May 22, 2025 • 22 mins
Admiral Daryl Caudle joins the show to talk Fleet Week, life at sea, and his relationship with his wife.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are so excited for many reasons. One of them
the number one reason we're excited today, it's the return appearance,
his second appearance with us. It's so great to have
him in the room once again. Admiral Daryl Coddle is
here for Fleet Week. We welcome you, Admiral Coddle. Thank
you for coming in to see us today. Oh it's
a pleasure, sir. Thank you for inviting me back Fleet
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Week New York.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I know there are so many Fleet Weeks going on
in our country. Are they all happening this week? Is
this the week? No, it's not this week. They're all
throughout the year. This is we stayed you know in
different times?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Do you get to go to all of them?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I get to go to a lot of them, Wow,
get to you or have to. But I only pick
the ones that are the good ones.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yes, okay, I can't wait. Maybe a little later in
this this conversation we'll hear which ones are the bad ones.
Now if I'm I don't know, if I'm great. Was
San Diego the first site for the first Fleet Week
celebration in our country.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'm getting a nod that says you were correct, Sir, yes, Wow, okay, okay,
I'm rarely correct, rarely correct.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, Admiral Darrocadda here of course with now everyone who's
here with you today, these incredible people who have traveled
all the way to our studios at this this this hour,
which this is under an unusual hour for you to
be up. I'm sure. Uh will you call them your command?
What is their official because we were saying that they're
your posse, you know, it's like they're your peeps.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Well, well, I think that's a better term. I wouldn't.
Now that you've said posse, I may start using that. Yeah,
they are my they are my people, that are my
front office supports staff, you know, for star admirals, we
uh we we we take a lot of we require
a lot of care and nurturing and it uh exceeds
the capacity of my darling wife, Donna.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So we love Donna. Donna's back to New York for
her second appearance since with our show, and uh, it's it.
I'm sure. Do you do you really? Do you do
a lot of events with your wife at your side?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yes? I do, actually not as many as I'd like to,
but but the Yeah, she is a great Navy spouse,
and we do a lot of things together. And when
you know, you join the Navy and you're married, I
don't know, the spouse always recognizes that there's going to
be a significant load on he or she as as
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you go through this incredible career, as the Navy puts
on them.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, let's talk about that, Admiral. We have so many
listeners who are serving our country by sheer evidence because
they're married to someone who's serving our country. They're traveling
around to different different cities, not only in America, but
around the world to serve with them. What's it like
being a military spouse. What is part of that job
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that we probably need to know that we don't We
don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, I think the you know, the biggest part is,
you know, there's an old saying those who wait serve
to and that's the thing you will hear in speeches
that I give. You know, we deploy, we're gone, somebody's
you know, take the kids to school, you know, maintaining
the home, keeping the cars, maintained, mowing the grass, all
that stuff that you got to do while you know,
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the military member is defending our nation abroad. So that
is a significant undertaking, especially when you got young kids.
Don and I have five grandchildren, two service members. I
have a marine son in law aviation maintenance officer and
a fire Control AEGEUS Combat System petty officer on board
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a ship down in Mayport with two grandchildren. He's currently underway.
So our daughter there is, you know, got a three
month old and a six year old that's doing all
that by herself. So it's just demanding on spouses.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Wait, so does Donna know how to change the fire alarm?
Because I had to do that yesterday in my house
because my husband's gone for like two days, so that
was a lot for me yesterday. Does she know how
to do things like that?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What she does with that is she just removes the
battery so it stops beeping.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Really, it seems to be like the universal solution. I
don't know, is it just me?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just make it stop, make it stop, make it go away?
Who needs a battery and a fire fire detector smoke detector?
Just if you just turn it off, it won't will
bother you. So I'm gonna set the stage for what
happened yesterday here in New York City. It happens every
year for Fleet Week. If you got up early enough
yesterday you got a great spot on the Hudson River.
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This is without doubt the most patriotic spectacle of the
year here in New York City. The fotella included, let
me see two US Navy ships, two US Coast Guard cutters,
five Naval Academy yard patrol boats. Then we have visiting
ships this year from Canada and Germany. All the way
from way down Battery Park up to the George Washington Bridge.
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You got to see and have a front row seat
from seven forty five till eleven o'clock. It was just
an amazing spectacle, as it is every year. What's it
like for you? I'm sure you get front row seats
for this.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I do. I get a front row seat there. It's intrepid.
