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ALEXANDRIA – Good Evening, Drifters
A friend of mine delivered something fun into my inbox a few weeks ago and I thought it was worth relaying to you. This is the special treat I have promised for some weeks now.
It’s a speech from the late, controversial Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy. Whatever else you think of him, he’s one of the most remarkable officers in the US Navy’s history and fielded a nuclear fleet with an unrivaled safety record.
When he passed in 1986, then Navy Secretary John Lehman (who also forced Rickover into retirement because of his runaway power and control over too many aspect of the Navy) released a statement summing up his career thusly: