Fabulous interview. This is Mooch at his best. Let the Admiral answer the questions. Let the expert shine, and shine he does. But Mooch is the guy creating the tone and tempo of the interview. Anyone listening to this has to be in awe of the capability and competence of the United States Navy. Two experts on display. Makes me proud to be an American.
Must take much selflessness, and more, to switch the path from "rockstar" to "shooter". I believe this shows true commitment to Navy and love for country! That, and someone saw great leadership potential - clearly a good call. Overall another great interview Mooch! Thanks guys! 👍
Example of a good leader here. Not afraid to work hard, Appropriately acknowledges the teams, and personnel that made it happen. Not full of himself... I can see why his subordinates are willing to work so hard to make his vision reality.
Oh Man! 8 month tours. That sucks. I did a 3 year operational deployment with the British Army but every 3 months they let us play with parachutes, scuba diving kit and drinking in warm places to refresh. 8 months solid on a boat has to be tough.
Amazing, when I reported aboard CV-67, Nimitz CVN-68 was the newest in the fleet. Now 67 is headed to the breaking yard and they are planning to take 68 out of service. Sucks getting old, but hulls like bodies wear out. Thanks for the continuing great content.
Going to the breaker yard with no replacement. And meanwhile the Chinese are building ships faster than we are chemically castrating our sons in the name of wokeness. Won't be long now...
VF-41, AT-1 (WC-640 AIMD ECM Shop) on the Iranian rescue fiasco cruise. Spent 32 days in transit to be choppered to the Nimitz flight deck in the Indian Ocean. I was pulled out early of my AV-C training in Millington TN and ordered to the Nimitz to assist in the assembly and testing of five Sanders Associates ECM pods required to protect the rescue choppers from falling victim to US manufactured SAM radar/missile launch systems we had sold Iran previously which were located on the southern Iranian coast. The "pods" were designed to be used to simulate ECM activity against our own SAM systems instead of Russian or Chinese systems and were loaded on F-14s for practice. The F-14s were never launched from the Nimitz by presidential order at the last minute and well, you can imagine what really happened as the helos as they crossed the coast. History indicates a different scenario but what's new about that. BTW Over 5000 Nimitz sailors know the real story.
What an incredible series of interviews, the access in unparalleled. It blows my mind that I can go onto RUclips and listen to a US Navy admiral talking about his carriers. Keep up the great work Ward.
Ward it was a great pleasure to meet you at NTU airshow. I got there early and when I found your booth there was already a line of people to meet you. So I stood to the side and talked with your charming wife. Finally decided I better get in line as it wasn't getting any smaller. While I was in line I watched as you greeted everyone with a smile, hand shake and attentively listen to each person and let them take as much time as they wanted with you. After talking with you I found some shade beside your car so I camped out there as the airshow started. Your wife was so kind to offer me one of your booth chairs that wasn't being used to sit on. As the day went on I watch for 5 hours as hundreds of people came to meet and talk with you. It was so apparent that you enjoy meeting your subscribers and value our comments and suggestions. I hope the future you will work on producing a Naval Air Maintenance video. Respectfully SKY
The Admiral strikes me as an amazing individual, whose depth of knowledge gained by first hand practical experience will command respect from those he leads. Great interview!
Amazing that a Captain was fired for trying to help his crew. I hope we never see decisions like that again, or have a commander in chief who would agree to such decisions. Thank you for another top notch interview, Ward. Take care.
One great interview after another. I spent 9 years in the submarine force and know nothing of Naval aviation. This channel is filling in that void and I find it very interesting.
I was at that airshow! I had no idea this interview was going on. It was an amazing day, with 100,000 people attending. Thanks, Mooch I will always look forward to your show.
I didn't expect to hear the old-time Fram commercial referenced here. "Pay me now or pay me later." Cool. Wonderful chat. I usually ask hosts to not add music to their dialogue tracks, and I know you don't do that, but hearing the planes flying around was a neat experience. Plane noise is not annoying like background music over a dialogue track. Looking forward to the next chat.
Greetings from Colorado, Mooch. Great episode. You are now, in my mind, the ranking 'splainer in naval operations for those of us at home. Thanks for your great work.
