But I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it. And you got to take care of him. They didn't do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center. So we've got to take a little credit because nobody else is going to give it to me. Me. You know the old story, they don't give you credit. Just take it yourself. And it was the US Navy that dumped his wretched corpse off the decks of the Carl Vinson to sink into the dark abyss. The Navy's central role in the defense of our liberty continues to this day. 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. The obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer. How did that work out? Pretty good, right? And we shot 30 Tomahawks. You know that on top of after the B2. How about that? The B2s, what they did, those beautiful flying wings, what they did, they hit every single target they hit. And just in case, we shot 30 tomahawks out of a submarine. Every one of them hit, too. So I would say Iran was not particularly thrilled. They were going to have a nuclear weapon within a month. And now they can start the operation all over again. But I hope they don't, because we'll have to take care of that, too. If they do, I let them know that you want to do that. It's fine. But we're going to take care of that and we're not going to wait so long. It should have been done long before I came along. You know that. I had the pilots of the B2s in my office. The famous Oval Office. I had them in the B2s. They came in to the White House and we talked about it. They said, you know, sir, for 22 years, our predecessors and us trained for that hit. For 22 years, they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran. He said, but it was only when you came along that we did it. And they were so happy that they did it. But they've been training for that hit for 22 years. But no president wanted to do it. They would have had a nuclear weapon within a month, probably within a month or shortly thereafter. And speaking to them would have been much more difficult. In recent weeks, the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that? And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. You can't find any. We're having a hard time finding them. But, you know, it's a pretty tough thing we've been doing. But you have to think of it this way. Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000American people and the destruction of families. So when you think of it that way, what we're doing is actually an act of kindness. But we did another one last night. Now we just can't find any. You know, it's the old story, we're so good at it, that there are no boats, in fact, even fishing boats. Nobody wants to go into the water anymore. Sorry to tell you that. But it's. We stop. We're stopping drugs coming into America, if that's okay. We're stopping drugs at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Last year, we. We lost, I believe, 300,000 people. And that's not talking about the destruction to families. 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. Well, they're not coming in by sea anymore. So now we'll have to start looking about the land because they'll be forced to go by land. And let me tell you right now, that's not going to work out well for them either. And it was the Truman Carrier Strike Group that unleashed American fury on the Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea. And as you know, they settled. But they settled because they made the statement of doing. We've never been hit like that ever before. And earlier this year conducted the single largest airstrike from an American carrier in history. That was the largest ever. I want to express my personal thanks to every single sailor who contributed to these phenomenal victories. We only know victory we're only going to know victory. We don't want to know the other. The other word. We want to know victory. We're going to have great victories in the years to come. Well, at least for almost three and a half years, we're going to have great victories. I want to thank a group of women from North Carolina. Look at these great. Will you stand up, please? These beautiful women have followed me. This is number 151. You could call a rally. This is sort of a rally. Let's face it. This is a rally. This is a speech of love. We're all. We all love our country. But that group is from North Carolina. They're up to about 151 visits. Have a whole group of them. I never see their husbands. I don't know what's going on with their husbands, I assume. Do they still love you, their husbands? Yes. Good. But I want to thank you, 151. They've been following me since 2016. And you look even better now than you did then. But I want to thank you very much. That's a really group. They love our country. They like Trump. But you know what? They really do. They love our country. And we have the right policy, right? We have policy. We don't want crime. We don't want men playing in women's sports. We don't want transgender for everybody. We don't want to have open borders where millions of people come into our country from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions and insane asylums. Drug dealers, murderers. 11,788 murderers were allowed to come into our country. A lot. A lot of them are gone. And by the way, Washington, D.C. is a safe place right now. It went from one of the most dangerous cities in our country. Can you believe that? To probably the safest, among the safest in our country. Nobody's being hit anymore. It's very safe. And I want to thank you. A lot of the people here have helped. A lot of the people in the audience are people that have straightened them out. It took 12 days. Think of that. Now we're in Memphis. We're doing the same thing in Memphis. And we're going to Chicago. You know, we have a governor that thinks it's wonderful when 50 people in a short period of time were murdered in Chicago. Over 200 people were hit. And so we send in the National Guard. You know what? We send in whatever necessary. People don't care. They want. They don't want crime in their cities. And we're doing it. And we're doing it well, we're doing it like nobody's ever done it before. So I just want to tell you, you're very close to D.C. the restaurants are thriving. The restaurants are dying. They were closing one after another. Now they're thriving. They're opening up beautiful new restaurants. Washington D.C. is safe. And I even went there and had dinner the other night. And I said right smack, left in the middle of the street. Secret Service was thrilled. And I gave a news conference. It's a safe place now. Washington D.C. it's always going to be. Our nation's capital is always going to be safe. We're never going to let that happen again. What happened there? One of the most beautiful places. We're doing a big beautification program. It'll take me very little, very short, but we're doing a beautification program to go along with the security and safety. We're getting rid of the graffiti, the potholes, the broken medians between roads. We're doing a real job and you'd be proud of it. I think everybody here is proud of it, frankly. That's our nation's capital and that has to be clean, beautiful and safe. The US Navy always stands for America. As your Commander in Chief, I will always stand for you. I promise you that. You know that. That's why you voted for me in numbers that nobody's ever seen before. And I want you to know that despite the current Democrat induced shutdown, we will get our service members every last penny. