Captain Jim Fennell

We just saw General Flynn's brother was interviewed on Epic Times in the last two weeks

And he actually said, I mean, I don't know him personally.

I know General Flynn, respect him, high lace, his brother as well.

But he actually said, we got to quit looking at the Western Pacific as a blue theater.

It needs to be looked at as in kind of an army centric way.

And we need to have the army there leading on this.

Respectfully, that's not right and it's not true.

The fight that the Chinese have been building, the military they've been building, is a military to defeat our navy.

We need to have a navy that can punch back against that and make sure that our western and eastern shores of the west coast of America and the Atlantic, because the Chinese are pushing into the Atlantic,

are not under assault from the Chinese Navy.

And if we don't do something now, they will be like the Soviets were in the late 80s when they were having boomers sitting off our coast.

Well, the shipyards have to be acquired.

So we need more shipyards, one.

Two, building ships the way we built ships after the 1942 Ocean Navy Act, where you had Rosie the Riveter and welders and all these manual humans in the loop, those days can be transformed with artificial intelligence and robotics.

And so one of the things that our shipbuilding industry is behind on lagging

the rest of the world, except for in specialty areas, like you said, in nuclear submarine production, where there's still a lot of humans involved, is we don't use that kind of latest technology.

And so we need to get

the Silicon Valley arena into this arena of shipbuilding and bring them together to speed up that process so that we can have concurrent modular building in different locations and then have these things assembled by robots and other things that can automate it.

So there's a lot of work

uh to be done there i know that newport new shipyard has been working towards that over the last 10 years they've been in in looking at it but it needs to go into hyperdrive now and so i think this is one of the challenges it's it's not going to be easy uh but you know the first step on a journey or is always the first step so we need to get going uh we have the presidents put the you know put the guide on out there and we need to follow that and and start marching towards it or sailing towards it