Podcast appearances and mentions of sam lagrone

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… another busy week inside the Washington Beltway and around the world. Sam Lagrone of USNI News will help us sort through the Ships Act, the Reconciliation Bill, shakeup at the National Security Council and how the Houthis caused an expensive US Navy fighter to roll off an aircraft carrier into the Red Sea. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. On this episode…Budget questions, leadership questions, carrier questions - so many unknowns! Sam Lagrone and Mallory Shelbourne of USNI News are back with us to help sort through the many open questions facing the US Navy right now. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This is the third of our year-end specials focusing on significant events and developments of 2024 and some ideas about what to look for in 2025. In this special we're excited to have back with us the core of the USNI News team – chief editor Sam LaGrone, deputy editor Mallory Shelbourne and journalist Heather Mongilio. We again want to wish everyone the Happiest of Holidays and are already looking forward to seeing many of the listeners at this year's Surface Navy Association national symposium January 14-16 at the Crystal City Hyatt. If you have not yet registered, be sure to go to surfacewarfare.org and sign-up today. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…It's no secret the US Navy is seeking ways to find better ways to build ships - but what are some of these efforts producing? And where is the accountability for billions of dollars going to – a non-profit organization? We'll talk about some of the elements with Sam LaGrone of USNI News, who will also review his recent trip with Chris Cavas to visit shipbuilders along the US Gulf coast. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…US Navy surface force issues were front and center at the recent Surface Navy Association waterfront event in San Diego. SNA executive director Chris Bushnell is here with some of his impressions. And the US Navy's Military Sealift Command is planning to cut up to 17 ships to ease a manning crisis. Sam LaGrone of USNI News, who broke the story, will join us.

Sam LaGrone and Bill Hamblet discuss the latest news from the Sea Services, and the new member-exclusive news offering from USNI News.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…the 30-year shipbuilding plan, another shocking amphibious ship report, Gaza Bridge preps and more – Sam Lagrone of USNI News will be here to help us dive into all that and more!

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…2023 in review. We're joined by the entire gang from USNI News to look back at some of the biggest and most significant naval developments of the past year. Chief editor Sam LaGrone, deputy editor Mallory Shelbourne and journalist Heather Mongilio will also let us in on what they expect to see in 2024.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…What is going on in the South China Sea? Sam LaGrone of USNI News joins us to discuss the first in a series of articles based on the seven-week trip this summer by reporter Mallory Shelbourne. First up is a great story detailing a long patrol over the Nine-Dash Line aboard a US Navy patrol aircraft. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… The Navy's investigation report into the command climate and quality of life aboard the aircraft carrier GEORGE WASHINGTON – prompted by a spate of suicides among the ship's junior sailors – was made public this week, and the story is not pretty. Sam Lagrone of USNI News will join us again to talk through the report and the issues that sooner or later affect every ship in the Navy. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Navy budget testimony is in full swing on Capitol Hill, one senator is holding up more than a hundred DoD confirmations, and the Naval Academy gets its first female nominee to become superintendent. Plus SpaceX and “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.” Sam LaGrone of USNI News joins us to unwrap it all. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

USNI News chief Sam LaGrone talks about big themes from WEST23.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…there is nothing like getting out to sea and getting underway with the Navy. For journalists, it means talking up close with sailors and gaining a better understanding of what the Navy does and how they do it. But there are also challenges – like how to get real insight when the experience might last only just a few hours. We're joined by two journalists from USNI News, editor Sam LaGrone and reporter Mallory Shelbourne, for some insight into getting haze grey and underway. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… we are just back from a visit to some of the key shipyards on the US Gulf Coast – and what we saw was truly eye-opening. No one we visited is standing pat, all are investing in significant upgrades. We'll talk about the trip in detail with our traveling partner, Sam LaGrone of USNI News. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…t's been five years since seven sailors were killed when the US Navy destroyer FITZGERALD collided with a Japanese cargo ship, an incident closely followed by another collision between the US destroyer JOHN S McCAIN and a merchant ship that killed 10 sailors. Major recriminations followed. But has it made any difference? We'll talk it over with veteran journalist Sam LaGrone of USNI News. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