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Do not worry about it. It's all coming. It's coming. And even more because I'm supporting the across the board pay raises for every sailor and service member of the United States Armed Force. But we have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats. They want to give all of our money to illegal aliens that pour into the country. And you know, I have a bigger heart than they do, but the problem is when you do that, they come in by the millions. Everybody wants that. So you can't do it. But I've also pledged the largest ever investment in our military's history. We're spending over $1 trillion. We've never had anything like that before. $1 trillion on our military. And that includes, along with your Secretary of the Navy and Pete Hegseth, we're going to be building lots of ships and doing a lot of things that you haven't seen happen for 35 years. We'll soon revitalize our once great shipyards with hundreds of billions of dollars in new and product investments in people coming from all around the world. And they're going to build ships in America. We want to build in America. And as I told our generals and admirals last Tuesday, we are getting wokeness the hell out of our military. It's gone. It's really gone. I don't know that it was ever really here. I think some of the top people had it. I knew a few of them. They were really. They were major losers, but they were losers. Unlike our great general, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who may be here, Dan Raisin Cain. You know Raisin Cain? When I heard his name, I said, that's the guy I'm looking for. But he's been an amazing warrior and, you know, he was the one headed up the attack on Iran. And everything he's touched has turned out great. He knocked out ISIS. So I was told it would take four to five years to be beat ISIS. When he came on board, he did it in four weeks. We knocked him out in four weeks. 100% of the ISIS caliphate is Dan Kain. Here he is. You know why? Because he's working. That's the one thing. We don't have to worry about him. But he is a fantastic man. That's the man I wanted right from the beginning. 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, I said, I'm going to pick Raisin Cain as the chairman. And that's what we did. And he's been incredible. We will not be politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom. That's why we have renamed the Department of Defense at Department of War, as I said. And we have changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. That was easy. That was an easy one. You know, for years I've looked at it and I edited it up and I figured we have 92% of the frontage. I say, how come we call it the Gulf of Mexico? I mean, I wouldn't say that Mexico is thrilled with me, but what are you going to do? It's the Gulf of America and I love it. Now, 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. They didn't do it with a smirk or a smile. They didn't say in the Gulf of America. No, it's called the Gulf of America now, and nobody's playing games with it. We got sued by the Associated Press, and they lost. In fact, the judge was so good, he said he's calling it the Gulf of America. He's got all the approvals. You have to do that, too, to the very liberal Associated Press that got thrown out of court. In fact, they're almost not allowed to cover me anymore because of that. It's a big hit, so I'm very proud of that. Under our leadership, the spirit of the American forces is soaring like it has never soared before. I think right now we have more spirit than we've ever had before. After years of recruiting shortages, we couldn't get guys or gals to become sailors. One year ago, they didn't want to be a seller. Although I must say, once I said, we're going to run a lot of people, it made it better. But let's go back two years. And it was even worse because there was no hope. We had this horrible, horrible president who had no clue what the hell was happening. The chances of him walking down those stairs successfully were not good. And I have to be careful because one day I'm going to probably fall. No, the North Carolina women said, that will never happen to you. I always say, walk down the steps nice and slow. You ever notice? I do nice. I don't have to bop down the stairs. Walk nice and slowly. But we. We have a waiting list. Think of this. We have a waiting list for people wanting to get into the United States Navy, the Army. Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Space Force. Oh, we love Space Force. But think of it. We have a waiting list for. For every branch of government now, and that includes police. Police and firemen. They didn't want to. Nobody wanted to be a policeman. Now they want to be a policeman. Now. They want to be in the Navy. They want to be in the Air Force so badly. The Marines, the Army, they want to be in all of it. They love Space Force. I love Space Force because I created Space Force. That was my thing then. It's going to turn out to be one of the most important. But one year ago, our country was dead. We had a dead country. People say, sir, you shouldn't say that. It's two. Stress of withdrawal. We had a dead country, and today we have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. One year. Think of it. One year ago, we were dead. The king of Saudi Arabia said to me, president, one year ago, we thought we lost America. We thought it was a Dead country. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. He said that I use this term and I'm pleased to say that 2025 was the Navy's single best recruiting year ever. Not bad. So you went from those embarrassing headlines of a year ago. Think of it. Nobody wants to go into the Navy. How does that make you feel? Now? You have a different problem. You know what the problem is? Everybody wants your job. I like that better. Right, but nobody's going to take your job. You were with us when it was not as nice. It wasn't as nice. Those are the people I like the best too. The people that were with me when it wasn't looking so good. Like these ladies from North Carolina. They were with me when it wasn't looking that good. A lot of fake scandals were created. All fake. One of those eager new recruits is 18 year old Aiden Rollins, a recruit like I'm so proud of. Aiden's father was a sailor. His grandfather was a sailor. And after four years of Navy rotc, it is Aiden's turn to carry on that trust tradition. When he enlisted in April, his father Daniel, a Navy veteran, was so inspired that he decided to reenlist to. Wow. I'm delighted to say that father and son are here with us today representing the future of this great fleet. Please, Aiden and your father, please stand up. But. Wow. Wow. That's a good looking family, I'll tell you. Thank you both. That's a great story. Beautiful. Your father looks pretty young, Aiden. I mean, he's a young looking guy. Every sailor, aviator, submariner and shipmate in the Navy inherits a tradition of excellence and daring, power and glory unmatched in the long saga of men. Mankind's voyage on the sea. From that first ship, the schooner Hanna, to the awesome sight of a modern carrier battle group underway. The US Navy has always been the iron will of a proud and mighty nation. Pushing forward through the currents and over those big beautiful waves. Through the spray of raging combat and the fog of naval war, America's sailors have proven time and again that our Navy does just the best job there is. Anything having to do with sailing the oceans. There's nobody to compete. We own the skies. We stalk the depths and we rule the seas like nobody has ever ruled the seas. From Boston harbor to Hampton Roads, from the Philippine Sea to the Red Sea, from the water canal to the vast great Atlantic Ocean, our sailors have seized triumph upon triumph. We don't know anything about defeat. We heaped honor upon honor and carved greatness and splendor. Into the pages of history. We only talk about the Navy and only use that word, splendor. We also say victory, because that's the other. We have splendor and we have victory. On gun decks and flight decks, in torpedo rooms and cockpits, they have poured out their blood, sweat and tears and offered their very lives to defend this land between the seas. They have crossed icy canals, leapt from burning wreckage, plunged into frigid waters, soared into deadly skies, and slashed across the mine infested bays to claim American victory and to defend the cause of liberty. To defend, quite frankly, the American flag. In every era and every part of this globe, our sailors have fought with courage in their hearts, patriotism in their souls, and salt water in their veins. You have that salt water. Don't let the doctors change it. Keep it. Because there's nothing like it. There's no blood like it. And standing before all of you today, I know that whatever our nation is threatened, and whenever they need help, whenever duty calls, American sailors will hoist our flag high and they will rally to Admiral Farragut's immortal battle cry. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead. Go, you son of a gun. With your help, we will fight, fight, fight. We will win, win, win. Because of you, our Navy and our country will always be proud and righteous and mighty and free. Congratulations once again on 250 years of total dominance. Sail fast, stay strong. Thank you. God bless our sailors, and God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man. Cause you're in a new town there's no need to be unhappy. Young man, there's a place you can go. I said, young man when you're short on your dough you can stay there. And I'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time. It's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay at the YMCA they have everything that you're meant to enjoy. You can hang out with all the boys. It's hard to stay and go ymca it's fun to stay at home ymca you can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal you can do whatever you feel. Young man, are you listening to me? I said, young man, what do you wanna be? I said, young man, you can make real you dreams. But you got to know this one thing no man does it all by himself and just go there to the ymca Chief of the armed forces. Incredible, Incredible day now he's only got to go back and go back to Washington D.C. and deal with the Gaza war. Let's bring in Admiral Gary Hall. Admiral hall was on the National Security Council for President Trump and President Trump's first term. Admiral hall, you've had an opportunity to see Today a historic 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States Navy. And of course, wrapped up with a, with a very inspiring talk to the sailors and men of the Truman and the other ships in the fleet that are at Norfolk Naval Station. Your thoughts, sir? Well, thank you, Steve. I'm humbled to go after the President. Wow, I have chills right now. I have goose flesh. Send me to the recruiters. I want to sign back up. You know, three great speeches. And I'll tell you, the culture of the Navy is different than all the other service. Each service has their own culture. But in the Navy, you cannot order anybody to cheer. You cannot order them to applaud. And their response to the Secretary of War, their response to the first lady, their response to the President is awesome. And those people, they just, you know, that they hate, they hate the fact that people love President Trump, you know, the American sailor. They come from ordinary Americans, the state, you know, they, they're neither liberal or conservative. They're just good, all Americans. And they love the president. To see, see, that is just amazing. The President mentioned, you know, the Kearsarge and I commanded a similar ship. You know, a thousand sailors, 2,000 marines. And again, they are genuine Americans. And when they cheer, it's coming right from their heart. And so, yeah, sign me back up. Steve, you know, in the promo to this broadcast, I saw a picture of you as Ensign Bannon. And first for our listeners, I want to tell you something. I met Lieutenant Bannon back in 1986, 87. When he showed up at my squadron, every wife, every spouse, every girl there swooned and went, have you seen Chris Bannon's brother? Oh, he is gorgeous. So anyway, and Steve, you and I, hey, thanks. You and I joined about the same time and the reason we joined was. And tell me if I'm right with you. Adventure, opportunity. And I use the phrase association with heroes. And that's exactly why sailors are joining today. They want adventure, they want opportunity, and they want to serve with like minded heroes. And service is the big term right there. So. What a great day. 250 years. I only spent 39 years in the Navy. I wish I could have spent a couple more. I want to ask you about. And by the way, I was born right outside in Ocean View, right near the Norfolk Naval Station, of course. Family, so many family associated with the Navy. And it was reading those inspirational, and hearing the stories, the inspirational stories of the Pacific Fleet that always, I always wanted to be a Naval officer and to go to the Pacific Fleet, and I was blessed to be able to do that. One technical question for you. You were President Trump's on the National Security Council, pretty senior position about alliances. You had been one of the senior officers at NATO outside of your, your service to the fleet as a pilot. What's the difference you've seen in the cut of the jib of the president in the second