It was wonderful. I got to speak to the group
with the Secretary of the Navy, John Feelin was with
me and was spent all day with him yesterday at
various events. You know, to see our large deck amphibious
ships come in and more of there Peer eighty six
with the man we call it manning the rails, with
all the sailors and marines and their dress uniforms. It's
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just incredible. I mean, New York is like no other
fleet weeek I mentioned and when we started, just the
way we get embraced and the turnout there for us,
for them all appreciating what these warriors, these sailors and
marines do every day. It's so reassuring for what they do,
and we're so appreciative of it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Very nice. I know, Gandhi is bulging with questions. She
was asking me, She's I've got to ask the admal
so many things. She had a list, where do you
want to start?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Where do I start? Okay, Well, I would like to
say I love you guys all because my boyfriend is
a Navy vet. Also, I know you're not veterans, but
he is one. So he's super excited about Fleetweek. He's
coming to town for this because he wants to see
all the ships and watch what goes on.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But I have a question.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
About what you guys are and are not allowed to
do when you're in your military uniforms. And I know
we kind of asked you this before, but if people
want to buy you shots, they want to buy you drinks,
they want to give you kisses, how does that work.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yes, yes, and yes, the formula is so incredibly simple. Okay, yeah,
that's yeah, it's as long as it's not i'll say inappropriate,
and that's a word that's you know, you can drive
a truck through Uh, you can do all those things,
and I recommend you do. It's it's the way you
really think. Tell the sailors and marines that are out there,
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get to know them, talk with them, and do the
things you said, and that's when they feel appreciate for
what they do.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
For shure, Yes, Donna, are you cool with people?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Kissing him.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Is important?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And then with submarines, right, yes, So last year, maybe
a little bit before last year, there was the submersible
that went down, the recreational submersible. What are your thoughts
on these things?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You know, it's unfortunate loss of life on something like that.
It's it's a terrible way to die. You know, you're
just you're gonna be in a vessel. You know you're
going down. There's not much you can do about it.
We've lost, you know, two nuclear powered submarines like that
in our history, early on, very early in our career.
And we've learned from that uh, the reasons that those
things happen, but it's it's a horrible thing, you know.
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That's why the rigor and standards and the technical expertise
and the systems and the redundancy, all those things have
to marry up to make sure we have incredibly safe operations.
And that's why we're we train constantly to make sure
things like that don't happen to our ships.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Do you guys, when you see stuff like that happening,
step in and say, hey, that is a terrible idea.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Do not do this. We do work with the all organizations,
including ones that have that are not under the military,
to learn those lessons so we can apply them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Absolutely, If you're just turning us on, this is Admiral
Darryl Coddle. He is here, of course for a fleet
week and of course we also have a very very
important something going on this weekend. It is Memorial Day weekend.
And we even though a lot of us have parents
who have served in the different different phases of military,
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different but they lived to see the end of it
and to live full lives. So many people did not
do that. Of course, Memorial Day the true meaning for you,
what is that.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Oh my gosh, that's it's such an overwhelming question. It
is remembering them, their legacy. We never want them to
be forgotten. They paved the way for the freedoms we
have today. And there's sacrifices, the ultimate sacrifices are something
we need to reflect on that day. I will speak
at the Intrepid on Monday or Memorial Day, and my
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comments will will highlight the fact that these are the
people that basically allow us to be the America that
we are, and there'll be gold star families in the
audience and the chance for me to look at them
in the eye and tell them we do remember their sacrifice.
These are families that you know, have an empty chair
in their kitchen, you know, again, a broken heart, and
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they need to have the reassurance that the country's not
forgotten that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So it's a day to do then reflect on that. Elvis,
thank you for answering to that. I appreciate it very much.
So let's talk about the Intrepid. Now, we've been on
the Intrepid several times. We've done our show there several
times as well. I find it probably the most fascinating
and I'm gonna call it museum in New York City,
and there's nothing like it I've ever seen anywhere else
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in the world. The Intrepid is such an incredible collection
of well, god gosh, a million different things. But of
course when you get to see these planes, you get
to see the exhibits, the way they tell the stories
behind all of this gear and all the people who
have served on these massive ships around the world. It
is truly a remarkable site to see. What are your
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thoughts on the Intrepid.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, I'm actually glad you highlighted that. I think I
agree with you. It is an extraordinary experience. We were
there yesterday and walking through the hangar deck, I'm going
to say there are probably three or four hundred kids
there crawling on the exhibits like they're supposed to, you know,
laying in the racks that were sailors sleep, you know,
pretending like they're on the bridge, looking through all the
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different components there in systems, and it's very tactile, and
that's how they learned about what we do in the Navy.
And I think the Intrepid leadership team has done a
fantastic job maintaining that ship, keeping at the museum and
the experience that allows people to come on board and
see that history, and it scales from things that you know,
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Navy of old, essentially at the start of when we
had aircraft carriers like the Intrepid and one of the
older ones all the way to things we have today
which are very new and so it is a very
special place. We'll be there tonight for a gala event
there were recognizing the Secretary of the Navy and they'll
strip that place down that hangar deck and it'll be
you know, over a thousand people there that have come
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to do that celebration in that in that hangar deck.
