S8 Ep189: From Naval Academy to Acting Secretary: Colleague Thomas Modly discusses his memoir Vectors, detailing his journey from the Naval Academy class of 1983 to becoming an aviator and Pentagon official, reflecting on his family's immigrant history, working und
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:34.9 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.4 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:40.8 | It is Thanksgiving time, 1979. |
| 0:44.9 | The class of 1983 at Annapolis is gathered to cheer on Navy over Army. |
| 0:51.0 | I welcome a member of the class of 83, remembering that cold November day. Thomas |
| 0:57.7 | Maudley, his new book about his time in the Navy, both as a midshipman, serving aviator, |
| 1:06.0 | and later an official at the DoD is entitled Vectors, Heroes, Villains, and Heartbreak on the Bridge of the U.S. Navy. |
| 1:15.3 | Tom, you were a young man in 1979. |
| 1:19.0 | Can you remember that game? |
| 1:20.4 | What was it like to be a member of all those wonderful young people? |
| 1:25.2 | Well, thank you, John, for having me on to talk about the book and to talk about my |
| 1:28.6 | experiences. Seventy-nine was very memorable for me. I had grown up in Cleveland, Ohio, |
| 1:35.5 | and decided to go to the Naval Academy at that particular point in our nation's history. It wasn't |
| 1:40.9 | one of the most popular things to be doing. We were still in somewhat of a |
| 1:44.3 | Vietnam hangover to some extent in certain parts of the country. And so it was very honored to be |
| 1:52.3 | selected to go there and always look forward to attending that First Army Navy game. When we get |
| 1:57.9 | there as plebes, that first plebe summer, they teach us four important |
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