term than the first? Well, one, he doesn't feel hampered, and two, he's doing amazing things. You know, I served for two years at NATO and, you know, the common joke is NATO stands for not at the office or not after two o'. Clock. And they are, you know, those staffs. NATO is staffs. It's not force structure. And the fact that President Trump has made them, you know, pony up more of their GDP for infrastructure, that is a big deal because basically anytime anything came up in NATO and we had all the senior officers represented, if ever there was a question about what to do, everybody bent over to tie their shoes and I was standing there with loafers. They were all looking for the Americans to take, take charge, whether it be the 4th of July picnic or an operation at sea. And their forces, we had quick reaction forces, naval forces, and with an exercise once every year, and there were four quarters where you would sign up and the NATO forces would only sign up on the quarters that they didn't deploy forces. So President Trump has really, I think, wakened up the NATO forces that they, one, they have to pony up, you know, two, they have to deploy and have the infrastructure to go to sea. 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. One, he's not going to do the same thing and expect a different result, which is, you know, withdrawal from Afghanistan. Two, he's going to be respectful of taxpayer dollars. And three, he's not going to put any American in harm's way, whether it be DoD, Department of State or NGOs. And the other thing, if you go in to see the president, he's going to ask you with a project, how much are we paying? How much? Why is it important to the United States? How much are we paying? How much are others paying? Burden sharing and he wants NATO to step up and share the burden. Admiral, hang on for a second. I want to go to. Come back to you. I want Taj Gill. Taj, you've had a chance to see this today. The Navy seals got two great speakers at the beginning and a demonstration of the Navy seals boarding ships. Your thoughts today, particularly the enthusiasm of the sailors. Oh, yeah, it was awesome. Trump's a man. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes, sir. Got you. He's amazing. Okay, got it. Yeah, Trump's a man. He's amazing. Those sailors were fired up, and then I saw him earlier. I was watching the show earlier when he was out on the. On the aircraft carrier, and they were doing the live fire demonstration with the CWIZ and the Navy seals. Fast rope in there. It was that. That was an incredible day. And like Trump said, the naval Recruiting in 2025 is the highest ever. 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 Houthis. Trump. Trump is the man. Pete Hegseth is doing an amazing job, and the Navy is going to flourish again. It's going to turn back into a fighting force. And their job is to maintain freedom of navigation across the world, to keep the shipping lanes open. For recruiting, it's very, you know, for recruiting for the Navy seals, it's always tough to get the right people. I know a lot of people want to be Navy SEALs, but it's so tough psychologically and physically. And I tell people the psychological toughness of you guys is unbelievable. What do you think this meant today to our broader audience, particularly of young Americans, about the potential for volunteering for the Navy? I think. I think young people are going to be fired up. I think. Well, we already see they're already fired up. The. The recruiting is the highest it's ever been for the Navy. And I think that's. That goes across armed forces. But everything Trump and the military is doing right now, it builds enthusiasm, it builds morale, and it gets people motivated to be Americans. Like, we need to bring back an overwhelming sense of patriotism to America. That's how you defeat this. This woke mind virus, this ideology that's in America. It's through patriotism, and it's through leadership. And Trump is providing the leadership. He put Pete Hegseth in power, and he is getting rid of all this crap that's in the military and it's returning it to its roofs. The Department of War, it's a fighting force. Lethality is its job, and that's what they're doing. And that's going to motivate young people to join the military, because the military is now the military again. It's a fighting force. It's not, you know, they're not out doing all this other stuff that they're not supposed to be. So I think, I think this is going to motivate young people to join the military big time. As Pete said, precision and ferocity. Guys, hang right there. I want to go. Captain Funnell, we're going to let you go. Your closing thoughts are you spent, you dedicated your professional life to the United States Navy From a very young man, you served your country. You were bold enough and brave enough to tell the country what they needed to hear at the very moment. Certain administrations didn't want anybody to talk about that. What are your thoughts today? Well, I just joined the chorus of what you've just heard. This is really spectacular. I'm sitting over here in Switzerland, it's almost midnight, and proud to be here and proud to have watched all this. And I can feel the energy all the way over here. I came into the Navy in 1986 when I was commissioned and I came in in the Reagan Top Gun movie had come out. Reagan was president. And I wanted something to do that was meaningful and I wanted to join the Navy. And I can see in those sailors flying faces, especially the petty officers today. And I think Admiral hall said it. They don't. They won't clap that no one orders sailors to clap. They were happy. They were. They were enthusiastic about their president and their service. And I am so excited to see this. 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. This has been a great day and it's been an honor to be here. So thank you very much. 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. In the Challenge of the Chinese Communist Party War Fighting Capability. Where do people. What's the title of your piece? And where do people go to get it? 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. I write for American greatness just every few weeks or so when something gets my attention. 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. 