the navy. -- states navy. this program is about 75 minutes. >> welcome to the washington navy yard. i'm the director of education here at the national museum of the u.s. navy, and this tour will take us throughout the history of the washington navy yard, which is a very extensive one. the art itself has seen a lot of -- yard itself has seen a lot of different historical events. some happy, some sad some every , day events. the yard itself has changed dramatically over the many years. it was first founded in 1798 and it was around that time that the united states realized we needed a standing military force. it was after the american revolution that all the military was basically disbanded because of the sentiments from before the american revolution, who had a standing army at that time that was stationed in the united states. the british, with that idea still fresh in their mind, they realize they didn't want a standing military. we started having problems overseas. american merchant ships were being attacked

the way to arise in the navy. code breakers reputation of cryptal sis wasn't helped by the attack on pearl harbor. a lot of the skeptics wondered why this new science hadn't provided a better warning. so cryptal sis entered world war ii pretty much under a cloud. code breakers had staggering problems of their own besides their reputation. their big problem was that there wasn't enough of them. both services had two few trained analysts. the navy did have around 50 in its washington office, but a lot of them were detailed to work on various codes, diplomatic codes, the german enigma code, only a tiny handful worked on the imperil navy operational codes. and this small group was supplemented by 21 analysts scattered across the pacific in the navy two field stations at pearl harbor and manila and this small man was charged with shadowing the entire japanese navy. it must be said they did an amazing job. they did catch a few breaks. walter bornman was talking about the early reigns in the gilbert and marshall islands

way to rise in the navy. codebreakers, the reputation of cryptanalysis was not helped by the attack on pearl harbor on the cymer 7, 1941. a lot of the skeptics in the officer ranks wondered why this new science had not provided a better warning. entered world war ii very much under a cloud. codebreakers had staggering problems of their own besides the reputation. their big problem was that there was not enough of them. around 50 inhave it watching an office, but a lot of them were detailed to work on various diplomatic codes, the german evening with code -- german enigma code. only a handful worked on the german navy operational codes, and this small group was helped by 20 when crypto analysts in the navy's field station at pearl harbor and manila, and this small band was charged with shadowing the entire japanese navy. said, they did an amazing job. they did catch a few breaks. walter boardman was talking in thehe early raids gilbert and marshall islands and the solomons. codebreakers cannot break codes unle

navy on the eve of the spanish-american war. it is a squadron navy.e have not yet created fleets that are made up of a line of battleships and some battle cruisers and destroyers and a submarine or two. we have not created fleets yet with four-star fleet commanders. we have a series of squadrons. one of them is the one i study in my book. the north atlantic squadron. there was a south atlantic squadron, and asiatic squadron, a mediterranean squadron, and so on and so forth. that is really the largest fighting unit the u.s. navy has experimented with at this point, the squadron-level operations. in the spanish-american war, we had two major naval battles to look at. the first is the battle of manila bay. war is declared on april 25, and the first engagement of the spanish-american war takes place in manila on the first of may. i always ask students what the war was about, and after some hemming and harding, generally, i can get them to come up with the idea that it was cuba that was a problem -- after some hemming and hauling -- after someing and hawin

." >>> next, a 2018 budget request for the navy. the deputy assistant navy secretary took reporters questions as congress makes its way through the budget process. this is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the next brief. we are admiral brian luther is the director of the department of the navy's fiscal management branch. he is going to deliver his presentation, roll out the navy's budget and then we'll go over some ground rules and take some questions. >> good afternoon. as he mentioned i'm brian lute luther and i want to thank you ft. opportunity to brief the fiscal year 2018 president budget submission in which i will address our portion of the second step of the department of defense's multi-year effort to restore readiness. the brief will be broken into four parts. the first will briefly review the current and evolving strategic guidance. the second, provides the operational context in which the naval forces operate in today's world. the third i'll review historical challenges that underlie the requirem

navy. setdecision that ultimately up a bitter rivalry between his group and the navy. the network he worked with established survey area in the lower james river which according to the research offered the greatest potential for retaining the remains of the sunken ships. using the technology to detect different anomalies in the water, they initially could not find the wreck. another year went by. he went back and contacted with the archaeological underwater joint ventures at this time. the joint ventures firm reached out to local watermen and they contacted local watermen who to obtain theried location of the ship or any location about the recovery of artifacts in that area. eventually, they found a man named wilbur riley, a veteran clamor to knew the location of a rack right off of newport news. he admitted he had retrieved a number of objects already. similar reports regarding similar shipwrecks and even sunken treasure in virginia waters in the past had usually proved to be without foundation. but this time, he described how he first discovered the wreck after four