On today's show, we chat with political scientist Lori Williams as critics are calling out Jason Kenney and the UCP for divisive leadership. Plus Russia is using dolphins to protect against Ukrainian divers at a naval base. We learn about the use of marine mammals by military from Sam LaGrone, a U.S. Naval Institute news editor. And Alberta Parks is investigating after someone disturbed a bear in its den and videotaped the encounter. We find out more from John Paczkowski, a human-wildlife coexistence team lead with Alberta Parks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Links1. “UKR and Guerilla Naval Warfare,” by David Strachan, Strikepod Systems, March 15, 2022.2. "Ukraine: Estonian cargo ship sinks in the Black Sea," BBC, March 3, 2022.3. "Navy: Saudi Frigate Attacked by Unmanned Bomb Boat, Likely Iranian," by Sam LaGrone, USNI News, February 20, 2017.4. "What We Know and Don't Know About the Beirut Port Explosions," by Austin Ramzy and Elian Peltier, The New York Times, August 5, 2020.5. "Anatomy of a Drone Boat," Conflict Armament Research, December 2017.   

USNI News editor-in-chief Sam LaGrone reviews the news coming out of this week's Surface Navy Assoc. Convention in Washington, DC.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…from the high seas to the littorals to the dreaded territory inside the Beltway, the U S Navy and the sea services continue to deploy, patrol, fly, sail, operate, plan, train and …. budget. Welcome to our first CavasShips Podcast year-ender, where we'll look back at some of the highlights of 2021 and take some shots at what we think the coming year will hold. Joining in the discussion today are two veteran defense reporters, Marcus Weisgerber of Defense One and Sam LaGrone of USNI News.  Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…Fifteen months after the disastrous fire aboard the USS BONHOMME RICHARD the US Navy finally released its investigation into the matter. The report is scathing in its recitation of deplorable events and actions all leading to the loss of the ship. We'll discuss the findings as well as where the Navy goes from here with journalist Sam LaGrone of USNI News, who were the first to report in depth on the investigations..   In this Week's Squawk Chris Cavas discusses the Bonhomme Richard fire. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavsShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com .

Sam Lagrone, USNI News editor-in-chief, reviews the latest headlines from Sea, Air, Space with details on LCS, NGAD, FFG-62, and CVN-78.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…strategy and concepts. Speeches and presentation panels. Ships and aircraft and radars and missiles and drones and sensors and torpedoes and well, you get the picture. We talk about the just-concluded Navy League Sea-Air-Space exposition with two great guests, Sam Lagrone of US Naval Institute News and the never-reticent Vago Muradian. But first, a quick roundup of naval news around the world. In this Week's Squawk Chris Servello shares some thoughts on Admiral Mike Gilday's remarks at Sea, Air and Space. Please send us feedback by DM'ing @CavsShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com .

Photo:  A group of Iranian navy ships. 30 January 2018.  Source | https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/media/1394/11/08/983752/%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA-94-2Author | Tasnim News Agenc:        This is an image from the Tasnim News Agency website, which states in its footer, "All Content by Tasnim News Agency is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Per this discussion, all images without explicitly watermarked attribution to agency photographers are presumed to be outside this license..CBS Eye on the World with John BatchelorCBS Audio Network@BatchelorshowIranian warship loaded with weapons systems perhaps sailing for Venezuela waters; & What is to be done? Sam Lagrone @samlagrone Naval Reporter and Editor @USNINews https://news.usni.org/2021/06/01/iranian-warship-thought-to-be-headed-to-venezuela-left-port-with-7-high-speed-missile-boats-aboard