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. But if we cannot defeat any other nation, Navy at sea, then we have failed. And that's what we're headed back to. And I'm so glad that President Trump spoke about that and that we have a new spirit of war fighting and naval war fighting that's coming back to our nation. And as they said, I think the admiral said, and others, I'm ready to sign back up if they'll take me. Captain Fennell, thank you so much. You're fighting a pretty good fight and making sure the public knows, understands what's going on. So thank you. Honored to have you on here, sir. Thank you. I think we got a guy that's about to make Captain Sean Spicer joins us. Of course. Sean, you are a critical part of the, of the first term. Give me your thoughts today. You're you, I think you put on the rank of captain on Tuesday, or have you already put it on? It's just the ceremonies on Tuesday. The ceremony's on Tuesday. Looking forward to it. I saw Secretary Hegseth last night just to confirm we're good to go. I told him I haven't eaten in like four days because I got really worried after his speech. And he said, I said, fat, not fit. You know, So I said, all right, I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, it's, by the way, big win yesterday at Navy against Air Force. I'll take a win as a win. It was 30, 34, 31. We're, we're halfway to the commander in chief's trophy once again. So that was good. But look, I thought today was fantastic, the opportunity to celebrate the Navy, the history of the Navy, seeing those sailors down there in the pier get fired up. This is what it's all about, this folks, getting appreciated, getting thanked for their service, feeling inspired about what they're doing and, and importantly the why, Steve, you know this. I mean, you can sit around forever and do what you're told, but having that sense of duty and purpose is critical. And what President Trump reminded folks again today was that sense of purpose. 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. I'm on the cusp and on the precipice of solving eight big wars. But that means that you don't have to fight, that you can continue to train and be ready. 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. Captain, can you hang on for a second? I'm gonna come back to you because I want to ask you some differences between the first and second term. I think we're seeing a much more determined President Trump. They're not, will not be held down by, by the voices of just conventional, of how to think about things conventionally. Want to go? Cleo Pascal, want to thank you for spending the entire day doing this. Your whole theory of the case about the Central Pacific being the strategic pivot, the counter to Mackinder's heartland theory, I think is brilliant. We're going to spend a lot more time developing that over the days and weeks ahead. Thank you so much. Closing thoughts and observations. Ma', am. It's been a great day and an honor to spend with you and with the posse watching as well. And just for those of you, you who aren't in the Navy to understand that this affects your daily lives in, in so many ways that the old saying of trade follows the flag, this is about the economy and economic growth. And I would argue also the currency follows the flag. So when the British Navy was the dominant force in the 19th century, the British pound was the global reserve currency. And the, the US Dollar really, really became the global reserve currency. At the same time as, as this, the naval power of the US Became really evident. They're not totally congruent, but they certainly overlap to a large degree. So the role of the Navy in preserving core economic strengths within the US System is paramount. And it, you know, the president's speech about rebuilding the Navy and about shipbuilding is incredibly important and heartening. And apart from that, all I'd say is, you know, go Navy. Beat China. Cleo, what's your social media, how do people keep up with you? What are your coordinates? I'm on X just my name. Cleo Pascal, Clio PS KL and on getter at real Clio because somebody stole my name game. Thank you, ma'. Am. Admiral Masso, you're, you're an expert in naval warfare, surface warfare. You know everything about the and have worked in the process of getting these great weapon systems and all that, but you really specialize in motivating young men and women. Put in perspective what we saw today, sir. 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. Everything our nation has acquired and done has really been enabled in a very large way by our Navy. 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 is amazingly supported us. Our future is bright and there is no better friend nor worse adversary potentially than our own Navy. And we showed that in spades today. It was an amazing day and I thank you for allowing me to participate with you and I thank you for spending as much time as you did because no one else put it together like you did. Well, it was easy given all the guys like you I know in the Navy and how much we love it, but it was incredible. Real America's Voice and the Navy put on such a incredible show of combined operations. And I was really proud of the fact since Parker and Rob Sig and the Real America's Voice team worked so hard on this, the actual the White House and the Navy decided to give us a feed that nobody else had. So Admiral Masso, do you have social media place people can go get your writings? No, not really. I mean I'm, I'm out there in LinkedIn and other places. I'm the president of the Navy Museum Development foundation and I can be found@emassonmdf.org so you've got a podcast on Navy history. You guys still got the podcast on Navy history. Where can people go to get that'll well, we're on Naval Historical foundation, second Saturday out of YouTube and we have 84 pieces of great content that I think people would really enjoy. We'll drive them to them. Avromasso thank you so much. Cleo Pascal, as always, you're tremendous. Don't ever change. From the Real America's Voice studios in Washington D.C. i want to thank Real America's Voice and all the team in Washington for making this happen to two great, very blessed today. Just have a great crew. Let me go back. I want to make sure we get all of our other guests in here. Sean Spicer just put in perspective today in particular President Trump's want to do this for a long time. The analogy to Roosevelt, the great White Fleet. We do it at the basically the same thing. Hampton Roads, Virginia, Capes and compare President Trump to the first term and what he's trying to accomplish this term. Sir, it's a great question. 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. 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. 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, you know, what his agenda was and how to get it through. He knew what he wanted, but he didn't necessarily understand the process. And frankly, I don't know if we all did. He came into the second term very clear about what he wanted to do with the time that he had in the second term. So you look at Tom Homan, the precision which he's carrying out these immigration raids to make sure our country is safer and stronger. But he also is doing that in the military. Anytime you listen to the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, he's very, very laser focused on shipbuilding. He understands the task at hand, the threats that we face in the future. And he's not wasting any time putting plans and PowerPoint presentations and taking meetings. It's like he's got his marching orders out there, which is this is what we need to do to take on threats of the future. I want you to stay laser focused on that. I want you to implement it to get it done. 