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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…We’re just back from a couple days at sea aboard the carrier USS GERALD R FORD, now in the early stages of her first deployment. We’ll hear from a variety of those on board the FORD – including the strike group, ship and air wing commanders, as well as those in charge of the giant ship’s engineering plant and the launch and recovery systems. 

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…it was a busy week for potential and upcoming naval developments. The US Navy is readying the carrier GERALD R FORD for its first extended cruise, the Russian-Ukraine conflict shows every sign of going on and on and on, and the US Coast Guard is fully engaged in rescue operations across central Florida. We’ll dive deeper into all those stories and more.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…from frigates and littoral combat ships to mine warfare programs to the diverse ensemble of unmanned surface and underwater systems, the US Navy’s office of Unmanned and Small Combatants oversees a wide range of programs. Our guest is the commander of that effort, Rear Admiral Casey Moton. But first, a look at some of this week’s naval news.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we are joined by retired Admiral Bill Moran. The former Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Chief of Naval Personnel talks about fleet manning, how to better use technology when recruiting, training and retaining Sailors and gives his views on Ukraine lessons learned from the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and how the U.S. Navy stacks up against their competitors in the Chinese Navy.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…the long-running Fat Leonard scandal took an unexpected turn when Leonard Glenn Francis – also known as Fat Leonard – fled federal house custody in San Diego on September 4, disappearing and presumably on the run. Ironically the escape came just a couple weeks before he was finally going to be sentenced in court. We’ll talk about what is probably the longest-running scandal ever to hit the US Navy with Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post, one of the key reporters doggedly pursuing the case.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…It was a big week for the US Navy and Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipbuilding as the first steel was cut for the first ship of the new Constellation-class frigates. We’ll talk with Mark Vandroff, CEO of Fincantieri Marinette Marine, about the new ships and about how his shipyard is adapting to build the first new class of warships in twenty years.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…It was a busy week – one in which we visited one of the Navy’s smallest new ships, and where we got a look at the beginnings of one its largest.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we build on our conversations about navigation plans and shipbuilding and discuss how to pay for a larger and more capable fleet. Is the old way of doing business still effective or should we look for new and creative ways to grow the Fleet? We will discuss in our next segment.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… we are just back from a visit to some of the key shipyards on the US Gulf Coast – and what we saw was truly eye-opening. No one we visited is standing pat, all are investing in significant upgrades. We’ll talk about the trip in detail with our traveling partner, Sam LaGrone of USNI News.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… a special edition of the CavasShips podcast, as we spent most of the week visiting shipyards on the Gulf Coast. Over the next few weeks we will share interviews and observations from our trip. On this episode we talk to Austal USA’s Rusty Murdaugh after spending a day in Mobile touring the yard with his team. In our closing we remember Surface Warfare legend CAPT Paul X. Rinn, USN (ret) who passed away this week.

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