As a former Tin Can sailor ('75-81) out of Mayport we ran with the Forestall and Sara. I tip my hat to Airedales. Don't know how you do it; living on a huge ship, not knowing all your shipmates, the noise and constant commotion. Used to watch flights ops from afar. Amazing work. Bravo Zulu guys. FTM2, USS Tattnall (DDG-19)
Had the experience of being greeted on the AOCS Quarterdeck by then Offier Candidate Verissimo when checking into AOCS back in 1987. Always glad to see how V-8 has risen through the ranks as one of the Good Guys, with his next stop here in San Diego as the next Air Boss. FLY NAVY!
Love these episodes! As a civilian i am proud to have such a badass inteligent military protecting us and our world. The split screen with the air show is extra cool❤
HEY, ' RADM Doug Verissimo ' used to be our AIR, V1 Division Officer & AIR Dept. Officer as a Lieutenant back when I was onboard USS John C. Stennis, CVN-74, during the 2000 Cruise & was the #7 pilot of the Blue Angels before that ... T'was an honor to meet him. I was an undesignated airman turned ABH3 at that time & left for shore duty summer 2001 🇺🇲⚓🇺🇸
Thank you for doing that job in the Nuclear reactor area. 😊 Got the pleasure of going to USS Nevada (SSBN-733) in drydock at Banger 😊 then me and my son got to do the Dive in Hood Canal when the USS Alabama (SSBN-731) came back from their Sea duty's 😊 this was prior to 9-11 😊
@@rp1645 Thank you for the note. You've been on as many subs as I have. A month after I got out of the Navy the brand new USS Houston (688 class sub) visited the city of Houston and I took family and friends on a tour and even ran into an old shipmate. When I reported aboard my sub and found out we were going to be in the shipyard for two years for refueling, I couldn't believe it. The early subs were refueled less than ten years after they were launched. My boat's original reactor core was from Westinghouse and when we refueled we got an improved design, long-lasting GE core. The Los Angeles class subs started getting long-life cores at construction in the mid-80s. These are the 688-i (improved) subs that go thirty years without refueling.
@@benjaminperez7328 The reactor controls LPO got out, completed the degree he had been working on when he drew a low draft number (draft exemptions for college students were discontinued in December 1971) and within a few years he had his own nuclear consulting company. Oh, he was submarine sailor of the year Atlantic fleet for the year. I remember the CO awarded him the cheesiest plaster of paris ship's plaque. Some time later a delegation of congressional interns toured the boat and they all got a plaque with the same design but made of walnut and brass. I bought one of those plaques off one of them for $10.
Thanks for the interview, Mooch. The Navy really is a global force for good. I agree with Rear Admiral Verissimo’s thoughts on deterrence. It makes me think of the aim 54 Pheonix and I see it as a success. No US Navy F14 crew ever fired one because they didn’t have to fire one…the Tomcat gave our adversaries a fair warning. The f14 really was the defender of the fleet.
Ward.... What a great recruiting resource your channel is. I can see a lot of our young "best and brightest" being inspired by seeing what a great group you guys are and wanting to be apart of it.
Ward, I’m a black shoe surface warfare guy whose knowledge base is 50 years out of date, but listening to you and the admiral discuss CAG track versus carrier track while throwing around ship initials and jargon with aerobatics buzzing put me right to sleep so thanks! 😊
Mooch at some point could you address a 15 carrier fleet in a specific stand alone content program? I believe that just like in the 20s the idea of a carrier had to be sold to the public and your program could help in that endeavor as to why we need 15.
Ward. Love that aggressor FA18 super hornet behind you with the USSR or Communist Chinese Polluted Bureau livery. That aircraft out of NAS Fallon, Nevada? Mahalo shipmates.
The US needs to be able to deploy 3 carriers to a given combat area for 3-6 months while still having 2 carriers in the Atlantic, Med, Pacific. The US needs 16 full deck carriers.
@@pogo1140 You are dreaming..... we can't support that. We can't afford it. We can't manage it. We can't escort them. We can't have that many air wings.
@glennmitchell9107 combined the US Allies can cover the Med. The US NATO alliance allows the members to specialize. The US specialty is aircraft carriers. The rest build frigates (the US's last usable Frigate was the Oliver Hazard Perry), ASW ships and coastal patrol ships.