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. And that's what I think the real difference is right now is that President Trump isn't waiting around. He understands that the threat is real, the threat is now. And he's tasked all of these folks. And you look at, I know a lot of people who haven't served didn't appreciate, I don't think the message that that Secretary Hegs he gave the other day. This idea of an ethos isn't just about how many push ups you can do or how long you can plank for. It's a mindset. If you wake up every day thinking, I'm going to be ready to fight I'm going to ready to defend this country. It kind of permeates everything that you do. You go to your desk, whether you're sitting there working, you know, in a program that's, that's desk based or deck based out on a ship, you, you understand that there's a purpose to what you do and a readiness to yourself and to your team that's critical. And what Hegseth did the other day was to reset that mentality and to say we're not here to hug each other, to all get along. We're here to protect this nation. And there is a complete and utter sort of unity of purpose that stems from the top with President Trump goes down through Secretary Hegseth, goes down into the Navy to Secretary Feeling and the CNO and everyone else. So I, I feel like that the, the sense of, of unity, purpose, mission is so much greater this time because President Trump has picked a team and made it clear what those policy are policies are and then said, go do it. Sean Spicer, brilliant. I guess we're going to have you back on. I want to talk about the tough trade offs that have to come. We talk about shipbuilding, as we've talked about the different geopolitical concerns and hemispheric defense, all that. There's gotta be some tough decisions made and tough trade offs. But you're absolutely correct. President Trump's given marching orders are in this fight to the fleet. All ahead flank. Sean, where do people get your podcast? Which I can tell you when I'm on Sean's podcast, everything goes viral. I just tell my team, watch Sean Spicer. It all goes viral. It all goes viral. Some of the stuff I say on the show, not going Sean Spicer. It's literally top of Daily Mail and it's viral. So I don't know how you do it, but keep doing it. Where do people go? And your social media, it's like a Reese's peanut butter cup. You need the chocolate and the peanut butter to make it taste great. So I'll ask the questions, you give the answers and then we'll make it all happen. On YouTube, it's Sean M. Spicer. There's my website, Sean Spicer.com has my newsletter and everything else that obviously on Twitter is just Sean Spicer. So but obviously we do a live show in the morning, a show in the evening that you've been on a ton and, and anyone who can sign up on YouTube, obviously we're on Rumble and Getter and all that as well. But really where we need To Grow, Continue to grow is on YouTube. So thank you for that, Captain Spicer. Thank you. And sorry, can't be back there Tuesday, but you're going to be. I, I, I, I can tell already you're going to be in good hands. So bravo. The secretary's got me. I, I told him that you're, you're not allowed to do push ups and blues. And then I watched all the midshipmen and the superintendent yesterday break. You saw that, by the way, right? They broke the Guinness Book of World record number of push ups. And I was a few minutes late for the game, Steve. And I got to tell you, at first I was a little like concerned that I was running behind, but we had some traffic on Route 50 getting out there. And then when I realized what they were doing, I was like, thank goodness. Keep going. Unbelievable. Navy's got mo Mo and the folks at army are going to have their work really cut out for them against that Navy. So, Sean, thank you for coming on. Look, everybody, go to the podcast sign up, right Coverage today by you. And great coverage. You Rob Sig, Real America's Voice was the go to place today. Thank you guys for doing this. Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate Real America's Voice. That's a go to place. Make a commitment on this. These, these specials are working. People like the fact you do this in depth coverage. We get great people on. I got an easy job. I just sit here in the microphone just, just like passing the basketball to the shooters at Gary Hall. Admiral hall, your closing thoughts on all this. I appreciate you coming on. I know you had to travel rapidly to get where you could get up on the show. You've got a great insight to President Trump and particularly how he works in this, thinking about national security. Since you were on the National Security Council for President Trump and we're closely with him for a couple of years. This week is going to be the announcement of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for, for peace. There's already a great piece up. 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. But closing thoughts on today, and particularly President Trump in this leadership style was seeing right now in his second term. 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. Had to get that out there. Chris was an awesome co pilot. We made a difference in the war. First of all, the Navy is the away team. So we are deployed and everybody's been talking about shipbuilding. The President also talked about investing in shipyards, ammo and sailors. Right now we have the lowest number of ships in the Navy we've ever had. We have ships that have to come into port, give their ammunition to another ship before they go out. President Trump's going to solve that and we need to. So I'm grateful for the hammering home of the shipbuilding and the investment in ship shipyards. And again, we're the away team. Quantity has a quality all of its own. And the president, when you, when you meet the president and even Bill Maher said, hey, when you're in the White House with him, he's, he's not the guy you see elsewhere. He grew up in construction. 