in the near term building that navy, you described going to a 355 ship navy. we're not at the 308 ship yet. we don't get there until the 2022 time frame. we're building out the infrastructure, build up the manpower, the things that we need to support a 308 ship navy today. we need to focus on the additional elements. the oohs no just the ships. it will be the aviation element, the marine corps element. what's the difference between 308 and 355? the biggest elements are the attack submarines, destroyers or a cruiser deployment. rather than talking about the number 355, start to look at those specific almosts, what do we need to grow that capability and what are we going to do in the interim. it's going to take a while to get there. >> especially not just the platforms but some of the personnel that might be involved in growing at that level. >> senator, as the secretary said, the majority of the growth -- we're doing things with marine forces on land that we would prefer to be doing from the sea. so i think at our structure now we could support the -- there are

. >> up next the acting navy secretary sean stackley testified on president trump's 2018 navy budget request. he's joined by the chief of naval operations john richardson and marine corps commandant. this is just over two hours. senator mccain: good morning. i want to thank each of our witnesses for they distinguished service to the nation as well as the say alreadies -- say alreadies, marines and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. in recent months, our nation's senior defense and military leaders testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. they've reported shortfalls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new, modern capabilities. yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington. fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutions, arbitrary caps on defense spend, four more years they have budget control act and the threat of sequestration. we desperately need a new approach. unfortuna

i read the 2014 roadmap put out by the navy. the navy's arctic roadmap. as we pursue a fleet of 350 ships, and the strategy talked about the importance of looking at ice hardening some of the ships. what ships would we need to look at ice hardening. to believe this arctic strategy needs to be updated now that the secretary of defense has put out a much more robust strategy directed by this committee? >> i think the answer is precisely the effort were undertaking the summer as we refresh our strategy in light of the national defense strategy are doing. >> are you going to update that? >> we will. >> in terms of ice are need ships we have a 355 ship a fleet we are looking at, what kind of ships would you believe we need to ice hard so we can conduct with what the current strategy lays out but we don't have the capability to do it. >> that's true. i only of those answers as an output of the strategic review. i don't want to give you a guess right now. it be the types of ships that would have decisive impacts. >> during her confirmation hearing you mention th

navy. with help, we are committed to further improvements upon the estimated costs on the enterprise submit in this year's budget. we are seeking your support to continue with multi-year procurement strategies that have yielded substantial savings and provided critical stability for the highly successful virginia submarine and destroyer programs. and we are seeking your support as we transition from the combat ship to a design that will provide multi-mission capability and increase survivability for the small surface combatant program. the three combat ships in 2017 with the additional ships we are requesting this year help to fill our gaps with small service combatants and ensure the frigate down-select in 2020. the budget request continues the steady recapitalization of the marine capability. in total, we plan to procure 90 unmanned and manned aircraft as we ship efforts to procure production for most of the major a aviation programs. this notes funding for 20 f-35 and other aircraft to h

navy. let us look instead of what the navy has actually said and what it is written. the claims let him table the navy doesn't want the ship is patently false. deputy secretary of defense bob work off of the most thorough and honest and unsparing account of the program can click the navy's getting very nearly the exact chip it asked for and in some key aspects a better ship than expected. we spent months asking the navy this very question in the seapower subcommittee. the program executive officer told chairman whitman and myself and everyone else that the navy needs three ships per year. they need to the production of light hot to facilitate the transaction. let's also recognize the administration was forced to defend toppling of 603 the center them by omb that doing strategic vibration on what numbers actually need. if you look at what it said about the lcs, the lcs program is of critica a critical ports , the designed to stable, new facility on place i with the rit size qualified workforce and bow shipyard industry teams are in full serial production. in order to e

it shattered the reputation of the navy is unmatched and unbeatable as the best navy in the world, the navy was a bigger presence in the public's eyes than it is now. newspapers routinely covered the changes of naval command, big stories when admiral x was replaced by admiral why. even in peacetime reporters went out to see to file long, detailed reports about the complex exercises of atlantic and pacific fleet. the navy was the newspaper that landed on the front steps of homes in honolulu on sunday morning, december 7th, it was sitting there when the plane showed up overhead. the newspaper had a front-page announcement that santa claus would be in the newspaper bobby starting at noon like he was every year. ready to hear christmas wishes of the children of honolulu. i never did find out whether santa claus showed up that day, i suspect not. we also need to remember this was the age before spy satellites. there were no cameras in the stratosphere up there snapping photos as you would have today as 30 japanese warships silently sailed out of an obscure bay in the farthest most remote re

