DISCIPLINE & LEADERSHIP WHILE DEPLOYED AT SEA OR ON LAND & THE LONGEST PUBIC HAIR I’VE EVER SEEN: Mac & Phil Smith

Basic Maintenance
US Navy

Phil Smith, Col USMC (ret) joined the program to talk about the 100 Hour Work Week while deployed that was such a large issue at yesterday’s Senate Armed Service Committee Hearing on Recent Ship Collisions at Sea.  Along the way we get into a discussion about discipline, leaders who enforce discipline and the longest pubic hair I’ve ever seen.

Smitty also talks about his trepidation relative to an “anit-war” agenda in Ken Burns’ PBS Documentary, The Vietnam War.

KEN BURNS’ DOCUMENTARY — THE VIETNAM WAR: Bob Nilsson reviews Part 3

Bob Nilsson
Capt USMC
Founder, 100 Entrepreneurs Project

Bob Nilsson was Captain of Engineers in the Marine Corps and fought in Vietnam 1966-1967.  He reacts to episode #3 of Ken Burns The Vietnam War documentary.

An interesting part of the series is how it has animated the community of Vietnam veterans.  Will this be a fair account of a complex war? Or, will it be another screwing-over of the their community?

SENATE ARMED SERVICE COMMITTEE HEARING ON “RECENT COLLISIONS AT SEA” — Hard questions for SECNAV and CNO

ADM John Richardson
CNO
US Navy

The last thirty minutes of the SASC Hearing on Recent Collisions at Sea that took place on September 19, 2017 was the most sharp period of the 2.5 hour hearing.  Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer and CNO Admiral John Richardson fielded questions from Senators.

 

VIETNAM ON PBS, FEMALE RIFLE PLATOON COMMANDERS & A SOLUTION TO OUR IMMIGRATION ISSUES: Montana Man & Mac

Montana Man
aka Rob Schwarz
LtCol USMC (ret)

Rob Schwarz joins us to talk about:

(1)  The Ken Burns PBS documentary The Vietnam War

(2)  The first female Second Lieutenant to get through the Infantry Officer’s Course, what does he think?

(3)  His solutions to “The Wall,”  “Dreamers” and the “parents of Dreamers”

HOW DOES THE NATION FUNCTION WITHOUT BIPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL WORK: John Ubaldi

John Ubaldi
MGySgt USMC (ret)
Founder, The Ubaldi Reports

John Ubaldi, MGySgt USMC (ret) and the head man at Ubaldi Reports  discusses how the nation works without legislative cooperation.

Budgets not passes.

Important issues not addressed.

No compromise on either side.