@@pogo1140 aircraft carriers are dinosaurs. They can only beat up on countries with no navy, except for the houties the US Navy fight in the last war, World War II it suffers from bad leadership, bad equipment, bad ideas they need to be reformed top to bottom
Having been a Carrier Air Wing Sailor in the early 70's, 11 months on the Midway 72-73 and two nine months cruses on Kitty Hawk 73-75 eight months max doesn't seem so bad. As a A6 Plane Captain working 16 plus hour days at sea on the flight deck the ops tempo for my four year enlistment was brutal.
I was aboard the USS Franklin D Rooservelt CVA42 in the early 60’s (Vietnam Nam years) & we did 9 to 10 month Med. Cruises with only a few months in between. Six months would have been a dream back in those days.
Great interview Mooch. Always love to see you rubbing elbows with great Flag Officers. Will you be attending the Blue Angels Homecoming airshow in Pensacola come November?
A great interview for sure concerning the carrier fleet. Of course, in the back of my mind, I am thinking logistics and how we are doing there. We lost an oiler which is crucial for a carrier task force. While an Army moves on it's stomach the Navy moves with it's oiler. Logistics isn't pretty but oh do you ever need them whether T-AO or T-AKE.
Ward you did a lot of great shows on Carrier operations can you explain the flight operations of the little carriers. The amphibious ships and their air crews. Are the CO of those ship also Navy aviators
I led development of the Army's Deployment Policy for Operations Other Than War in 2000. We studied the deployment policies of every Service and discovered that 179 days was optimal because it enabled seamless Reserve Component mobilization and deployment with the active force, promoted better equipment, personnel and training readiness, and reduced stress on families. Post 9/11 we went to 9 months boots on the ground. While some will disagree with me, that's partly how we wound up in the current recruitment shortfall paradigm and lost a massive chunk of precious mid-career talent - not to mention the insanity of the COVID immunization and DEI policies that drove tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to cut ties with us. Bad policies have extraordinary negative impacts on operational readiness. It takes honest leaders with brains and guts to hold things together under such conditions. Those below us, who follow the difficult orders we issue, deserve our undivided trust good judgment, and loyalty. When we achieve that, they will drive on for much longer periods than we prefer.
A carrier sailor from the 60s here. We were doing nine months standard with CVs on both coasts rotating. Just a reminder. Today's CVs are bigger, faster, and more complex. I take my hat off to you!
As always great stuff Commander Carroll! I have full faith in my Brothers and Sisters in the US Navy, and all Branches... My fear is in our elected Officials tying the hands of Warfighters. The Admiral spoke of "Deterrence". I don't believe we (with Operation Prosperity Guardian) and European Allies (with whatever their operation is called) have achieved any deterrence when it comes to Iran, or their proxy fighters from Yemen, the houthi. Using remote controlled planes (calling them drones is a bit of a stretch) and home made rockets these cavemen have managed to essentially shut down 1/3rd of the worlds shipping. They have only escalated their attacks. I don't say this to take anything away from the amazing work the crews did over the past year in the Red Sea. Record setting achievements in shooting down untold rockets, "drones", and other precision strikes all over the region. Protecting Israel during the Iranian rocket barrages. Our young men and women are amazing.
Rockstar → Shooter → Admiral ⇔ That must have an interesting story behind that! Fun that it was brought up but what was actually said didn’t explain it. 🤔
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Fabulous interview. This is Mooch at his best. Let the Admiral answer the questions. Let the expert shine, and shine he does. But Mooch is the guy creating the tone and tempo of the interview. Anyone listening to this has to be in awe of the capability and competence of the United States Navy. Two experts on display. Makes me proud to be an American.
I agree completely. Except it makes me proud to be a Canadian :)
Absolutely.
@@roderickcampbell2105 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Great episodes Ward. More people need to know about what it takes to keep America safe.
Not starting wars with everyone all the time is what I would suggest.
Must take much selflessness, and more, to switch the path from "rockstar" to "shooter". I believe this shows true commitment to Navy and love for country! That, and someone saw great leadership potential - clearly a good call. Overall another great interview Mooch! Thanks guys! 👍
Example of a good leader here. Not afraid to work hard, Appropriately acknowledges the teams, and personnel that made it happen. Not full of himself... I can see why his subordinates are willing to work so hard to make his vision reality.