the navy we need today. and we're trying to take a little bit of a lead angle and figuring out what is it that navy we need probably in the mid-20s and go make decisions based on kind of that navy that we need in the 2020s. and there's been a number of recent studies some done by the navy some done by independent groups about what is it and what should it look like and they have kind of varying concern knickses of ships and stuff, but at the end they all came to the same conclusion that we need a bigger navy than we had today and all around the 340, 350 ships so clearly size of the fleet does matter going forwards and capable that have fleet is going to importantly as well. so how do we get there from here? so -- one of the things when we talk about the sizes of the fleet and i'll get questions often about hey you know 18 budget dpght add a bunch of new ships. what happened? and we were never going to be able to turn that around overnight, i think what you're going to see and a little bit more in the the --

code breaking and navy at the battle and new information at the state of japanese navy. all of that is tieonight starti at 8:00 eastern. >>> each week, american history tv brings a archival film that helps tell a story of the 208th century. >> hollywood directors making films for the u.s. government during world war ii. we featured john ford. he made for the u.s. navy about the june 1942 battle of mid way. the film presented a victory and vivid color to an american public eager for some good news. first, we speak with author mark harris about john ford. >> author harris focused on the five books. heart atta mark harris, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> what can you tell us about the work of ford? >> he's the most respected before the war. between 939 and 941, he went on an unmatched terror in hollywood making the grapes of wrath and how green was my valley and drums along the mohawks. just a set of movies that gave him the reputation as one of the most intelligent and serious minded directors. he was also the most precious of the five directors

and not necessarily what is the navy we need in the 2040s, but what is the navy we need in the 2020s. and we in figuring out, what is the navy we need probably in the mid 20s and go make some decisions based on kind of that navy that we need in the 2020s. there's been a number of recent studies, some done by the navy, some done by indepen department groups, about what is it the navy you need, what should it look like? and they all have kind of varying mixes of ships and stuff. but at the end, they all came to the same conclusion is that we need a bigger navy than we have today, they are all around the 340 to 350 ships. clearly, the size of the fleet does matter and the capability of that fleet is also going to matter importantly, as well. so, you know, how do we get there from here? so, one of the things, when we talk about the size of the fleet and i know i'll get questions about, hey, the '18 budget didn't add ships, what happened? well were never going to be able to turn that around overnight. i think what you're going to see, and i'll get into it a little bit more in -- later in m

he was deeply connected to the navy. he wrote two books, "countdown to pearl harbor: the 12 days to the attack" and what i learned when i almost died from a nonfiction book. please welcome arthur steve twomey. >> good morning and thank you very much for that introduction. and a premature happy father's day to all the fathers out there. during 2014 and 2015, i spent many hours in the archives of this wonderful place. and it is an honor to be invited to speak here today without the materials and the staff here the book would be a far less informed work. even before the publicity surrounding the 75th anniversary of the attack last december, i think most of us were completely aware of the two words pearl harbor. most of us already knew who did it. i don't think i will be giving away anything or how they did it. you may have even seen the 2005 ben affleck movie about the attack. what is so fantastic about the movie is is unearthed crucial romantic angles that are previous authors and movies had missed. there are those of you

and japanese navies. leading off is a review of the war in pacific prior to june 1942 then new information about the japanese at the battle. this is live coverage on cspan3. >> we are pleased and very very proud to be hosting it. i would like to thank our partners that helped put this together. the hampton roads naval historical foundation and world war i and world war ii come mem ri -- commemoration. we couldn't have done it without you. [ cheers and applause ] >> now, before we get going i do have housekeeping items to pass along. first of all, turn off or silence your cell phones. keep your programs. we have something of a limited supply of those and please wear your fwbadges throughout the da. keep in mind we are on cspan so during the q and a use the microphone deployed here on the square. at this time i would like to bring forward my counter part john pentanjelo who will make some remarks, john. [ applause ] >> thanks, chris. good morning and welcome. the hampton roads naval hue see yum is proud to

and not necessarily what is the navy we need, necessarily in the 2040s but what's the navy we need in the 2020s and we tend to talk a lot about what's the navy we need today, and we're trying to take a little bit of a lead angle and figuring out what is it the navy we need, you know, probably in the mid '20s and go make some decisions based on kind of that navy that we need in the 2020s. there's been a number of recent studies, some done by the navy, some done by independent groups, about what is it that navy need, what should it look like and they all have kind of varying mixes of ships and stuff. but at the end, they all came to the same conclusion, is that we need a bigger navy than we had today and they're all around the 340 to 350 ships so clearly the size of the fleet does matter going forward. and the capability of that fleet a 's also going to matter importantly as well. so how do we get there from so one of the things, when we talk about the size of the fleet and i know i'll get questions about, hey, the '18 budget didn't add a bunch of new ships, what happened? well were nev