So it's it's it's a full spectrum of ship that's
capable of a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You know what I actually did on the Intrepid. They
had a zombie run on the This is how diverse
this ship is.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They actually had a zombie run.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
They set it up like the Walking Dead, and we
came and there were zombies in all of the different
you know stuff. Yeah, they chased us.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Well, hopefully it's the end of the cocktail hour tonight.
It won't be the zombie of the Walking Dead.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Hopefully I will never know. Maybe or maybe tomorrow morning
if they go too late. Fascinating talking about let's say
the Intrepid. Let's talk about in the submarine that you
you have served on versus a commercial cruise ship. I mean,
I'm sure a lot of people who visiting or who
visiting New York have been on one of our ships
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at Norwegian Cruise Line and they go, this is nothing,
nothing like that. They didn't live like we do on
these Have you ever been on a cruise? Would you
ever want? Would you never? Would you ever want to
you on a cruise?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I get this question a lot, and Donna can attest
that I've always thought like why would I want to
go do that? And then I'll be honest. Last year
we went to Fleetweek Miami, one of the good ones,
and uh, and so I'm down there first ever, in fact,
the first time we'd held it there, and the Norwegian
Cruise Line hosted us and allowed us to use their
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slips there for our ships. We had three ships, more
than places at the Norwegian Cruise Line. The president of
Norwegian Cruise Line hosted my team, you know, my peeps
here and the others, and I got on board that thing.
I could have not been more wrong. I would live
on that thing if I could. These things are extraordinary.
I mean, I just I had no idea. Just to
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give you a sense and scale of that it can
The one we were on can hold seventy five hundred
passengers and below decks the folks you don't see running
the injin roum and meal service is another twenty five hundred.
So that ship gets underway, it can be with ten
thousand people, and we've pat ourself on the back when
an aircraft carrier has five thousand. So these this cruise
Line serious business, Elvis, and they are incredible. But like
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you started out, it's nothing like a submarine.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I can't imagine being out in a navy ship and
having you know, well, let's see a Broadway show or
a casino. There's no casino, no, no, maybe some friendly
gambling on the mess decks, certainly.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Not a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
When you go to Norwegian Cruise Line ship, they don't
call dinner mess. They really don't know how fascinating you
know what? Being a I'm gonna say the word soldier
is that appropriate? Is it appropriate to say you're a
soldier of officially you are? What if you are called
a soldier.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, yeah, we typically say a soldier is somebody that's
a ground force and we're sailors, uh, marine and airmen
and guardsmen, and you know, we all have terms. But colloquially,
I think it's fine to call us all soldiers. You know,
we are we're committed to the armed forces.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So if anyone and everyone stuck in traffic driving to
work listening to you, Admiral Caudle, we're all civilians as you,
I guess, call us. How could we live our lives
more parallel to the life of someone serving in the military.
That discipline and what good would it do for us
if we studied the soldier, we studied the sailors, and
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apply that to our lives every day. How would that
change this country?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Well? I think, you know, you can get wrapped down
the line that it's about all the you know, the
uniformed part of it, all the discipline, the standards and repetitiveness,
the chain of command and all that. I wouldn't focus
on that to your question. What I would focus on is,
whatever you decide to do in life, look at it
as a call to that service. You know, if you're
a radio host, this is what you do and approach
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that as you know, from a perspective of service and
what you provide the greater community and uh and if
you do that, and the passion and the energy and
enthusiasm and the stamina all that requires, I think will
come naturally from that. So look at it as a
call to service. I love that call to service. We
actually talk about that a lot here. It's so funny
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how you're called to service and our call to service.
Different calls to different services away, but but you can you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Can parallel them. You can enter into the same lane
when it comes to helping others, pointing out things in
life that are positive and put people on the right track.
And we try to do that every day in one
way or another. I want to open it up. We
got we have an admiral here in our room. This
is an opportunity to ask whatever you want. Let's get crazy,
which when I think crazy, I think Gandhi first.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Okay, So, how how long out of the year to
you usually spend on the water?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Well, you know, for me, not a lot. Now, you know,
I'm kind of aged out that. But the typical sailor
will spend the about fifty percent of their time underway. Okay,
So we call it our operational tempo, and we have
some rules that kind of govern that's over a three
year period, it'll be about fifty percent of import in
that sea. Okay, so it's significant. So a person like
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me of a career like this, I've spent about thirteen
years on sea duty and so think of half of that.
So call it six and a half years underwater.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So six and a half years underwater. But oh my god,
everyone else in here, I'm sure you guys have been
on chips on the water as well.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, what's the UFO situation? Right? Oh oh yeah, yeah,
I'm ready. Let's go now, don't hold back. That's always
fun them.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, well, yeah, we do. Our pilots tend to see them.
