John Ʌ Konrad V
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BREAKING: US Navy will not open the Strait of Hormuz Trump gives nations who import oil from the Middle East three options: 1) Buy your oil from US and Venezuela instead 2) Secure the Strait themselves with limited US support Or 3) Wait for Hormuz to reopen naturally
John Ʌ Konrad V2,185,803 次观看 • 2 个月前
Wow. Hillary’s former running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, accused Navy Secretary Hung Cao of lying and got publicly stuffed into a locker by CNO Adm. Caudle. Cao said legacy media inflated reports of food shortages and broken toilets into fake news. Kaine called Cao a liar and suggested he was sweeping problems under the toilet mat. Then Caudle stepped in and explained that one head going down equals about 1% of roughly 6 million turd flushes — which, at sea, is not a scandal. It’s an engineering miracle. My suggestion? Let’s get Timmy a gold-plated porta-potty, strap him to it for safety, and put the thing on a roller coaster so he can experience 90 seconds of shipboard reality while he’s taking a sh!t. I don’t mean to be crude but Tim Kaine deserves it. Nothing. NOTHING. Pisses off sailors more than when they are working to keep sewage systems working and some puke in a suit and tie who’s never stood under a leaking sh!tter valve calls to give the ship a hard time. Seriously, toilet systems aboard ship were the bane of my existence as Chief Mate. I’ve been completely covered in human waste multiple times and would have traded my left nut for a 1% failure rate. The Admiral’s right. Hung Cao is telling the truth. It’s fake news and the truth is a miracle. And if I was Hung I’d give every single engineer on that ship who turned a toilet wrench on the USS Ford a medal for a job well done! BZ to Admiral Caudle for shutting this nonsense down.
John Ʌ Konrad V278,235 次观看 • 19 天前
If this doesn’t spike your blood pressure… If it doesn’t make you want to kick a door off its hinges… If you’re not on your feet right now chanting USA USA USA You’re either dead inside or Canadian. Probably both. Forget all that Navy SEAL nonsense. Go join the US MERCHANT MARINE!
John Ʌ Konrad V195,001 次观看 • 16 天前
“Today in the United States there are only 188 US flaged merchant ships and 105 Navy U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command ships. WE NEED MORE THAN THAT In fact the Chinese have over 11,000 merchant ships,” said Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao Hung Cao in today’s senate hearing. The days of the US Navy ignoring the US Merchant Marine and ocean logistics are over. “We need them to thrive as a nation,” He also provided clarity on U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command hulls ordered in foreign yards and said he will require that those overseas yards invest in the United States which will create 540,000 shipyard jobs for Americans.
John Ʌ Konrad V181,939 次观看 • 19 天前
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This is America SharrellAnne, we believe in long shots and eternal grace. Please join me in prayer... Heavenly Father, we thank you for the life and service of Alan Shaw. May he rest in your peace and may those who loved him find comfort and strength. We entrust him to your mercy and ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
John Ʌ Konrad V112,570 次观看 • 13 天前
NO WONDER WE ARE GOING BROKE. The Constitution once banned income taxes. The government built revenue cutters to enforce trade instead. Now 🇨🇳 shippers lie on customs forms with ZERO accountability. Open season on the American taxpayer. I am absolutely fed up with fraud.