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the navy and what should it look like? they have various mixes of ships they all came to the same conclusion that we need a bigger navy. all around 340-350 ships. the size matters and the apability matters. how do we get there? when we talk about the size of the fletet, i get questions about how the budget did not add new ships. what happened? we were never going to be able to turn that around overnight. the 18 budget holds the new construction side, but make a significant advancement n the readiness side. if you listen to the vice chief's testimony, he says the first dollar we get should go to readiness. we spent a lot of time talking about the strategy, the future navy white paper, it all goes to the avy's strategy going forward.s since 1985, i tell people, i am a my 18th palm. if i had a dollar for every time someone told me we need to build strategy first and that will drive the budget. that sounds great, but you don't want a budget completely driving your strategy, but you cannot ignore the fact that we live in a fina

not necessarily what is the navy we need in the 2040s but what is the navy we need in the 2020s? we are trying to figure out, what is the navy that we need in the mid-20's. and go make some decisions based on kind of that navy we need in the 2020s. there have been a number of recent studies some done by the navy, and some by independent groups about what is the navy and what should it look like? they have various mixes of ships and stuff but in the end they all came to the same conclusion we need a bigger navy than we have today and they are all around the 340 to 350 ships. clearly the size of the fleet matters and the capability of the fleet matters as well. how do we get there? when we talk about the size of fleet and i know i'll get questions about how the '18 budget didn't add a bunch of new ships, what happened? we were never going to be able to turn that around overnight. i think what you're going to see and i'll get to it later in my remarks is the '18 budget holds what we have on the new construction side but makes a significant investment on the ready new zealand side of

navy. let's look instead at what the navy has said and written. and the claim laid on the table that the navy doesn't want the ship is patently false. as deputy secretary defense bob work who authored the most thor row, honest and unsparing program concluding the navy is getting nearly the exact ship it asked for and in some key aspects a better ship than expected. we spent months asking the navy this very question in a subcommittee. the program executive officer told chairman whitman and myself and everyone else that the navy needs three ships per year and need it to keep the production line hot to facilitate that transition. stack li's name was invoked. let's also recognize the administration was forced to defend top line number 603 sent to them by onb without doing strategic evaluation behind what numbers actually needed. lcs program is of critical importance to our navy. the designs are stable, new yard facilities are in place with the right size qualified workforce and both shipyards and industry teams are in full productions in order to ensu

navy pilots that were involved in the battle. the battle of midway took place from june 4th to june 7th, 1942. next, author walter bornman talks about the lead-off of the battle including the attack on pearl harbor just six months earlier. it was part of a day long symposium to mark the battle's anniversary. it's 45 minutes. >> our first speaker today is walter bornman, the author of numerous books and biographies. his and others are in your program. i won't belabor them necessarily. i will say he's the author of several books on the war including general mcarthur. we had him last july to speak on his book about general mcarthur. he ways working on a book about the u.s. arizona, a great scholar and doing cutting stuff on the pacific war. stuff on the pacific war. at this time wal at this time, walt. >> good morning. thank you, chris. you know it's a pleasure to be here. here. and when i was invited by cri when i was invited to speak about the battle of midway, i said, gosh, i'm not really a midway expert. they said, that's okay,

ed fox, a marine machine gunner, john crawford, a navy captain, and hank kudzik, also a navy veteran, the panel. >> i can't tell you how excited i am to be here today. thank you, wes, and jim, and the american veterans center. i've been here all day yesterday. i was at the wounded warrior experience. it's tremendous to read about history. as we heard from general richie yesterday, it's more important that we're hearing it from those that participated in history. and we get to hear it from some phenomenal and amazing men and women that we've heard from the last couple of days. the mofford marines, i never heard that story before but i'll be reading more, how can you not be interested after that? what i thought i would do is just give you a brief overview on the battle of midway. but really keep my portion short, because i think we all want to hear from these three gentlemen that were there. and the can offer much more information than what i can give you. but i will say, in the last five to ten years, we're very fortunate, some fantastic books have been written on the battle of midway.

