that team is the united states navy. that's the team i hope to get on and if you make it, bill, you'll be right in that with bob and ollie, tony, pedro and lee and joe all of them fighting together. now, that's the kind of teamwork that i'd like to make, the backbone, my new column. that is an idea. let's call it. the navy team. bill made the navy team. right. i got the column started right after that day at the game. material came from many sources, but bill johnson was and still is my best correspondent. i want him to see things through eyes. i wanted the column to be a sort of case history of actually happened to bill it. his first letter came shortly after he arrived in boot camp. he found that it wasn't easy when they take all your clothes away, everything but your toothbrush and ship them home and push you along in an assembly line and you for everything under the sun. it wasn't easy for bill or for the thousands before him. a lot of thousands of all races and creeds who will come after. and this isn't easy either.

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corps is now banning all evictions of the confederate battle flag at all. marine installation united states navy plans, the fans, confederate flags from public spaces just from every mississippi public universities lobbied lawmakers to remove the state person to the governor. deborah hosen is changing his tune, calling for the legislature to vote on the flag. now the seems like it's coming to a head with this potential, but to me it's marty funny that an event that happened, you know, 1037 miles away from jackson, mississippi is impacting mississippi with an overwhelming road of 85 to 35 with the law makers voted in favor of efforts to change their state flying the call to sort of the lives of black mississippians and this moment lead to an unexpected turn. there is a major change to one of the options that could be an alternative to mississippi's current state blacks, florida students, a designer of what has been known as the students. flags is stepping away from the project in a continued effort to be of service. i'll be stepping away from this endeavor, as i understand the hurt and potential

war is a poorly studied field, and there may be unexpected, very serious consequences for the united states navy, but if one or... ships are sunk, which is quite possible, the resonance will be colossal, the damage to reputation will be colossal, the damage to the ability to export their weapons will be very great, so the americans are walking on very thin ice, trying to have on one side, on a high or on a the tension was at its highest, there was going to be a war any minute. and so on, so that they would buy weapons, the arabs are rich, but on the other hand, so that they themselves would not get involved in military action, although in principle they did get involved. about a fifth more than usual of their own ships, they already have large bases there, however, what is it worth, well, just in case, of course, they now have additional weapons, but they have no great desire to personally get involved, oleg lepovich, well, and the final question, probably i will ask, without which it is absolutely impossible to do, there is a lot of talk about the risk of a major war in the middle east, experts

united states of america. he took a one third pay cut to join the office of price administrator. and once the japanese attacked on pearl harbor, he decided, join the navy. now, nixon was originally stationed in ottumwa, iowa, in the united states. i, too, was in the navy, and i happened to go to law school, iowa. and i can tell you, in my reasoned opinion, i don't think you can get farther away the ocean than to be in a tunnel. iowa. and richard nixon must have agreed because he insisted on seeking a transfer to sea duty somewhere or at a base closer to the action. so he received orders to the heart of the south pacific, where the united states troops, the armed forces of the imperial japanese from island to bloody island. and once he was there, he didn't stay the rear. he asked to be sent into combat. he explained reasoning. he said, well battle areas are very dangerous and potentially. the boredom of serving in the rear. when your friends, former colleagues are in battle areas is worse. let me tell you. no u.s. president has been a member of the united states marine corps. yet richard nixon is the only united states president who served with the mari

. >> at a time of significant tension in the middle east the united states navy has a significant presenceere. is it a strong enough deterrent as iran considers attacking israel? >> the usa be is certainly the strongest navy, the most powerful navy in the world. building a navy that out rivals us that is large or than ours, but we are still an incredibly important deterrent. not just our navy ships it is other navy assets that these regimes know full well we have in the region as well. it is one piece of deterrent. the war with the uzis has not stopped. we have with a weekly basis them shooting sophisticated drones and ballistic missiles at navy strips. we are emptying our tea lamps from our storage facilities in order to hit back to protect u.s. navy ships. the u.s. navy is seeing in the sitcom theater more action. our ships are seeing more action today in the middle east and the u.s. navy has seen since world war ii. we have to understand the scale and precedents of what is happening to our u.s. navy and the middle east right now. >> trying to figure out what vice president harris polici

then the highest rank available in the united states navy. there were no admirals prior to civil war in 1860. as everyone here knows, abraham lincoln was elected president, led to the secession crisis. and at that time, captain farragut was living in norfolk virginia not only because now as then, norfolk was a great navy town, but also because he had married norfolk woman. his first wife susan had died 20 years before in 1840, his second wife was, not only a virginian by birth and by residents, she was even named virginia. so here is a man born in tennessee raised in lewes, living in virginia, married to a southern whose family owned slaves. it was a moment reveals exactly who was when he learned in april of 1861 that the state of virginia voted to secede from the union after the clash at fort sumter and lincoln's call for volunteers was, farragut announced he, would not live in a disloyal state for one more hour. he went straight, told his wife his that he was leaving immediately. he gave her what amounted to an ultimatum, telling her this a

that's why the united states navy posted two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region including a missile laden submarine, you know, they were preparing for the worst. they had upped their deterrence sort of to keep the iranians from attacking israel. this might be the last word but as with all things in the middle east we have not heard who could happen next. but right now, it looks as though this entire region can kind of breathe a sigh of relief. >> nbc's matt bradley. thank you very much. we will again come back to you if any developments within this hour. >>> let's shift back home now. folks, there are just 72 days until the first presidential election since donald trump attempted to subvert american democracy in 2020. trump has repeatedly shown his willingness to do it again potentially with more reinforcements and even republicans pointed that out at the democratic national convention. >> i realize trump was a direct threat to democracy. and his actions disqualified him from ever, ever, ever stepping foot into the oval office against. -- again. >> joining us now are matthew

