Recent investments from both the commercial and defense sectors. That is according to the deputy debt deputy secretary of defense. The issue . Driverless technology from commercial firms like google may not translate to the kind of groundbased operations the pentagon performs. Army basic training may be getting longer. Service leaders say recruits and need more time on physical and marksmanship training. The course is already 10 weeks and it is unclear how look much how much longer at the army may make it. The service anticipates more failures as the Program Continues to get tougher. Is chris cavetts , who had an exclusive look at the navys new destroyer. Thank you for joining us. The shiphe second time has been at sea in the first the ship at sea. The ship has been under construction. It came out from the very first time for the initial builder trials. This is the ship in portland made dish in portland, maine last week. They came into for to do something unusual, that is pick up the port pickup the ship. The ship is still in the hands of the ship builders. We had the opportunity to go on board. A very classified ship. What we have are the first views from inside the ship. No video was permitted but we have somes we have some stills. Even the navy is not to release pictures of their ship yet. This is something new. Called broadway, where they can move supplies up and ammunition. This was a feature on battleships. You,ext shot we will show this is the crew area the folks are navy blue members. They are learning to operate the make operate the anchor. It is a whole different arrangement. They are actually getting trained. This was a big deal for them. This is looking out the back of the hangar. That is the hangar door. You can see just how big this hangar is. Very wide and very high. Current destroyers dont have Something Like this create its a whole new feature. About 34 feet or so. End is aay at the stirring door, the stern of the ship. I went down to the other end and took a shot forward. We just looking to the forward end of this vote day. There is space for 14 seals. This ship has a whole capability that doesnt exist on current ships. This is the advanced induction motor. New kind ofole motor that has an integrated power system. Justad of having power dedicated to power separate to run radars, most of the power of the ship can be directed wherever you want. Thats one of the propeller shafts directly in the motor. Have directed energy weapons, rail guns, laser weapons, they require an awful lot of power. This engine here is the key to getting forward. These will probably be the first ships to have those weapons. Hair are we here . Nobody goes top side on this ship area nobody ever went outside, except to come on in portland. Everything is handled inside. You see the lines on the deck there. They are ready to rake the lines out. Trial. Checking out things where they need to fix. Nothing broke down. They were usually ahead of schedule. All the Navy Officials were pleased how it was going. Do trials. O out and out, if they like what they see they will recommend acceptance. The crew will be on board. The ship will be commissioned in baltimore and moved to san diego. It will be 2018 before the ship is fully operational, but it was excited to see the ship at this stage. Host admiral somehow it felt like everything was moving in slow motion. If i didnt react, things could have gotten messy in a hurry. I mean just got that sweet ride with a great rate from navy federal. I was not about to let anything happen to her. Just looking out for my wingman. Hes still in training. Open to the armed forces, the dod and their families. Navy federal credit union. Host the Harry S TrumanCarrier Strike group is deployed in maritime operations. Rear admiral brett , Carrier StrikeGroup Commander spoke to former defense news editor fog vagoanian news editor meradian. What is not different than it has been over the last few years. Are regionals security, maritime security, and the free and open transitive goods, the depends on stability in this region and that is what we remain here to support. As far as iranian behavior, following the recent agreement, i havent seen any change. We interact frequently. Most of them tend to be that way. There are some that arent today. Appreciableseen any ahead of your change. As far as any differences in our interactions in the gulf, we were here. Good answer of what it was like before we arrived. I think we have made a pretty seamless transition from theater roosevelts part or and Harry S Trumans arrival. In the interim that is something that should have been referred all of that. Since we have been here the operations are just as i remember them. As the number of strikes Harry S Truman is contributing to the overall im not sure exactly what the percentage is. When we arrived we were working closely with their air rowing air wing. The coalition is there are many contributors. I cant tell you exactly what the percentage is. The fight against isis isnt eve all thing and changing much. In december and it has been a fairly steady state for us. We continue to target ins desk get infrastructure continue to target infrastructure. We are trying to stem the flow of foreign fighters in their ranks. The airclosely with force, we are very well integrated with them. The way we are using our smaller ships in particular, we have done a number of exercises with partners our gulf partners. The shared experiences those events generate go a long way toward strengthening our relationships. We are working toward common goals so the more we trained together the more we exercise together, the easier it is to do on a routine basis. Looking back to desert storm, we didnt have the same munitions or same capabilities. He have super hornets. The composition has changed some. I will tell you back in those days we cannot have a capability on the f18. That was one of the biggest Lessons Learned delivering precision weapons. The advent of gps guided weapons quiteanged a little bit as well. It has greatly diminished the impacts of any adverse weather and has made some things possible before. Activityont see any from the chinese or the russians. The russians are on the ground in syria and they are flying up there as we understanding with them. Clear with them and they stay clear of us. We are each pursuing our own objectives in iraq and syria. We dont have them in the strike group. I must confess in the right here and right now. I do tend to focus on the assets and capabilities. Behinde those that come will build on those strengths to broaden the capabilities. I would offer not many. Here to the air cruisermander and our and seal of Information Warfare operations do a marvelous job. The best thing i can do for them is stay out of their way. I will tell you what i spent some time on is making sure at this point of deployment, where we have gone for 3. 