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Scuttlebutt: Official Podcast of the National Museum of the Surface Navy episodes
- Aydin Diaby: 19 Year-Old Creates IOWA Model From Scratch!Out of the blue a few months ago, we got an email from a young man from the Philadelphia area. Aydin Diaby is 19 and a self-taught model maker. When he and his brother visited Battleship IOWA in April 2023, Aydin was so inspired, he went home, literally made a 4-foot model of the ship on his own, then reached out to let us know what he'd done.
We were intrigued, and our communications team - in the person of volunteer Ron Ploof, reached out to get Aydin's story. Turns out model-making isn't this extraordinary guy's only intriguing interest.
We've been so delighted getting to know him, we had to share him with you.
* * * *Want to
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🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
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✉️ [email protected]27 min - Vice Admiral Nora Tyson, USN (Ret) On Leadership And Life (Part 2)
Vice Admiral Nora Tyson, USN (Ret) is a woman of many firsts:
- First woman to be navigator on a carrier
- First woman to the first woman to command a carrier strike group in 2010 (She embarked with USS GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77) in the Mediterranean Sea on its maiden deployment in support of operations in both U.S. 6th and 5th Fleets)
- First woman to command the forward-deployed Singapore-based Task Force 73
- First woman to command a battle fleet
- First woman to serve as Commander, 3rd Fleet
Admiral Tyson retired from the Navy in 2017 after 38 years of service and in this fascinating conversation, this remarkable sailor shares her journey from enlisting in the Navy in 1979 to high level command.
You can check out Part 1 of our conversation with her here:
https://youtu.be/SqX3_0o4798?si=1bqu01hs_cpzlc1N
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]31 min - Vice Admiral Nora Tyson, USN (Ret): You Want To Be Navigator on a Carrier...?!
Vice Admiral Nora Tyson, USN (Ret) is a woman of many firsts:
- First woman to be navigator on a carrier (USS Lexington)
- First woman to the first woman to command a carrier strike group in 2010 (She embarked with USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Mediterranean Sea on its maiden deployment in support of operations in both U.S. 6th and 5th Fleets)
- First woman to command the forward-deployed Singapore-based Task Force 73
- First woman to command a battle fleet
- First woman to serve as Commander, 3rd Fleet
She retired from the Navy in 2017 after 38 years of service and in this fascinating conversation, this remarkable sailor shares her journey from enlisting in the Navy in 1979 to high level command.
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]30 min - Sal Mercogliano: What's Going On In Shipping (Part 2)
We're back for another season of SCUTTLEBUTT and we're starting off by sharing a new YouTube channel addiction: What's Going On In Shipping (https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping).
Dr. Sal Mercogliano is a retired merchant mariner and chairman of the history department at Campbell University. In his spare time, he likes to talk about what's going on in the world of shipping.
We had discovered him and reached out to invite him to our podcast so we could talk about shipping and its relation to freedom of the seas, but then a week ago, the MV Dali allision with the Key Bridge in Baltimore really gave us fodder for discussion.
Here's part two of our chat. You can catch up with part one here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1971056/14839626
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]25 min - Sal Mercogliano: What's Going On In Shipping (Part 1)
We're back for another season of SCUTTLEBUTT and we're starting off by sharing a new YouTube channel addiction: What's Going On In Shipping (https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping).
Dr. Sal Mercogliano is a retired merchant mariner and chairman of the history department at Campbell University. In his spare time, he likes to talk about what's going on in the world of shipping.
We had discovered him and reached out to invite him to our podcast so we could talk about shipping and its relation to freedom of the seas, but then a week ago, the MV Dali allision with the Key Bridge in Baltimore really gave us fodder for discussion.
Here's part one of our chat.
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]25 min - Attempted Murder with Port of LAPD Officers Stacey Creech & Aldo Morales (Part 2)
Los Angeles Port Police Community Relations Officers Stacey Creech and Aldo Morales are near and dear to our hearts here at Battleship IOWA. They have our backs during any event we have that involves the public, most notably LA Fleet Week, and they do everything with kindness and unending good humor.
We decided to show them off on our podcast and let you get to know why we love them.
