We've been trying to get this guy on the podcast for a while. He's Travis Davis, Vice President of Ship Operations for Battleship TEXAS and he's had an interesting few years.

In this podcast he shares behind the scenes info on the recent drydocking and restoration of the world's oldest battleship.

Part 2 coming soon.

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We're excited to introduce the latest restored and working space aboard Battleship IOWA. It's the new home for our podcast: IOWA's 1980s TV studio. Welcome to NEPM Studio 61A!

In this episode we sit down with IOWA's Innovation Engineering & Technology (IE&T) Team manager Gary Lopes for a chat about what it was like to restore the ship's 1980s television studio to its full glory (working Betamax camera included)... only to see our podcast team move in and get goofy.

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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Become a Plank Owner: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/plank_owner
• Donate: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
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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

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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
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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.

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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Become a Plank Owner: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/plank_owner
• Donate: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Find out about our veterans' programs: https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veterans/

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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

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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Become a Plank Owner: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/plank_owner
• Donate: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Find out about our veterans' programs: https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veterans/

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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.

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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Become a Plank Owner: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/plank_owner
• Donate: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Find out about our veterans' programs: https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veterans/

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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...?

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• Come aboard for a tour: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/museum_visit
• Volunteer with us: https://www.pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/volunteer
• National Museum of the Surface Navy: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Become a Plank Owner: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/plank_owner
• Donate: https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate
• Find out about our veterans' programs: https://pacificbattleship.com/get-involved/veterans/

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