CEO Notes Hero Aug24

CEO Notes

August 2024
Updates from our CEO on upcoming events, new releases from the press, and our Sponsored Student Program.
The USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) sails with unmanned surface vessels in the Arabian Gulf. Rather than decommissioning the littoral combat ships, the Navy should install the lethality and survivability upgrades that have been proposed.

Get on with the LCS Upgrades

By Captain Pete Pagano, U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 2024
Rather than discarding the littoral combat ships, the Navy should install the lethality and survivability upgrades that have been proposed for the class.
An MH-60T Jayhawk on the runway in Great Inagua, Bahamas. The Coast Guard plans to grow its fleet of MH-60Ts from 48 to 127, but the first phase of that growth is expected to include just 36 aircraft.

Make Jayhawks from Pave Hawks

By Captain Dave Cooper, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired); and Lieutenant Colonel Jesse Fritz and Colonels Andrew J. Wineberger and Neil M. Theisen, New York Air National Guard
August 2024
Converting 21 retiring Air National Guard HH-60Gs would provide needed capability.
Retired Marine Major General Leo V. WIlliams III with JROTC students. In 1970, Williams became the first Black Naval Academy graduate from Virginia. Nominated by a congressman from Detroit after his application was rejected by Virginia’s congressional delegation, he told NPR Senator John Stennis was responsible for holding back a generation of Black leaders.

The Tragedy of the Lost Generation

By Captain John P. Cordle and Lieutenant Commander Reuben Keith Green, U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 2024
Renaming the John C. Stennis is both prudent and necessary. Ultimately, it is not about changing history but learning from it and acting on what we have learned.
Retired professional boxer and Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey (left) gives an added punch when he referees a boxing match on the deck of a Coast Guard-manned troop transport headed for Europe during World War II.

From Our Archive

August 2024
Retired professional boxer and Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey gives an added punch when he referees a boxing match on the deck of a Coast Guard-manned troop transport.
The USS John D. Ford (DD-228). Writing about the 1942 battle in the Makassar Strait, then-Lieutenant William Mack wrote of the men and four ships of Destroyer Division 59: “We weren’t much, but we were full of fight.’”

Four-Stackers at Java

By A. Denis Clift
August 2024
Future Vice Admiral William P. Mack recalls the action from on board the John D. Ford in excerpts from his Naval Institute oral history.
USCGC Icarus

Asked & Answered

August 2024
What was the most significant Coast Guard wartime action or mission, or that of its predecessors (the Revenue Cutter Service or Revenue-Marine), and why?
Captain Aaron Rybar, Commander, Training Air Wing - 2, addresses the crowd during a commemorative ceremony onboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville, July 2024. For 2023, CNATRA produced at 102 percent on average across all pipelines. Currently, all pipelines remain “on glideslope” to achieve the elevated target.

How to Rebalance Naval Aviation Training

By Rear Admiral Richard Brophy and Lieutenant Max Chomic, U.S. Navy 
August 2024
Naval Aviation Training Command has shortened the pilot backlog, is on target to eliminate it, and is now producing the optimum number of pilots each year
A U.S. Marine with maritime raid force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit posts security during a visit, board, search, and seizure exercise aboard the USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in February 2023. Force selection, interception tactics, and the correct employment of maritime geography are critical elements of a blockade’s conduct.

Employing Blockades in the 2026 Scenario

By Lieutenant Commander Matthew Conners, U.S. Navy
August 2024
The imposition of a blockade in the 2026 scenario is key to the accomplishment of Allied strategic goals in the face of initial People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) victories. However ...
Aviation Cadets at the Navy's balloon school, Moffett Field, California, send a message to their base by way of homing pigeon in 1943. The next fight will not be won by the smartest bombs and the most cutting-edge technology. The side that will win is the side that knows how to adapt to the environment. 

Knife-Fighting Distance

By Captain Chase T. Ogden, U.S. Marine Corps
August 2024
In a future fight against China in the western Pacific, cutting-edge technology will not win the day. A fictional story demonstrates that the future is the past.
The presence of a major course of study in finance and accounting would promote the fundamental understanding of financial competencies within the Brigade of Midshipmen that otherwise go without standardization and are subject to popular interpretations. Enhancing the financial education of naval leaders is the first step to improving the financial wellbeing of service members throughout the Navy and Marine Corps.

The Financial Education Deficit in Naval Training

By Lieutenant Commander Nicholas Sougiannis, U.S. Navy, Edward Powley, Captain Karah Jaeb, U.S. Marine Corps, Lieutenant Greg Mcknight, U.S. Navy, and Captain Harrison Rosenbaum, U.S. Marine Corps
August 2024
The U.S. Naval Academy should reintroduce formal financial education.

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