Introduction to the Silent Service with Admiral Thomas Fargo

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the first episode of Season 2 and transition into the war year of 1943, Seth and Bill welcome retired Admiral Thomas Fargo, an esteemed submariner, to introduce the topic of the US Navy's Silent Service. The trio goes over the overall strategy and effectiveness of the submarine force, prepping the podcast for deeper dives (pun intended) in this new season.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:24.1	My name is Seth Parrott and historian and deputy director here at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:29.5	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy captain Bill Toadie,
0:33.8	former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, USS Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this morning, Bill? I'm doing great and very excited about our special guest today, Seth. Absolutely. And as Bill alluded to, aside from our, aside from Bill and I, we have a special guest today. And I will hand this off to Captain Tody to introduce our guest and our topic for today.
0:55.7	Bill, take it away. Well, thank you, Seth. Seth and I are very happy today to have a special guest at
1:00.4	retired Admiral Thomas Fargo. Now, I work for Admiral Fargo twice in my career, once on Navy staff
1:06.7	in N81, and the second time when I was aurring Cometre in Hawaii, and he was commander
1:12.7	of the United States Pacific Command, so all joint forces in the Pacific, now called Indo-Pacom,
1:19.4	but then called Paycom.
1:21.6	Here's a picture we're going to show for those you watching on the video of me and Admiral Fargo
1:27.3	when we were both a little younger while
1:29.6	we were still both on active duty in Hawaii. Admiral Fargo was a 1970 graduate of Annapolis, so he
1:36.6	graduated nine years before I did, and he is a very distinguished submariner commanding USS Salt Lake
1:43.7	City. Now, if you ever saw the movie
1:45.5	Hunt for Red October, in fact, you see a poster of it behind him as he's sitting here today.
1:52.7	The Scott Glenn character, who was the commanding officer of USS Dallas, was actually
1:57.5	modeled after then, Commander Fargo. Now, as a flag officer, Admiral Fargo commanded
2:04.0	Submarine Group 7 in Yokoska, Japan, Commander Task Force 7-4, Commander Task Force 157 in the
2:11.7	Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, he commanded the United States Fifth Fleet. And if that wasn't enough,
2:20.3	naval forces a central command during two years of the Iraqi contingency operation from July 96 to
2:28.4	July 98. And then he served, as I said, as the 29th Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet
2:36.6	from October 1999 in May 2002. Was that right, Admiral, did I get it wrong? It was a Pack Fleet
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