5 months, that this does not become routine. It is a very unforgiving environment and there are risks to be able to operate as we do. My concern is over time you become accustomed to those risks and you start disrespecting them. I spent a fair amount of time make it sure we dont focus on the into it with thetens we did at e beginning of deployment. Host when we return, more from host welcome back to defense news. Maybe deployments are not easy, when talking about the sheer length of time at sea or the threat thats that exists when 10 navy sailors were taken captive by iranians. That regard to the issue to the incident at farsi island, there is still an Ongoing Investigation with that. Ill of me to speak of that while the investigation is going on. I know they are actively working on that over time. Right now it would be inappropriate to get ahead of the investigation before it is complete and we have completely analyzed the and that analyzed the events. That is the function of the global for us process. There are decisions made at the highest levels of the United States government of where we will go, how long we will go there, and how long we will stay. Certified for deployment and to conduct the operations we anticipated around the world. Someoneause we are not not there now doesnt mean we cant be there quickly. With that comes responsibility to train to a wide array of missions. Where we go and how long we stay, i have very little voice in tha nation most needs us to be to maintain and restore security. As far as our management, i can tell you they took ownership of the training process. Even though the ships were not necessarily out to see we did some training that enabled us and integrate together. They come out and operate with a carrier and air wing and with many ships that operated together. It takes a special individual to sign up for this, any branch of the military. Each and every one of the sailors raised their right hand to defend our nation. If that doesnt make the American People feel good, it should. They are working a 14 hour day. The fact they would make that commitment and be a part of this, they have gone through some very intense training to be able to to their jobs. In conducting those duties with regards to rapid learning and innovation, it is something we have done for as long as i have been a part of it. The focus on it is enabling us to derive Lessons Learned so we dont learn the same lessons over and over again. The Strike Group Commander from Theodore Roosevelt and im passing the lessons we learn to the commander of the eisenhower strike group. The application of the lessons and the improvements are being passed along much more efficiently than in the past, so we dont have to learn the same things over and over again. Goes, is the innovation think that is something they have done fairly well. This is a living breathing changing world. We have to change the way we operate. We have to change our way of thinking at times. And with the renewed focus. Because we did something this way forever doesnt mean it is the right way. Atare encouraged to look problems in make sure we can look at them from different means. The key to having any different invite, include, and inspire. Those things go miles towards in clear towards encouraging some junior folks to share observations. As long as you are receptive to those ideas, you cant implement everyone. Every so often you have a cute you have a few that come along. You have seen it out here. Are Walking Around with a lot of springs in their steps and smiles on their face. We value the things they contribute each and every day. Some examples are the things we didnt think of in the leverage as efficiently in the past. Printer, they walked into a morning meeting about six weeks ago with a wrench. Thatame people that took came up with an application by which they can create from scratch a bracket with which some of the radios we use. A 700 on these handheld radios. By putting this bracket on it, the antenna dont break and you look at thousands of these handheld radios we carry around here. We put it toward our training and operations. We have some tooling capabilities. What we started doing here is some of the other ships in the gearn are shipping their whh and handed over to the maintenance officer downstairs. We are going through the whole calibration process and some of the eight some of the equipment. That has been a significant contribution to the entire deployed force. On this weeks money minute feature, personal finance expert tells us the difference between good and bad debt. The best way to start is with a prething, that way everybody is on the same page and the mission is on track frisk us for success. One of the biggest Financial Issues they will deal with is debt, both good and bad. Average American Household has more than 129,000 in debt. Managing debt is an important lesson to teaching your children. Good debt is associated with the potential to hold or increase its value. Student loans and even credit cards can be considered good debt. In order to make those types of loans work for you you have to make sure you dont bite off more than you can chew. Debt involves borrowing from a 401 k retirement account, and taking out payday loans. These days there are more financial players than ever. It is imperative to help learn the difference between good and bad debt. And helping them be more financially successful in the long run. When we return, the fallout , youre watching defense news. We were making a move. The dewe had to. Made we knew that if we came in too high, had to stay low. And boy did we. We locked it in and rode that low rate from Navy Federal Credit union all the way to our first house. Its a splitlevel ranch. So cute open to the armed forces and their families for over 80 years. Navy federal credit union. Weve heard a lot about cuts to defense budgets, and the trickle down effect part of the challenge is prioritizing funds. And some of his favorite moments as a naval aviator. To the budgetary process and the limitations placed on us, i cant speak to the entire force. Compressedthe turnaround cycle and the Training Cycle we have already discussed, we are the prioritized recipient of resource the navy had to offer. That wasnt just on the east coast. That was contributing to get us out the door. Some cases that may have been at the expense of others. If there was maintenance to be done, maintenance on an aircraft, he cousin that there was very little affect on us. Because of the operational availability of our assets on deployment has been very good and im very happy with it. We talked about the sailors and the sacrifices they make out here each and every day, to uniform and to serve. That is a remarkable thing. What i would offer to you is one of the most underappreciated patriots are the military families. Gone to have all starbucks in an airport, you never know who the spouses are that have endured the same hardships. Or are as all into this mission as the sailors that are out here. Appreciationr some and recognition while we come out and do this. Without their dedication and mission we would not be able to do this. The most fun moment i had in the , the top five flights, some of them were in training once upon a time. That was some really aggressive training. It was really awarded really rewarding. Asleep andber being i upgraded the alert. 15 minutes later they were shut off the front end. It was the ability to do that and participate where it intakes where it takes the entire team to make that happen, it was pretty remarkable. And it has been a positive experience and i am so fortunate to be a part of it. Host [music] dr. Charles stanley for all of us who are believers, god has given us the key to living a godly life and a life that is pleasing and honorable to him. And a life that makes it possible for us to accomplish anything and everything that god has set before us. But prayer is the key. Male announcer next on in touch, the believers war room. Announcer join us during the program and follow along with the sermon notes. 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