It's a Midrats April Free for All!!
best hour ashore
It's a maritime and natsec free for all on Midrats!
No fixed topic, open chat room and open studio line for those who are joining us live Sunday at 5pm Eastern.
From some rather strange comments in congressional briefing rooms to recruiting woes at home, to some rather interesting riverine amphibious operations in the Dnipro River in Ukraine, what it takes to fire a Russian Navy fleet commander, and whatever other topics come across the transom - a full hour of maritime excellence!
Join us live if you can, but it not, you can get the show later by subscribing to the podcast. If you use iTunes, you can add Midrats to your podcast list simply by clicking the iTunes button at the main showpage - or you can just click here. You can find us on almost all your most popular podcast aggregators as well.
NGFS...?
NGFS...!
We don't need no steenking NGFS!!!!!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_F._Adams-class_destroyer_under_fire_by_North_Vietnamese_shore_batteries,_circa_in_1967.jpg
" On 18 December 1967, while operating off the coast of North Vietnam, the ship was straddled by 300 rounds of counter battery fire and received superficial shrapnel damage."
(source for the quip above...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTtXfThAss
Congrats to Eagle One getting his Substack out of cold layup and back underway!