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. I mean, he is, is a, a man's man. He's a man of the people. He's down and dirty in the, you know, in the trenches with all American people, not these politicians that do nothing. So the President, I mean, he's got a grasp on this. We in n I have to say, in the year 2000, I was hosted on board a Chinese ship and the toast was to the greatest navy in the world from the fastest growing, growing navy in the world. I tell you, China is our adversary and I hope that we never see American ships underwater due to the Chinese fleet. So we need to build those ships, we need to invest in those shipyards and we have to arm them completely, 100% with ammo, every ship, every armory. So the President's doing a great job. He's really focused it. So, yeah, we got some tough decisions to make, though. Tough decisions. We got some tough decisions to make because the defense budget, a trillion, over a trillion dollars. You're going to have to make some tough. I, look, I'm all for, I think it's the, the strategic logic of whether it's hemispheric defense and or as I say, you've got to be more confrontational with the Chinese Communist Party. And I realize the new defense we're going to talk about this week, I think the new defense driver strategy a little bit downplays the issue between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States, maybe talks about China as a regional power. It's not a regional power. It's not an East Asia power. It's not just control of the South China Sea and the Straits of Taiwan. Although do want to do that they want to push us out of the three island chain, they want to push us back across the Pacific and they also want to have a dominance in South Asia, in particular around the Indo Pacific. But we'll get into that more this week. Admiral hall, where do people go on social media to track you down in your thinking? Well, Apple podcasts, you can look for Navigating Life with Rear Admiral Gary Hall. You can go to Amazon, buy my book Navigating Leadership, Making a Pact with Excellence. And on Substack, I'm the navigating admiral 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. 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. So again, the best copilot ever had named Chris Bannon, call sign race. Wow. Thank you, sir. My kid brother was pretty special or is pretty special, I should say. Great pilot. Had a had a co pilot and a mentor named Admiral Gary Hall. That's pretty good too. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you, Steve, for having me. You're trying to get we're thank you, sir. We're trying to get Steve Gruber back up but I think we've lost signal President United States heading back to back to the White House. Hopefully we're in get Jack Posobic at some time. Jack Bosoba. We embedded Jack so big and because the in bed we didn't get any reports from him all day. I will tease him all night for that. Stan Wojakowski is on. Stan and I realize you're joining us from Europe. I appreciate you sticking around. I just want to spend a minute about before we leave this about the importance we were able to see the submarines out there today and exercise with the fleas President Trump did. But I just want to make sure we 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. Sure. Thank you very much, Steve, for having me over on the show on such a moment, those occasions. And before I I talk of submarines, I want to recognize our men and women in uniform today. We serve in the Navy both at home, abroad and in the high seas. 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. 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 the both 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 in a obviously more perilous world where freedom of navigation and reassuring allies and deterring adversaries remain 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. 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 US Foreign policy being in retreat. The Aukus alliance, I think, is a very strong case against that perceived retreat. And I want to recognize Under Secretary 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 US 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 at least 6, 7 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. And so reaffirming our commitment to Aukus, this 40 year program, which would build in the US 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, 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. Deterrence is the name of the game. Peace through strength is a doctrine. And in fact, stealth is probably today the single most important element of our nuclear triad. Because in an age of shifting innovations in the war scenarios that we are seeing in Ukraine and elsewhere, low tech technologies, low tech weapon systems are increasingly threatening very expensive, very complex systems and platforms. And whether it is 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. And America first does not necessarily mean America alone. 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 non state actors. 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. No, Britch, Colby's done a great job. Just this defense thing is coming out about China being a regional problem versus a global problem. We'll get to that later in the week. Stan, before I let you go, I want you give us a minute. You used a term that we've talked about today, but I don't think we've actually highlighted it. And this is what I'm saying, there's got to be some tough decisions and choices made. You used the term naval supremacy. What do you mean by naval supremacy and what does it mean in today's world? So naval supremacy first and foremost is about freedom of navigation. And this is a big globe where we exchange and trade goods with all partners around the world. And in centuries prior, and even in decades prior, without a strong naval force and a leading globally capable naval force, piracy was a lot more common. And state actors could undermine significantly the trading order. And I think in this global world, we need a force that can guarantee freedom of navigation first and foremost. But as we look at the Indo Pacific, such a large body and swath of water, and we see all these island nations that are constantly changing, challenged in their economic exclusive economic zones and territorial waters. Naval supremacy also means projecting far from home base the ability to deter those that might want to challenge the existing order. And in the Indo Pacific, for the most part, it means the People's Liberation Navy or their maritime militia, whether it is by way of building artificial reefs or whether it is by plowing fisheries near our shores in South America, in the Galapagos, in Argentina, challenging those navies in ways that they're incapable of responding on an equal footing. The U.S. navy. And that U.S. naval supremacy is more important than ever. Stan, where do people go to find out your writing, your thinking? Social media. Are you old school and don't do social media? So a bit like the submarines that we spend a lot of time trying to connect capital with industry and policy decision making, we try to remain as stealth as possible. Obviously we have a LinkedIn page we have an X account but for the most part is to watch your show and not really post anything. I did post something yesterday in French media about the German submarine manufacturer TKMS going partly public in Frankfurt and what the implications are for those conventional submarines. I do want to say there was a very good article that came out in the US Naval Institute website by Lieutenant Commander Jim Hassell who makes the case that conventional submarines should be incorporated into the US Navy to bring lethality for faster and cheaper with less manned service members. And that's certainly one of the policy recommendations that we're putting forth with, with this administration. We're going to have you on and talk about