HERE is the link to Sam LaGrone’s article in USNI News

Fewer carriers are deploying more even as repeated warning lights have been going off that we are expending in peace what we will need in war when it comes to personnel and materiel in carrier aviation.How did we get here, where are we, and where are we going?Using her article, No Margin Left: Overworked Carrier Force Struggles to Maintain Deployments After Decades of Overuse, as a starting point and diving it to some of the additional insights she gained while writing it, Megan Eckstein from USNINews will be joining us along with Sam LaGrone.Megan Eckstein is the deputy editor for USNI News. She previously covered Congress and the Pentagon for Defense Daily, and the surface navy and amphibious operations as an associate editor for Inside the Navy. She began her career covering the military at the Frederick (Md.) News-Post, where she wrote about personnel and family issues, military medical research, local reserve and National Guard units and more. Eckstein is a 2009 graduate of University of Maryland College Park.Sam LaGrone is the editor of USNI News. He has covered legislation, acquisition and operations for the Sea Services since 2009 and spent time underway with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Canadian Navy.

Melanie, Zack, and Chris unpack why the United States has failed to contain the novel coronavirus. Most blame poor leadership in the United States — from the White House to public health officials and down to key figures in the media during the earliest stages of the disease. A more focused effort, sooner, as was implemented in many other developed countries, might have worked. But some see a deeper problem — American exceptionalism, especially an unwillingness to learn from the others’ approaches. If the United States does not turn things around soon, and demonstrate its capacity for solving the pandemic, will U.S. allies and partners be as willing to follow its leadership on a range of other problems? What will be the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the global order, and America’s place in it? Grievances are aired for Tucker Carlson, the House Armed Service Committee, and the Russians — and the Americans who excuse or ignore their behavior. Zack praises the Washington professional football team for its impending name change, and Chris praises the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for planning to do the same for U.S. military bases. Melanie gives a shout out to the Australians for a serious defense strategy and offers warm and heartfelt congratulations to her niece Kaylee for getting accepted to a top medical school — and to her mom (Melanie’s sister) for helping to set up her three daughters for success.   Links   Jeremy Konyndyk, “Exceptionalism Is Killing Americans: An Insular Political Culture Failed the Test of the Pandemic,” Foreign Affairs, June 8, 2020 Farhad Manjoo, “The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out,” New York Times, July 1, 2020 Rebecca Kheel, “House Panel Approves $740.5B Defense Policy Bill,” The Hill, July 1, 2020 Jeff Cox, “The Coronavirus Will Cost the Economy Nearly $8 Trillion, Congressional Budget Office Says,” CNBC, July 1, 2020 Rebecca Kheel, “House Armed Services Votes to Make Pentagon Rename Confederate-Named Bases in a Year,” The Hill, July 1, 2020 Sam LaGrone, “Senate Bill to Purge Confederate Names from U.S. Military Could Affect Two Navy Ships,” USNI News, June 12, 2020 “Challenging Convention: Charting a New Course for the New American Engagement Initiative,” Atlantic Council, July 9, 2020 James Fallows, "The Three Weeks that Changed Everything," The Atlantic, June 29, 2020 Stephen Grey, Andrew Macaskill, Ryan McNeill, Steve Stecklow, and Tommy Wilkes, "Into the Fog: How Britain Lost Track of the Coronavirus," Reuters, June 29, 2020 Shalini Ramachandran, Laura Kusisto, and Katie Honan, "How New York's Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse," Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2020 Chloe Taylor, "Belgium Had the Worst Response to the Coronavirus Crisis among OECD Countries, EIU Says," CNBC, June 17, 2020 Eric A. Feldman, "Did Japan's Lenient Lockdown Conquer the Cornavirus?", The Reg Review, June 10, 2020 William Sposato, "Japan's Halfhearted Coronavirus Measures are Working Anyway," Foreign Policy, May 14, 2020 Lance Williams et al, "California Halted Reserve of Ventilators, Masks, Mobile Hospitals," Reveal News, March 27, 2020 Megan Molteni, "How Masks Went from Don't Wear to Must Have," Wired, July 2, 2020 Paul Krugman, "How America Lost the War on Covid-19," New York Times, July 6, 2020 Kyle Mizokami, "The Air Force Names Its New Jet After the Tuskegee Airmen," Popular Mechanics, September 19, 2019 Charlie Savage, Mujib Mashal, Rukmini Callimachi, Eric Schmitt, and Adam Goldman, "Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers," New York Times, June 30, 2020 Arizona State University, "The Pandemic Dialogues: Great Power Competition and the Case of China"

