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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Navy two fifty Sea Power and Freedom.

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Speaker 1: We want to thank our sponsor, birch Gold Group for

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Speaker 1: standing with Wrath.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday, five October in the Riverler twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: a very special day Navy two fifty. The Commander in

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Speaker 2: Chief is sitting in Norfolk Naval Station to commemorate the

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary the birth of the United

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Speaker 2: States Navy, which took place by the Continental Congress on

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Speaker 2: thirteen October seventeen seventy five. Yes, that would be correct.

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Speaker 2: I don't know eight or nine months before the Declaration Independence,

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Speaker 2: because guess what the Revolutionary generation understood. They were in

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Speaker 2: a gunfight from Lexington Commons and Concord Bridge to the

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Speaker 2: Battle of Bunker Hill. A couple of months later they

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Speaker 2: realized two things, we need an army, we need a navy.

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Speaker 2: And then surely thereafter they said we need a Marine Corps,

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Speaker 2: right like the Royal Marines, to man help man the

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Speaker 2: ships of the United States Navy. First question Steve Greof,

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Speaker 2: He asked Jason what was his rank? And talk to

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Speaker 2: us about understanding starts and listening and finishes an officer.

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Speaker 2: How did that work.

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Speaker 3: Jason Sea wants to know how your progression and rank,

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Speaker 3: where you got into the Navy, how you ended up

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Speaker 3: being a Navy seal, how you ended up in.

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Speaker 4: The position you were in.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I started out right here in Virginia Beach. I

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Speaker 5: went through a school at Damn Neck. I was a

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Speaker 5: young enlisted kid nineteen ninety two, headed out to seal

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Speaker 5: training on the West Coast nineteen ninety five, came back

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Speaker 5: to the East Coast, got my commission. I went to

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Speaker 5: Oldemanion University as part of the Seamen Admiral program, came

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Speaker 5: back as a young seal officer after nine to eleven

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Speaker 5: had happened, and then started deploying straight into the war.

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Speaker 3: And you went to the school out in San Diego,

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Speaker 3: went to the whole deal.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Bud's training for all seals younger. There was a

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Speaker 5: period of time we did seal training both coasts in

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Speaker 5: the sixties and seventies. But after the seventies, anybody who

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Speaker 5: goes through seal training happens out and saying the ego.

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Speaker 3: All right, So there's the progression of how he got educated. Steve,

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Speaker 3: I know you also wanted to ask about this. He

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Speaker 3: wanted to ask about the fact that they go ahead, Steve.

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Speaker 2: Steve Hanger one second, We're just hold right there, We're

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Speaker 2: gonna go to I think the president's landing. Let's go

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Speaker 2: ahead and go, let's jump. Just stop, let's go. Steve Gruber,

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Speaker 2: real quickly, how did how do you end up fighting

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Speaker 2: in Afghanistan?

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Speaker 4: Right now?

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Speaker 3: And real quickly, Steve bandalasso, how you ended up fighting

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Speaker 3: in Afghanistan?

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Speaker 6: It's a long way from water. Well.

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Speaker 5: For many, SEAL is an acronym that stands for sea,

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Speaker 5: air and land, so we are trained to operate in

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Speaker 5: any environment. Obviously, when the nation calls upon us, it's

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Speaker 5: one of the Seal's job to find, fix and finish

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Speaker 5: the enemy. The enemy was in Afghanistan and we found

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Speaker 5: I'm and finish them. I'm fixed and finished.

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Speaker 4: That's right, And that's one of the great things.

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Speaker 6: I'll speak about it.

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Speaker 4: That what a historic moment.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't on the bin Laden raid, but I had

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Speaker 5: friends on that mission. What a culmination of the nine

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Speaker 5: to eleven generation to take out Musama bin Laden.

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Speaker 3: God bless you and thank you for standing watch for

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Speaker 3: all of us and the work you did.

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Speaker 4: Amen, my honor.

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Speaker 6: It was an honor.

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Speaker 3: See no question to see by a man like this.

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Speaker 6: All right, what a day.

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Speaker 2: Amen, one of our hero is one of our patriots.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Lieutenant Jason Redmond. Let's go. Do

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Speaker 2: we have now? Is the President going to land? We're

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Speaker 2: going to juggle a few things. Okay, let's bring it.

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Speaker 2: Do we have Alex de Grosse. Let's get Alex dea

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Speaker 2: grossup by the way, Ambassador Monica Crowd's gonna take the

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Speaker 2: stage momentarily. We get the Navy seals that are gonna

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Speaker 2: make presentations. De Grosse. We're going the President of the

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Speaker 2: Commander Chiefs is going off the Virginia Capes today to

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Speaker 2: participate in naval gunfire exercise that we're going to see

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Speaker 2: multiple types of navy warfare. Walk us through. Why why

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Speaker 2: is it ironic that we're going to the Virginia Capes

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Speaker 2: today given how important that is in the history and

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Speaker 2: the freedom of our country, Sir.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Steed. Well, it's huge.

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Speaker 8: I think the Battles of the Cape or the Battle

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Speaker 8: in the revolution a war, and it's something that's not

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Speaker 7: The key was that it was this a set piece.

