• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About

Radio America Online News Bureau

Navy

Battle Over Billionaires, America’s Shrinking Navy, Biden’s Tall Tales

March 30, 2023 by GregC

Listen to “Battle Over Billionaires, America’s Shrinking Navy, Biden’s Tall Tales” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they cheer former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for pushing back against Sen. Bernie Sanders and other Democrats for trying to demonize him because he’s a billionaire. Schultz explains how the American dream allowed him to rise from humble beginnings to achieve great wealth – a story Sanders had no interest in hearing of course. They also shudder at multiple reports that the Biden administration’s Navy budget proposal doesn’t even keep up with inflation, we’re retiring vessels critical to deterring Chinese aggression, and within five years China’s navy will have 150 more ships than we do. Finally, they roll their eyes as President Biden acts like he’s an honorary member of another ethnicity – this time it’s the Greeks.

Share

Filed Under: Business, China, Communism, congress, Elections, Foreign Policy, History, Humor, Journalism, Military, News & Politics, Nuclear, Russia, Spending, Supply Chain, Taiwan Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, Bernie Sanders, Biden, billionaire, China, Greece, Howard Schultz, Navy, Starbucks

Senate Dem Setback, Iran’s New Biggest Ship, Masks Gone & COVID Cases Fall

June 2, 2021 by GregC

Listen to “Senate Dem Setback, Iran’s New Biggest Ship, Masks Gone & COVID Cases Fall” on Spreaker.

It’s all good martinis today! Jim and Greg welcome the Senate parliamentarian making life much tougher for Senate Democrats and the Biden agenda. They also cheer the mysterious sinking of one of Iran’s largest naval ships. And they are glad to see COVID number continue to drop weeks after the CDC ended mask mandates for vaccinated people.

Please visit our great sponsors:

Omaha Steaks
https://omahasteaks.com
Send Dad more than just a gift- send him an experience he’ll love! For a limited time get 4 Free New York Strip Burgers with your order using keyword MARTINI.

Stamps.com
https://stamps.com
Use promo code THREEMARTINI and get a special 4-week trial plus free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts.

Share

Filed Under: congress, COVID-19, Economy, Foreign Policy, Health Care, History, Humor, Iran, Islamic Terrorism, Journalism, Middle East, Military, News & Politics, Spending Tagged With: COVID, democrats, Iran, masks, National Review, Navy, parliamentarian, reconciliation, Senate, ship, Three Martini Lunch

Inside the Pentagon on 9/11

September 11, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “Inside the Pentagon on 9/11” on Spreaker.

On September 11, 2001, U.S. Navy Captain Tom Joyce was at his post in the Pentagon. After learning of the attacks in New York City, he knew America was under attack and that the Pentagon could be a target.

At 9:37 a.m., those fears were proven true.

In this interview from the one-year anniversary of 9/11, Joyce walks us through what happened that morning, and how he and his colleagues responded after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. He also recounts the immediate resolve of everyone in the building and how his Christian faith sustained him during those difficult days.

Share

Filed Under: News & Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Al Qaeda, military, Navy, news, Pentagon, Terrorism

Near Collision in the Pacific

June 7, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “Near Collision in the Pacific” on Spreaker.

Russia and the United States are both disputing what happened when a their ships almost collided.
Montie Montgomery reports.

Share

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Collisions, Navy, russia, United States

Twin Wins for Christians in Military

March 26, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-26-wright-blog.mp3

Advocates for religious freedom in the military are mostly cheering President Trump’s policy on transgenders serving in the military and are breathing a sigh of relief as the U.S. Navy rejects the push for an theist chaplain.

On Friday, President Trump issued a memo reversing the Obama administration policy on transgender service.  The president believes there are legitimate concerns about the impact of transgenders – particularly those transitioning from one identity to another – on military readiness.

“In my judgment, the previous administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the departments’ longstanding policy and practice would not hinder military effectiveness and lethality, disrupt unit cohesion, or tax military resources, and there remain meaningful concerns that further study is needed to ensure that continued implementation of last year’s policy change would not have those negative effects,” reads the memo.