I don't know what that says, but uh uh, you know,
it's a it's a tough question. I personally don't know,
but I would tell you I don't believe it's from
another planet. I think the probability of that is like
ten to the minus ninth or something. Oh okay, so
I don't think it's that. Yeah, yeah, but so I
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typically think those are probably like unmanned aerial vehicles of
some type. That would be my belief.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, and then this drone situation in New Jersey. I'm
sure you've heard all of it, Yes, are what are
we thinking?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
That was?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Well, you know, it's interesting. One of the jobs, one
of my hats that I wear is I'm the Force
Protection UH lead for the Navy across the United States,
working for Northern Command, so our commander that protects the
you know, North America, and so that falls under my job.
Jar if you will, we uh this this is a
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serious threat and so we you know we are right now.
That's the whole point of the Golden Dome is not
only to you know, try to get a handle on
incoming ballistic missiles and protect our country, but even more
common is just protect our bases and critical infrastructure from
things like UAVs and drawings and Nation States sponsored things
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all the way to hobbyists, all of these things. We
need a better way to see them and a better
way to take them out without damaging, you know, other
things in the process or hurting people. So it's it's
a tough problem because you try to just knock it down,
then it falls somewhere and you can't have that happening.
So it's the thing we focus on and work on
quite a bit. Actually, yeah, security, it's all about security.
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And look, I don't like being naked in my pool
and seem a drone looking at me. No, that's right,
because I want to make sure everyone else is secure
from seeing that video, because that would not be well
in all fairness. We spent yesterday with the New York
Police Department and for about a couple hours, and they
run a drone division and they've got a pretty incredible
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capability there with a twenty four to seven watch that's
going on where they respond in the city with with
drones and and so that's a good use of it
when it's being used like that, and so we just
have to look out for the bad uses of them.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
What up, Danielle, I just want to know, do you
have a magic solution to keep your whites looking white?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Well? Again? Uh, there's a person in the room here,
he's standing over there. He is a person that is
solely responsible for keeping the admirals white white.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I think we talked to him last time and he
gave up what was it? There? Something a secret that
you told us? I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's with me, especially with a rating like this. It
takes a tight bucket.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, there, I have another one. So Tom Cruise is
apparently coming out with Mission Impossible three. Yes, I'm sorry,
Top Gun three.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, Top Gun three.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
If they come to you, guys, when do you consult?
And too, are any of you allowed to be in
it if they ask you?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh, one hundred percent. I mean we've got folks that
have you know, actually met Tom on various movies like
Mission Impossible. Uh. Tom Cruise does a great job coordinating
with the Navy with his movies. And some people try
to do movies and they don't coordinate well and then
the Navy can't really you know, get behind them. But
Tom cruise movies we do. He does a great job
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of that, and he is a great advocate of the
Navy and and so anyway, I just give him a
shout out for that. And so, yeah, we get to participate.
He brings us in. He's you know, he gets out
underway on our ships to do all that filming and
is a real friend of the Navy.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
You get a sneak peek at the movie before it
comes out.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
We absolutely do. Yeah, well, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm scary.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Had a question what's up, scary. Yeah, well, first of all,
thank you all for your services. My dad served in
Vietnam in the Navy, so I can relate.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
A little bit. Well he can relate, but he's listening
right now.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I just want to know because this going into this weekend,
obviously a lot of people like you know, the grilling,
the traveling, they're vacationing whatever, going to the beach.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But what is the.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
One thing they can do to honor you and everyone
else for Memorial Day? One thing you could think of,
what can we all do?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well? I think we I think just have in your
heart some time to reflect, you know, regardless if you're
at the beach or a barbecue or whatever, you know,
take a moment on Monday to just think about the
you know, what all the service members have done throughout
our entire time. You know, the Navy's two hundred and
fifty years old this year. This is our two and
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we're older than the country. And so in October will
be two fifty and the country will be of course
next July. And that's been a lot of folks that
have you know, perished the under the flag of our
country and the cloth of our nation. So I think
that it's worthy to take a few minutes and at
some point and just you know, Paul's bow your head
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perhaps and just reflect and thank God that we have
the country we have, and the service members we have
and what they did with the ultimate sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Admiral Coddle, it's been such an honor to have you
and your posse here with us again this year, and
your wife. I hope that even though it's a little
rainy today and tomorrow, I hope you guys find some fun,
great things to do here in New York City, because
we do have a few things going on here. It's
one of those little towns that is always busy, and
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I know you're gonna be very very busy this this weekend,
and rightfully so. But thank you so much for coming
in to see us.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Thank you so much, absolutely, thank you listening, and please do,
as the Admiral has said this this coming Monday, stop
for a second on your own, have a moment of
silence and think about what the day is all about.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
We appreciate you very much, Admiral Coddle. Everyone incredible
We are so excited for many reasons. One of them
the number one reason we're excited today, it's the return appearance,
his second appearance with us. It's so great to have
him in the room once again. Admiral Daryl Coddle is
here for Fleet Week. We welcome you, Admiral Coddle. Thank
you for coming in to see us today. Oh it's
a pleasure, sir. Thank you for inviting me back Fleet
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Week New York.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I know there are so many Fleet Weeks going on
in our country. Are they all happening this week? Is
this the week? No, it's not this week. They're all
throughout the year. This is we stayed you know in
different times?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Do you get to go to all of them?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I get to go to a lot of them, Wow,
get to you or have to. But I only pick
the ones that are the good ones.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yes, okay, I can't wait. Maybe a little later in
this this conversation we'll hear which ones are the bad ones.