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Speaker 8: Naval battle between the French Admiral de Grasse that flew

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Speaker 8: that came up from Haiti in the West Indies. He

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Speaker 8: had been coordinating with, uh, you know, General Washington, who

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Speaker 8: had been for three years understanding and I didn't want

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Speaker 8: to rewind after we get through this top line and

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Speaker 8: walk through that, Hey, the key to victory is going

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Speaker 8: to be a combined naval and army engagement to pin

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Speaker 8: the British. He understood that he had been pleading with

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Speaker 8: need we needed a decisive set piece battle, and we

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Speaker 8: get I'll explain through the campaigns in Virginia why it

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Speaker 8: all led to this battle at Yorktown where Cornwallis was

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Speaker 8: French general who was also commanding a combined American army unit.

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Speaker 8: But it, you know, the French fleet really is what

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Speaker 7: Able to retreat.

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Speaker 8: And so if I can see for a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 8: War of a lane. Okay, that's good, so we all know,

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Speaker 8: important to remind everyone April nineteenth, seventeen seventy five. The

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Speaker 8: war starts when British troops went to seize the armaments, right,

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Speaker 8: so the first attempt, you know, when we think of

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Speaker 8: the importance to the Second Amendment, that's the shot heard

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Speaker 7: Obviously, Then the colonists besieged Boston.

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Speaker 8: Where the British were held up, and once we took

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Speaker 8: you see the importance of the navy. The British were

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Speaker 8: obviously somewhat of a victory. And then again the importance

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Speaker 7: In seventeen seventy seven, you've got the grand.

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Speaker 8: Strategy the British had which they were trying to divide

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Speaker 7: So how was supposed to, I think move up from

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Speaker 8: You had troops marching down from Montreal and Quebec, as

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Speaker 8: Thanks to the Patriots both in Ariskanes to.

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Speaker 7: Bleed the British army moving from the west.

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Speaker 8: The New York Army never made it up, and then

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Speaker 8: the army was obviously soundly defeated at Saratoga, which is

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Speaker 8: one of the most at that point historic battle that

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Speaker 8: brings the French into play. Steve, Benjamin Franklin and Washington

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Speaker 8: Of course, we had the American navy, but we needed

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Speaker 8: They get on board, they give money, the troops, they

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Speaker 8: the Spanish got involved the Dutch later in seventeen eighty,

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Speaker 8: and this really became a world war. So I think

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Speaker 8: that's important for everyone to understand. The surrender of the

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Speaker 8: Battle of Saratoga, I think was the largest single surrender

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Speaker 7: You know, sort of imploded.

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Speaker 8: So at this point, now they're getting kind of frustrated

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Speaker 8: the British then called it They pivot to a southern strategy, okay,

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Speaker 7: Okay. They took Savannah.

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Speaker 8: Then they took Charleston in seventeen eighty and I think

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Speaker 8: that was the largest American defeat in the entire war.

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Speaker 8: Over five thousand captured Cornwallace then takes command, and you

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Speaker 8: crushed Horatio Gates, I mean, probably the second biggest defeat

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Speaker 8: most importantly for the Maga down there, who loved this

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Speaker 8: Okay, so a lot of specifics here, but all of

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Speaker 7: Washington's in the north.

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Speaker 8: They're sort of shadowing New York, and the French have

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Speaker 8: sorry Rushiambeau and George Washington or March I think, four

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Speaker 8: four thousand additional French troops, which is huge, three and

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Speaker 8: a half thousand I think from the Caribbean. And now

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Speaker 8: they're engaged in this out of nowhere Steve. They get

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Speaker 8: surprised and the British navy appears. They've got about I

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Speaker 8: wrote this down. I think they had nineteen ships, so

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Speaker 8: they had less. Yeah, there go nineteen ships from the

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Speaker 8: This is like the first really set piece naval battle

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Speaker 2: Rad Okay, there's a live shot right there. The Commander

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Speaker 10: Since then maintained the ability to fight in snow, mountains,

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Speaker 2: Eric we have and by the way, the President just

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Speaker 2: of this, Like I said the Ambassador Monica Crowley, I

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Speaker 2: Is this really going to be against a non state actors?

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Speaker 10: Sir, certainly they think they've taken four shots at drug

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Speaker 11: In power as true dictator. Now. I think the Trump

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Speaker 10: I don't know if they're going to go full kinetic

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Speaker 10: He's at fifty I hope that the Trump administration, instead

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Speaker 2: Is is fifty million? Is that where it gets the

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Speaker 10: Think it's there right in saying we are at war

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Speaker 10: You're losing almost that number every year just from fentanyl.

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Speaker 10: I know that there was the Mexican cartels reached out

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Speaker 2: But the fact, hang on, hang on, we are hang on,

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Speaker 10: Yes, Look, the fact is the cartels are have unbelievable

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Speaker 11: Sock level expertise.

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Speaker 10: Look that the fact that is the cartels they nibble

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Speaker 11: It's largely parade parade level efforts. If if you.

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Speaker 10: Decided to get very hard in kinnetic against them, you

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Speaker 11: But you would. You would.

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Speaker 10: You would definitely decimate the cartels. And I think they

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Speaker 2: Eric, clearly the Chinese chemist party in the PLA which

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Speaker 10: Well, the super important thing to think about is how

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Speaker 2: Hey, Eric, we've got we've got the Navy seal. That's

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Speaker 2: the Navy seals. Better take the station here, for.

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Speaker 10: I will definitely yield to him.

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Speaker 4: Welcome.

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Speaker 5: It's truly an honor to be here for the Navy too,

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Speaker 5: fiftieth honoring the greatest naval force the world has ever seen.

