We Answer More of Your Questions, With Drinks and Jon Parshall-Episode 431

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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This week Seth, Bill and third amigo Jon Parshall are again joined by US Army retired Major Shawn Bergstrom as the guys wade through more of your questions, this time with drinks in hand. Less of a Q&A and more of a bull session, this episode, and next week's were extremely fun. We hope you like it too.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 431 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:20.0	My name is Seth Perid and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
0:24.4	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy captain Bill Toadie,
0:27.9	former skipper of the Fast Tech submarine USS Indianapolis,
0:31.2	common order of submarine squadron to Newport Harbor and many others.
0:33.7	How are you this five days before Christmas, Bill?
0:38.4	Doing well, Seth. I'm just about ready for that. Indeed. Indeed. And if you're watching,
0:44.4	you can clearly tell that the third member of our crew is with us. Fantastic historian and good
0:48.4	buddy John Partial. John, how are you these five days before Christmas? I am well, yes, and hopefully we'll make it to Christmas, and there might even be something under the tree.
0:58.5	Who knows?
0:59.1	I mean, there you go.
1:00.9	That's what we can all hope for anyway.
1:03.5	And the fourth member of our crew is with us today as well, and I'm going to reintroduce him for the last time, because I'm getting tired of saying the same thing over and over again.
1:12.0	He's with us for our Q&A sessions, and he'll be with us for CBI.
1:15.7	My good buddy, Sean Bergstrom, Sean is a retired United States Army major, where in his military career, he served as a cavalry officer with over a decade of service with stops in the first Cav,
1:26.5	7th Cav Squadron U.S. Armor School, a deployment in the sandbox with the 153rd Cavs squadron
1:31.4	before finishing his career as a military science instructor at FSU.
1:35.9	How are you, my brother?
1:38.3	Raid Rock. I'm excited.
1:40.9	We're doing a marathon today.
1:43.6	I'm pretty pumped up and uh, pumped up and ready to rock and roll. So, uh,
1:50.9	cheers, gentlemen. Cheers. We, we should, maybe we should, you know, before we get in, we should, uh,
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