Oh Man! 8 month tours. That sucks. I did a 3 year operational deployment with the British Army but every 3 months they let us play with parachutes, scuba diving kit and drinking in warm places to refresh. 8 months solid on a boat has to be tough.
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During World War II, my Uncle Mac (Dad's brother) landed in North Africa in November 1942, and finally came home in October 1945, nearly three years.
Amazing, when I reported aboard CV-67, Nimitz CVN-68 was the newest in the fleet. Now 67 is headed to the breaking yard and they are planning to take 68 out of service. Sucks getting old, but hulls like bodies wear out. Thanks for the continuing great content.
Going to the breaker yard with no replacement. And meanwhile the Chinese are building ships faster than we are chemically castrating our sons in the name of wokeness.
Won't be long now...
I was a submariner, the 688's were the newest, now they are half decommed, watching history and tech retire hurts
VF-41, AT-1 (WC-640 AIMD ECM Shop) on the Iranian rescue fiasco cruise. Spent 32 days in transit to be choppered to the Nimitz flight deck in the Indian Ocean. I was pulled out early of my AV-C training in Millington TN and ordered to the Nimitz to assist in the assembly and testing of five Sanders Associates ECM pods required to protect the rescue choppers from falling victim to US manufactured SAM radar/missile launch systems we had sold Iran previously which were located on the southern Iranian coast. The "pods" were designed to be used to simulate ECM activity against our own SAM systems instead of Russian or Chinese systems and were loaded on F-14s for practice.
The F-14s were never launched from the Nimitz by presidential order at the last minute and well, you can imagine what really happened as the helos as they crossed the coast.
History indicates a different scenario but what's new about that.
BTW
Over 5000 Nimitz sailors know the real story.
8-9 months is also rough on retention. Recruiters need to be honest from the start that 6 months out aren’t the norm anymore.
Yep, admiral filibustered on that one.
@@andrewdrednaught
Recruiters are always honest and straightforward. Always have been.
these kids also need to do their own research the information is out there.
@@stevenalvarado-doc7334especially now adays.
Mooch is a fantastic interviewer and host. Love how he lets the guests flow without interference.
What an incredible series of interviews, the access in unparalleled. It blows my mind that I can go onto RUclips and listen to a US Navy admiral talking about his carriers. Keep up the great work Ward.
Ward it was a great pleasure to meet you at NTU airshow. I got there early and when I found your booth there was already a line of people to meet you. So I stood to the side and talked with your charming wife. Finally decided I better get in line as it wasn't getting any smaller. While I was in line I watched as you greeted everyone with a smile, hand shake and attentively listen to each person and let them take as much time as they wanted with you. After talking with you I found some shade beside your car so I camped out there as the airshow started. Your wife was so kind to offer me one of your booth chairs that wasn't being used to sit on. As the day went on I watch for 5 hours as hundreds of people came to meet and talk with you. It was so apparent that you enjoy meeting your subscribers and value our comments and suggestions. I hope the future you will work on producing a Naval Air Maintenance video. Respectfully SKY
The Admiral strikes me as an amazing individual, whose depth of knowledge gained by first hand practical experience will command respect from those he leads. Great interview!
Very interesting interview. Helpful definitions for those who don't speak initials
Acronyms
Ward, the Flag officers you have had on your channel appear outstanding, and I hope they are indicative of the majority.
Amazing that a Captain was fired for trying to help his crew. I hope we never see decisions like that again, or have a commander in chief who would agree to such decisions.
Thank you for another top notch interview, Ward. Take care.
One great interview after another. I spent 9 years in the submarine force and know nothing of Naval aviation. This channel is filling in that void and I find it very interesting.
I was at that airshow! I had no idea this interview was going on. It was an amazing day, with 100,000 people attending. Thanks, Mooch I will always look forward to your show.
I didn't expect to hear the old-time Fram commercial referenced here. "Pay me now or pay me later." Cool.
Wonderful chat.
I usually ask hosts to not add music to their dialogue tracks, and I know you don't do that, but hearing the planes flying around was a neat experience. Plane noise is not annoying like background music over a dialogue track. Looking forward to the next chat.