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Speaker 4: Now, you have to understand there's a lot of.

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Speaker 5: History packed into the last two hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 5: But make no mistake, the history of the United States Navy,

441
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 5: from its beginning to today, was built on a foundation

442
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 5: of choice and sacrifice.

443
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 4: We chose to.

444
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 5: Raise our hands and swore an oath to the Constitution,

445
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 5: a choice to sacrifice our freedom, our earning potential, and

446
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 5: even worse case, our very lives, to fight against all enemies,

447
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 5: born and domestic, who presented a threat against the sovereignty

448
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 5: and people of the United States of America.

449
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 4: So it was in the beginning all the way to today.

450
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 5: In order to understand the full context of what you

451
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 5: are a part of, I think it is important to

452
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 5: remember our history. So let's go back to the beginning

453
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 5: in seventeen seventy nine, when John Paul Jones captured the

454
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 5: therapists off the coast of England, to the Battle of

455
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 5: Lake Erie, the Battle of Manila Bay, the Battle of Midway,

456
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 5: to the Battle of Leyte Gulf. From d Day to

457
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 5: the Battle of the Philippine Sea, America's Navy has aided

458
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 5: our allies, crushed our enemies, and stood resolute again and again.

459
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 5: Two hundred and twenty six years from the day the

460
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 5: father of the American Navy engaged the might of the

461
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 5: British Empire.

462
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 4: On September eleventh.

463
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Speaker 5: Nineteen ninety two, while still attending a small high school

464
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 5: in Lumberton, North Carolina, a young, skinny runt joined the

465
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 5: ranks of the world's greatest Navy.

466
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 4: Despite his small.

467
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 5: Size, he had big His name was Jason Redmond. I

468
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 5: wanted to join the ranks of the US Navy Seals,

469
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 5: and like all of you here, I chose to sacrifice

470
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 5: my future to serve our great nation. I would attend

471
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 5: ISA school right here in Virginia Beach, and on December fifteenth,

472
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety five, I achieved my dream and Seaman Apprentice

473
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 5: Redman graduated from Navy Seal Training Bud's Class two two.

474
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 5: Stop making fun of me, all of you who weren't

475
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 5: born FNNGS. I would go on to have an amazing

476
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 5: career three deployments to South America. I would be shot

477
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 5: at for the first time conducting counter drug operations in Columbia.

478
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 5: We broke into NASA, and I remember surfacing from a

479
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 5: four hour dive through the Mangrove swamps off Cape Canaveral,

480
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 5: only to find ourselves surrounded by alligators.

481
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 4: I won't lie I had to wash out my wetsuit.

482
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 4: After that one, I became.

483
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 5: A Seal training instructor and made it a petty officer

484
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 5: first class. Before I was recommended to earn commission, I

485
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 5: would attend Old Dominion University ROTC right down the street here.

486
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 5: I am sure, just like many of you sitting in

487
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 5: this audience. While at school, nine to eleven happened. I

488
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 5: remember watching the towers fall standing next to my best

489
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 5: friend and fellow steal Bobby Ramirez. We looked at each

490
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 5: other and acknowledged we are going to war. Bobby and

491
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 5: I would get our commissions together, and over the next

492
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 5: decade I would have the honor to serve alongside some

493
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 5: of the legends of the nine to eleven generation. I

494
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 5: mourned as we lost so many teammates on June twenty eight,

495
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 5: two thousand and five, when our helicopter was shot down

496
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 5: in Afghanistan and Marcus Latrell would be the lone survivor.

497
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 5: I was honored to have served as an ops officer

498
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 5: for the Captain Phillips mission.

499
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 4: I mourned once again at.

500
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 5: The loss of Extortion seventeen and served as one of

501
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 5: the operations officers and planners for the memorial of our

502
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 5: twenty two teammates who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom

503
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 5: on that fateful day, And like many of you, I

504
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 5: watched what trementous and his pride when a fellow Seal

505
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 5: officer I had served with was on the ground in

506
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 5: Pakistan on a highly classified mission and made the radio

507
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 5: call back to the White House situation room for God

508
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 5: and Country, Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo, signaling the death of the

509
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 5: most wanted man in the world, Issama bin Laden.

510
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 4: My most impactful mission.

511
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 5: Occurred on September thirteen, two thousand and seven. Operating outside

512
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 5: of Falujah, Iraq, in a small rural area known as

513
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 5: Al Kharma, we were tasked to go after the number

514
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 5: one leader for al Qaeda in the Western Province, and

515
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 5: moving to target, we walked into a very well executed ambush.

516
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 5: In the ensuing forty minute firefight, myself, Luke, and Maddie

517
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 5: would be severely wounded. Luke was shot by a machine

518
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 5: gun below the knee, almost taking off his leg. Maddy

519
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 5: would run forward under heavy machine gun fire, sustaining three

520
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 5: machine gun rounds before still managing to drag himself and

521
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 5: Luke to safety.

522
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 4: During the firefight, I.

523
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 5: Was hit twice in the arm, with at least six

524
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 5: more rounds strike my helmet, shooting off one of my

525
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 5: night vision goggles, hitting me multiple times in the body

526
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 5: armor and striking my weapon. I was able to keep

527
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 5: fighting and directing until another bullet struck me in the face,

528
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 5: knocking me out. Caught in the open while the firefight

529
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 5: continued to rage over me, I was pinned down, patiently

530
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 5: waiting for my teammates to win the fight and bringing

531
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 5: the metabac, all while my life slowly drained out of

532
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 5: me and my world faded the black. While unconscious, my

533
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 5: team leader, j Aliason, exposed himself to enemy machine gun

534
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 5: fire to run forward and get me back to cover,

535
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 5: put a tourniquet.