Now if I'm I don't know, if I'm great. Was
San Diego the first site for the first Fleet Week
celebration in our country.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'm getting a nod that says you were correct, Sir, yes, Wow, okay, okay,
I'm rarely correct, rarely correct.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, Admiral Darrocadda here of course with now everyone who's
here with you today, these incredible people who have traveled
all the way to our studios at this this this hour,
which this is under an unusual hour for you to
be up. I'm sure. Uh will you call them your command?
What is their official because we were saying that they're
your posse, you know, it's like they're your peeps.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Well, well, I think that's a better term. I wouldn't.
Now that you've said posse, I may start using that. Yeah,
they are my they are my people, that are my
front office supports staff, you know, for star admirals, we
uh we we we take a lot of we require
a lot of care and nurturing and it uh exceeds
the capacity of my darling wife, Donna.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So we love Donna. Donna's back to New York for
her second appearance since with our show, and uh, it's it.
I'm sure. Do you do you really? Do you do
a lot of events with your wife at your side?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yes? I do, actually not as many as I'd like to,
but but the Yeah, she is a great Navy spouse,
and we do a lot of things together. And when
you know, you join the Navy and you're married, I
don't know, the spouse always recognizes that there's going to
be a significant load on he or she as as
(02:18):
you go through this incredible career, as the Navy puts
on them.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, let's talk about that, Admiral. We have so many
listeners who are serving our country by sheer evidence because
they're married to someone who's serving our country. They're traveling
around to different different cities, not only in America, but
around the world to serve with them. What's it like
being a military spouse. What is part of that job
(02:44):
that we probably need to know that we don't We
don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, I think the you know, the biggest part is,
you know, there's an old saying those who wait serve
to and that's the thing you will hear in speeches
that I give. You know, we deploy, we're gone, somebody's
you know, take the kids to school, you know, maintaining
the home, keeping the cars, maintained, mowing the grass, all
that stuff that you got to do while you know,
(03:09):
the military member is defending our nation abroad. So that
is a significant undertaking, especially when you got young kids.
Don and I have five grandchildren, two service members. I
have a marine son in law aviation maintenance officer and
a fire Control AEGEUS Combat System petty officer on board
(03:32):
a ship down in Mayport with two grandchildren. He's currently underway.
So our daughter there is, you know, got a three
month old and a six year old that's doing all
that by herself. So it's just demanding on spouses.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Wait, so does Donna know how to change the fire alarm?
Because I had to do that yesterday in my house
because my husband's gone for like two days, so that
was a lot for me yesterday. Does she know how
to do things like that?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What she does with that is she just removes the
battery so it stops beeping.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Really, it seems to be like the universal solution. I
don't know, is it just me?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just make it stop, make it stop, make it go away?
Who needs a battery and a fire fire detector smoke detector?
Just if you just turn it off, it won't will
bother you. So I'm gonna set the stage for what
happened yesterday here in New York City. It happens every
year for Fleet Week. If you got up early enough
yesterday you got a great spot on the Hudson River.
(04:26):
This is without doubt the most patriotic spectacle of the
year here in New York City. The fotella included, let
me see two US Navy ships, two US Coast Guard cutters,
five Naval Academy yard patrol boats. Then we have visiting
ships this year from Canada and Germany. All the way
from way down Battery Park up to the George Washington Bridge.
(04:47):
You got to see and have a front row seat
from seven forty five till eleven o'clock. It was just
an amazing spectacle, as it is every year. What's it
like for you? I'm sure you get front row seats
for this.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I do. I get a front row seat there. It's intrepid.