Great conversation! My son's first deployment was on the Truman (CVN-75). We had the opportunity to tour the Truman in Norfolk. Quite the ship!
Greetings from Colorado, Mooch. Great episode. You are now, in my mind, the ranking 'splainer in naval operations for those of us at home. Thanks for your great work.
Thanks, Ward.
As a former Tin Can sailor ('75-81) out of Mayport we ran with the Forestall and Sara. I tip my hat to Airedales. Don't know how you do it; living on a huge ship, not knowing all your shipmates, the noise and constant commotion. Used to watch flights ops from afar. Amazing work. Bravo Zulu guys. FTM2, USS Tattnall (DDG-19)
Talk about the straight skinny, thank you so much, Ward.
love the flight views as they boom past your studio. brilliant!!
Hats off to Mrs. Carroll for a great camera job as usual. This one might have been tougher than the rest. Ward, you sure got a prize when you got her.
Had the experience of being greeted on the AOCS Quarterdeck by then Offier Candidate Verissimo when checking into AOCS back in 1987. Always glad to see how V-8 has risen through the ranks as one of the Good Guys, with his next stop here in San Diego as the next Air Boss. FLY NAVY!
I was ship's force aboard IKE 91-96. Time in the shipyard was more challenging than being at sea.
Love your Navy focused Content Ward. Keep stuff like this coming. Awesome work and interesting topics Sir. Go Navy. Fly Navy…
Love the channel. Only place I go for navy news. Straight to the source
From Canada, thank you Admiral Verissimo.
Another great interview! Thank you both for an enlightening session!
Love these episodes! As a civilian i am proud to have such a badass inteligent military protecting us and our world. The split screen with the air show is extra cool❤
Very interesting discussion about carrier situation rotation!
Too cool! The influence of this is immeasurable.
I was there the f22 Was awesome inspiring
Outstanding interview. Thank you Ward
HEY,
' RADM Doug Verissimo '
used to be our AIR, V1 Division Officer & AIR Dept. Officer as a Lieutenant back when I was onboard USS John C. Stennis, CVN-74, during the 2000 Cruise & was the #7 pilot of the Blue Angels before that ...
T'was an honor to meet him.
I was an undesignated airman turned ABH3 at that time
& left for shore duty summer 2001
🇺🇲⚓🇺🇸
7.5 months standard cruise. Oiffffff!!!!!!! That’s rough on any soul.
Great interview! Thank goodness we have folks like him willing to serve!
Learn something new every video, thanks.
The reactor controls LPO, an E6, ran my sub's reactor refueling in 79 and 80.
Thank you for doing that job in the Nuclear reactor area. 😊 Got the pleasure of going to USS Nevada (SSBN-733) in drydock at Banger 😊 then me and my son got to do the Dive in Hood Canal when the USS Alabama (SSBN-731) came back from their Sea duty's 😊 this was prior to 9-11 😊
@@rp1645 Thank you for the note. You've been on as many subs as I have. A month after I got out of the Navy the brand new USS Houston (688 class sub) visited the city of Houston and I took family and friends on a tour and even ran into an old shipmate.
When I reported aboard my sub and found out we were going to be in the shipyard for two years for refueling, I couldn't believe it. The early subs were refueled less than ten years after they were launched. My boat's original reactor core was from Westinghouse and when we refueled we got an improved design, long-lasting GE core. The Los Angeles class subs started getting long-life cores at construction in the mid-80s. These are the 688-i (improved) subs that go thirty years without refueling.
Did he ever make Chief? 😉
@@benjaminperez7328 The reactor controls LPO got out, completed the degree he had been working on when he drew a low draft number (draft exemptions for college students were discontinued in December 1971) and within a few years he had his own nuclear consulting company.
Oh, he was submarine sailor of the year Atlantic fleet for the year. I remember the CO awarded him the cheesiest plaster of paris ship's plaque. Some time later a delegation of congressional interns toured the boat and they all got a plaque with the same design but made of walnut and brass. I bought one of those plaques off one of them for $10.
Thanks for the interview, Mooch. The Navy really is a global force for good. I agree with Rear Admiral Verissimo’s thoughts on deterrence. It makes me think of the aim 54 Pheonix and I see it as a success. No US Navy F14 crew ever fired one because they didn’t have to fire one…the Tomcat gave our adversaries a fair warning. The f14 really was the defender of the fleet.