536
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 4: On my shattered arm, and saved my life.

537
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 5: He then proceeded to call in multiple extreme danger close

538
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 5: fire missions by an Air Force AC one thirty gun ship.

539
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 5: Those missions would end up being the closest air support

540
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 5: missions executed in the.

541
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 4: Entire Iraq War.

542
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 5: If it was not for my teammates, my team leader,

543
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 5: the fourth SS gunship crew, and the amazing naval doctors,

544
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 5: nurses and cormen, I would not be here today.

545
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 4: To tell this story.

546
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 5: Since that fateful night, I've undergone almost forty reconstructive surgeries.

547
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 4: I've had six.

548
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 5: Blood transfusions, a tracheotomy that I wore for seven months

549
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 5: in two days. I've had fifteen hundred stitches, two hundred staples,

550
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 5: five plates, one titanium morbile to floor, fifteen screws, eight pins,

551
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 5: twenty skin grafts, three bone graphs, one calvarium bone graph.

552
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 5: I've had my jaw shattered, broken and rebroken three times.

553
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 5: I have my jaw wired shot for over twelve weeks,

554
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 5: and I lost over fifty pounds. I have spent approximately

555
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety hours in surgery under anesthesia. Thankfully,

556
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 5: my seal teammates continue to remind me that I should

557
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 5: be super thankful, because apparently all the plastic surgery is

558
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 5: merely an improvement.

559
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 4: On how I used to look.

560
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 5: While in the hospital, struggling with my devastating wounds, disfigurement,

561
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 5: and the possibility that my.

562
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 4: Seal career was over, I made a choice.

563
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 5: I could continue to lay there and feel sorry for myself,

564
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 5: or I could choose to set the example of so

565
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 5: many other amazing warriors that had set before me. I

566
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 5: would offer a sign I would place on the hospital door,

567
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 5: on a bright orange piece of paper.

568
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 4: That would say, attention to all who enter here.

569
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: If you're coming in this room with sorrow to feel

570
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 5: sorry for my wounds, don't bother the wounds I received.

571
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 4: I gotten a job that I love doing it for people.

572
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 4: I love defending the freedom of a country.

573
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 5: I deeply love. I will overcome. If you are not

574
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 5: prepared for that, go elsewhere. That sign took on a

575
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 5: life of its own, going viral across the media and

576
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 5: earning me an invitation of the White House to meet

577
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 5: President Bush.

578
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 4: A lot of people want to make a big deal

579
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 4: about it, But I know what it represents.

580
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 5: It represents the spirit of the United States Navy and

581
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 5: its warriors.

582
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 4: It represents all of you.

583
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 5: What will your sign on the door say? So, we

584
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 5: have come full circle two hundred and fifty years on

585
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 5: this journey from the Revolutionary War to today, amazing sailors

586
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 5: who chose to sacrifice for the future of our great nation,

587
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 5: choice and sacrifice. This final message is to our current sailors.

588
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 5: All of you are amazing Americans who chose to serve,

589
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 5: willing to sacrifice everything so that our fellow Americans can

590
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 5: have life, liberty, and pursue happiness. And while we all

591
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 5: pray for peace, those of us who have been to

592
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 5: war pray the most. I also recognize we must prepare

593
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 5: for war. I applaud the Secretary of War for his

594
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 5: renewed focus on lethality and a mindset of war.

595
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 4: All of you here are warriors.

596
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 5: It is our job to be ready to take the

597
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 5: fight to our nation's enemies. We must always be ready mentally, physically,

598
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 5: and emotionally. We must be lethal because what is at

599
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 5: stake is our very freedom. China, North Korea, Russian and

600
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 5: so many others would love to deprive us of our freedoms.

601
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 4: And understand this freedom is a gift.

602
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 5: It must be nurtured, preserve, protected, and in the darkest times,

603
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 5: it must be fought for.

604
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 4: All of you here are the front line of American freedom.

605
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 4: You are the Titans of the Sea.

606
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 5: So from John Paul Jones to the bin Laden Raid,

607
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 5: the US Navy has been instrumental in fighting and leading

608
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 5: America's wars. All of us here today we stand on

609
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 5: the shoulders of giants, and those giants willingly picked up

610
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 5: the flame of American freedom and carried it with them

611
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 5: all around the world, and unfortunately, some of them did

612
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 5: not come home. The US Navy has laid many warriors

613
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 5: upon the ultra of freedom. Over my military career, I

614
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 5: lost too many friends, including my best friend, Commander Bobby Ramirez.

615
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 5: All of them are now part of the eternal flame

616
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 5: of American freedom. It is up to all of us

617
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 5: to ensure that flame never burns out. For two hundred

618
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 5: and fifty years, the torch of American freedom has burned.

619
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 5: It's been carried by sailors from all walks of life,

620
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 5: all races, all colors, and it has been seen all all.

621
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 4: Around the world.

622
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 5: Warriors have carried it with them, crossing the beaches of Normandy,

623
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 5: on Ewejima, Korea, and in the jungles of Vietnam. It

624
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,719
Speaker 5: has been held high in Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria,

625
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 5: and across Western Africa. When a hero falls and their

626
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 5: flame is extinguished, every every Americans torch back home burns

627
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 5: just a little brighter. Every American citizen of the United

628
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 5: States is entrusted with a small part of this flame.

629
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 5: Most Americans feed their flame and insure it burns brightly

630
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 5: for all to see.

631
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 4: Other Americans.

632
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 5: They take their freedom for granted, attacking the very ideals

633
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 5: that built our nation, and they allow their flames to

634
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 5: burn out. Thankfully, there are those of us who wear

635
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 5: the uniform who are entrusted with an oath and presented

636
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 5: at the start of our naval careers with a part

637
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 5: of the flame, to keep the torch of American freedom

638
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 5: always burning. Seventeen years ago, I lay on the battlefield

639
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 5: in Iraq, pouring my blood into the soil, and I

640
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 5: looked up and I saw that dark angel standing out me,

641
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 5: and he said it was time to go.

642
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 4: And I thought he was right.

643
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 5: But then I realized I wasn't finished. I had a

644
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 5: torch of American freedom to.

645
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 4: Preserve and forever keep burning.

646
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 5: So I got up, I walked seventy five yards of

647
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 5: that medevac helicopter, and I came home, and I vowt

648
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 5: once again that I would never allow that flame to

649
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 5: burn out.

650
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 4: While I still hold breath. Today, I passed.

651
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 5: My torture freedom onto all of you. You are the

652
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 5: future of the United States Navy. Our nation needs you

653
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 5: to train harror, We need you to be lethal, We

654
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 5: need you to be ready.

655
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 4: The Secretary of War has called upon you.

656
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 5: My only question is will you carry this flame of

657
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 5: freedom forward as the foundation for the next two hundred

658
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 5: and fifty years. God blessed the United States Navy. God

659
00:34:53,360 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 5: bless the United States of America, and go Navy, beat Army.

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Speaker 2: Eric Prince, Jason, let's keep it on that shot right there.

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Speaker 2: Jason Redman. By the way, we have another Navy so

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Speaker 2: Jason Redman, tell me about him.

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Speaker 11: Just an inspiring story.

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Speaker 10: A guy that took that many hits and to keep

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Speaker 10: that kind of attitude and positive, to grind away and.

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Speaker 11: To will himself back to health.

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Speaker 10: It's just it's really humbling, and it's one of the

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Speaker 10: reasons I've told my kids are young people that if

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Speaker 10: you if you're going to join the military, join the

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Speaker 10: most elite part you can you can qualify for, because.

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Speaker 11: You'll be really happy with the people you work with.

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Speaker 11: And he exonified.

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Speaker 2: He anava Navy. So let's go right to the podium.

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Speaker 12: I can't express how moved and inspired I am for

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Speaker 12: being a part of this two hundred and fiftieth celebration

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Speaker 12: of our Navy. I would first like to say thank

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Speaker 12: you to the crew of these ships and sailors for

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Speaker 12: hosting this event. We understand the effort and manpower to

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Speaker 12: make this happen, and thank you for carrying the torch

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Speaker 12: protecting our families and this great nation. While I was

681
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Speaker 12: reflecting on this momentous occasion and milestone for our country,

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Speaker 12: I look for a voice or a.

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Speaker 6: Message to turn to.

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Speaker 12: Our Secretary of War, and my Navy Seal Ethos came

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Speaker 12: to mind. We're gathered here today in a time that

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Speaker 12: demands strength. Not the kind of strength measured in numbers

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Speaker 12: or equipment or technology, but the strength measured in spirit.

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Speaker 12: The strength of men and women who have sworn an

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Speaker 12: oath to defend our nation. The strength of those who

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Speaker 12: understand that free is not a gift. It is earned,

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Speaker 12: It is guarded, and if necessary, paid for with sacrifice.

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Speaker 12: The Secretary of War recently reminded us of a truth

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Speaker 12: we sometimes forget. America does not stand tall because of

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Speaker 12: its weapons. America stands tall because of its warriors. Weapons, rust,

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Speaker 12: technology changes, but the human heart, sharpened by discipline, courage,

696
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Speaker 12: and resilience that endoors. That is what keeps this republic alive.

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Speaker 12: As Navy Seals don't just know this truth, we live it.

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Speaker 12: The Seal Ethos is not simply words etched on a wall.

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Speaker 12: It's written in sacrifice. It is carried on the shoulders

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Speaker 12: of every man and woman who has ever worn this uniform.

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Speaker 6: It says, my loyalty.

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Speaker 12: To country and team is beyond reproach. I humbly serve

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Speaker 12: as a guardian to my fellow Americans, always ready to

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Speaker 12: defend those who are unable to defend themselves.

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Speaker 6: That is more than a creed.

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Speaker 12: That is a covenant, a binding promise to each other,

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Speaker 12: to the mission, and to the people of this nation.

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Speaker 6: And it has lived not just.

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Speaker 12: On the battlefield, but in the quiet places when no

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Speaker 12: one is watching, in the early hours of training, the

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Speaker 12: late nights of preparation, in the relentless pursuit of excellence.

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Speaker 12: That is where the ethos is forged. To secretary of

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Speaker 12: recent words echo this same call. Readiness is not a posture.

