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My friend and colleague where I'm retired, Mark Montgomery, is the Senior Director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and directs CSC 2.0, which implements the recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium, where he served as Executive Director.

He previously led policy for the Senate Armed Service Committee and spent 32 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral in 2017.

Major Megan Hainline is an officer in the United States Air Force, the Chief of Air Superiority Programs at the Secretary of the Air Force International Affairs Weapons Division, and I'm proud to say a visiting military analyst here at FDD.

She has more than 10 years experience as an F-16 pilot, accumulating 290 combat hours.

Welcome aboard.

This is Greg Trotwine with Maritime Matters, the Marine Link podcast, and we are thrilled to have here today Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet to take a deep dive into his recently released book, Holding Fast in Heavy Seas, Leadership for Turbulent Times.

Rear Admiral Gallaudet served for 32 years and then was appointed to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, during turbulent times of the first Trump administration.

Rear Admiral Gallaudet found himself caught up in Sharpie Gate incident and other frustrated events that caused him to wonder if remaining in office was worth the effort.

But his decision to hold fast and lead with empathy and humility kept NOAA on an even keel, despite the often stormy environment.

So, Tim, just to start, a sincere thank you for your time and welcome to Maritime Matters.

Also scattered amongst the transports were 4,500 men.

And escorting this convoy were eight destroyers and one AA destroyer, led by Rear Admiral Takama, commander of the Destroyer Squadron 4.

As had become the norm, with another enemy convoy coming their way, elements of the Cactus Air Force would be sent up to intercept.

Instead, this happened.

That they were well west of the Matanical River, actually two and a half miles from Cocombona, meant that the American guns could not reach them.

But that's not all.

Besides shelling the airstrip, besides the two air attacks that day, besides the fast convoy bringing even more muscle to be pitted against the Americans, there was also two battleships escorted by nine destroyers, led by Rear Admiral Takeo, which sought on his own to shell the American position even more.

When darkness came, so too did Japanese aircraft.

We have no biological evidence, not even a photograph.

And then somewhere along the way, we have Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet's support for Grusch's character and credibility.

So the distinction between saying Grusch is honest, which Rear Admiral, Admiral Tim Gallaudet seems to have done, and proving that Grusch is saying anything truthful, really that, th- those, those aren't the same things.

I hate to break it to you.

So it's just the reality, but what's interesting is what does that give this whole proceeding? It gives it an admiral's endorsement.

The best place to get it is at therenegadefiles.com, and I'll see you in there.

So this leads us to these new disclosure personalities.

Who are the people that are gonna be applying this seven-step disclosure loop in the future? Well, we know Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, his national security framing of UAPs.

Mr. Canby claimed that he had heard his grandmother tell the story when he was a boy 11 years old, and that three of Mrs. Ross's daughters, then living in 1870, and a niece, age 95, confirmed his statements.

In the picture I've referred to, Mrs. Ross is represented as having a completed Stars and Stripes in her lap, although at the time of the visit of the committee to her according to mr camby's statement the flag had not even been designed or manufactured the best and most complete history of the flag of the u s of america was written by Rear Admiral George H. Preble, U.S. Navy.

The first edition was published in 1872 and the second revised edition in 1880.

Rear Admiral Preble gives Mr. Canby's story about Mrs. Ross in full and he considers it probable that Mrs. Ross did manufacture or have manufactured at different time flags of the united states of various designs his conclusion however is that it will probably never be known who designed our union of stars the records of congress being silent on the subject and there being no mention or suggestion of it in any of the voluminous correspondence or diaries of the time public or private which have ever been published In 1878, a ridiculous pamphlet was published entitled, The History of the First United States Flag and the Patriotism of Betsy Ross, the Immortal Heroine that Originated the First Flag of the Union, Dedicated to the Ladies of the United States by Colonel J. Franklin Reigart.

This was published at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In Reigart's book, the claim is made that Mrs. Ross originated our flag.

Play bold, win big.

The Pentagon's UFO office invited a retired Navy Rear Admiral in for

a friendly chat.

But then we started talking about UAP and I asked him about Chris Mellon's critique of the historical records report.

And he told me that Chris Mellon was full of shit.

It was an influence operation.

They picked the wrong Rear Admiral.

And I sat with Tim Phillips for a while.

Two of those national security officials join us tonight.

Retired Rear Admiral Deborah Loewer was the director of the White House Situation Room, and she was traveling with the president on September the 11th.

And Rob Hargis was the senior duty officer in the White House Situation Room that morning.

Thanks very much, both of you, for coming in on this solemn anniversary.

His health, which had been seriously impaired by his incessant exertions and exposures in the Gulf, compelled that energetic officer to decline this appointment.

It was then given to Rear Admiral D.D. Porter, who had greatly distinguished himself by his zeal and ability in command of the Mississippi Squadron.

A fleet of naval vessels, says Mr.

Wells, surpassing in numbers and equipments any which had assembled during the war, was collected with dispatch at Hampton Roads.

General Grant promised an expeditionary force of over 6,000 men.

It was the wish of the President and the War Department that General Gilmore should have command of these troops, but that brave and capable officer had fallen under General Grant's displeasure, and he had substituted General Godfrey Whitesell.

Being informed of the plan proposed, Weitzel went down to New Inlet in the last days of September, and with the assistance of Rear Admiral S.P. Lee, made a thorough reconnaissance of the place.

He found Fort Fisher a most formidable work.