Capabilities and Incompetence in the Navy with Commander Salamander

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Big government systems and systemic incompetence has been in the news a lot this week, but how does that work in the DoD? We reach out to an anonymous source with years of experience in Big Navy and NATO to peek behind the curtain.

https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/midrats

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0:00.0	You know, government incompetence has been in the news a lot recently, and I wanted to talk to a guy
0:07.4	about how things work inside of the Department of Defense, and I think I found the perfect, perfect expert.
0:19.6	Welcome back to the T-Rex talk podcast. I have a guest here today. In the last week, if I've timed this right, in the last week we talked a little bit about why big government tends to gravitate in kind of the wrong direction. And I mentioned that I wanted to try to talk to people from, from sort of inside.
0:38.9	People have good perspective on that. People from inside the blob, national security, like that
0:44.1	kind of side of it. And today I'm very, very pleased to be talking to our guest. His name is
0:50.1	Commander Salamander. This is obviously an anonymous name. If you're watching the podcast on video,
0:55.0	you don't see his face because he must remain anonymous, but he has a fantastic podcast called Midrats,
1:00.3	and he has a fantastic substack. He has a fantastic newsletter that we'll link to in substack.
1:06.2	That'll work.
1:07.6	Commander, welcome to the show.
1:11.1	Thank you very much. I appreciate the invitation and look forward to the show. Thank you very much.
1:12.1	I appreciate the invitation and look forward to the conversation.
1:16.7	I've been listening to your podcast for a while, as we have talked about before, not quite as much recently, but I am fascinated by your perspective and the stuff that you write.
1:30.7	You're a multifaceted individual, but there's an aspect of big Navy that is interesting to me,
1:35.9	and I think it'll be interesting to the T-Rex crowd. The T-R-X crowd is very interested in Second Amendment
1:40.8	issues, light infantry stuff, squad-based stuff. And so big,
1:47.7	obviously there is big army and there is big chair force. But what is big Navy like? You
1:53.5	have certain requirements for some of the Navy vehicles that are just thousands of sailors to operate
2:00.5	some of this machinery.
2:01.6	Yeah, and that's interesting.
2:03.6	You're talking about just the scale of things is, well, first of all, big Navy.
2:08.6	It's just, like you said, it's like big army.
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