I think it’s easy to take this for granted. Thanks for showing some of what’s behind it.
Good to hear his optimism. Thank you for sharing this interview Ward. 🇺🇸
Mooch, this interview was fantastic. Keep it up dude! Thank you for what you do!
Ward.... What a great recruiting resource your channel is. I can see a lot of our young "best and brightest" being inspired by seeing what a great group you guys are and wanting to be apart of it.
Awesome interview! Thank You
Great interview lots of info to learn. Great time at the air show and Oceana. Thanks Ward.👍❤️
Great interview/info. Thanks for sharing!
Great interview! Love the split screen.
I love the background music (aircraft).
Thanks for these informative interviews. As an army SF guy, the Navy has always been a mystery.
The Rear Admiral, a salute and move out smartly kind of guy…like him!
Great interview! And I love that you included the airshow footage. If I hear a plane, I have to look. 😂
Thank you for showing how the Navy shines.
Ward, I’m a black shoe surface warfare guy whose knowledge base is 50 years out of date, but listening to you and the admiral discuss CAG track versus carrier track while throwing around ship initials and jargon with aerobatics buzzing put me right to sleep so thanks! 😊
Um, you’re welcome?
@@WardCarroll I appreciate your sense of humor, Ward.
Great interview a lot of good information GO NAVY🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mooch at some point could you address a 15 carrier fleet in a specific stand alone content program? I believe that just like in the 20s the idea of a carrier had to be sold to the public and your program could help in that endeavor as to why we need 15.
Good interview, V8!
Great interview, great channel. Always interesting for this old AF/4024 to hear you Navy guys talk about how they take care of biz.
The style or episode is your absolute best. Thank you and the armed forces very much!
Ward. Love that aggressor FA18 super hornet behind you with the USSR or Communist Chinese Polluted Bureau livery. That aircraft out of NAS Fallon, Nevada? Mahalo shipmates.
No. VFC-12 at Oceana.
Glad to find your comment. It was bugging me too. Chinese Air Force (PLAAF) roundel on the vertical stab - very visible over Mooch’s left shoulder.
Good episode Ward!
The US needs to be able to deploy 3 carriers to a given combat area for 3-6 months while still having 2 carriers in the Atlantic, Med, Pacific.
The US needs 16 full deck carriers.
@@pogo1140 You are dreaming..... we can't support that. We can't afford it. We can't manage it. We can't escort them. We can't have that many air wings.
Are our allies able to carry any of that load? What are their carriers doing if not helping out with rotational deployments?
What about those wondrous littoral combat ships ? Oops that all went to the scrapper
@glennmitchell9107 combined the US Allies can cover the Med. The US NATO alliance allows the members to specialize. The US specialty is aircraft carriers. The rest build frigates (the US's last usable Frigate was the Oliver Hazard Perry), ASW ships and coastal patrol ships.
@@pogo1140 aircraft carriers are dinosaurs. They can only beat up on countries with no navy, except for the houties the US Navy fight in the last war, World War II it suffers from bad leadership, bad equipment, bad ideas they need to be reformed top to bottom
Great interview.
Having been a Carrier Air Wing Sailor in the early 70's, 11 months on the Midway 72-73 and two nine months cruses on Kitty Hawk 73-75 eight months max doesn't seem so bad. As a A6 Plane Captain working 16 plus hour days at sea on the flight deck the ops tempo for my four year enlistment was brutal.
USN 1972 - 1981 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) & USS Nimitz (CVN-68) VF-84 & VF-41 AT-1 ECM Technician NAMD Oceana Instructor on ALQ-100/126 ALR 45/50
I was aboard the USS Franklin D Rooservelt CVA42 in the early 60’s (Vietnam Nam years) & we did 9 to 10 month Med. Cruises with only a few months in between. Six months would have been a dream back in those days.
Speaking of,
USS John C. Stennis, CVN-74,
Last I knew t'was at dry dock
reactor overhaul at
Newport News Shipyard, VA
Commander, you are always the best!!!!!
Thank you Ward🇺🇸 and Rear Admiral Doug🇺🇸.....