The move is largely applauded by Christian voices in the military community.  Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty Executive Director Phil Wright says Trump did the right thing.

“The Chaplain Alliance affirms the commander-in-chief’s decision.  The number one priority for the military is to be ready to deploy and engage in and win the nation’s wars as well as defend our allies,” said Wright,a  retired U.S. Army colonel who served as a chaplain while in uniform.

He says it’s time for the government to stop using the military to advance cultural and political goals.

“The military is not (designed) to engineer social change.  It’s not a club.  It’s not to reflect America.  It is to win the nation’s wars, to defend the nation and our allies,” said Wright.

The memo largely restricts military service from people undergoing surgeries or therapies that make them undeployable if they get sent somewhere they won’t have access to those medical options.

However, it does not call for a total ban on transgenders serving in the military, and Wright says some aspects of the lingering policy leave him concerned, including safety for women in uniform.

“When you have men alleging to be women and having access to female billeting, barracks, showers, bathrooms, we think that is an issue that has not been addressed appropriately,” said Wright.

Wright says there are numerous complaints from women being forced to share quarters with men transitioning to a female identity and that those women not only fear for their safety but are deeply concerned that their superiors will have little regard for their privacy.

He’s also concerned about whether chaplains and other personnel will be pressured to stifle their beliefs on transgender issues.

“We are very concerned that the constitutional protections afforded our service members as far as religious liberty are not addressed when those who continue to serve seem to have all of the rights,” said Wright.

However, Wright is fully thrilled to see the U.S. Navy once again reject the application of a humanist to join the chaplain corps.  Jason Heap was rejected once during the Obama administration but tried again this year.  The effort met swift resistance on Capitol Hill from 45 Republicans in the House and 22 in the Senate.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., led the effort to quash Heap’s application.  Both serve on the respective armed services committees in the House and Senate.

“We’re very fortunate that we have people in our civilian leadership, which is part of our military, having oversight.  We were glad that they were able to step in and make such a cogent argument,” said Wright.

Wright says the idea of an atheist chaplain boggles the mind.

“By definition, humanists or human secularists or atheists could not be a military chaplain is to be religious.  Their very first comment will be that they are not religious and have no intention of being religious.  They’re actually hostile to religion,” said Wright.

He does not see Heap’s application as an effort to water down the chaplains’ corps but the exact opposite.

“It seems to be more aimed at doing away with the chaplain corps than it is to minister to those soldiers of that particular belief system,” said Wright.

Wright points out the chaplains were first ordered into the Army by Gen. George Washington and that chaplains play a far more critical role in combat than many people realize.

“Having served myself, I know many commanders would not go downrange into combat without a chaplain in their ranks because of what the chaplains provide for those commanders and the men and women that they lead and the family members left behind,” said Wright.

“You have someone who understands authority.  You have someone that’s disciplined.  You have someone who has a high view of life, and in those murky fog-of-war situation, I think you would want someone, whether it’s a soldier who’s pulling the trigger or a chaplain who is trying to instruct them about just war and about doing right at the right time for the right reason.

“That’s who you want in your formation and not someone who does not have an informed worldview like that,” said Wright.

With atheists wanting to join a unit specifically for people of deep faith and people wanting to join the military while identifying as a different gender than their biology indicates, how challenging is it for chaplains and other believers in the service today?

“You have a biblical worldview on the one hand that our chaplains hold to and that a lot of Americans hold to and then you have other worldviews which lead to some of these other kinds of belief systems or facts that aren’t really truth.

“You get into, ‘Well, maybe that’s your truth not my truth.  There is one absolute truth,” said Wright.  “This is an ongoing challenge that has always been around ever since Jesus walked the earth.”

