Midrats December Melee!!!
catch up with Sal and EagleOne
With Thanksgiving behind us and another month of the Holiday Season to go, it's time to catch up on the goings on at the waterfront with a special guest calling in who we decided to hijack and keep for the rest of the show - returning listener favorite Mark Vandroff.
We spent most of our time discussing the latest issues with the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea by the Houthi rebels.
You can listen here or at the below.
Point to Ponder #2 ...
Relating to the other ship making the news in the Red Sea and environs, the Hudner.
Tomorrow, Dec. 4 is the 73rd anniversary of Thomas Hudner's epic story of standing by his Shipmate Jessie L Brown.
Of course the DEI Apparatchiks can't showcase the sotry because it goes against their fiction of 'Repression' in the USN.
These swamp cretins are responsible for this senseless travesty and waste causing enduring harm to the USN.
BZ to Capt. Hudner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKHh9vnzyUo
Point to Ponder...
Its a bit ironic that its the Carney which is shouldering a good share of the most sustained series of naval engagements since late WWII and Korea, in what can be called the, "Red Sea Campaign"...
It was Admiral Carney, who as a Cdr in 1939, who was tasked to assist the Norwegians in their then still low burn, and not much in the spotlight fight against the Germans in what would be called now a Littoral Battle.
And after that, he was tasked with establishing the integrated Surface Air Force to protect shipping in the Atlantic during the Neutrality Patrol era...
One can say, that the Carney is out there today reprising the role of Cdr. Carney's force then.
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-c/carney-robert-b.html
" Ashore, he served in the Navy Department in the Division of Fleet Training and in the Shore Establishment Division of the Secretary of the Navy's office.
While in the last-named duty, he assisted in the general coordination of the Navy's small craft program, which included the design, construction, and operation of types built especially for military use (motor torpedo boats and submarine chasers), and the mobilizing of privately owned craft and their operators for use in the plan for defense. During this tour of duty, he also served as Naval Aide to His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Norway, during the latter's visit to the United States 27 June - 6 July 1939.
In February 1941, Admiral (then Commander) Carney was recalled from duty in the Pacific Fleet to assist in organizing, equipping, and training of a special Surface-Air Force, having as its mission the protection of shipping against submarine and air attack. This force became fully involved in convoy escort prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/139-CTF24/CTF24-1.html
"Acting Chief of Staff, Commander Carney, remarked in notes on a trip to Washington, "The Hemisphere Defense Plan is in effect. Under this plan the Support Force remains in readiness to support the operations of other Task Groups, continuing intensive training in the meantime as at present."21 Also, about the middle of the month Denfeld wrote the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and, based on the supposition that the advanced bases would be formed should the national emergency intensify, he deemed it advisable to set up officer complements for them as early as possible..."