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Craig Hooper
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Craig Hooper
@NextNavy
Frank national security guidance from Takoma Park, MD. Contractor. Writes in various places. DM for Signal.
Takoma Park, MD Katılım Ekim 2010
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@MatthewKeysLive Hit this on a whim, and....legitimately hilarious TV.
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Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.
Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.
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From the Great White Fleet to the Golden Fleet…we must build more ships!
Salem News Channel@WatchSalemNews
“We’re stretching this Navy thin — that’s why we need more ships.” Hung Cao says current deployments across multiple theaters are pushing the fleet beyond its limits, forcing extended carrier strike group rotations due to a shortage of available ships. He argues rebuilding the fleet is essential for readiness, deterrence, and American maritime strength. @LarryOConnor
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Today, I had the privilege of joining @POTUS Trump at the @USCGAcademy graduation as we paid tribute to the 2026 class of cadets.
These men and women are heroically answering the call to service to defend and protect our homeland and our freedoms.
May God bless them as they faithfully serve our nation.
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The biggest shipyard in China and the biggest shipyard in South Korea both fit inside the Solano Shipyard.
6.5 miles of waterfront on a federal deep-water channel used by Panamax class, destroyer-sized ships.
There are 365,000 skilled workers within 50 miles.
Just sayin'.
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️@mercoglianos
Latest shipbuilding numbers are out from BRS and they are not good. China had gone from 51% in 2022 to 70.9% in 2025. That is from 2,107 ships to 4,055.
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I still remember how tired my small-town Iowa College volunteers were, responding to a major gas leak in a dorm an hour after handling a 24-hour hazmat incident. Don't forget the folks putting out the fires or pulling you out of a wreck are, sometimes, volunteers cc @mercoglianos
Alex Seitz-Wald@aseitzwald
Montville is a town of 1,000. These VOLUNTEER fire companies are core institutions in these small Waldo County towns, not just for the services they provide but as social and community hubs.
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An unmistakable sign of National Police Week in DC is the manifestation of innumerable bagpipes playing on various near-capital rooftop party venues.
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@swlittauer Watching how quickly and painlessly folks can disperse from Fenway never ceased to amaze me
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Nothing makes me appreciate Navy Yard like seeing the land use at other ballparks.
BaseballHistoryNut@nut_history
Dodger Stadium aerial view
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As we think about inventing and building the new C-5 Galaxy, wouldn’t it be great if there was a new manufacturing-focused city being built in Solano, adjacent to Travis Air Force Base, the largest Air Mobility Command base in America, and the home of the C-5…
Tyler Rogoway@Aviation_Intel
C-5 Galaxies Now Slated To Keep Flying Until 2050 As Readiness Plummets To 37 Percent Nothing in the USAF's inventory can do what a C-5 can, but even after costly upgrades, they remain extremely temperamental. twz.com/air/c-5-galaxi…
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Hey @SecMullinDHS here's how the @USCG can help you out of a PR jam. Use shipbuilding to drive @DHSgov popularity and show the White House how you're a strong manager and rebuilding America/American Security:
forbes.com/sites/craighoo…
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Career submariner selected to perform duties of under secretary of the Navy navytimes.com/news/pentagon-…
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Future member of Congress for VA, tough advocate for Navy accountability, and a likely future SECNAV speaking here:
Elaine Luria@ElaineLuria
In the Navy, I navigated the Strait of Hormuz dozens of times on combatant ships. I have the utmost respect for our Sailors as they carry out this dangerous mission under extremely challenging circumstances. Hampton Roads Sailors are at the tip of the spear and I am praying for their safety.
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@USNINews Thought Toti was leaving for good. Glad to see this hard-working, good dude stay on.
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Shipbuilding Advisor William Toti Now Performing Duties of Under Secretary of the Navy — USNI News
news.usni.org/2026/05/04/shi…
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@mercoglianos @Matt_Bracken48 A GARC looks up from the bar and grins, evilly.
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@Matt_Bracken48 We have taken the Mk VIs out of service.
If they fired on a boat, it was probably an autonomous drone used for patrolling or anti-mine warfare.
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🧵The "ship" vs "boat" distinction usually doesn't matter, but to the US Navy, a "boat" is A/ under 100' long, B/ can be lifted up onto a ship, or C/ is a submarine.
So to use Clinton-esque semantical hair splitting, the Iranians said they fired on USN patrol BOATS. The USN denied any SHIPS were fired upon.
It would be SOP to send patrol boats in ahead of destroyers, as scouts on a probing mission. (We have no more frigates.)
When you consider all the blatant lies put out about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, as a provocation to create casus belli for the Vietnam War, I'd rule nothing out. Including "Well, we said no SHIPS were fired on, not patrol boats."
These 85' Mark VI Patrol Boats were literally built for the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. I have no way of knowing where they are now, since the US Navy left the Persian Gulf just before our February 28 sneak attack, but I'd be surprised if they're not in the area.
Link to the Mark VI Patrol Boat article is in the first comment.
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@peterpipenipple @mpopv Cool stuff will happen in the Bay Area, trust me on this!
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It's pretty crazy that there's a city-sized expanse of flat unoccupied concrete just waiting to be developed directly on the doorstep of downtown San Francisco
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@bdashlane @mpopv It's a nice place, that is developed to pretty much align with the geological realities of the place. There are better places to develop in the Bay Area!
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@blueblueballou @mpopv They could probably fund a second bridge if they robbed all the banks in the country, but they won't. There's far better places in the Bay Area to build a cool new city!
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@NextNavy @mpopv Oakland could probably fund the construction of a second Bay Bridge bridge by selling off this land in parcels with significantly relaxed zoning. Make it a Special Economic Zone and let developers and tech companies build the futuristic utopian city that Silicon Valley deserves.
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@devinlavelle @mpopv Exactly. There are better sites--and ongoing projects in the Bay Area!
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@nicholasjarboe @mpopv Ahh, the glorious dream of the "Southern Crossing" we kicked about and dismissed since the '40's. Yes. There are better sites in the Bay Area for this kind of project!
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@NextNavy @mpopv There were plans to connect 280 to another bridge across the bay to near this location. The elevated part of the 280 that was to be the connector to the bridge near Pack Bell Park was torn down when I worked near it during the dot com boom. One can dream it could still happen.
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