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Speaker 12: Readiness is a way of life, and He's right. Readiness

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Speaker 12: is not something we turn on and off. Readiness is

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Speaker 12: not a box to check. Readiness is who we are

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Speaker 12: every day, in every choice we make. It is built

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Speaker 12: in sweat, in sacrifice, and in repetition. It is built

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Speaker 12: when your lungs burn, your body aches, and every part

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Speaker 12: of you screams to quit.

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Speaker 6: But you refuse.

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Speaker 12: It is built when you choose discipline over comfort, when

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Speaker 12: you choose to serve others before yourself, when you choose

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Speaker 12: the harder path because it's the right one. Too often

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Speaker 12: we think of the fight as something out there across oceans,

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Speaker 12: in deserts or mountains. But the truth is the fight

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Speaker 12: is within. Every morning, when our feet hit the ground.

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Speaker 6: We face a choice.

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Speaker 12: Do we rise to the standard of warriors or do

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Speaker 12: we fall short?

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Speaker 6: Do we embody the values we.

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Speaker 12: Swore to uphold, or do we let fear, complacency or

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Speaker 12: doubt take root. The Seal Ethos reminds us, I do

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Speaker 12: not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition

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Speaker 12: for my actions. That means the battle is not about glory.

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Speaker 12: It's about grit. It's about facing ourselves, our weakness, our excuses,

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Speaker 12: and refusing to let them win.

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Speaker 6: And here's the thing. Not one of us does this alone.

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Speaker 12: We stand because of our brothers and sisters to our

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Speaker 12: left and to our right. We endure because someone else

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Speaker 12: is counting on us. We push through because we know

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Speaker 12: if we falter, someone else bears the cost. That's why

743
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Speaker 12: the Ethos says I serve with honor on and off

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Speaker 12: the battlefield, because in the end, this is not just

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Speaker 12: about individual strength. This is about unity, about knowing that

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Speaker 12: the man or woman beside you will not quit, will

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Speaker 12: not surrender, and will not let you down. And in

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Speaker 12: that bond, in that unbreakable trust, we find the strength

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Speaker 12: to overcome any obstacle. Our Secretary of War is not

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Speaker 12: trying to make our time in the military harder. He's

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Speaker 12: trying to ingrain in each in every service member that

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Speaker 12: discipline in both physical and mental readiness is a lifelong lesson.

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Speaker 12: I believe he is not only ensuring that our military

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Speaker 12: is fierce, lethal and ready today, he is looking toward

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Speaker 12: the future to ensure that we all become leaders in

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Speaker 12: our own communities as veterans. There is a simple truth

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Speaker 12: that when you hang up that uniform.

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Speaker 6: You become a veteran.

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Speaker 12: Only those who have never raised their right hand and

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Speaker 12: taken this oath of service can be called civilians. I

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Speaker 12: believe our Secretary of War wants us to take the

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Speaker 12: lessons learned during our service and become examples for generations

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Speaker 12: to follow, to become the compass for our.

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Speaker 6: Youth, examples to aspire to.

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Speaker 12: I can tell you from experience, it is not an

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Speaker 12: easy task finding purpose after the military. It took me

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Speaker 12: decades to navigate emotions, frustrations, and the constant desire to

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Speaker 12: serve again. Ultimately, I found what I call service. After service,

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Speaker 12: I realized that serving others and making my fellow veterans

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Speaker 12: my focus helped me feel whole. It gave me purpose, direction,

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Speaker 12: and a sense of camarae. I now run a Naval

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Speaker 12: Special Warfare museum in New York named after Lieutenant Michael Murphy,

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Speaker 12: a Navy seal who received the Medal of Honor for

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Speaker 12: his actions in Afghanistan and the.

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Speaker 6: Movie depicted who was lone Survivor.

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Speaker 12: Every day I must rise to the level of a

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Speaker 12: Navy seal because people are expecting it and they should.

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Speaker 12: Even though I am medically retired, I cannot be an

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Speaker 12: out of shaped seal. How can I recite to our

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Speaker 12: visitors that my nation expects me to be physically harder

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Speaker 12: and mentally stronger than my enemies.

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Speaker 6: If I don't look that.

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Speaker 12: Way, how can we expect our future generations to rise

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Speaker 12: to the occasion or hear the calling if we ourselves

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Speaker 12: do not. I must be that image of excellence in

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Speaker 12: front of our school, field trips, or any visitor who

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Speaker 12: is expecting to see the tip of the spear. I

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Speaker 12: lean on discipline, learn from years of service, knowing that

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Speaker 12: I still have service to do. I still have to

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Speaker 12: be an example for my own children, my neighbors, my community,

791
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Speaker 12: and my nation. You see, our service never stops, it evolves.

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Speaker 12: In today's world, resilience is everything. The challenges we face

793
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Speaker 12: are not short term, they are enduring. The missions are longer,

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Speaker 12: the threats are more complex, and the demands on our

795
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 12: force and our families is heavier. Yet the expectations remain

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Speaker 12: unchanged that we will not falter, we will not retreat,

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Speaker 12: and we will never quit. As the ethos concludes, the

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Speaker 12: loyalty to my teammates and the mission is sacred. I

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Speaker 12: will not quit. I will not fail. That is the warriors,

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Speaker 12: not only to those who wear the uniform, but to

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Speaker 12: every American who looks to us for strength, for safety,

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Speaker 12: and for hope. So as we stand together today, let

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Speaker 12: us reaffirm what is expected of us to embody, honor, courage, loyalty,

804
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Speaker 12: and resilience. Let us remember that every action and decision

805
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Speaker 12: we make reflects not only on ourselves, but on the

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Speaker 12: generations of warriors who came before us and those who

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Speaker 12: will follow after. We are not asked to be perfect.