that Diesel boat, diesel boat, diesel boat submarines and diesel boat skippers will appreciate that. Stan, thank you so much. Look forward to having you back on the show. Thank you again, Steve. Have a great evening. Before, before we close out today, I got to bring in Taj. You've been a la. You've answered last call a couple, three times in your life. You're the, you're my anchorman here. Sum up today. What was it about? Sir, 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. And he, you know, he, he tapped Pete Hegseth and all you need in life is some leadership and guidance. Whether you're a self starter, you need someone else to give it to you. If you have leadership, the correct leadership and the correct guidance and you're going to win. And as we can see in the Red Sea under Biden, there was no freedom of navigation. The hooties owned it. They're, they're shooting rockets and missiles and drones at ships all the time. And then Trump came in and within 60 days it's back open for business in that, you know, he signed some kind of agreement with the hoodies. Basically they capitulated and shut down their piracy operations. And in, in the, the incredible thing is this recruiting numbers are the highest ever for the U. S. Navy. So the leadership and guidance under Trump and then he just motivates people wherever he goes. Like I was watching a video of him flying in with Air force ones with F35s flying next to it. It's crazy. He, he's, he's awesome. You know, he, but he's done this his whole life. You know, I was watching him as a kid in Hollywood and you know, he was in Home Alone. The what your, his other TV shows and everything. Trump's amazing. He's the man. He's not perfect, he doesn't do everything right, but he's almost perfect. And he's exactly what America needs and he's exactly what the Navy needs. He's breathing new life into the Navy. They're going to build new ships, they're going to refurbish the old ones, they're getting new weapons, new armament. They're getting rid of the, rid of the woke stuff. So they're going to bring that lethality back into our fighting force. And they're getting, the most important thing is they're getting rid of dei. So everything is going to be merit based. So we're going to have the best fighting force with the best training, the best equipment and we're going to be respected and feared around the world. That's, that's what our military is there for. Like the guy Stan was saying, it's about deterrence. Nobody respects an adversary that it's like, you know, half ass. It doesn't bring their A game to the table. So under Trump, he's breathing new life into our military and our military is bringing back the aame. We're going to have the best people, the best training, the best equipment and nobody's going to want to mess with us. That's, that's deterrence. That's what the military is for. And then the other thing is, he said we're gonna start winning again. Like World War I, World War II, we won flat out, period, Full surrender, right? That's what it's about. 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. 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. 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, you go in and win and leave. And that's how you do it. Ferocity and precision. As Pete Hexa said the other day, I want to tell people also this thing about people come up piece through strength piece, restraint. Well, look, a lot of people just think that means building more arms, having a bigger defense budget, building more weapons systems. We saw under Biden and all that spending money, they don't fear you, they don't fear your lethality. 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. There's no peace to strength. Peace through strength means people fear you. And they know that if you're pushed, when you bring it, it's like the total obliteration that ended the 12 day war. President Trump hit and hit hard and moved on, and the Iranians have kind of never recovered from that. And quite frankly, that was a central building block to what President Trump's going to face when he gets back. Remember, President Trump's leaving here and has now got to go back. He gave him a 6 o' clock deadline. I think they've moved that because his negotiators, Jared Kushner and Wyckoff are now at the resort town in Egypt on the Red Sea to start the negotiations, kind of wind this thing up. But you can tell for reports coming out today in Axios and the Washington Post, New York Times, President Trump's not kidding, right? 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. 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. There's a couple times this week, you see, he's doing so much. He was like a young man today. His energy, his enthusiasm, he fed off this. He's been waiting to do this a long time. He absolutely loved it. You could tell, the energy, the enthusiasm. Right now, when we leave, he's having fun. We leave this broadcast. I need a pot of Warpath Coffee. Tell me where I'm supposed to go taste. 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We got to do better than that task. We love you. Thank you for being part of the program. Thank you, sir. Love you, too. Appreciate it. Okay, President Trump's heading back to the White House. He's going to then turn his attention to ending, I don't know, is this eighth war, a ninth war? Of course. The Nobel Prize Committee is meeting even as we speak. They announce on Friday the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. If this guy doesn't get it, I mean, I don't know what you got to do to get it. We're going to sign off now. I want to thank Real America's voice. Everything. Use the DC studio all over. We had equipment everywhere, people everywhere. Jack Bo. I know Jack Bo's got some great footage because he was in kind of the bubble with security for the President, wasn't able to get out. But Jack's got a lot of stories to tell when he gets back. Hopefully have Jack on tomorrow. And they're not all C stories. They're not going to all be sea stories. So we'll have the Sobicon tomorrow. We're going to leave you with a little compilation that the Real America's Voice team put together. I want to thank everybody. It's been a long but a great day, and you can tell by the energy the President of the United States has. We're going to be back here at 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning. You're going to be back in the war room. I'll be up all night putting up my thoughts and observations on what's going on, particularly in the Middle east as President Trump tries to hammer out a historic peace deal. We'll see you back here at 10 o'. Clock. We're going to leave you now with a compilation video put together by the great Guerrilla America's Voice team. Once again, go navigate. We sa Sam ra sa o Hear us when we cry to be eternal Father. We want to thank our sponsors Birch Gold Group, Patriot Mobile and AMAC for standing with Rev. This has been a live special report. We now join our programming already in progress.