John Ʌ Konrad V84,026 次观看 • 11 天前
“Unprepared for drones,” Meet Admiral Cooper, THE guy running the Iran war Former CO of the Navy’s 1st Drone & AI Task Force. Commander of Red Sea ops where drones attacked 170 soft targets. How do I know? Because I WATCHED HIM SAY IT ON 60 minutes 2y ago you bafoons 👇👇
John Ʌ Konrad V562,027 次观看 • 2 个月前
Driving home from Thanksgiving, I was listening to this with my son & had to pull the car over. It hit that hard. Jocko Willink said that being prior enlisted meant he learned to “speak E-5.” Then he became an officer and had to learn to “speak officer.” Later, as an admiral’s aide, he learned to “speak GOFO.” He became trilingual. That’s his unfair advantage. It hit me: that’s the single greatest factor behind every success I’ve had in my life. Early in my career I learned this the hard way. The hardest way possible. My father was dying. My grades at USNA weren’t great but above the line. My roommate, a young Black mid with a 0.8 GPA, got summoned to the Admiral. His congressman had prepped him taught him exactly what to say, how to frame his struggle, how to speak “FOGO” He walked out with an emergency summer tutoring plan. A week later it was my turn. The Chaplain told the Superintendent about my dad & he wanted a meeting. “Family is most important,” he said. “Go home and be with him.” I got angry. I told him the best thing for my dad’s health was me graduating. He didn’t budge. I thought he didn’t care. I didn’t understand the language he was speaking. Years later I learned Adm Larson was quietly pushing certain groups out & keeping others in. But I’ve never blamed him or DEI or anything but my inability to speak flag officer. I took ownership. The truth was simple: coming from an enlisted family, I could barely speak ‘officer,’ never mind ‘admiral.’ I got a Presidential nomination & didn’t have a congressman to teach me the FO dialect. Bill Clinton sure as hell wasn’t calling to coach me. So I left for Maritime College, with a much lower reputation but a higher attrition rate & more difficult course load. In the Merchant Marine my career exploded. Captain. Youngest Distinguished Alumnus. Guinness World Records. Bestselling book. Built the most visited maritime website in the world. Now I’m worth millions and have a life I couldn’t have imagined, a beautiful family, my work makes an impact on the maritime world. I’m blessed but I still think about that horrible day in the Admirals office every day (which is why my haters always bring it up). I motivates me. My secret? I became a student of languages. All of them Most captains avoid the engine room I practically lived in it. Learned how engineers think & talk. Earned favors. I sat in union halls just to absorb how unions talk. Spent nights in drilling shacks offshore listening to that culture. Took ships with international crews Moved to Silicon Valley to embed myself with early Facebook employees. Embedded with NYT and NPR reporters—NOT enjoyable— because I wanted to learn the language of the people who shape narratives. More recently, I’ve been in DC learning how the top civilian leaders talk. And now my son is studying aeronautics and space. My advice to him is simple: Join the rocket club. Join the startup club. Sit in on nuclear engineering classes. Hang out at the ATC simulator. You don’t have to be the top 1% in any of these fields. You need to speak just enough of their language to call one of the top 1% and make them want to help you. That’s the real secret Communication is a perishable skill. I write long posts and editorials every day because I never want to stand in front of a GOFO again and lose an opportunity to simply be understood. So here’s the lesson: Be at least trilingual. Learn the enlisted language. Learn the officer language. Learn the executive language. Don’t get trapped inside your comfort zone. People say, “I’ll never be CEO. I’m not ruthless or connected enough.” Fine. You don’t need the job. You just need to be able to stop the CEO as the elevator doors close & explain, clearly in HIS language, why your idea matters. You do that by volunteering to serve coffee in the board room. That’s it. That’s all you need. And Jocko’s right the SECNAV does notice. His office called me Tuesday to “discuss” my frigate post 😜
John Ʌ Konrad V991,207 次观看 • 6 个月前
HOLY CRAP, IT GETS BETTER The top admiral in the entire navy Office of the Chief of Naval Operations ordered a sh!tter watch. 24/7. He ordered a man to stand inside the head with a flashlight and clipboard to make sure sailors do not to flush jizz rags. I’m dead. DED. OMG. THIS IS THE BEST ADMIRAL EVER. And I can almost guarantee the watch is being stood by the perpetrators. I can’t even explain how great it is to get top cover for stopping jizz rag toilet bandits. It sounds like a small thing. But he just won forever loyalty from every single sailor who has ever taken apart a vacuum toilet system. SIR. WE SALUTE YOU.
John Ʌ Konrad V96,485 次观看 • 19 天前