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Speaker 12: We are asked to be relentless. We are not asked

809
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 12: to avoid adversity, we are asked to thrive in it.

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Speaker 12: We are not asked to fight for ourselves. We are

811
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Speaker 12: asked to fight for us cause greater than self, a nation,

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Speaker 12: greater than any one individual. That is today's expectation, and

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Speaker 12: that is why we must carry this forward together for

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Speaker 12: the next two hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 12: May God bless our warriors, our families, and may God

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Speaker 12: bless the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: Eric Prince, Yes, sir, I know you've got to bounce

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Speaker 2: your overseas quickly. The warrior ethos, what does it mean

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Speaker 2: to you, sir?

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Speaker 11: Look, we live in a republic.

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Speaker 10: We are defended by a very small segment of society

823
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Speaker 10: that chooses to join and they write an unlimited check. Okay,

824
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 10: when you join the military, you're saying to the leadership here,

825
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Speaker 10: am I send me?

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Speaker 11: And that warrior ethos is that you're going to.

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Speaker 10: Get the job done, and you're going to make sure

828
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Speaker 10: as many of your colleagues can get the job done

829
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Speaker 10: with you as well, and to not quit in the process.

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Speaker 10: And in what Hegseth did this last week in calling

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Speaker 10: all the generals, all eight hundred of them together, I

832
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Speaker 10: wish he had used the opportunity to cull a huge

833
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Speaker 10: number of them on the spot, but at least a

834
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Speaker 10: direct call to accountability into standards was very very important

835
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Speaker 10: because we've had a military culture that's gone adrift over

836
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Speaker 10: the last couple of decades, and we need to tighten

837
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Speaker 10: up the ship because the storm clouds are coming and

838
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Speaker 10: we must prepare for that.

839
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Speaker 11: Because otherwise it could not go.

840
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Speaker 10: It could go very very ugly for us if we

841
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Speaker 10: don't prepare for the realities of the modern battlefield and

842
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Speaker 10: how cheap and dangerous all these precision weapons are to

843
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Speaker 10: our survival.

844
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Speaker 2: Eric Haata, being a Naval Navy seal form you as

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Speaker 2: a man and change you as a person.

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Speaker 10: It was I owe a lot to the seal teams

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Speaker 10: in that entire experience because it truly taught you to

848
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Speaker 10: always find a lower gear, to not quit that however miserable, uncomfortable, whatever,

849
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Speaker 10: there is a way to make it work and to

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Speaker 10: and to survive and to persist and to win.

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Speaker 11: And Uh that's a that's an attitude I try to provide.

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Speaker 10: I've tried to apply to my certainly into my professional

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Speaker 10: life and personal life as well.

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Speaker 11: But you know it's not over. You haven't been beaten

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Speaker 11: until you quit.

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Speaker 2: Eric Prince, by the way, isn't I think you're one

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Speaker 2: of your sons is a Navy seal.

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Speaker 11: We have multiple kids in the military going through the process.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Eric, always honored to have you on here. Sir,

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Speaker 2: thank you for staying up over there and joining us

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Speaker 2: today for our.

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Speaker 7: Comveragere Go Navy.

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Speaker 2: I'm so conflicted on the go Navy beat Army now

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Speaker 2: that most west point. Uh, let's go to the mainStreet.

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Speaker 2: We're going to jump back to the podium issues, I

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Speaker 2: think as soon as Ambassador Crowley comes main studio. Admiral

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Speaker 2: Sunny Masso, Admiral Masso, thank you for joining us today

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Speaker 2: for a coverage. You're in studio with Cleo. What can

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Speaker 2: we anticipate We're going to go through a two hour

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Speaker 2: hour to hour naval gunfire exercise, Sonny, your Surface warfare officer,

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Speaker 2: what can we anticipate the day to see out on

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Speaker 2: the Navy gunfire range off the Virginia Cape.

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Speaker 13: Sir, well, I think we're going to see an explosion

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Speaker 13: of activity from five inch fifty four guns. We'll see

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Speaker 13: aircraft maneuvers, We'll see helicopters loaded with Navy seals and

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Speaker 13: special ops personnel, maybe doing some repelling.

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Speaker 4: It'll be an.

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Speaker 13: Exhibition of all of the capabilities that we offer, potentially

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Speaker 13: even including rib boats that are the key cornerstone of

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Speaker 13: our vessel boarding, search and seizure capabilities, and really just

881
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Speaker 13: elucidate all the missions that we participate in and let

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Speaker 13: the good people of the Tidewater area get to see

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Speaker 13: this and celebrate it on behalf of our two hundred

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Speaker 13: and fiftieth birthday.

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Speaker 2: Sonny Admiral. You know, we've had Navy seals, We've had

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Speaker 2: some marinas. We're going to have some naval air of

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Speaker 2: folks on later. Still, the bedrock of the Navy is

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Speaker 2: surface warfare. Walk us through what is surface warfare, explaining

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Speaker 2: to our audience, carrier strike groups, all of it.