PS Did you catch our bad joke? Community Relations Officers - CROs...? A group of crows is called a "murder," so since we only have two of them, it's an attempted murder...?
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]21 min - This Week On Scuttlebutt... An Attempted Murder with POLA PD Officers Stacey Creech and Aldo Morales (Part 1)
Los Angeles Port Police Community Relations Officers Stacey Creech and Aldo Morales are near and dear to our hearts here at Battleship IOWA. They have our backs during any event we have that involves the public, most notably LA Fleet Week, and they do everything with kindness and unending good humor.
We decided to show them off on our podcast and let you get to know why we love them.
So what's this about murder...? You'll just have to listen to find out!
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]21 min - Joe Sienkiewicz On Tropical Storm Hilary And Other 2023 Storms (Part 2)
Joe Sienkiewicz from NOAA's Ocean Predictions Center (otherwise known as our favorite "weather guesser") is our ace in the hole when it comes to inclement weather that's headed our way. He's been instrumental in helping us stay on top of how to prepare for events like Tropical Storm Hilary.
This former tug boat operator sat down with us for a fascinating (did you know the buoys offshore can read the sizes of waves that refract off our breakwater?) conversation about the way weather works in the San Pedro Channel area.
(Hear Part 1 of this conversation here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1971056/13561030
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]20 min - Joe Sienkiewicz On Tropical Storm Hilary And Other 2023 Storms (Part 1)
Joe Sienkiewicz from NOAA's Ocean Predictions Center (otherwise known as our favorite "weather guesser") is our ace in the hole when it comes to inclement weather that's headed our way. He's been instrumental in helping us stay on top of how to prepare for events like Tropical Storm Hilary.
This former tug boat operator sat down with us for a fascinating (did you know the buoys offshore can read the sizes of waves that refract off our breakwater?) conversation about the way weather works in the San Pedro Channel area.
So good, we've got part 2 saved for next time.
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]21 min - Captain Dick McKenna: XO of USS KIRK Shares His Experience During The Fall Of Saigon
Picture it: April 1975. Saigon has fallen. Thousands are frantic to get out. They take to the roof of an apartment building and fly off in the largest helicopter evacuation in history. But where do they go?
At least 17 head out to sea and attempt to land aboard USS KIRK, the destroyer-escort where a young Dick McKenna is the executive officer.
In this podcast Dick shares his experience over those harrowing days in late April, and describes what it was like when "Operation Frequent Wind" suddenly transformed his ship into a temporary home for over 150 Vietnamese refugees and part of the rescue of over 30,000 people.
Appendix:
The Knox class destroyer escort USS KIRK was commissioned Sept. 9, 1972.
Following Operation Frequent Wind she continued to serve the US Navy until her decommissioning in 1993.
She was loaned to the Taiwanese Navy in August of that year, stricken from the US Navy in 1995, and purchased by Taiwan in 1999.
She still serves the Taiwanese Navy today.
In the years following the fall of Saigon, the US Navy Bureau of Medicine decided to commission a movie titled, "The Lucky Few" to tell the tale of the medical efforts involved in the rescue.
Because of "The Lucky Few," the KIRK was featured in Rory Kennedy's Academy Award nominated film, "The Last Days of Vietnam."
Operation Frequent Wind remains one of the greatest humanitarian acts in the history of the United States military.
* * * *Want to
❤️ Support the ship? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/donate/donate-online
⚓ Come aboard for a tour? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
🙋 Volunteer with us? https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
🎖️ Get involved in our veterans' programs? https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veteran
You can also
⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
Feedback? Questions? Comments?
✉️ [email protected]37 min
About Scuttlebutt: Official Podcast of the National Museum of the Surface Navy
From the publisher's feed
SCUTTLEBUTT is the official podcast of the National Museum of the Surface Navy at the Battleship IOWA, in affiliation with the Surface Navy Association's Battleship IOWA Chapter.
We're…
here to take inspirational dives into the daily challenges, sparks of passion, and unwavering dedication of our crew and supporters. We also interview thought leaders in both the public and private sectors to hear their thought-provoking stories and opinions on current and relevant topics.
Connect, have fun with, and get to know the cast of characters who give the museum its personality.
Connect, have fun with, and get to know the cast of characters who give the museum its personality.