Ryan was once a friend. He’s been out sailing on my boat. I helped him sketch the initial pivot to writing about the Stoics. Sadly, this isn’t his most shocking video. That distinction belongs to the ones featuring his kids at Trump rallies. He’s a smart guy and a deep thinker,
Major win for 🇺🇸 Bill is a former submarine captain turned banker and advisor. He was instrumental in preventing Subic Bay shipyard from falling into the hands of China. A patriot Razor smart Genuinely good guy. Oh yes… and he’s a devout Christian
BREAKING: New Trump Class Battleship drawings have dropped. Early reports indicate that Hung Chao has upgraded the bow mounted cannons.
Ok, I’ll bite. Why are all the old people in my town protesting Trump this time?
TL;DR: “Bunkers” just means ship fuel. “Bunker C” is a specific, nasty heavy fuel oil that now requires exhaust cleanup and special conditions. Activists conflate the two to make modern ships sound dirtier than they are.
And yes every part of this post is abbreviated and important context was left out From the history to the fuel grades. I have a word count I need to hold. Twitter is not the place to learn context but hopefully this post encourages a few people to go read actual books on these
This is fantastic @SteveHiltonx. It is absolutely insane that Gavin shut down refineries and made California dependent on Iraqi oil. BUT please do not fall into the liberal “Bunker fuel is nasty” talking point. Historically, sailors slept in bunks and kept their belongings in
The motto of the US Merchant Marine is Acta Non Verba. Actions Not Words. We run the largest moving structures on Earth. Big, dirty ships that move oil, machinery, and coal. Biden personally pushed through the first female service academy cadets. Did he put them at the Naval
John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain… The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings. I doubt
Can’t hide that I was critical of Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. I blasted him this morning. I also can’t pretend I’m not excited for @HungCao_VA to take his place. That said, Phelan was a fantastic first year SECNAV. He did not shy away from hard decisions. He killed the
Called Hormuz before anyone What did I get for it? Rage, podcast cancellations, hit pieces.. anger. No matter. I’m not here for approval. I’m here to tell the truth, push real reform, and fight for a better nation under god. And IDGAF if they cancel me… I’ve got options 👇
Absolutely everyone is getting Hormuz wrong and over a year into this administration the SHIPs for 🇺🇸 Act is far from passing. Should I retardmaxx some ocean? The real problem behind Hormuz, U.S. shipbuilding delays, and the Royal Navy not being able to deploy even one
This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy? Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every
BREAKING: US Navy will not open the Strait of Hormuz Trump gives nations who import oil from the Middle East three options: 1) Buy your oil from US and Venezuela instead 2) Secure the Strait themselves with limited US support Or 3) Wait for Hormuz to reopen naturally
Trump said we need Greenland because we can’t trust NATO to let us use it in a war. He said we need a battleship 100x more powerful to keep straits open. Europe laughed. Trump was right.
Ya know. I get all the Merchant Marine hate. I understand why they get so angry at us. Call is a fake service. Tell us we don’t know anything and are glorified bus drivers. I get it because all that time people like @infantrydort were getting shot at, friends bleeding out,
Getting a Pentagon press pass has been nothing but a hassle. Late night drives home on the NJ Turnpike, hotel costs, and the old press corps trashed the offices before leaving. Now we might have to work in a tent!?? Worth every second. It’s been the honor of a lifetime to
For year the NYTimes has written hit pieces on the “ballooning cost” of Navy warships. It was a smoke screen to coverup fraud by making people think the defense budget was the cause of the debt. The truth: A $3B DDG pales in comparison to the value of the cargo it can protect.
Let's unpack this.. What if the White House has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz? What if this war is really about ships & tariffs? I had a long discussion with senior DOE official yesterday on background. I can’t share any details but it’s clear everyone’s
Not gonna sugar coat this and do not care if it costs me my new Pentagon press credentials and access to this administration. The left smeared my name in a major WAPO hit piece and the right can do the same. I’m a captain, I can live alone in the ocean. 👉 The Strait of Homuz
Nobody can say I didn’t literally pound the table and yell at a room full of admirals at the world’s top Navy conference. They were so angry they launched an NCIS investigation into me. All after I won an award in Bahrain for exposing the exact same problem… in 2016❗️
We had a good thing, Britain. A really good thing. You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks. The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You
If you aren’t following gCaptain please proceed directly to a physiologist office to get your head examined…
How big of a deal is a Medal of Honor? The tradition is for everyone in this photo to salute CW5 Slover when he walks by. That’s how respected it is.
Wow, just wow The most absolutely bonkers and TDS infused podcast on national security I have heard ever I am so absolutely fed up with the war on the rocks crowd that I cannot even begin to explain it This episode literally ends with zach claiming that the Trump class
Here it is folks. The moment my 100k followers have been waiting for…. “We can not rebuild our industrial base without the US Merchant Marine. They are critically important,” @PeteHegseth, Secretary of War 🫡
BREAKING: A security company run by a Navy SEAL and EOD was fired from a BAE Systems shipyard after refusing to use untested EV patrol boats to guard U.S. warships. The replacement? A mall cop company. Their electric boat sank two days ago. They pulled it out. It smoked all
Last night there was an active shooter at my son’s school. He was trapped in a library bathroom. Seventeen kids in the building with the gunman. My phone lit up and the world shrank to the size of that screen. Nobody knew what to do. I did. I told him they need a leader.
My review of Trump's new Maritime Action Plan to restore American Maritime dominance. 👇
“Women are our biggest strategic advantage” False You have three broken diesel subs, zero destroyers, tiny “icebreakers” and more generals than working tanks. Being next door to the United States is your only strategic advantage.
I can’t share the details on how @michaelgwaltz & @SecRubio have, in just a few days, organized the greatest opposition to UN policy since the Cold War and blocked this UN Carbon Tax. I can say it was a knife fight to the end. “I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and I’ve
Yesterday, for the first time, I turned my back on a liberal neighbor and walked away. For Charlie. I get asked daily by conservatives how I can possibly live in the most liberal town of the most liberal state. Truth is, I’ve always been fascinated by how they think. I usually
EIGHTY BILLION THATS ENOUGH CASH TO BUILD 5 NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
If you think Trump was the angry one, you’ve clearly never met a Cuban American and experienced this stare.
Look, I get it, Dems. You think nuking USAID is dumb. You think handing government computers to Big Balls is dumb. You think blaming the plane crash on DEI is dumb. You think JD’s speech in Europe is dumb. Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. Whatever. But that’s not
I opened my NYTimes app today. They’re trying, but they can’t keep up. News that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage. THIS IS CRUCIAL The entire liberal deep state command and control system is broken. Let me explain 🧵
I live in a very liberal, very wealthy Massachusetts town, and several times a year I find myself needing to explain to friends how all the fancy Main Street businesses stay open Spoiler: it’s not from selling organic hand woven wool mittens
Once in Paris I decided I was going to blow every frequent flier mile I had to take the Concorde home Ticket agent said “this is crazy, you’re going to regret this someday” so I decided against it. 20 years later I can say walking away was the wrong choice
This is the Russian Flagship #Moskva before she sank. It's impossible to fully assess the situation aboard based on one picture but marine salvage masters must make assumptions based on little information. As a ship captain and ship fire author here's what appears to be likely🧵