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our segment one guests Sam LaGrone, editor of the U.S. Naval Institute News, Defense & Aerospace Report’s own contributing editor Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member) provide feedback on key takeaways from this year's Surface Navy Association National Symposium. In segment two we speak with Vice Adm. Tom Moore, USN, the commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command on a variety of ship readiness, maintenance and industry relations topics. Our sponsors for this year’s Surface Navy Association National Symposium are Leonardo DRS and GE Marine.

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Byron Callan of the independent equity research firm Capital Alpa Partners, Sam LaGrone and Megan Eckstein of the U.S. Naval Institute News and Chris Cavas, one of the world’s leading naval warfare reporters. Topics: — Analysis of the Navy League’s Sea Air Space conference and trade show — Navy’s upcoming fleet architecture — Frigate update — Vice President Pence’s reversal of decision to retire USS Harry S Truman — Balance between new ship construction and digging through maintenance backlog for existing fleet — Abraham Lincoln Strike Group to Iran — President Trump’s nomination of Pat Shanahan as defense secretary

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis and the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sam LaGrone, editor of the U.S. Naval Institute News and Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council. Topics: — Look ahead to the Trump administration’s 2020 defense budget request — Reports Navy may retire USS Harry S Truman 30 years before planned to save $5 billion on a refueling complex overhaul and cut two amphibious ships from its plan given changing threats in the Pacific — Failed talks with North Korea — Outlook for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who faces corruption charges as he seeks reelection

On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Sam LaGrone and Megan Eckstein of the U.S. Naval Institute News and Chris Cavas, one of the world’s leading naval warfare reporters to discuss key topics and take aways from the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia.

Former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Deborah Lee James discusses what the re-established U.S. Space Command means for the future of space within the Pentagon, and how it and a Space Force are “not mutually exclusive.” Frank Kendall, former under secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, discusses the Pentagon's efforts to educate acquisition professionals about when to use Other Transaction Authority. Sam LaGrone, editor of USNI News, and Marcus Weisgerber, global business editor at Defense One, look back at the top defense stories of the year, including the Space Force, defense industry mergers, and the Coast Guard’s icebreaker program.

Especially in the last two years, those reporting on defense issues in the United States have seen a significant change in access to people and information compared to the relatively open environment of a decade and a half ago.How have things changed and how does this not only impact how military journalists do their job, but more importantly, how does it impact the ability for the American citizen to keep an eye on what is being done in their name with their money.Our guest for the full hour to discuss this and related issues with be Sam LaGrone.Sam is the editor of USNI News. He has covered legislation, acquisition and operations for the Sea Services since 2009 and spent time underway with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Canadian Navy.

USNI News editor Sam LaGrone joins Bill and Ward in the studio to talk about current events including the latest surrounding the budget and "Fat Leonard" scandal.

For today's Crizzlecast, I go back-and-forth about journalism-related stuff with Sam LaGrone, D.C. reporter, U.S. Naval Institute online editor and a former colleague of mine from my News & Observer days, But it isn't all about journalism -- we also talk about being thirtysomething old farts, his experiences in military school, who the hell is that "Gangnam Style" guy and how people in other countries aren't really feeling Americans like we think they are. Oh yeah, we also talk about that time I brought a 12-pack of Tab at one of his birthday parties, a party which ended with a ballet dancer fondling my package. NOW, DO YOU WANNA LISTEN?!