became ensins or joined the navy reserve. whatever their pathway, cadets pass through months of flight training. at 40, 60, 70th areas, they were checked. the last flight check was most difficult called shooting the circle. at 800 feet the flight instructor cut his engine forcing the plane to land on a 200 foot circle on an auxiliary field. some students would almost crash their plane to do it rather than drop out. in 1980, 40% failed the check or killed themselves in the process. aviation cadets were doing flight training, the fighter base or tricks. and an advanced carrier training quads from veteran instructors. when all was said and done the pilots had logged more than 600 hours in the air before going to the front. their combat experience was little. all the enterprise squadrons had fought several times before. research of the air group in march resulted in a group of brand new ensigns, fresh from the u.s. carrier group. >> only one of us from the war and they were replaced from the squadrons of uss saratoga and had yet

navy pilots that were involved in the battle. the battle of midway took place from june 4th to june 7th, 1942. this talk from the macarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia, was part of a daylong symposium to mark the battle's 75th anniversary. it's 45 minutes. >>> our first speaker today is walter borneman. his biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. he's author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of general macarthur. haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. at this time walter borneman. >> good morning. thank you, chris. you know it's a pleasure to be here. and when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, i'm not really a midway expert. and they said that's okay, we have the experts coming. what we want you to do is set the table. and that's what i'm going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. i want to go through a few la

navy. let us look at what the navy has actually said and what it is written. and the claim laid on the table that the navy doesn't want the ship is patently false. as the deputy secretary of defense who authorized the account of the program included, it is getting the ship it asked for and a better ship than expected. we spent months asking the navy this very question in the subcommittee. the program executive officer told chairman whit man and myself and everyone else that the navy needs three ships per year and they need it to keep the production line hot. let's also recognize the administration was forced to defend a top line number of 603 that was sent to them without doing a strategic e vaguation. the lcs program is of critical importance to our navy. the designs are stable. facilities are in place with a right size quality workforce and both shipyards are in full production in order to ensure each can deliver two ships per year. today the program is on budget and below congressional cost cap. gao was invoked. if you read the report, which is not a friend

namely, the navy consider them expendable assets. as he reminisced in years later, they could always get more pilots and planes, but they could not get more ships. chuckling to himself, though i doubt he chuckled the afternoon theune 4, he explained reality. sorry, you do not get a fighter escort, you are on your own. that is the way it was -- we were on our own. i believe we can take his message about the battle of midway seriously. the navy in the early days of the pacific war was so desperate for victory it made no effort to hide the fact they sent aviators on seemingly impossible missions without sufficient weaponry, intelligence, or fuel. the navy expected pilots to figure out the battle on their own. if they failed come it would be no great loss. it would be another wave of flyers and planes to replace them. the surface ships needed to survive the engagement at all costs. in essence, the pilots were figuratively and sometimes literally on their own. today this mode of thinking seems heartless, reckless, and costly. to send pilo

the navy guys didn't think i was too rough, but perhaps i was. but i think at the end of the day the friction, the traditional army, navy rivalries, i think they've been overstated. i think there were people on both sides, macarthur's staff and nimtz's staff. who really just kind of hated one another. and the chief of staff or macarthur, sutherland, was one of those. but i think that nimitz and macarthur once they got together macarthure halsey and , they really got along and embraced the bigger picture. so thank you very much. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. coming up on american history tv, purdue university professor caroline e. janney looks at the process of disbanding the remnants of the army of northern virginia, following the april 1865 surrender to union general ulysses s. grant at appomattox. she focuses on the confederates that avoided or escaped, and retreated into the shenandoah valley. she discusses general grant's concerns that

navy ships.of these missile destroyers, they are really the work cause of the us. navy and area the work cause of the us. navy and are a lot easier to manoeuvre around and put into different types of water areas that our aircraft carriers, for example. so they do a great dog of what we call the prisons operations of the us. navy, meaning they do port visits, training with other navy ships, they do operations and they do search and rescue if necessary. so there's quite a great deal that it could have been doing in the region. it may also have been, said it was so close, it was probably either going into are leaving yokosuka, but there isa into are leaving yokosuka, but there is a great deal of activity down on the south china sea and a lot of our ships come out of the japanese area and go down into this very composted waters. presumably there are systems in place to stop something like this happening. —— contested waters. these are two will countries that work closely together and they would have