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Speaker 13: Sir great so fundamentally in our Navy today we have

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Speaker 13: about two hundred and ninety battle force ships, which include

892
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Speaker 13: our eleven aircraft carriers, about one hundred and fifteen to

893
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Speaker 13: one hundred and twenty cruisers and destroyers, all gas turbine

894
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Speaker 13: vessels that can stay on station a long time. They're

895
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Speaker 13: very capable. They can have sensors that look into exo

896
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Speaker 13: atmospheric events, and they can track exo atmospheric missiles coming

897
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Speaker 13: and inbound. They're extraordinarily capable.

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Speaker 4: The backbone of.

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Speaker 13: The fleet, though, requires them, you know, to be anywhere

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Speaker 13: and each of these cruisers and destroyers. And then, of

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Speaker 13: course I didn't mention our submarines. We've got about seventy submarines,

902
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Speaker 13: either ballistic missile submarines and or fast attack submarines. So

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Speaker 13: we come in with a very viable force that you know,

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Speaker 13: we're going to be able to demonstrate not just today,

905
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Speaker 13: but we demonstrate every day.

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Speaker 4: Look no further than our.

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Speaker 13: Net effect against toothy rebels and things of that nature.

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Speaker 4: It was really a no brainer.

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Speaker 13: It was well within our swim lane of capabilities. But

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Speaker 13: a surface warfare officer in a surface warfare strike group

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Speaker 13: extends power projection presence of the United States military throughout

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Speaker 13: the world and in any theater where it may be needed. Now,

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Speaker 13: we do have concentrations such as the Straits of Hormuz,

914
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Speaker 13: the Persian Gulf, Taiwan, Straits areas like that where we're

915
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Speaker 13: always in the vicinity and we're projecting the United States

916
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Speaker 13: national interests in all these locales, not the least of

917
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Speaker 13: which really now as we're kind of looking towards the

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Speaker 13: Philippine Islands, and it's a place that I know you're

919
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Speaker 13: very familiar with, as am I, since we were there together.

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Speaker 13: But the simple point is is watching and checking the

921
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Speaker 13: Spratley Islands and any threats of aggression that might occur.

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Speaker 13: But in addition to that, a very important mission is

923
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Speaker 13: our humanitarian assistance disaster relief roles where we can come

924
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Speaker 13: in with medicine and veterinary and public works power, all

925
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Speaker 13: of that. Never spend the night, ever, bring a weapon

926
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Speaker 13: aboard wherever we're needed to go and to serve and

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Speaker 13: help others.

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Speaker 2: Admiral Hanger, for one second, By the way, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: avoid post city story sea stories today. It's a family broadcast.

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Speaker 2: But Cleo, Admiral, your theory, your theory, your theory of

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Speaker 2: the case sending our Pacific fleet sailors, uh, your theory,

932
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Speaker 2: the case that the strategic heartland of the United States

933
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Speaker 2: is actually the vast Pacific. And you talk about the

934
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Speaker 2: three island chain and manifest destiny. And we've been a

935
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Speaker 2: Pacific power since the late nineteenth century, uh, two hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety capital ships? Is that gonna is that gonna

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Speaker 2: make it?

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Speaker 6: Ma'am? Is that?

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Speaker 2: Is that what's necessary to actually fulfill the strategy that

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Speaker 2: you think is actual the naval strategy of the twenty

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Speaker 2: first century.

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Speaker 14: No, and not just that. It needs much more and

943
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Speaker 14: it needs much more complicated ships and ability to deploy.

944
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Speaker 14: And as you know, it's it's already a contested environment.

945
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Speaker 14: To get to the first, second, and third vertical island chains,

946
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Speaker 14: you need to get across the center of the Pacific

947
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Speaker 14: from Hawaii all the way to Guam, which again is

948
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Speaker 14: the United States of America. So this idea that you

949
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Speaker 14: can leave Americans hanging out there like happened during World

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Speaker 14: War Two where they're terrible predations by the Japanese on

951
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Speaker 14: Americans and Guam because they were just left there, means

952
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Speaker 14: you need to be able to get across the center

953
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Speaker 14: of the Pacific, and that takes a lot of gear,

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Speaker 14: and it also takes now a lot of digging out

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Speaker 14: of the Chinese who've already embedded with political warfare across

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Speaker 14: the whole center of the Pacific. So yes, first, second,

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Speaker 14: and third island chain, but those are the luxuries. First,

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Speaker 14: you have to get control over the center of the Pacific,

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Speaker 14: and that takes both the equipment and the political will

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Speaker 14: to dig out the Chinese political warfare that's already undermining

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Speaker 14: US power projection in the region.

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Speaker 2: Clear, hang on, We've got clear Pascal, Admiral Sunni Masso

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Speaker 2: in the Real America Voice studios and Washington d C.

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Speaker 2: We have Captain Fanel with us, and we're going to

965
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Speaker 2: bring in many many others. We're getting ready for the

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Speaker 2: naval gunfire exercise and others, total warfare, surface, submarine, air,

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Speaker 2: all of it. The Commander in Chief of the United

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Speaker 2: States will view that from the USS bush at the

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Speaker 2: center of a carrier strike group, gonna lead you with

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Speaker 2: the navy. Hem we're gonna go back to the stage,

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Speaker 2: I think as soon as Ambassador Marco Crowley takes it.

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Speaker 2: Do's anticipated also getting ready for to go to the

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Speaker 2: out to the strike group. At the Virginia Cape's short

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Speaker 2: commercial break, we'll return to Real America's Voice coverage of

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Speaker 2: Navy two fifty in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Navy two fifty sea

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