Captain Fennell

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642 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 12 Apr

Captain Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's not very useful.
I need operational intelligence.
And within four months, they were breaking 30% of JN25, which gave us a victory at Midway because we knew they were going to Midway for certain.
So this is the real issue for today, is that we have a rising Chinese Navy.
It's risen.
It's here.
It's operating.
A carrier is outside the first island chain right now.
An expeditionary strike group is outside the first island chain.
They're surrounding Taiwan on a daily basis.
They're going after Japan and not just the Senkakus.
Now they're talking about taking the Ryukyu Islands and saying that that's Japanese sovereign territory.
They already do that in the entirety of the South China Sea.
And we have people in Washington DC that still tell us that they're really not a threat.
The Quincy Institute, people like that are pushing this out on a daily basis.
And we have to be very worried about that we haven't prepared ourselves like we did in 1940 when Senator Carl Vinson put through the Two Ocean Navy Act that said we will have the fleet that we need to be able to fight Japan.
That hasn't been done yet.
And we just canceled a frigate, the Constellation class, and yesterday the SECNAF said we're going to come out with a new domestically designed frigate.
We have been in a crisis inside our nation and our Navy
when it comes to being prepared for war at sea against an adversary that has built a Navy to beat us in a war at sea.
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