the commander of the navy's 7th fleet said today divers found a number of sailors' bodies inside the flooded, damaged sections and sleeping quarters on the uss fitzgerald. the publication "navy times" later confirmed all seven bodies were recovered aboard the guided missile destroyer. a navy spokesman said the sailors either drowned or were killed by the impact of the pre- dawn collision yesterday with a filipino-flagged container ship

last night was a big night for the navy. we played at the waterfront for most of the past ten years accepted it last night. given the challenge how to reset the fleet, i would like to talk about this in the context of where it is headed with the size of the fleet and what we are giving on the new construction e side and the maintenance side of the equation how it fits in. we were talking before hand. it's not either.t you've got to do both. sometimes we forget about that most of the last 15 years also having spent three years on the readiness i am well aware that you have to maintain and continue to build going forward. it has some pictures so it isuri great to not get tired when they read it. it talks about with the current security environment is and he makes three key points that are applicable whether you are talking the maintenance of keytn points are the time matters and there has to be a sense of urgency that we are getting after today. i think that applies across thee board to figure out how you can get them built qu

navy divers recovering the bodies of seven sailors. here at home, flags were lowered and tears fell. the oldest sailor, 37-year-old gary rehm jr. was three months from retiring. the youngest, 19-year-old dakota rigsby, volunteered at this virginia firehouse. >> he had a great life ahead of him, but he served our country and he did what he loved so i'm proud of him. >> reporter: the navy says the collision happened in clear weather at 2:20 a.m. saturday, but japan's coast guard says the accident took place an hour earlier. this marine tracker shows the cargo ship making a hard turn at 1:30 a.m. and a u-turn, backtracking at 2:20 a.m. >> for a u.s. navy destroyer to be involved in a collision with loss of life at sea is extremely rare, once every decade or two. >> reporter: the navy says the crew of the "fitzgerald" fought heroically to keep it afloat. commander bryce benson among the injured, but seven of his sailors including carlos sibayan, who followed his father into the navy, won't be coming home. >> my son is a survivor. he knows

navy says that there are some u.s. navy personnel who are injury.re trying to determine that. we're getting some new pictures in, i believe, right now of what is happening off the coast of japan, on japan's southeast coast, as the japanese coast guard say rival on scene at first light to assist this u.s. navy warship. you can see it listing there. there is a merchant ship it collided with. we don't know how that happened. we don't know the status of the merchant ship. the navy is seeking more details at this hour, and we are told this is now a major incident. the ship is not in danger of sinking, the navy emphasizes, but families are being notified, wolf, about this incident. >> not in danger of being -- of sinking at this point. i'm told -- i'm looking at the information we have on the "uss fitzgerald." is usually has a crew size of about 330 sailors. that's a lot of sailors and presumably some marines on board as well. >> reporter: this is a ship that is actually home ported in japan as part of the forward u.s. naval presence actually to be a defe

we talked abiliout the surface navy. we have those assets which are very large and complex and important. can you talk about are you satisfied and between the navy and marines on that? >> well, i have a marine on my staff who manages ships for me. the c-21 staff was talking to the marine corp. all of the time. and where there may have been a to place it on the nuclear side of the house today i think we have robust maintenance plans across the board and by understand they are being well maintained today. they are about ready to -- she is going to go and i'm satisfied we are making the investments necessary there. i have been on a lot of ships there as well. i don't see any indication that they are the last person in line for the maintenance dollars. >> right. you just mentioned it. she had to sit out for like five to seven years. so that's an example of recovery. that's good one. >> yeah. she just came back from a deployment at the end of 2016. we immediately threw her in to be ready. they have done the contractor have do

like hopskins, most aviator felt attach into the navy. as a young boy, -- fisher's revelation came in at age four while playing at his front yard. he heard a distant noise and looking up, it looked like a monster. the noise frighten him and he ran panic stricken into his front door. eventually, his father came to his rescue. the army pilot landed in a near by pastor and showing him that planes are of no danger and voicing his son over his shoulders and taken him to see the monsters. fisher touched the propellant. i was hooked and i wanted to be an aviator. >> whatever hooked them in their youth. the navy pilot followed at mid kay followed three pathways. they went to the naval academy and joined the naval reserve and rose up the ranks. whatever their pathway could pass through 11 months of training at the air station at pensacola. flight checks are meant to push them onto the flight way or flush them out. the last check was difficult. it was called shooting a circle. the cadets and -- some students would craft their planes to do it rather