Andy Lowery

The two towers get hit.

We get the order to go as fast as that aircraft carrier can possibly go to get off the coast of Los Angeles.

Meantime, they're scrambling Marines out of Miramar with Sidewinder missiles on F-18s and flying them out.

We had no steam in the catapults.

I had to get steam to the catapults.

I had to heat everything up really, really quickly.

I had to get everything military sort of like precision.

The transformation of my sailors, I have never witnessed before or after anything like it.

Like when we got hit, every person, every lady, every sailor snapped into a new, like a superhuman, running around, knowing every one of their procedures, knowing exactly how to move.

And within a few hours, we're flying basically escorts of every jumbo jet coming in from overseas that hadn't landed yet in LAX.

We're escorting every single one of them down.

Now, the same thing happens with the United States in almost every battle that I've ever seen.

We are, culturally speaking, underdogs.

We are, culturally speaking, the team that, when gets socked in the head, goes crazy and just responds.

And I saw that with the sailors back there on the Stennis.

I saw that when we did the MRAPs, when we had the IED problem in 2008.

And that was an incredible, like, almost Oppenheimer thing that people don't know about, that the Army ASALT right now, Brent Ingraham, led that whole thing like a modern-day Oppenheimer.

He went from, in 2008, where they were spending, like, $160 million on armored vehicles and such to billions

in just a year.

In one year, they changed that whole face of that dynamic of the IEDs hurting our soldiers.