Captain Jim Fennell

It's not a kind of a bluff thing.

You have sailors that have been at sea for almost 10 months.

If they stay out there through the middle of April, through tax day, they'll have been at sea for 294 days.

And if they stay into May, they'll have been out there for almost a year.

So this is a really serious movement by the president and the secretary of war.

And these are not- Hang on.

Well, in my 29 years in the Navy, I deployed a lot of aircraft carriers, especially in the first 20 years.

And for the most part, I was in the service from 86 until 2014, 2015.

And in most of that period, they were six month deployments.

But over the last two decades, the deployment lengths have exceeded up to nine to 10 months due to the lack of maintenance and resources for our Navy, which is a whole nother topic.

that we have talked about and we could talk about.

But the fact is, something this long, it could exceed even the nine or 10, it's going to exceed the 10 month duration.

So this is something that we haven't seen since the Vietnam War, when there used to be sometimes year long deployments out to the Gulf of Tonkin, Yankee Station.

This is really serious.

This is not just some kind of slight, in my opinion.

I think something seriously is coming.

And when you combine these conventional forces that are going to be able to bring, I saw some estimates saying at least 800 tactical sorties a day, you know.

combat air sorties that could be delivered against Iran and combine that with our global reach capabilities with the US Air Force bombing capabilities like we saw last June in Operation Midnight Hammer to go after these key nuclear, whatever remains, if there's anything that remains, anything in the nuclear arena that's been reconstituted or removed in or anything that China or Russia had moved in, we're going to have absolute

I mean, we saw an absolute resolve in Venezuela, exquisite intelligence.

And so I would expect that the intelligence community that helped find and do the Operation Midnight Hammer are the same people that have been watching all the buildup in the post, you know, Midnight Hammer operations, watching everything that's going on in Iran.