i spent about 25 years in the united states navy, 15 years -- [applause] >> 15 years of that at nasa. i never really expected to be here in the united states senate. it wasn't really my thing, politics. it was my wife, gabby giffords' thing. [applause] >> and sometimes i think to myself, if i was the person who would have been injured, would gabby have become an astronaut? now, she says yes. but i found myself here during a rather, i'd say interesting time in our country's history. a lot has happened over the last three and a half years while i was running for office. we had the pandemic. response by the trump administration put us in a bad situation. fortunately, joe biden got elected president and got us back on track. with the added leadership of kamala harris. [applause] >> and we got a lot accomplished during those -- the last three and a half years from the american people thanks to her leadership and the leadership of joe biden on so many different issues. bringing down the costs of prescription drugs, especially for seniors, $2,000 a month now-- or $2,000 a year for out of poc

i spent about 25 years in the united states navy, 15 years -- [applause] >> 15 years of that at nasa. i never really expected to be here in the united states senate. it wasn't really my thing, politics. it was my wife, gabby giffords' thing. [applause] >> and sometimes i think to myself, if i was the person who would have been injured, would gabby have become an astronaut? now, she says yes. but i found myself here during a rather, i'd say interesting time in our country's history. a lot has happened over the last three and a half years while i was running for office. we had the pandemic. response by the trump administration put us in a bad situation. fortunately, joe biden got elected president and got us back on track. with the added leadership of kamala harris. [applause] >> and we got a lot accomplished during those -- the last three and a half years from the american people thanks to her leadership and the leadership of joe biden on so many different issues. bringing down the costs of prescription drugs, especially for seniors, $2,000 a month now-- or $2,000 a year for out of poc

and he is a fighter pilot in the united states navy. flies the f-18 and they are stationed in california. so, we're blessed. mr. erickson: let me get this question out of the way. as you assess what is happening in the country right now, how do you view the way the landscape is shaping for this presidential election? mr. pence: well, i have to tell you, it's -- we're living in a very challenging time in the life of this nation. and i couldn't be more proud of the record of the trump/pence administration. i want to thank the people in the room for the privilege of being your vice president. it was an honor. [applause] but to see the way joe biden and kamala harris not only have undone all the progress that we made, at the border, in the economy, and in our military, social fabric of the nation, peace, promise to the world. but literally see, beginning with that disastrous withdrawal and afghanistan, how joe biden and kamala harris, with support --- it is important to remember, she always said she was the last person in the room for every

been in the service, you'll know what a knuckle-draggers is but you know, as a frogman in the united states navyo ensure the marines could get to shore to do their job. we went in ahead of them. we went in before them to ensure the marines could land and his point of being a marine like he is, and then criticizing the gulf verner after 24 years of service, it's despicable on his behalf for doing that. and i hope all veterans feel like i do about it. you don't criticize another veteran and how they served, whether they're a crook or whatever they do, they all have a job to do. and if you're going to be successful, everybody has to do their job and pitch in to be successful. >> so well said, i think it's it's capturing the sentiment of so many people who are watching this. and there is the, the terms i can think of as kind of an ick factor of having people at each other in this way, knowing the nuance and knowing the fact that everyone has served and what's the number? this isn't a, presentment, 1% of people have protected this nation over time. i do wonder given your strong feelings and the way i

accusing the commander of the united states navy recently appointed by the continental congress lose a brother was a former governor of rhode island and was a man of great power. accusing him of gross misconduct including mistreatment of reddish prisoners of war that could be considered embarrassing to the new government. they had to sit and decide what to do with captain of the marine who had jumped the ship and the other nine. very powerful congress but they said something so interesting. when they discuss the crimes of the commander of the navy the then identified what they called his quote most dangerous of principles conceivable. this is in a letter they wrote in 1777 to the prosecutor who prosecuted the british troops in the boston massacre who was also a member of the congress they reached out to a prosecutor this has the most dangerous principles. what were they? i think they are the same principles that every whistleblower in this room and every whistleblower i've had the honor to represent have identified it. this is what they wrote februar. he declares that all mankind are

peace in washington, secretary of war stimson and secretary of state burns all write to the white house with secretary of navy forrestal, the united states cabinet meeting with president truman studied japan surrender messages in vocoder nation with the governments of britain. china and russia and other allies. the world remembered franklin delano roosevelt, commander in chief. american war casualty. heroes of grave responsibility took their. a grateful world honors him today. and. douglas macarthur leader of pacific armies now named supreme allied commander in japan. chiang kai shek leader of fighting china. chester nimitz, commander of the mighty pacific fleet. harry truman. four months after taking office, president leads his country finally to victory and peace. mr. truman and his cabinet meet in emergency session. former secretary hal is on hand as the president breaks the momentous news of japan's surrender. i have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government in reply to the message forwarded to that government by the secretary of state on august 11. i'd seen this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam decl

the united states denies that it did not know that such an operation was going to be carried out, but the reason for this denial is that the ministry of defense of the united states ordered the navy of this country to be on alert four days in advance , and in fact, they have sent their own forces in the mediterranean sea, and this shows that they are not so ignorant of the information and are fully prepared for this event and this. it is because they had talked to them about the same issues during netanyahu's visit. during the meeting with some other foreign guests of the dedication ceremony, the president said that the islamic republic of iran is ready to expand bilateral relations and regional and international interactions and cooperation. mr. doctors support america he considered the zionist regime to be the cause of the continued crimes and added that the organization and the countries claiming human rights should be held accountable for their silence in the face of this brutality of the modern world. in these meetings, foreign officials also condemned the crime of the zionist regime in the assassination of martyr ismail haniyeh. china is a strategic and strategic partner in