Mark Montgomery
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397 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Aug
Mark Montgomery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And in fact, on our very first convoy op, the Bridgeton merchant ship hit a mine because we weren't ready.
And then we said, okay, okay, sorry about that.
Three weeks from now, let's go.
And everybody went with us.
I mean, in government, somebody said sorry about that.
But the point was that they listened to us, that we set the risk, the risk tolerance.
That's not the case today.
Today, risk tolerance is set by the merchant ship owners and the insurers.
and they're not willing to take the risks that we are.
And then the second part is what you said.
Even if they did, even if we had a deal and they did, they would back off the minute we began to reduce our assets in theater.
And this is not something we can do for 18 or 24 months with the current force structure we have, the Navy Air and the Naval Aviation, which is Air and Navy, and then the Air Defenders, which is Army.
This will break those branches of those services if we have to do this for 18 months.
We did it before in 2014, 2015, and it broke those services.
Yeah, exactly right.
I think they'll show up to enforce a peacetime agreement.
But the minute it goes kinetic again, I'm not sure we can rely on them.
So we'd have to have the merchant readers would insist that our Navy come back and do it again.
And I have to be honest, part of the not spending money on defense that happened in Europe over 30 years, the service that's punished the most of the Navy because it's high, it's expensive, high end purchases that have to be maintained.
So the truth is the French have a tiny bit of a Navy.
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