by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 20, 2017 | Current Events, US Navy, Vietnam
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.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 20, 2017 | Current Events, Vietnam
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?
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 20, 2017 | Current Events, US Navy
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.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 19, 2017 | Gender Integration, Vietnam
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”
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 18, 2017 | Current Events, Politics
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.
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