It was wonderful. I got to speak to the group
with the Secretary of the Navy, John Feelin was with
me and was spent all day with him yesterday at
various events. You know, to see our large deck amphibious
ships come in and more of there Peer eighty six
with the man we call it manning the rails, with
all the sailors and marines and their dress uniforms. It's
(05:20):
just incredible. I mean, New York is like no other
fleet weeek I mentioned and when we started, just the
way we get embraced and the turnout there for us,
for them all appreciating what these warriors, these sailors and
marines do every day. It's so reassuring for what they do,
and we're so appreciative of it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Very nice. I know, Gandhi is bulging with questions. She
was asking me, She's I've got to ask the admal
so many things. She had a list, where do you
want to start?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Where do I start? Okay, Well, I would like to
say I love you guys all because my boyfriend is
a Navy vet. Also, I know you're not veterans, but
he is one. So he's super excited about Fleetweek. He's
coming to town for this because he wants to see
all the ships and watch what goes on.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But I have a question.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
About what you guys are and are not allowed to
do when you're in your military uniforms. And I know
we kind of asked you this before, but if people
want to buy you shots, they want to buy you drinks,
they want to give you kisses, how does that work.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yes, yes, and yes, the formula is so incredibly simple. Okay, yeah,
that's yeah, it's as long as it's not i'll say inappropriate,
and that's a word that's you know, you can drive
a truck through Uh, you can do all those things,
and I recommend you do. It's it's the way you
really think. Tell the sailors and marines that are out there,
(06:35):
get to know them, talk with them, and do the
things you said, and that's when they feel appreciate for
what they do.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
For shure, Yes, Donna, are you cool with people?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Kissing him.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Is important?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And then with submarines, right, yes, So last year, maybe
a little bit before last year, there was the submersible
that went down, the recreational submersible. What are your thoughts
on these things?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You know, it's unfortunate loss of life on something like that.
It's it's a terrible way to die. You know, you're
just you're gonna be in a vessel. You know you're
going down. There's not much you can do about it.
We've lost, you know, two nuclear powered submarines like that
in our history, early on, very early in our career.
And we've learned from that uh, the reasons that those
things happen, but it's it's a horrible thing, you know.
(07:25):
That's why the rigor and standards and the technical expertise
and the systems and the redundancy, all those things have
to marry up to make sure we have incredibly safe operations.
And that's why we're we train constantly to make sure
things like that don't happen to our ships.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Do you guys, when you see stuff like that happening,
step in and say, hey, that is a terrible idea.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Do not do this. We do work with the all organizations,
including ones that have that are not under the military,
to learn those lessons so we can apply them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Absolutely, If you're just turning us on, this is Admiral
Darryl Coddle. He is here, of course for a fleet
week and of course we also have a very very
important something going on this weekend. It is Memorial Day weekend.
And we even though a lot of us have parents
who have served in the different different phases of military,
(08:15):
different but they lived to see the end of it
and to live full lives. So many people did not
do that. Of course, Memorial Day the true meaning for you,
what is that.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Oh my gosh, that's it's such an overwhelming question. It
is remembering them, their legacy. We never want them to
be forgotten. They paved the way for the freedoms we
have today. And there's sacrifices, the ultimate sacrifices are something
we need to reflect on that day. I will speak
at the Intrepid on Monday or Memorial Day, and my
(08:49):
comments will will highlight the fact that these are the
people that basically allow us to be the America that
we are, and there'll be gold star families in the
audience and the chance for me to look at them
in the eye and tell them we do remember their sacrifice.
These are families that you know, have an empty chair
in their kitchen, you know, again, a broken heart, and
(09:12):
they need to have the reassurance that the country's not
forgotten that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So it's a day to do then reflect on that. Elvis,
thank you for answering to that. I appreciate it very much.
So let's talk about the Intrepid. Now, we've been on
the Intrepid several times. We've done our show there several
times as well. I find it probably the most fascinating
and I'm gonna call it museum in New York City,
and there's nothing like it I've ever seen anywhere else
(09:36):
in the world. The Intrepid is such an incredible collection
of well, god gosh, a million different things. But of
course when you get to see these planes, you get
to see the exhibits, the way they tell the stories
behind all of this gear and all the people who
have served on these massive ships around the world. It
is truly a remarkable site to see. What are your
(09:59):
thoughts on the Intrepid.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, I'm actually glad you highlighted that. I think I
agree with you. It is an extraordinary experience. We were
there yesterday and walking through the hangar deck, I'm going
to say there are probably three or four hundred kids
there crawling on the exhibits like they're supposed to, you know,
laying in the racks that were sailors sleep, you know,
pretending like they're on the bridge, looking through all the
(10:22):
different components there in systems, and it's very tactile, and
that's how they learned about what we do in the Navy.
And I think the Intrepid leadership team has done a
fantastic job maintaining that ship, keeping at the museum and
the experience that allows people to come on board and
see that history, and it scales from things that you know,
(10:43):
Navy of old, essentially at the start of when we
had aircraft carriers like the Intrepid and one of the
older ones all the way to things we have today
which are very new and so it is a very
special place. We'll be there tonight for a gala event
there were recognizing the Secretary of the Navy and they'll
strip that place down that hangar deck and it'll be
you know, over a thousand people there that have come
(11:05):
to do that celebration in that in that hangar deck.