Standard Podcast [ 12:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Share

Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: chaplains, Doug Lamborn, Jason Heap, military, Navy, news, President Trump, Roger Wicker, transgender

Navy Considering Atheist Chaplains

March 16, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-16-gacek-blog.mp3

The U.S. Navy is considering allowing atheists into the Chaplain Corps, a move that even the Obama administration opposed and that Christian conservatives say would squander precious resources and open the corps to almost anything in the years ahead.

“I do think it would be really deleterious,” said Family Research Council Senior Fellow Chris Gacek.

This is not the first round of this fight.  In 2015, Jason Heap filed suit to become a Navy chaplain after the Defense Department rejected his request because he sought to affiliate with a pair of humanist groups instead of a religious denomination.  The Obama administration fought Heap’s lawsuit and won but Heap is making the push again.

This time, the U.S. Navy seems more open to the idea.

“The Defense Department won all the cases against Jason Heap so you would think that they would leave well enough alone and, therefore, there wouldn’t be a problem in the future.  But there is a board called the Chaplain Appointment and Retention Eligibility Advisory Group that is recommending that the Navy accept him as a chaplain.

“So even though he couldn’t get it through the courts or through other processes, there’s another group of faceless bureaucrats that have an agenda and are trying to push it through,” said Gacek.

Gacek argues that if the Navy allows an atheist chaplain there’s no telling where that decision could lead.

“What’s the limit?  There’s no reason to think it would just be stuck at one or that you wouldn’t have more of them or all sorts of people coming in here who are just basically yoga instructors,” said Gacek.

“It’s like saying the pastors and priests division has to accept atheists.  A does not equal B here.  It’s like having square wheels or something.  It’s kind of hard to imagine you even have to have this debate.

“It’s important I think to maintain the integrity of the institution.  We’ve had chaplains since 1775, when George Washington himself had Congress establish the chaplains,” said Gacek.

While the Navy considers and possibly advances this idea, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., 22 other senators and 40 House members are pushing back.  Gacek says that pressure and possible appropriations riders on funding could force the Navy’s hand on this.

Gacek says he’s surprised this idea has any oxygen at all in a Republican administration.

“If you had a sensible Secretary of Defense and they were in charge of these things, this would be taken care of.  It’s sort of amazing that this is happening in the Trump administration,” said Gacek.

In addition to pointing out the logical inconsistency of an atheist chaplain, Gacek says scarce resources for the Chaplain Corps would stretched even thinner for those identifying with a specific faith or denomination.  He says those chaplains are vital in ministering to people far from home.

The Chaplain Corps is already strained.  Gacek says eight years of Obama’s cultural agenda took a heavy toll.

“In the Obama administration, you had certain social agendas being pushed.  There were people who wouldn’t accede to the idea of same-sex marriage.  I can imagine it’s only getting worse with all these new gender categories they’re trying to cram down everybody’s throat.

“Since the Bible has a set idea about sex, there being only two of them, and there being only two genders, this isn’t really going to fly for a lot of people,” said Gacek.

Share

Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: atheists, chaplains, Mattis, Navy, news

Three Martini Lunch 10/4/16

October 4, 2016 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-10-4-16.mp3

Greg Corombos of Radio America and Ian Tuttle of National Review preview the vice presidential debate and point out these candidates are better than the presidential nominees and that we’ll actually see one conservative on stage this fall.  They also groan that conservatives are largely depending on Julian Assange to defeat Hillary Clinton.  And they discuss the latest invasion of political correctness into the U.S. military.

Standard Podcast [ 16:33 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Share

Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Assange, correctness, Kaine, Martini, National, Navy, Pence, political, President, Review, vice

Primary Sidebar

Recent

  • GOP Senate Prospects, Cable News Debate Drama, Lightfoot Fails Upward
  • Senate’s Student Loan Rebuke, ‘No Plan’ on China, Hunter’s Absurd Defense
  • Manchin’s Dismal Polling, Trump-DeSantis Surrogate Wars, Christie Crashes the Party
  • Debt Ceiling Deal, EU vs. Twitter, Neuralink’s Promise vs. Peril
  • A Memorial Day Special

Archives

  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008

Copyright © 2023 · News Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in