The look on every Navy officer on a tour of a merchant ship when he realizes It’s bigger than a carrier… It runs with just 24 crew… It has a fraction of the maintenance budget… And it still manages to have less rust than the average DDG

The Navy’s been absolutely crushing it… at scrapping ships and planes.

I’ve been flooded with questions about the most ambitious new shipyard project in America, shockingly located near San Francisco. I didn’t have answers so the @gCaptain team flew to California. Here’s my interview with California Forver’s @jansramek & @NextNavy ⬇️

Cheap goods and cheap labor might be ok if they were actually cheap. But they’re not. You can buy the same products on Temu for pennies or on AliExpress for 1/10th if shipped inside China. Meanwhile, U.S. labor costs 10x more than in Mexico. Who’s getting the savings? Not me.

Huge. Thank you @JDVance!

I'm reading about America's old shipyards for an essay I'm working on. Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, Calif., is one of the most incredible ones...and we just shut it down in 1996 (thanks Slick Willy!) I immediately thought of @johnkonrad

By law, the Department of Energy is supposed to release a strategic petroleum reserve report annually. The last report was for 2022, delivered in October 2023. I found this detail on where we got the oil that we had stored in 2022 from.

No more H1-B’s until we solve this, please.

Afternoon shanty break

Let the Seapower tour with my favorite daughter commence!