We’ll talk the news news of the morning, focusing on Hurricane Harvey and the role that the U.S. Military’s active duty component can play in civil disasters inside the continental United States.

 

Tim Lynch is a resident of southeast Texas, we’ll get the latest from him on the conditions there and his thoughts on the pounding that the City of Houston Texas is taking from Hurricane Harvey.

The Boys discuss the doing humanitarian assistance inside the Continental United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and in the midst of Hurricane Harvey.

We’ll talk (1) additional forces heading to Afghanistan, (2) 7th Fleet’s sloppy seamanship led to the grounding of the USS Antietam in January, (3) American officials continue to use rhetoric that implies that a negotiated settlement including the Taliban is achievable in Afghanistan and (4) Iraqi Army continues to advance and take villages and terrain on the outskirts of Tal Afar.

We’ll talk about it.

Kim Holmes is the AMR head Chef, he joined us to talk about how to protest in the streets without burning parts of cities like he did in the sixties and how make a killer Tomato Pie that will compliment steak, chicken, fish or even stand alone as a meal with a salad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Boys talk helo-dunker math and how our parents spanked us and never felt any remorse!

The Boys discuss the Gunner’s pessimism with the human race.

 

What is the “Big Taliban”?  What is the “Little Taliban?”  Where do the Taliban derive their legitimacy from in areas the Afghan people are sympathetic to the Taliban?  Does the President’s new direction for the war in Afghanistan point the nation in a better direction relative to achieving a positive outcome there?

 

Dr. Aaron O’Connell is an Associate Professor of history at the The University of Texas at Austin and the Editor of Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan. O’Connell is 22-year veteran of the Marine Corps Reserve who left active duty as a Colonel. Before joining UT, O’Connell also served as Director of Defense Policy and Strategy in President Obama’s and President Trump’s National Security Council. He served in Afghanistan from 2010-2011 as a Special Advisor to General David Petraeus and was also a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon.

Aaron joins the program to give his thoughts on President Trump’s Afghanistan policy speech delivered Monday night at Forty Meyer in Arlington Virginia.  DON’T MISS THIS.

The Boys discuss how the Navy trains Surface Warfare Officers… and discipline in light of the firing of the head of the 7th Fleet.