Ray Mabus
Former United States Secretary of the NavyWikipedia
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Oct 19, 2026
Neil PuckettGUEST
How does that happen? How can that possibly be justice for the people of Haditha?
Michael EpsteinHOST
Three months after Frank's trial ended, the Secretary of the Navy, former Republican governor of Mississippi, Ray Mabus, involuntarily discharged Humberto Mendoza and Sonic Dela Cruz from the Marine Corps for lying to investigators.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Mabus wrote that Mendoza and Dela Cruz's false statements to the NCIS were, quote, inconsistent with the core values of the Department of the Navy.
Michael EpsteinHOST
Neither Mendoza nor Delacruz responded to my request for an interview.
Chuck ToddHOST
We know that the better the most successful Southern Democratic politicians are.
Chuck ToddHOST
have been populist in their sort of core, Bill Clinton being a big one to that, frankly, Ray Mabus in Mississippi.
Chuck ToddHOST
And they made that, they didn't lose sign of that.
Chuck ToddHOST
They didn't lose track of that.
Larry MorrisseyHOST
That's great.
Larry MorrisseyHOST
Another thing I didn't wanna forget about, and this was something that, um, kinda came up when I was working here at the Arts Commission maybe 10, almost 15 years ago, was the, um, kind of the, um, that, uh, crafts project, kind of the group of craftsmen who, who made pieces for the governor's mansion when, uh, Ray Mabus was governor back in the late 1980s.
Fletcher CoxGUEST
Well, that was the same idea as Philip Martin had with the baskets.
Fletcher CoxGUEST
Ray wanted to demonstrate that we had a group of people in Mississippi who were perfectly capable of the most delicate production work that you could imagine.
Neil McCabeCORRESPONDENT
sirYeah, absolutely.
Neil McCabeCORRESPONDENT
And one of the problems that the, uh, Trump administration is facing is that the Biden administration had this policy under Ray Mabus, who was probably the worst Navy Secretary on record, and it was called, it was called Divest to Invest, and the idea is we're gonna cancel all these programs, we're going to decommission all of these submarines, cruisers, and other ships, and then that will free up the money so we can build the new Navy.
Neil McCabeCORRESPONDENT
And the ter- the problem is the Biden administration never got around to really building that new Navy, and so now the Trump administration is playing catch-up, and you have, you have aging submarines and you have threats all over the world that need to be addressed, and so this is a very important part of expanding that military industrial complex that we're all concerned about, right? But this is very important.
Neil McCabeCORRESPONDENT
We have to start building these submarines and these cruisers and these destroyers, and this is an important first step.
Neil McCabeGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Neil McCabeGUEST
And one of the problems that the, uh, Trump administration is facing is that the Biden administration had this policy under Ray Mabus, who was probably the worst Navy secretary on record, and it was called, it was called Divest to Invest.
Neil McCabeGUEST
And the idea is we're gonna cancel all these programs, we're going to- Decommission all of these submarines, cruisers, and other ships, and then that will free up the money so we can build the new Navy.
Neil McCabeGUEST
And the ter- the problem is the Biden administration never got around to really building that new Navy, and so now the Trump administration is playing catch-up, and you have, you have aging submarines, and you have threats all over the world that need to be addressed.