So it's it's it's a full spectrum of ship that's
capable of a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You know what I actually did on the Intrepid. They
had a zombie run on the This is how diverse
this ship is.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They actually had a zombie run.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
They set it up like the Walking Dead, and we
came and there were zombies in all of the different
you know stuff. Yeah, they chased us.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Well, hopefully it's the end of the cocktail hour tonight.
It won't be the zombie of the Walking Dead.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Hopefully I will never know. Maybe or maybe tomorrow morning
if they go too late. Fascinating talking about let's say
the Intrepid. Let's talk about in the submarine that you
you have served on versus a commercial cruise ship. I mean,
I'm sure a lot of people who visiting or who
visiting New York have been on one of our ships
(11:56):
at Norwegian Cruise Line and they go, this is nothing,
nothing like that. They didn't live like we do on
these Have you ever been on a cruise? Would you
ever want? Would you never? Would you ever want to
you on a cruise?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I get this question a lot, and Donna can attest
that I've always thought like why would I want to
go do that? And then I'll be honest. Last year
we went to Fleetweek Miami, one of the good ones,
and uh, and so I'm down there first ever, in fact,
the first time we'd held it there, and the Norwegian
Cruise Line hosted us and allowed us to use their
(12:30):
slips there for our ships. We had three ships, more
than places at the Norwegian Cruise Line. The president of
Norwegian Cruise Line hosted my team, you know, my peeps
here and the others, and I got on board that thing.
I could have not been more wrong. I would live
on that thing if I could. These things are extraordinary.
I mean, I just I had no idea. Just to
(12:52):
give you a sense and scale of that it can
The one we were on can hold seventy five hundred
passengers and below decks the folks you don't see running
the injin roum and meal service is another twenty five hundred.
So that ship gets underway, it can be with ten
thousand people, and we've pat ourself on the back when
an aircraft carrier has five thousand. So these this cruise
Line serious business, Elvis, and they are incredible. But like
(13:14):
you started out, it's nothing like a submarine.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I can't imagine being out in a navy ship and
having you know, well, let's see a Broadway show or
a casino. There's no casino, no, no, maybe some friendly
gambling on the mess decks, certainly.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Not a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
When you go to Norwegian Cruise Line ship, they don't
call dinner mess. They really don't know how fascinating you
know what? Being a I'm gonna say the word soldier
is that appropriate? Is it appropriate to say you're a
soldier of officially you are? What if you are called
a soldier.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, yeah, we typically say a soldier is somebody that's
a ground force and we're sailors, uh, marine and airmen
and guardsmen, and you know, we all have terms. But colloquially,
I think it's fine to call us all soldiers. You know,
we are we're committed to the armed forces.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So if anyone and everyone stuck in traffic driving to
work listening to you, Admiral Caudle, we're all civilians as you,
I guess, call us. How could we live our lives
more parallel to the life of someone serving in the military.
That discipline and what good would it do for us
if we studied the soldier, we studied the sailors, and
(14:32):
apply that to our lives every day. How would that
change this country?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Well? I think, you know, you can get wrapped down
the line that it's about all the you know, the
uniformed part of it, all the discipline, the standards and repetitiveness,
the chain of command and all that. I wouldn't focus
on that to your question. What I would focus on is,
whatever you decide to do in life, look at it
as a call to that service. You know, if you're
a radio host, this is what you do and approach
(14:58):
that as you know, from a perspective of service and
what you provide the greater community and uh and if
you do that, and the passion and the energy and
enthusiasm and the stamina all that requires, I think will
come naturally from that. So look at it as a
call to service. I love that call to service. We
actually talk about that a lot here. It's so funny
(15:20):
how you're called to service and our call to service.
Different calls to different services away, but but you can you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Can parallel them. You can enter into the same lane
when it comes to helping others, pointing out things in
life that are positive and put people on the right track.
And we try to do that every day in one
way or another. I want to open it up. We
got we have an admiral here in our room. This
is an opportunity to ask whatever you want. Let's get crazy,
which when I think crazy, I think Gandhi first.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Okay, So, how how long out of the year to
you usually spend on the water?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Well, you know, for me, not a lot. Now, you know,
I'm kind of aged out that. But the typical sailor
will spend the about fifty percent of their time underway. Okay,
So we call it our operational tempo, and we have
some rules that kind of govern that's over a three
year period, it'll be about fifty percent of import in
that sea. Okay, so it's significant. So a person like
(16:15):
me of a career like this, I've spent about thirteen
years on sea duty and so think of half of that.
So call it six and a half years underwater.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So six and a half years underwater. But oh my god,
everyone else in here, I'm sure you guys have been
on chips on the water as well.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, what's the UFO situation? Right? Oh oh yeah, yeah,
I'm ready. Let's go now, don't hold back. That's always
fun them.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, well, yeah, we do. Our pilots tend to see them.
