Commodore

And, um, the commodore and her task force and NATO are very concerned about that.

that.On a personal level, I think it's absolutely great that it's a female naval officer that is heading up this operation.

Commodore Marilla Ingam is quite the leader, isn't she?

Yes, she is.

And, you know, I didn't really have many expectations.

But then when we got to it and we were talking about what mattered, I could tell that she was formidable and a serious operator.

Um, it, it felt to me she's completely the right person for the role.

Let's hear more from the Commodore.

And before 1917, what's interesting is King was part of a What I like to refer to is sort of a flying circus of sorts in the destroyer flotilla, which was commanded by William S. Sims as Captain Sims.

He went by Commodore in the destroyer flotilla.

And the cast of characters in the destroyer flotilla are very, very interesting as well.

So, of course, you have Sims as the Commodore, but you have Dudley Knox as his aide.

You have Pete Ellis as a Marine liaison.

You have Harold Stark as one of the captains of the destroyers.

So they were using destroyers in groups to do torpedo attacks.

I mean, the Germans applied the same tactic with submarines in 1918.

And I really spent most of my time out in the West Coast with the exception of going to the Naval War College in Newport and going to the Pentagon for three and a half years.

And at what point did you retire? Was that out of the Pentagon? So after the Pentagon, I became a Commodore and I went out to Guam and I had command of 13 ships.

And then after that, typically, you know, so in the Navy at any given time, there's about 5,000 captains, 06s.

And

out of those 5,000,

there's about 60 Commodores because it's a title if you're in command of other commandos.

Yeah, I was going to say, can you explain for the audience, because Commodore at one time was the one-star rank of the Navy, but now it's a title.

In a different interview, we had someone who had been an ensign and a lieutenant junior grade saying that he was the first lieutenant on board ship, and he had to explain that.

Here's where I buried the lead.

My sources, Naval History and Heritage Command, Oliver Hazard Perry, GrassrootsSummit.net, Christopher Raymond Perry, the father of the Commodores, ShoresAndIsland.com, Don't Give Up the Ship, The Life of Oliver Hazard Perry by Brian Shifflett, National Park Service, we all knew it was coming, The Battle of Lake Erie, War of 1812, and Open Waterpedia, Commodore Matthew Perry.

Is there more than one Commodore Perry? It's a band? Is it a boy band? It's basically, yeah,

basically the Commodore Perrys were a thing that I didn't know was going to be in my life.

It's

like the Jackson 5 of Commodores.

Yeah, yeah.

I love this so much.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm not quite sure what the distinction is between a fleet captain and a Commodore.

Well, we saw a lot of Commodores in the original series that were running space stations.

Okay.

Anyway, it's not important.