Old Shoe🇺🇸
I've always been curious, what makes the continuous white smoke? Thank you sirs for your service. I was USAF 1972-1974.
Look at that Chemistry ... God Bless America 🙂 M7HBN
Thanks for posting 😊
Glad too see they have our back
Thank you! Keep em coming!
Thanks again for bringing us this awesome content
Thanks for the support!
I caught your not so Freudian slip with VF-84 and VFA-103. Good show. Bravo Zulu
Excellent overview!
As one would expect, the admiral is well spoken and is on point. Man, I wish that I could vote for him for President. Well done, to you both, Sirs.
Super interesting information and awesome video 🇦🇺
Great content!
It's official, V8 is my favorite Carrier Boss. (So there!)
Great interview Mooch. Always love to see you rubbing elbows with great Flag Officers. Will you be attending the Blue Angels Homecoming airshow in Pensacola come November?
No. May be down there a few months after that. Stay tuned.
A great interview for sure concerning the carrier fleet. Of course, in the back of my mind, I am thinking logistics and how we are doing there. We lost an oiler which is crucial for a carrier task force. While an Army moves on it's stomach the Navy moves with it's oiler. Logistics isn't pretty but oh do you ever need them whether T-AO or T-AKE.
Ward you did a lot of great shows on Carrier operations can you explain the flight operations of the little carriers. The amphibious ships and their air crews. Are the CO of those ship also Navy aviators
good answer
You are a Chad Ward! Love all the inside scoop!
What about the oiler situation?
Towed to Oman for repair.
The new ones are defective there trying to repair them more junk , the U S taxpayers are the biggest suckers on earth😢
@@Mikell-h2c Troll alert
One can sleep better at nights knowing that we have people like that looking out for the rest of us!
Thank you for the pax Americania guys.
Keeping maintenance on schedule and having the contractors complete on time is beyond NAVSEA
outstanding!
“The world is rather tumultuous right now…”. Truer words never spoken. I miss 2016-2020.
I led development of the Army's Deployment Policy for Operations Other Than War in 2000. We studied the deployment policies of every Service and discovered that 179 days was optimal because it enabled seamless Reserve Component mobilization and deployment with the active force, promoted better equipment, personnel and training readiness, and reduced stress on families. Post 9/11 we went to 9 months boots on the ground. While some will disagree with me, that's partly how we wound up in the current recruitment shortfall paradigm and lost a massive chunk of precious mid-career talent - not to mention the insanity of the COVID immunization and DEI policies that drove tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to cut ties with us. Bad policies have extraordinary negative impacts on operational readiness. It takes honest leaders with brains and guts to hold things together under such conditions. Those below us, who follow the difficult orders we issue, deserve our undivided trust good judgment, and loyalty. When we achieve that, they will drive on for much longer periods than we prefer.
A question I have, is how good is their damage control, to keep these ships from becoming reefs...
Love the War Party representing!!
A carrier sailor from the 60s here. We were doing nine months standard with CVs on both coasts rotating. Just a reminder. Today's CVs are bigger, faster, and more complex. I take my hat off to you!
While on a 7.5 month tour how often do they come into port so crew can rest?
Varies by deployment and optempo.
As always great stuff Commander Carroll!
I have full faith in my Brothers and Sisters in the US Navy, and all Branches... My fear is in our elected Officials tying the hands of Warfighters. The Admiral spoke of "Deterrence". I don't believe we (with Operation Prosperity Guardian) and European Allies (with whatever their operation is called) have achieved any deterrence when it comes to Iran, or their proxy fighters from Yemen, the houthi. Using remote controlled planes (calling them drones is a bit of a stretch) and home made rockets these cavemen have managed to essentially shut down 1/3rd of the worlds shipping. They have only escalated their attacks.
I don't say this to take anything away from the amazing work the crews did over the past year in the Red Sea. Record setting achievements in shooting down untold rockets, "drones", and other precision strikes all over the region. Protecting Israel during the Iranian rocket barrages. Our young men and women are amazing.
Rockstar → Shooter → Admiral ⇔ That must have an interesting story behind that! Fun that it was brought up but what was actually said didn’t explain it. 🤔
hey, Ward, how about some west coast.