I don't know what that says, but uh uh, you know,
it's a it's a tough question. I personally don't know,
but I would tell you I don't believe it's from
another planet. I think the probability of that is like
ten to the minus ninth or something. Oh okay, so
I don't think it's that. Yeah, yeah, but so I
(17:03):
typically think those are probably like unmanned aerial vehicles of
some type. That would be my belief.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, and then this drone situation in New Jersey. I'm
sure you've heard all of it, Yes, are what are
we thinking?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
That was?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Well, you know, it's interesting. One of the jobs, one
of my hats that I wear is I'm the Force
Protection UH lead for the Navy across the United States,
working for Northern Command, so our commander that protects the
you know, North America, and so that falls under my job.
Jar if you will, we uh this this is a
(17:37):
serious threat and so we you know we are right now.
That's the whole point of the Golden Dome is not
only to you know, try to get a handle on
incoming ballistic missiles and protect our country, but even more
common is just protect our bases and critical infrastructure from
things like UAVs and drawings and Nation States sponsored things
(17:58):
all the way to hobbyists, all of these things. We
need a better way to see them and a better
way to take them out without damaging, you know, other
things in the process or hurting people. So it's it's
a tough problem because you try to just knock it down,
then it falls somewhere and you can't have that happening.
So it's the thing we focus on and work on
quite a bit. Actually, yeah, security, it's all about security.
(18:19):
And look, I don't like being naked in my pool
and seem a drone looking at me. No, that's right,
because I want to make sure everyone else is secure
from seeing that video, because that would not be well
in all fairness. We spent yesterday with the New York
Police Department and for about a couple hours, and they
run a drone division and they've got a pretty incredible
(18:43):
capability there with a twenty four to seven watch that's
going on where they respond in the city with with
drones and and so that's a good use of it
when it's being used like that, and so we just
have to look out for the bad uses of them.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
What up, Danielle, I just want to know, do you
have a magic solution to keep your whites looking white?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Well? Again? Uh, there's a person in the room here,
he's standing over there. He is a person that is
solely responsible for keeping the admirals white white.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I think we talked to him last time and he
gave up what was it? There? Something a secret that
you told us? I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's with me, especially with a rating like this. It
takes a tight bucket.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, there, I have another one. So Tom Cruise is
apparently coming out with Mission Impossible three. Yes, I'm sorry,
Top Gun three.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, Top Gun three.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
If they come to you, guys, when do you consult?
And too, are any of you allowed to be in
it if they ask you?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh, one hundred percent. I mean we've got folks that
have you know, actually met Tom on various movies like
Mission Impossible. Uh. Tom Cruise does a great job coordinating
with the Navy with his movies. And some people try
to do movies and they don't coordinate well and then
the Navy can't really you know, get behind them. But
Tom cruise movies we do. He does a great job
(20:14):
of that, and he is a great advocate of the
Navy and and so anyway, I just give him a
shout out for that. And so, yeah, we get to participate.
He brings us in. He's you know, he gets out
underway on our ships to do all that filming and
is a real friend of the Navy.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
You get a sneak peek at the movie before it
comes out.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
We absolutely do. Yeah, well, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm scary.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Had a question what's up, scary. Yeah, well, first of all,
thank you all for your services. My dad served in
Vietnam in the Navy, so I can relate.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
A little bit. Well he can relate, but he's listening
right now.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I just want to know because this going into this weekend,
obviously a lot of people like you know, the grilling,
the traveling, they're vacationing whatever, going to the beach.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
But what is the.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
One thing they can do to honor you and everyone
else for Memorial Day? One thing you could think of,
what can we all do?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well? I think we I think just have in your
heart some time to reflect, you know, regardless if you're
at the beach or a barbecue or whatever, you know,
take a moment on Monday to just think about the
you know, what all the service members have done throughout
our entire time. You know, the Navy's two hundred and
fifty years old this year. This is our two and
(21:22):
we're older than the country. And so in October will
be two fifty and the country will be of course
next July. And that's been a lot of folks that
have you know, perished the under the flag of our
country and the cloth of our nation. So I think
that it's worthy to take a few minutes and at
some point and just you know, Paul's bow your head
(21:45):
perhaps and just reflect and thank God that we have
the country we have, and the service members we have
and what they did with the ultimate sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Admiral Coddle, it's been such an honor to have you
and your posse here with us again this year, and
your wife. I hope that even though it's a little
rainy today and tomorrow, I hope you guys find some fun,
great things to do here in New York City, because
we do have a few things going on here. It's
one of those little towns that is always busy, and
(22:22):
I know you're gonna be very very busy this this weekend,
and rightfully so. But thank you so much for coming
in to see us.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Thank you so much, absolutely, thank you listening, and please do,
as the Admiral has said this this coming Monday, stop
for a second on your own, have a moment of
silence and think about what the day is all about.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
We appreciate you very much, Admiral Coddle. Everyone incredible
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