Scuttlebutt: Official Podcast of the National Museum of the Surface Navy National Museum of the Surface Navy

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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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. 

So what's this about murder...? You'll just have to listen to find out!

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Joe Sienkiewicz from NOAA's Ocean Predictions Center (otherwise known as our favorite "weather guesser") is our ace in the hole when it comes to inclement weather that's headed our way. He's been instrumental in helping us stay on top of how to prepare for events like Tropical Storm Hilary.

This former tug boat operator sat down with us for a fascinating (did you know the buoys offshore can read the sizes of waves that refract off our breakwater?) conversation about the way weather works in the San Pedro Channel area.

(Hear Part 1 of this conversation here: 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1971056/13561030

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Joe Sienkiewicz from NOAA's Ocean Predictions Center (otherwise known as our favorite "weather guesser") is our ace in the hole when it comes to inclement weather that's headed our way. He's been instrumental in helping us stay on top of how to prepare for events like Tropical Storm Hilary.

This former tug boat operator sat down with us for a fascinating (did you know the buoys offshore can read the sizes of waves that refract off our breakwater?) conversation about the way weather works in the San Pedro Channel area.

So good, we've got part 2 saved for next time.

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Picture it: April 1975. Saigon has fallen. Thousands are frantic to get out. They take to the roof of an apartment building and fly off in the largest helicopter evacuation in history. But where do they go?

At least 17 head out to sea and attempt to land aboard USS KIRK, the destroyer-escort where a young Dick McKenna is the executive officer.

In this podcast Dick shares his experience over those harrowing days in late April, and describes what it was like when "Operation Frequent Wind" suddenly transformed his ship into a temporary home for over 150 Vietnamese refugees and part of the rescue of over 30,000 people.

Appendix:

The Knox class destroyer escort USS KIRK was commissioned Sept. 9, 1972.

Following Operation Frequent Wind she continued to serve the US Navy until her decommissioning in 1993.

She was loaned to the Taiwanese Navy in August of that year, stricken from the US Navy in 1995, and purchased by Taiwan in 1999.

She still serves the Taiwanese Navy today.


In the years following the fall of Saigon, the US Navy Bureau of Medicine decided to commission a movie titled, "The Lucky Few" to tell the tale of the medical efforts involved in the rescue.

Because of "The Lucky Few," the KIRK was featured in Rory Kennedy's Academy Award nominated film, "The Last Days of Vietnam."


Operation Frequent Wind remains one of the greatest humanitarian acts in the history of the United States military.

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Short answer to that one is an emphatic NO.

In this video we're setting the record straight on a few of the inaccurate rumors we've been heard floating around lately. Things such as:

- Are we cutting a hole in our hull? 
- Are we gutting and completely restructuring compartments to make room for the national museum?

Find out what we're actually considering and why in this episode of SCUTTLEBUTT.

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